damn I've gotta salute him for this

the AG nom was a favor to provide cover for him to defuse his ethics bomb by resigning from congress

I probably would've asked the incoming President to just pardon me for whatever crimes against humanity and children i've committed

(but really lol why would the AG nom have been cover for the ethics report if....the impact from the ethics report was not even defused)

yeah i'm aware of what would entail a 'ww3' scenario and that nukes aren't shorthand for such - i still think we need to ban the usage of it and no i will not be elaborating

no LMAO

we need to ban the usage of 'WW3'

[this user supports Russia but does not think they're gonna start firing off nukes anytime soon - happy to be proved wrong but I don't think anyone on Hexbear.net has their eyes on Putin's nuclear briefcase]

Kill ALL slave owners john brown did nothing wrong

so sudden you hear the quiet summer breeze outside

i can't tell you what it's gonna be, i'd lie

out of credit i hear you suffer breath out loud

you know you're in it to see the summit

YOU - "I know who Argo Tuulik is, but who is this 'Riaz Moola' guy?"

STEBAN, THE STUDENT GAMER - "Only ZA/UM's most trusted lieutenant, the Evangelist of the Revolution, and the founding father of the successor studio Longdue."

STEBAN, THE STUDENT GAMER - "He also happens to be the greatest communist developer after Tuulik himself. It was Moola who first postulated the existence of ideological plasm, which forms the basis of Disco Elysium-like gameplay."

A BRIEF LOOK AT DISCO-ELYSIUM SUCCESSORS - Known to his numerous admirers as the 'Evangelist of ZA/UM' and to his even-more-numerous enemies as the 'Apocalyptic Shrike', Riaz Moola remains one of the most controversial and fascinating figures to emerge in the years of the ZA/UM Revolution, second only to Argo Tuulik himself.

A BRIEF LOOK AT DISCO-ELYSIUM SUCCESSORS - During his unparalleled life, he helped develop a revolutionary game at one company and founded a new studio after the ZA/UM Revolution. Along the way, he committed some of the most notorious war crimes in an era famed for its atrocities.

ENCYCLOPEDIA - Oh, right. During the disastrous development of successor titles to Disco Elysium, Moola personally ordered up to 12,000 ZA/UM prisoners of war impaled on sharpened spruce trees in the Samaran backcountry. Thereafter his opponents began referring to him as the 'Apocalyptic Shrike'.

they're designed in Texas so I am not surprised they didn't think of snow lmao

when i went to Chicago

i can only hope you're talking about flipturn's Chicago which IS NOT A BAD SONG but I once played it while driving and got roasted by my friends (who were like "oh bro you want to go to Chicago huh???" lmao)

no but really what did he mean by this

i will pray someone asks him at his confirmation hearing, the only way democrats can possibly #resist

Show

https://x.com/mattgaetz/status/1161062269641474049

President Trump thank you for defending pedophiles across the country by nominating Mr. Gaetz as AG

it is no better or worse than twitter at the heart of things, it is just another app where you can make 250 character posts and where you interact with other people's 250 character posts. it definitely skews liberal but lol - what you follow is what you get.

However, since Musk's acquisition - Twitter (I should call it X because fundamentally they are different but eh) is 99% verified bots running the cheapest version of chatgpt regurgitating the exact thing the original tweet they've latched onto said so Bluesky is definitively 'better' in the sense that it has actual moderation for that and there isn't a paid class of users getting their racist/AI generated/bait for engagement money posts artificially boosted across the entire platform.

the vestal virgin scene is when I clocked out of the movie (actually if I'm being honest it was the second time-stop but that's like maybe what, 20-30 minutes in so I was like "no surely it'll recover") and mind you - I technically paid for it because AMC A List - so I was just sitting there in the theater waiting for it to end and then the crossbow came out & I actually said "this fucking movie..." out-loud and got stared at in the theater lmao

solid 4/10 purely on memeable scenes like when Cesar gets merged with his unobtainium or whatever it was called.

you played yourself by walking out instead of just committing to the rest of your set & finishing your reps. if you'd done that no one could've said anything disparaging but you chose poorly...they likely already have your picture on the wall of shame but maybe if you go back tomorrow and really push yourself the employees can be reasoned into giving you a mulligan and taking it down...just a thought...

