My prediction is that "Rebel Moon" will have enough Snyder treat hogs needing to make excuses for it that there will be future "this is leftist, actually, because the Big Bad if you squint at it can actually look like nazis I guess" or even "the Synderesque Cornfield of Burgerland Sentimentality can look kind of like a commune if you squint and hold your breath long enough" or maybe just boil down to "let people enjoy things" thought terminating cliches, all the while the movie will push cartoonishly blatant 
propaganda against straw communists. No one is immune to propaganda, least of all the "propaganda has no effect on me" believers, so I predict that'll be a struggle session.
I expect I will be told to touch grass a lot by that treat's future defenders if it has even a moderate amount of profitability, which would consequently make local hogs want to make excuses for it instead of admitting it's hog-feeding chud propaganda and just eating it anyway with acceptance, which I would respect somewhat more. 
I'm truly impressed at how incomprehensible this post is to me. "Treat", "struggle", "hog" and "chud" all presumably mean something particular to you.
No insult intended - in-group slang is fun sometimes. It's just kinda cool to be presented with it - reminds me of the Weird Old Internet.
Wanna know the fun part? Even we're a little lost in this guy's posts sometimes. Not as much as a BMF post (or whatever alt account they're on now), but still.
Have I said anything that incomprehensible to you since this particular thread lately?
Just wondering if I can do a
and turn a dial while watching the audience for approval.Nothing specific comes to mind, just "someone in X game fandom got me riled up" and even I, an inveterate g*mer, am like
Best I can do is my recent comparison between Baldur's Gate 3 and Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous.
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wrath of the righteous is really good. it's a shame i have to use character guides for it because i Do Not know how to play pathfinder.
Pathfinder took all the convoluted perilous excessive options and choices of 3.5 D&D and then added a lot more.
yes, but that excess allowed some truly outrageous character builds that 5e just can't hold a candle to. I'm especially proud of a damphir necromancer that ran around with the armored corpses of dire lions that soloed most of the fights the DM tried to throw at us. think he really regretted throwing those at us early on only for the cleric to go "wait, hold my beer"
i want to try it out but that means either running it myself or making someone else do it and i don't know anyone else
I'd be tempted to invite you if my group wasn't full to the point of having a waiting list.
nahhh i got my own tabletop issues to figure out (some folks want me to run odyssey of the dragonlords and i am Not Sure how that will go) and my old DM has been chatting me up about baldur's gate 3 and them having a lot of "ideas" (tho idk if i want to play with them again). i appreciate the thought though ulysses maybe sometime in the future.
edit: ik i wasn't being invited but i wanted to respond to the thought of being included
Your posting is pretty great most of the time. You're a certified crank, every community needs one. That being said, calling one of the characters from Oppenheimer a "booba waifu" was the most
post you've ever made.Emoji that at me all you want but Nolan decided to remove a lot of agency and relevance to women that contributed to essential parts of the Manhattan project, leaving mostly titillation and maudlin moments (and embellishments like "sex makes the protagonist feel like a god" when that quote came years after the moment).
You're not wrong, you're really not. I do think, however, that someone who hadn't seen the movie and isn't familiar with your posting style could have conceivably come to the conclusion that you think Katherine Oppenheimer is a "big booba waifu". I read your comment as obviously saying that's how Nolan portrayed her and that's a bad thing, Nolan should be less of a misogynist ass, but again, if someone is unfamiliar with the context and your posts, it's not out of the realm of possibility that your comment could have been (in good faith) misconstrued as saying the direct opposite to what you actually meant. (Also, it makes a really good site tagline, so thanks!)
Yeah, I think I should have worded it more carefully to specify that Nolan was reducing the historical person towards that, so that Nolan stans wouldn't circle the wagons about their Historically Accurate But Kind Of Embellished To Pander To Nolan's Great Man Theory, Political Beliefs, And Low-Key Misogyny BWAAAAM movie.
I happen to think "booba waifu" was an incredible encapsulation of one criticism of the movie.
Never seen the movie but I know exactly what they meant.
So much agency and relevancy was stripped from the historical person (and the movie character got stripped for titillation purposes) that I still stand by that summary even if it isn't as delicate and precise (or not said at all) than some Nolan fans prefer.
Having had no idea wtf rebel moon is, this post did come off very
or maybe BMF-lite. But after you explained that detail it fell into place.Normally it's not that there's any trouble understanding you, just that your posts come off far more intensely than I have ever felt about the topics in question. Which is a good thing, mind, they're always fun
I blame a sort of allergic reaction that I got from being too exposed to Reddit-style false politeness and wishy-washy statements.
I support your protracted people's war against the treats. But in all due respect, and don't take this personally, I think it comes across a little Quixotic sometimes because you make references to previous arguments where the person you're talking about is nowhere to be found in the thread, so it just looks like fighting windmills from an outsider perspective.
I haven't done that in a while, actually. Even if I feel it did apply and was relevant I got too much shit for it.
I suppose there will be a few more months of people like you tilting at the windmills about me tilting at the windmills, no matter what I do.
