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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I am going to marry Shadowheart from Baldur's Gate 3. You cannot stop me.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Kissinger to Prager is a bit of a downgrade but we take those

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 days ago

Actually the humans are indigenous to Pandora and calling them colonizers is bigotry

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago

It's the only country which can think further ahead into the future than the next fiscal quarter

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago

Bravest and most formidable zionist

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Doing a BG3 playthrough as a Githyanki cause I thought it'd give some interesting interactions but all the Githyanki-specific dialogue options so far have just been militaristic assholery kitty-birthday-sad

[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

It's not my "premium content" and you know very well that's not what I meant. I specifically agreed that it's cheap, low-effort content. If you're gonna be a dipshit, at least be literate.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 6 days ago (4 children)

Sad, but probably for the better. As soon as he returned, he was back to his old power-posting ways. I'll miss his posts but it seems like he struggled regulating how much time he spent on here.

[–] [email protected] 77 points 6 days ago (19 children)

Closing the dunk/dredge tanks is a futile change. I understand that often times it didn't exactly produce valuable discourse and I'm sure there were instances of reactionary posts, but "get a load of this lib/chud" is like 50% of hexbear. The dunk tank exists to contain those posts, closing that community will not make those posts go away, it will just make them clutter the other communities or the megathreads. So what if the posts on there are low effort? Who cares? If I want to read actual theory, I'll pick up a book.

To put it another way: Many of us go on hexbear because getting mad at the same thing together feels cathartic, especially when nobody in our physical surroundings shares our political opinions. We see a dumb tweet by some liberal and we wanna have like-minded folks agree with us that it's dumb, so we go on hexbear to post it here. That's what the dunk tank is for and while it's not very productive and it's not gonna bring about the revolution, trying to stop these kinds of posts is a losing battle.

I mean, just look at how the dredge tank came to be: Mods didn't want screenshots of tweets by random nobodies and so they implemented a rule about it, but people wouldn't stop posting them so the dredge tank was eventually created as a compromise. Because although it might be low-effort and unproductive, dunking on dumb tweets is what the userbase wants and it's what they'll keep doing. [email protected] is just gonna become the new dunk tank.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Don't wanna make a dunk/dredge tank post for this but just saw this zionist bs on my timeline and wanted to rant about it

tw: zionists being unhinged + rant

After all the horrific nazi shit I've heard zionists say over the past 13 months, somehow this post still made me go "Wow.". Can you imagine looking Anne Frank in the eye, a 15-year-old girl dying of starvation and sickness in a 1945 concentration camp, her sister having dropped dead a few days ago, and telling her this with a straight face? That her fate is just like what happened to some racist hooligans who got beat up for chanting "death to arabs"?

I'm just shocked that zionists would spit on Anne Frank's image like this. She is a symbol for all innocent victims of the Holocaust, a young girl who did absolutely nothing wrong, who spent her entire life being persecuted purely for being jewish and who was eventually killed for it. I can't believe that any jew, even a morally bankrupt zionist, would disrespect her like that. I know they've been relativizing the Holocaust this whole time, but specifically invoking Anne Frank, such an embodiement of innocence with such a cruel fate, all while talking about fucking football hooligans, just feels like a whole new level of shamelessness.

How dare you compare yourself to her when your guys are literally being protected by cops? This girl had to live crammed inside a fucking shack with her family for 2 years where they lived in constant fear of being discovered by the authorities, while your guys are getting police escorts whenever there's any trouble and your favorite hobby is complaining to the manager because you saw a watermelon somewhere. In this analogy, you're the one who ratted Anne out to the Nazis and got her sent to fucking Auschwitz. That would've been you, you depraved freak. Sorry if this sounds melodramatic but if there is an afterlife, I really hope that Anne Frank doesn't have to see this. What a disgrace. What an affront to victims of the Holocaust. I don't want to see any zionist invoke Anne Frank ever again. Fuck all of you shameless, genocidal maniacs.

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submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

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 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

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?

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submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

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

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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

This is extremely cringe.

Rakuten Viki (a platform that has all kinds of Asian TV shows) used to have a feature that allowed you to watch videos with 2 sets of subtitles at the same time, which was ideal to learn languages. But for some reason, they just got rid of that feature?

Now there is "Language Reactor", which is a Chrome add-on that allows you the same feature on other platforms like Netflix, but none of those platforms have an even remotely decent catalogue of shows from mainland China (it's probably perfectly sufficient if you wanna learn Korean though). It's also a Chrome add-on and I'm using Firefox.

I'm looking into ways to pirate the shows and then add 2 layers of subtitles myself, which is probably gonna be a huge hassle because torrent hubs also don't seem to have many shows from mainland China.

Does anyone have a somewhat convenient way to a) Watch Chinese TV shows and b) Watch them with both English and Chinese subtitles? I specifically found this show I thought looked cute named 以家人之名 and it's on Rakuten Viki but alas, I can only watch it on there with either English or Chinese subs, not both simultaneously. And from my experience, you don't learn a lot at all when just reading English subs, especially with how difficult Chinese is from a listening comprehension standpoint.

 

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 🔻 🔻 🔻 🔻 🔻

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

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

 

https://www.vice.com/en/article/gyazzj/meet-the-taylor-swift-stan-who-went-to-jail

Posting this partly because it's classic taylor-commie lore and partly because I was an actual stan twitter Swiftie at the time and not only that, I was friends with this girl and had met her irl when she went to prison.

She was an Israeli communist and while she was in prison, she'd write notes that her friend would post to twitter. I don't remember much of what she said about her time in prison but I do remember that she apparently got laid a lot while in there, so good for her.

Our friend group drifted apart over the years and I'm not in contact with her anymore. The story has gone viral a few times since then and I've seen a lot of upvoted comments say that it's fake and the girl was actually from Michigan or some shit?

I'm here to tell you that no, this girl was real, she was from Israel (I distinctly remember her having to quit a skype call because of a bomb alarm) and she really did go to prison for refusing to join the IDF. I remember her tweeting in hebrew on her main account and repeatedly posting pro-Palestine stuff. This story is 100% real and I can confirm it to you first-hand.

Also fun fact: "LegitTayUpdates" was a bit account. It was not a "real" update account that would post paparazzi shots with real things Taylor did today, it was mainly Swiftie shitposting. The content was not too dissimilar of c/taylorswift, honestly. Maybe that's why people thought the prison thing was fake? But no, that really did happen, she texted us about it ahead of time as well.

 

90% of her twitter is complaining about tankies and the uyghurs and the authoritarianism

someone in the comments says "im cuban and castro was not a real communist"

retweeted something about how can china eradicate poverty when people in hong kong live in tiny homes

I dunno, if the person with the most similar political development on Youtube was freaking Shoe0nhead, that would probably make me want to rethink my beliefs.

Like, there's non-tankie leftists online like hbomb, philosophytube, big joel, the chapos, contrapoints, hasanabi, but they talk about actual fucking left-wing ideals, the injustices in the present day and what could be done to fix them. They don't turn their entire online presence into "im one of the good lefties, not like these evil tankies, im one of the good and reasonable ones"

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