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submitted 1 year ago by sicklemode@hexbear.net to c/news@hexbear.net
[-] sicklemode@hexbear.net 43 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Long enough to outlast your youth and the best years of your life, if you still are in the prime of it.

[-] sicklemode@hexbear.net 75 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

xi-lib-tears Thanks for all the free advertising.

[-] sicklemode@hexbear.net 44 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They got stomped so bad they even deleted their account over there.

To the libs: If you're gonna fuck around, know what you're talking about otherwise you're gonna get people jumping on your fuckin' head.

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[-] sicklemode@hexbear.net 48 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Hexbear is the last fun place on the internet

I dunno what we are in now but the old web was better. 1.0 sucked. 2.0 was good though. You had all these nich communities bubbling with energy and ideas. Now it is just reddit and psyops and comodification.

https://neocities.org/browse

Hexbears should help expand our creativity on the web, by taking inspiration from NeoCities (successor to GeoCities). Not everything has to be sterile and bland and boring. I'd even like to be able to customize our profile pages more than just things like the banner and profile picture. I mean, just look at how much life can be breathed into a site with so much flexibility. Look at all the colors and non-standard layouts. What the web as lost is personality, which we should be taking back. We're on FOSS sites here in the Fediverse. We can do better, and we shouldn't be too afraid to take risks by deviating from what's accepted as "normal" these days.

We had way better tools for self-expression on older formats like early YouTube, MySpace, etc etc. We don't have to stay the course of sterile, standardized, corporatized web formats.

The original point of using the web was making things beautiful and tinkering around with different designs. It was to tell a story with the layout. That was part of the content itself, not just what we say and do online.

Edit: https://yesterweb.org/ (on NeoCities) has plenty of good and interesting information on this general topic of a worse present web (a manifesto, if you will)

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by sicklemode@hexbear.net to c/science@hexbear.net
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[-] sicklemode@hexbear.net 40 points 1 year ago

Are chuds aware they’re not the only ones who watch movies

What do they care? They want total hegemony of content that caters to and enforces their hostile, exclusive world view.

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[-] sicklemode@hexbear.net 45 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Just curious here. What are your solutions to the endlessly decaying social and material conditions of the West?

Edit: I think I got caught in the bit again michael-laugh

[-] sicklemode@hexbear.net 50 points 1 year ago

Sex work is spawned out of desperation and lack of dignified opportunities that are reasonable to pursue.

It's not unrealistic to "Believing you can just get rid of the oldest profession in the world" because we've already had massive progress doing this in places like China.

Women would rather pursue careers in the STEM field and have dignified careers engaging in national development while also being homeowners and having disposable income that builds.

We can get rid of sex work by eliminating the conditions of poverty driven by capitalism, which, like small time crime, demand will fall in proportion to rising living standards.

Get real here.

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

In 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 2. On board the spacecraft was a single dog, named Laika. When Laika returned to Earth, the Soviet scientists discovered something profound: dogs in space experience extreme cognitive enhancement. The following year the Soviet space program would be dedicated solely to studying the effects of space on canine intelligence...

The Communist Dogifesto is a science fiction first-person shooter set on a Soviet space station in Lunar orbit, which has been used as a platform for experimentation on the Russian space dogs. Unfortunately, dogs this deep in space have more tricks in their vac suit than the scientists accounted for. Now Laika has taken over and you are the only one left who can take back the station, or at least attempt to escape with your life!

In order to survive and defeat Laika and her robotic footsoldiers, you will have to gain new abilities with tech upgrades, recycle scrap materials you find lying around into usable items, read data logs written by the ousted humans to find keycodes and to explore new areas of the station, and do a lot of good old fashioned shooting!

Features a hand-designed space station to explore, eight unique tech upgrades to choose from, pages of in-universe data logs from the scientists and other staff which reveal the nature of the work done on the station as well as vital information to access new areas and items, and several different endings based on in-game actions.

After purchasing (it's free, download provided) you will gain access to binaries for both Windows and Linux, as well as the full source code of the game.

  • Platforms - Windows, Linux
  • Genre - Shooter, Action
  • Tags - 3D, Cute, dog, Exploration, FPS, Horror, Low-poly, Robots, Space
  • Code license - GNU General Public License v3.0 (GPL v3.0)
  • Asset license - Creative Commons Attribution_NonCommercial_ShareAlike v4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
  • Average session - A few hours

No spoilers, please. Put any spoilers in a spoiler tag if you wish to discuss here.

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

xigma-male

  • 0:00 - Opening ceremony
  • 2:30 - Opening session starts and the national anthem
  • 3:34 - Paying tribute and respect to national heroes and revolutionary martyrs
  • 5:35 - Attendance and census
  • 6:35 - Opening for Xi Jinping's speech
  • 7:36 - Xi jinping's speech begins

Transcript of speech (courtesy of AernalLingus [any])

I encourage everyone to take the time to listen carefully and review this material, and apply the rhetoric and ideas relevant to our social and national conditions as the opportunity arises. Discourse can be improved by refining how we express both internal (self) and external (collective/national/geopolitical) phenomenon, as well as their respective solutions.

The less frustrated we are in seeking the words for what we know, the better equipped and more level-headed we will be to handle disputes as they arise.

xi-lib-tears

[-] sicklemode@hexbear.net 71 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This is hardly a surprise. When you adopt an anti-communist stance, you pave the way for unhealthy social trends to takeover, which increases the moderation workload considerably, and forces you into an unsustainable method of operating. Perhaps the decay has finally reached a stage advanced enough to send them back to the likes of Silicon Valley centralized models.

Hexbear has survived all this time because, like China, has been engaging in self-reform to address the problem of rise and fall. So long as Hexbear continues this path, it will continue to go the distance.

The other big instances that are here today may not be in a few months, or years. Fascinating to see from a dialectical perspective.

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

Description: Someone who has succumbed to the cradle-to-grave disinformation campaign driven by the US and its vast media empire to believe the exact opposite of objective reality in the outside world and of world history itself. These people commonly believe the US and its vassal states (the Western world) to be the world or the international community. These people very often also believe in US exceptionalism and the idea that no matter how bad their country is, some socialist AES country, or peer-level rival (like Russia) is always arbitrarily worse. Thus, they live in a snowglobe and believe themselves a bigger deal than they actually are.

I wasn't able to find any instances of this being coined, so maybe I'm the first? Regardless, here's a new tool for everyone to use in the field of discourse.

[-] sicklemode@hexbear.net 55 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The chud bible:

  • Horseshoe theory
  • Double genocide theory
  • The black book of communism
  • Whataboutism
  • clueless
  • smuglord
[-] sicklemode@hexbear.net 52 points 1 year ago

The lore continues data-laughing

[-] sicklemode@hexbear.net 45 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

What in the world are you on about? You can't have the late 90s and early 2000s internet experience back, if that's what you're after. The material and social conditions no-longer exist for it.

Everything is politics, and you will not escape from it. Ever.

That being said, it's better to understand why you actually are upset than to just come on here and lash out at things that aren't even an issue.

Edit: Was this a bit? I must've fallen for it, if so michael-laugh

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