On this day, 4 years ago the site was first launched (then a day later the first post made), Formed from chapotraphouse remnants, the old admins decided to make a site using Lemmy as its base. Originally called chapo.chat, Hexbear has grown into one of the biggest instances in the lemmyverse.

Despite various sitewide struggle sessions, wrecker incursions from other forums and federation drama, Hexbear has keep growing strong in its 4th year, now with 4 megathreads, over 4 million comments, 300k posts and much more.

Its being great running the general megathread for a bit over 3 years, since i took over i have tried to get it mostly in time and just one unlike during the old times, i like to think i have done a decent job, plus i have also added a bit of reading material to them so you nerds can learn from them and i like to think you have been reading them garcia-cock-shotty , its also nice to see the new megathreads how they have slowing grown up to the size to the old general mega in the time of the old admins.

dont have much else to say so have a good day nerd. also

Whats has been your favorite post/event from last year (july 2023-july 2024)?

I wont lie, all the fedidrama has been fun to read, especially when libs wander here

Megathreads and spaces to hang out:

📀 Come listen to music and Watch movies with your fellow Hexbears nerd, in Cy.tube
🔥 Read and talk about a current topics in the News Megathread
⚔ Come talk in the New Weekly PoC thread
✨ Talk with fellow Trans comrades in the New Weekly Trans thread

reminders:

💚 You nerds can join specific comms to see posts about all sorts of topics
💙 Hexbear’s algorithm prioritizes comments over upbears
💜 Sorting by new you nerd
🌈 If you ever want to make your own megathread, you can reserve a spot here nerd
🐶 Join the unofficial Hexbear-adjacent Mastodon instance toots.matapacos.dog

Links To Resources (Aid and Theory):

Aid:

Theory:

❤️Foundations of Leninism
❤️Anarchism and Other Essays

Also 24 hours after this is posted the admins are closing the site for a day, sorry

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[–] take_five_seconds@hexbear.net 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

bruh they brought out a whole ass cruise ship to show all the USA atheletes this is legit not fair no wonder we win all the fucking medals 2/3 of the athletes are ours

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[–] moonlake@hexbear.net 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Gonna have a relaxing Friday evening at the Mojo Dojo Casa House

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[–] ComradePlatypus@hexbear.net 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I think I accidentally made Fallout 4's story better (admittedly not hard) with my alternative start. I did an escaped Synth. I made them the default looking female character and called them Nora. That said I have changed my hair, tattoos, scars etc during the game.

When I eventually got around the main quest, I find the body of Nora with the same recorded voice and features as my character dead in Vault 111. Kellog mistakes me for the dead Nora. I see her alive in his memories. Codsworth thinks I'm the old Nora. There's obviously cracks in the mod and dialogue where things become janky.

But the whole thing has become murky and ambiguous. Is my character a Synth? Does my character know that? Does the Institute Know this? Does Shaun know I'm the original or a Synth copy?

Given I'm Railroad and I'm infiltrating the Institue our dialogue suddenly becomes a game of intrigue. I'm trying to butter him up so I can work to sabotage them. Is he observing me as an experiment in turn or is it a weird dying man's attempt to resurrect his mother?

[–] Taster_Of_Treats@hexbear.net 8 points 9 months ago

Bonus tracks on vinyl are cool because they are hidden, but they are annoying because you have to get up twice per side to make it continue and because it prevents the player from automatically stopping at the fake end.

[–] hello_hello@hexbear.net 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I remember reading that Comrade Kim Jong Un really liked MacOS UI/UX design but red star OS (at least the public version) is built on KDE. Which begs the question: is he a GNOME guy or a KDE lad?

I think he would be a GNOME guy because libadwaita is the sexiest UI toolkit in the Linux world. But the utility and customization offered by KDE might suit the needs of the DPRK more.

Or I'm completely wrong and he's a GNOME 2 fan and uses Cinnamon with a Windows xp theme.

Or I'm super wrong and he's a plan 9 chad who's ahead of the curve?

Or do they use windows 7/10 like the rest of the global south :(

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 8 points 9 months ago (3 children)

I've got a bit of really really really nice peppermint. Pal from work brought it from her garden and this is fucking primo shit. Dank peppermint. What should I do with it? I'm thinking of making candy but that's messy and takes time, give me easier ideas. Vegan easier ideas.

[–] BigBoyKarlLiebknecht@hexbear.net 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The laziest and easiest idea is just to add some to a cup with some hot water for some lovely tea - super refreshing

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[–] SocialistWombat@hexbear.net 8 points 9 months ago

Happy four years of lurking and shitposting <3

[–] hello_hello@hexbear.net 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

the boys s4 spoilers cw sa, capeshit

The Boys is lib because they made the only Black woman supe a secret caucasion test tube manchild enjoyer and not a mega based communist who has read Das Kapital in its original German.

The problem with making characters whose gimmick is "being very smart" is that they would be hardened socialists and not ego tripping nerds. I'm really disappointed with what they did with sister sage. I hate the trope of "smart in retrospect" or "everything I did was part of the plan" for "super intelligent" characters.

I think the boys struggles with actually humanizing supes by introducing more supe allies to the boys. A train redemption is bittersweet, but if you actually want to make Butcher seem selfish then you need more supe friends than Kimiko and Annie/Starlight. If there was an actual supe resistance org by supes and less "kink-shame for laughs" then I would actually care more when Butcher says "oi oi oi I got me a tentacle cancer hentai monster to kill ya all"

Like if we had more Mesmer type characters where Butchers bloodlust is put in a more critical lens then we would build empathy for supes. But right now we get scenes of the deep murdering his octo girlfriend because it's funny lol men kill women. Like which cisgender loser decided we needed more scenes of the deep? Did they run out of actors???

S4 really is where the boys capeshittified because of the lazy capeshit tropes they're pulling. I'm rewatching the older seasons and they were leagues better than this one.

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[–] HumanBehaviorByBjork@hexbear.net 8 points 9 months ago

perhaps the most important event in the history of international communism thus far

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 7 points 9 months ago (4 children)

If anyone is looking for some not bad Guy Talks About a Game For 6 Hours background noise, Duke of Whales has so far been solid, got hooked with a 2 hour video of the first Assassin's Creed and then saw the Assassin's Crew 2 episode is 6 dang hours, but the first one was solid, dude did outside historical research, mentions Gramsci and even mentions dialectics, it's nothing mind blowing but for the background noise about video games genre, it's damn good.

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[–] FuckyWucky@hexbear.net 7 points 9 months ago

stonks-down ooooooooooooooh