I'd first like to state for the record that I do not believe it, but at the same time, I've seen very, very little discussion of these claims from both the few times I've browsed the news mega (which, to be fair, I haven't done a lot of and I need to do more of) and from using the search bar.

I am curious about this, but the combination of brain fog, trying to sort through the muddled, tangled mess that is the output of most modern search engines, and just a sort of unwillingness to entertain the constant stream of western sources has left me with almost nothing.

I know very little about it, and I want to be better equipped to deal with these claims I know are most likely at bare minimum highly exaggerated.

Thank you all in advance.

Post your Beanis OCs, people!

Here's mine, their name is Blulegume, and they were a magical blue bean who got bit and tossed into the garbage, but then a bean demon possessed the blue bean, and they became Blulegume.

One of the key things that has halted so much progress of my worldbuilding project is trying to get the "science" or "foundational physics" of it right.

I don't want to spoil too much, but it's a vaguely SCP-style project, so if you know what SCP is, you might know a little bit about my project, but only a bit, because I'm trying to solve a lot of my perceived criticisms with SCP in my own project.

At first, it was generic multiverse stuff. I said, "The reason anomalous things exist is because they came through a multiversal portal and they infested the earth." Looking back on it now, it was not only atrocious and trope-y from a writing perspective, but it was also racist as fuck.

A lot of my old writing was pretty bad, in a thousand ways, but at least I put shit out back then. Now I can barely put shit out with how much I feel like I need to tweak and change.

I keep on revising and revising and revising. At least I'm abandoning the "multiverse" thing and trying to integrate dialectical materialist philosophy into it, not solely due to the fact that it's based, but because it might actually enhance my project's quality a bit, in my opinion.

My basic premise is "a sub-quantum layer of reality exists, it's chaotic, but sometimes it can become stable, and this is when reality is formed, but reality dissolves when it reverts back to being chaotic, in an endless cycle." But, that's really just the basic premise, and I still feel like it'll need a lot of tweaks / specifications before it becomes solid enough to base my entire project around.

It's just such a headache, 'cause I don't think I can ever get a final draft, I just keep revising. I'm balancing entertainment value, dialectical materialism, and possibility, and it's a headache.

Any advice / discussion welcome.

There are two groups of people. They're each given a magic/alien/divine trinket.

Group A's trinket can instantly produce any raw resource. A raw resource is anything that could exist without a humor labor process (cooking, blacksmithing, woodworking, etc). If something absolutely requires human labor to be put into it to exist, it can't be made by the magic box.

Group B's trinket can make one gain a hypothetically "perfect" theoretical understanding of everything. Essentially, if there was a Universal PhD in Everything (medicine, engineering, etc.), they would obtain it without any effort. It works on anyone, and this knowledge is implanted instantly.

If given all the time in the universe, which group would survive the test of time or come out on top of the other? This has been stirring in my brain for a while, and I want to hear your thoughts.

I personally lean Group B because they wouldn't have to discover or painstakingly engineer anything, and could immediately set their sails for technologies they know to exist. But at the same time, Group A would never have to worry about scarcity, so they could dedicate all of their time to infrastructure and research unlike Group B which still has to deal with scarcity.

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It can either be historical / famous people, or it can be locally famous Hexbears.

There's only one rule, and that's don't make it too easy. No extremely famous quotes, taglines, or anything that everyone and their grandparents would know. Also, it can't be enforced, but at least admit if you had to search it up.

Most of the inaction I bear has been due to fear. Fear of reprimand and fear of violence in particular.

I'm reading a lot of lefty stuff (old posts, old articles, hoping I can make my way to books) and it seems like my biggest hurdle to becoming a proper leftist will be removing myself of these fears, if I ever want to do anything productive.

But fuck, fear is just so prevalent in my life. It could be my trauma, my privilege or literally anything else I'm not aware of. Whatever the cause, I don't like it, it's made me a worse person, and I wanna get rid of it.

Seeing as most of you are good about this, I want to hear about how you stopped letting fear and (social/physical) self-preservation control you.

I think I might have developed a small addiction to Hexbear, as despite joining just 4 days ago, I have done almost nothing but use Hexbear.

Seeing as I'm trying to improve myself, I'm thinking about trying to use Hexbear less so I don't become a full on posting addict. With that in mind, what are the hours with the most amount of activity? I know Hexbear always has some activity, but I wanna know the times it's okay to "skip" reading / posting on Hexbear and what time's it's not.

Hello, and welcome to the annual Hexbear Spelling Bee, sponsored by 's ghost

As a reminder, anyone who fails this test is immediately sent to the and force-fed dictionaries with a until they can re-apply in next years spelling bee.

The word is bourgieosie. I meant bourgeioisie. I mean borguieos. Fuck. Wait, no, FUCK!!!

There are too many cat girls! Too many effeminate kitties, and that's no good! We need cat MEN. We need big, burly, sweaty men with whiskers. We need men who aren't afraid to scratch a post once in a while. We need men with 8 packs who aren't afraid to purr.

~and~ ~post...~

Xi isn't locked in and aura farming Ohio style getting that fanum tax from Taipei, gotta Skibidi Toilet invasion of Taipei to show god tier rizz

~i~ ~am~ ~slowly~ ~dying~ ~inside~ ~by~ ~writing~ ~this~

Trumpist Mao?

Good luck getting any sleep tonight.

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