UmbraVivi

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[–] UmbraVivi@hexbear.net 32 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

One of the biggest online personalities is literally "Mr Beast"

[–] UmbraVivi@hexbear.net 5 points 13 hours ago

I live in a town with more hair salons than people but when I need a haircut at 4:30 pm everything is either closed or appointment only wtf

[–] UmbraVivi@hexbear.net 8 points 15 hours ago

The game is just too big for its own good imo.

[–] UmbraVivi@hexbear.net 5 points 1 day ago

It's linear in the sense that you have a sequence of scenarios and the game is pretty much completed afterwards. You don't have different factions, randomized starting positions or random events to add variety to your campaigns. It's all pre-determined. Think of it as a story-driven singleplayer game which you play through once or twice and that's it, rather than a game like SimCity or Civ.

[–] UmbraVivi@hexbear.net 19 points 1 day ago (3 children)

That comment is misrepresenting it. Frostpunk is not a sandbox city builder, it is a much more linear game based on the question of "How much of your humanity are you willing to give up to survive?" Picking the fascist options does make the game objectively easier, but the game will effectively tell you that your victory is hollow at the end.

For example: There are 3 people outside your city, asking to be let in. Their limbs are frozen and need to amputated, so they can't work. They will purely be a drain on your limited food and medical supplies. Many of your people (though not all of them) will be against taking them in too. There is little to no in-game benefit to taking the 3 people in, it makes it more likely that you will run out of food and everyone will die, but the whole point is that you're supposed to take them in anyway because it's the right thing to do.

[–] UmbraVivi@hexbear.net 41 points 2 days ago

They literally have nothing except "We're not the other guy".

[–] UmbraVivi@hexbear.net 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Why is Elon so against the bill?

[–] UmbraVivi@hexbear.net 16 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

It's been 4 months now since I started going to the gym. First 2 months I went every other day, since then I'm going 5 times a week. I don't understand how or why I've been able to stick to it so dilligently because I've always struggled with long-term projects and delaying gratification. I still do, in fact. But with this, I can still count the days I've skipped the gym on one hand. I'm not even passionate about fitness or anything.

Don't get me wrong, I'm proud of myself and there's a noticeable change in my physique already, but there's this nagging thought of "why can't i be this consistent with literally anything else in my life"

Edit: Today it's gonna be 35 degrees Celsius. Usually I always go later in the day, but this morning I looked at the weather forecast and thought "Oh, I better go early in the morning before the temperature hits 30 degrees" and then I actually did that. I can't overstate how unlike me this is. Doing a difficult thing with no immediate rewards sooner rather than procrastinating it to the point where you're more likely to skip it altogether. Actual discipline. I've been stumbling through my entire life thinking I was simply incapable of discipline, why can I do it now and only for this??

[–] UmbraVivi@hexbear.net 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

But they're both on the right susie-nudge

[–] UmbraVivi@hexbear.net 12 points 4 days ago (1 children)

That comment came off as more confrontational than intended mb

[–] UmbraVivi@hexbear.net 29 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

ban people for disagreeing with them

This phrase is my personal pet peeve. The mods then weren't great but they didn't ban people because they hated disagreements as a concept, they wouldn't ban you if you disagreed with them on your favorite pizza toppings or about the best Star Wars trilogy.

They banned people for the substance of their opinions just like the hexbear mods do. Hexbear mods will ban zionists not because they can't stand anyone who disagrees with them, but because they can't stand zionists. Let's not pretend like hexbear welcomes opinions from the entire political spectrum. We just differ from the r/cth mods in what exact opinions we deem banworthy.

Edit: To be clear I do not think this is a bad thing. I support the mods banning people with terrible opinions.

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submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by UmbraVivi@hexbear.net to c/main@hexbear.net
 

When I read the news this morning, the first thing I did was open twitter for the first time in 2 weeks and retweet a bunch of tweets celebrating the Iranian attack on Tel Aviv. It felt cathartic and deserved, like they were finally getting what had been a long time coming and like the genocide might finally stop. And while the Iranian missile attack hasn't even done a fraction of the unimaginable destruction the Zionist entity has inflicted on any of its neighbors, there's still something gnawing at the back of my mind: "Don't ever become like them."

Israel has shown us some of the absolute worst that humanity is capable of. The cruelty and sadism even normal Israeli civilians have displayed towards the Palestinians has been appalling and shocking. But I don't want to believe that the majority of people in Israel are ontologically evil, irredeemable psychopaths, I want to believe that they are normal people at their core. The inhumane hatred they feel for the Palestinian people isn't some unique phenomenon exclusive to Jewish settlers or Republican congressmen, but something any of us could experience for another group of people under the wrong circumstances.

And while it's nowhere near that level, I can't deny that what I'm feeling right now and what I've been feeling for the past 20 months is hate. I hate Israel, I hate everything it has done and continues to do, I hate its fascist leadership, I hate how my own country's government makes me feel like I'm going insane by unconditionally supporting these rabid nazis, and I won't lie, I have developed a certain hatred for Israel's population as well. A part of me would love to see videos of Israelis being thrown out of their stolen homes and suffer even half of what they made the people of Palestine suffer. A part of me wants to see Tel Aviv razed to the ground just like the Gaza strip was.