They eventually absorbed one another's roles through sheer exposure, too.
treats = food/entertainment, derogatory
struggle = big argument on the site, generally called "struggle session"
hogs = the unwashed braying (usually) CHUD masses
CHUD = Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dweller, fascists/other right wingers
Wait I thought we were hogs
I think hog just means anyone who consumes slop, which is to say, a consumer.
I'm using the slang loosely here, which is probably a mistake, especially when federated strangers see it and comment on it as they have.
Nah honestly just roll with it, we need to propagate our slang not restrain it.
My bad; I was using a lot of Hexbear insider slang.
Very brief translation: "Self-described leftists will want to make excuses for the blatant propaganda in an upcoming Snyder movie, because accepting a movie had bad messaging in it and still consuming it with acceptance is too hard for some people."
tomorrow i will start a struggle session that the entire bitter flavor group is a combination of addiction and toxic masculinity and nobody actually likes it
Just because
's dumper wasn't in the mugshot doesn't mean the mugshot was midI wasn't paying attention. Did he actually turn himself in for a performative few minutes vaguely around a jail?
Not until this evening in the US
Former president Donald Trump is expected to leave his club in New Jersey later this afternoon with a coterie of aides, according to people familiar with the trip, and will turn himself in this evening.
Edit: Some people are saying 7 PM ET
Imagine that kind of delicate treatment for, say, a black kid caught with a joint.
I would pay [amount of money with lots of zeroes] to see him manhandled and shot in the back 82 times
I will continue like I always have: blissful ignorance of every struggle session, and then learning about them five months later because they flare up like herpes in random threads
Some might not believe it but I outright missed some pretty massive struggle sessions here because I was offline at the time, like the bidet one.
on the one hand, I want to know what the two sides were. on the other, I probably don't.
Speaking of which, what was the bananas thing about?
I think Tiktok/Twitter kids learned about how "developed" countries have access to tropical fruits because of exploitation so they had disk horse about whether ending imperialistic exploitation was worth not having bananas all year around.
I think that was a weird Left Twitter thing that never made its way here. I also have no idea what it was about.
I think there was a boat involved?
I wanted to read discussions about "China's zombie economy" but there ain't any.
Too nerd topic, next one will probably be about wet rocks again
You think rock stacking has some legs left in it?
It might. It was an extraordinary level of "let people enjoy things" to get that touchy about the idea of "this does actual environmental damage so please don't do that; it costs you nothing not to and you don't lose pretty much anything by not doing it."
Of course it has, because online discussions never go anywhere in their first iteration at least
It was specifically about removing stones from a creek or riverbed, which (apparently) can have an effect on the flow and disturb the ecosystem. The OP was very polite and informational but everyone started flipping out and arguing over it for some bizarre reason. Link
Sample:
Should we kill all Beavers? I hear they alter water flows in an unnatural manner.
This is far worse than rocks, btw.
They do some lasting environmental harm to fragile ecosystems and it really doesn't cost anything to not fuck around with rocks in a wilderness like that.
It just seems equivalent to having a strong opinion about flint knapping, or atlatls.
What you're claiming cuts both ways, and probably cuts the other way harder: if it takes zero effort to not fuck around like that, why get defensive when people bring up that it does actually hurt local ecosystems?
I just don't really believe it's a thing in year of our lord not 100,000 BCE
I think next year around the US presidential election, if we are still federated, is going to be wild. We are going to have a lot of folks around the fediverse screaming about how we need to
worst possible reality: reddit explodes like a month before the elections, completely nonfunctional, URL stops working.
a solid 200,000 redditors swarm onto Lemmy, with many ending up on instances we are federated to. the next month is spent in a constant state of battle over voting. if Trump wins then it's like, at least the next 3 months, with low-lying anger for the remaining 4 years.
It's not a real struggle session unless its an internal disagreement between Hexbears, if it's us vs the libs that's just sparkling disagreement.
met a lib IRL who had a giant 'I Voted, so should you!' badge on their backpack
next to a captain america badge, liberalism is the goddamn same everywhere
Beans.
Wait that's today's session subject. Hm, maybe debate over rain, cool or bad?
That's an ongoing regional struggle session and kind of a given.
The weather, I mean.
Someone makes a post about using the term "companion animals" in place of "pets," at least 800 comments or a locked thread
Imagine Star Wars, but done by Snyder so it's "mature" as he calls it (cheap blood and gore gimmicks and booba) and is now about scary matriarchal space commies and it takes place in a space cornfield.
I can predict some amazing China struggle sessions coming in 2050, it's going to be great
Probably something to do with our flourishing trans comms. Some groups prefer the humor and memes to be more chill and happy, as it was in most
subs. Other groups (including my friends and me) are a lot edgier with our trans humor. If both of these groups gain significant traction within hexbear it could lead to some intense fights IMOBanned for "sustained hostility." I still think we shouldn't have dogpiled them so hard but they got increasingly hostile and argumentative as time went on, they posted a bunch of struggle session bait and would immediately escalate when anyone tried to push back at all.
We haven't. That's a good thing, but I assume there will be struggle sessions in the future, thus this thread.
Good ol' Ulysses
FOUND THE OUTSIDER!