They are definitely misremembering. The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come always appears in the final act and shows Tiny Tim's death, so yeah - the most likely thing they're remembering is that part & they completely forgot the last like 20 minutes of whatever film they watched.

all arguments can be solved by watching The Muppets Christmas Carol

Cool, like I said - I don't think any normal Hexbear is going to have a problem with this.

I have always respected you & the rest of the team for volunteering your personal time & arguably mental health to administrate this site so I won't continue airing my personal grievances with this and will wait for the next update from y'all (which is funny because I don't think I've ever actually made a Dunk or Dredge post & was quite vocal about rule-breaking posts after the notability rule was introduced) but can I say that banning @REgon@hexbear.net & a few others like @Aradina@lemmy.ml and (@morte@hexbear.net - who were in this thread adding valid criticism (especially when it comes to the misgendering/transphobia by the mod team on the previous post) and telling them to take a break is pretty shitty?

I get you're in a tough position - you haven't even been back officially for a week (afaik) and you're having to deal with arguably the biggest struggle session we've had since you left - but I don't think either 3 of those users should've been temp banned and to tell them to 'take a break' honestly is kinda irritating. This will probably sound harsh, but I think the moderators & admin team need to come to a decision on whether they want to be the user-base's babysitters or they want to be the enforcers of the actual rules of the site/comm.

Temp banning someone who arguably is one of the most justified users to be up and down this thread angry at the moderators but never actually made any insults or flew off the handle & giving a reason like "go take a break", "come back when you're not mad", or "sorry to disappoint" may work when you're talking to a child about watching the next episode of Blue's Clues, but to say that to a long-standing user (Morte has been here since the inception of the site, Aradina has been posting from .ml for over a year) when they voice disappointment with seeing how you've banned another user? Come on - I think the entire team, who again I do genuinely respect for volunteering their time and effort, should be better than that. No one even tried to make a comment like "Hey can you chill out or you're gonna catch a temp ban" but I understand why that wasn't done, it would've been seen as ridiculous and likely set them off given again - none of them were being inflammatory or insulting..

Don't really expect a reply for this - just felt like it would be wrong if I didn't point this out before logging out for a bit.

The modlog literally does not include the comms for any post, removed, locked or otherwise and cannot be searched by reason or otherwise, so telling someone "go look in the modlog" is - in my opinion - unhelpful as hell to any justification the mod/admin team is making about any comm or the site culture as a whole. Like I said in my original post, my intent is obviously not to downplay any actual misogyny, chauvinism, etc but to close two of the most popular comms for such things - I would expect you (i.e. the admin/mod team) to at least have some sort of screenshots or links to a handful of posts highlighting the issue.

How many transphobic posts do you see nowadays

Very few because of the mod team - but should we shut down Chapotraphouse, Main, and every other comm because someone might make a transphobic or misogynistic comment or post??

The justification just doesn't make sense to me.

I’ve heard whispers on the wind about the state of Hexbear – telling me that while things have massively improved for trans people, there is still work to be done in the chauvinism, misogyny, and overall toxicity departments.

What IS the source of the problem then, in your view? Should we just ban the words cocksucker, bitch, and twat since those were quite literally the reason the first two comments & post I found in the modlog, like 8 pages in, were removed for misogyny/homophobia?? It just seems like this is, like many have already said, the team intentionally being vague when really - from the 15 pages of the modlog I've looked through while writing this reply - it seems like this is a war on gendered words/insults, even if they aren't being used as such. Why would you (again, the admin/mod team) just not say that outright literally two posts ago instead of claiming it is 'cis het male behavior'??

I don't think any normal Hexbear would have a problem with any of the above words being banned. It shouldn't even really be a huge mod issue anyways, given we had - and still do have to my knowledge - a filter that will literally replace unallowed words in comments but what do I know

This post has mentioned chauvinistic, misogynistic, and toxic tendencies three times but provided literally no examples of such - nor did Carcosa's original post. I am not trying to say that these things have never existed or never will exist in posts/comments on my beloved Hexbear nor am I saying that you (or any other admin/mod) should have to provide examples of literally any/everything TC69 - but I am begging you to actually provide some legitimate examples because otherwise this just sounds like the same "we don't want the dunk tank because white cishet male behavior" justification that everyone was like to