But I don't want to be like that. Right now the damage done to Israel is negligible, but should it experience serious devastation, I do hope we can remember our humanity. Let it never get to the point where we take our families on a hill and watch other families get massacred for entertainment. Let it never get to the point where we cheer for some IDF general to get murked alongside 7 members of his family. I want to still be able to feel empathy (though not necessarily forgiveness) for people who have lost everything, even if 6 months ago they were supporting ethnic cleansing.

I don't wanna chastise anyone for joking about Tel Aviv getting nuked or for telling Israelis going "oh noo bomb shelterinos" on TikTok to pound sand. It's one thing to say that while Israel is still the dominant force and receiving unconditional support from the West. But when the point comes where the Zionist entity has been defeated (inshallah it will be soon), I hope we can restrain ourselves from indulging in cruelty and sadism. Nobody, not even Benjamin Netanyahu or Itamar Ben-Gvir, deserves having to pick up a family member's remains and stuff them in a plastic bag. Even the most despicable Zionist you can think of deserves better than what the Palestinians are going through.

Sorry for the ramble, this has been going through my mind all day. Also main I guess.

 

Like, are there any winners in this equation? I know we talk about money not being real, but like, how not real is it? Where do those trillions go?

 

My dog would immediately deport all mailmen regardless of nationality. She deems them to be an existential threat.

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submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by UmbraVivi@hexbear.net to c/askchapo@hexbear.net
 

My hot take has been for a while that the term "psychological horror" as people use it doesn't actually mean anything and people just use it to say "Horror I like/Horror I think is well done". If you look on Steam, pretty much every horror title also has the "psychological horror" tag so while a clear definition might exist somewhere, the term is muddied to no end.

So I wanna ask what you think the term includes and what it doesn't, maybe we can crowdsource it.

Out of this list of horror or horror-adjacent games/franchises/movies, which would you classify as "Psychological horror" and why? And just as importantly, which would you say aren't psychological horror? If you can't come up with good reasons, answering purely based on vibes is also valid. You don't have to categorize all of them, only those you have an opinion about.

Games:

  • Ao Oni
  • Doki Doki Literature Club
  • Outlast
  • Lisa
  • Omori
  • Resident Evil
  • Five Nights At Freddy's
  • Outer Wilds
  • Pathologic
  • BioShock
  • The Coffin of Andy and Leyley
  • Limbo
  • Sally Face
  • SOMA
  • The Binding of Isaac
  • Needy Streamer Overload
  • Ib
  • Silent Hill

Movies:

  • Saw
  • The Cabin in the Woods
  • It Follows
  • Martyrs
  • Coraline
  • Get Out
  • Midsommar
  • Blair Witch Project
  • All Quiet On The Western Front
  • It
  • Silence of the Lambs
  • A Quiet Place
  • The Shining

The list is very broad on purpose. If you have anything else you would confidently call psychological horror, feel free to mention it.

 

I HATE THIS COUNTRY

I HATE THIS COUNTRY

I HATE THIS COUNTRY

GET ME OUT OF HERE

GET ME OUT OF HERE

GET ME OUT OF HERE

 

They have to be or have been a US citizen.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by UmbraVivi@hexbear.net to c/the_dunk_tank@hexbear.net
 

Pretty much title. I've seen this talked about a lot but I only very vaguely know what all this means, could someone elaborate on what happened, why it happened and what the consequences of it are?

 

Step 1: Learn Spanish

Step 2: Become a medium

Step 3: Move to Argentina

Step 4: Have a seánce with Javier Milei

Step 5: Tell him his dogs think that in order to truly free the markets, the means of production must be nationalized

Step 6: Tell him to stop dating his sister

Step 7: Communism has won

 

Link

The thought of being remembered for something so bland and boring is weirdly scary to me. Maybe Felix was on to something when he talked about how settler-colonialism hollows out your soul and kills any culture, creativity or national identity you might've otherwise had. thinky-felix

Edit: 🔻 🔻 🔻 🔻 🔻 SETTLER DOWN 🔻 🔻 🔻 🔻 🔻

 

This is after they already tried to wrap her into it on October 19th https://twitter.com/Israel/status/1714922694414598419

Holy shit, I thought Ukraine propaganda was cringe but Israel is making them look sane and normal. How pathetic can a country get? https://twitter.com/Israel/status/1721074264671994178

We love our cringe twitter stans, don't we folks. I wonder how many Swifties had no strong opinions on this matter before Israel tried to claim their idol for their side and pissed them off in the process.

 

I don't know if asking for likes is against hexbear rules but it would be so freaking funny if the IDF refusing Swiftie post ratio'd the country of Israel itself, the reply is only 600 likes off.

https://twitter.com/arxxxxmand/status/1714991572612432346

Rare stan twitter W, also you can tell the real Swifties by them @'ing Tree Paine, Taylor's head of PR iirc

taylor-commie

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