Esoteir

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[–] Esoteir@hexbear.net 9 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

you know whoever made this is a shoelib when the most materialist shoe of all time (the toe shoe) isn't the communist shoe brow

[–] Esoteir@hexbear.net 8 points 4 days ago

for sure, if they exclusively play indie multiplayer games they should be fine without dual booting

[–] Esoteir@hexbear.net 2 points 4 days ago

this popped into my brain on seeing the poster so i had to make it

[–] Esoteir@hexbear.net 13 points 4 days ago (8 children)

to mirror the rest of the thread since everyone here has pretty much answered everything: if you regularly play new multiplayer games you will not be able to do that without dual booting, and if you dual boot i highly recommend you use a separate drive for that if possible

[–] Esoteir@hexbear.net 33 points 6 days ago

just want to say OP, this thread won't get the attention it deserves but this is genuinely an all time classic, i thank you for your service reporting from the depths of the liberal trenches 07

[–] Esoteir@hexbear.net 25 points 6 days ago (6 children)

not the indoor fake ahh grass brewing company roof facade complete with fairy lights doggirl-tears

[–] Esoteir@hexbear.net 48 points 6 days ago (4 children)

bring back trepanning to gently drain the slurs from the caucasian brain biden-megamind

[–] Esoteir@hexbear.net 4 points 6 days ago

shrug-outta-hecks at this point he's an honorary italian, they can claim him if they want lmao

[–] Esoteir@hexbear.net 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

i deffo agree with both the soviet sci-fi aesthetic being a part of the broader soviet aesthetic whole, and more grounded depictions of solar-punk being worthwhile stalin-approval

[–] Esoteir@hexbear.net 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

it is a hopeful vision of the future in the same way soviet sci-fi is, which as far as ive experienced doesn't usually flesh out the details of how exactly the soviet state withers away

soviet sci-fi usually acted as more of an inspiration for those who were already educated by a communist state, solar-punk acts as a inspiration for the much more niche community of eco-socialists in a similar way, in that regard they are only superficial as much as imaginary hopeful socialist futures in general are superficial

[–] Esoteir@hexbear.net 3 points 6 days ago (3 children)

i agree the ideas should be fleshed out more in general over time, but i disagree that the aesthetic is more narrow than the soviet sci-fi aesthetic, just that it is more that it is younger and more niche

soviet sci-fi as a movement was mainstream, made and consumed in AES, and worked off of the then real and plausible belief the soviet economic planning would eventually turn into interstellar communism

solar-punk as a movement while inherently against infinite growth and therefore capitalism, is much more niche due to existing in capitalism and state capitalism, much younger, and largely formed in hopeful reaction to the capitalist-realist dystopia. similar to acid communism it uses an eye-catching aesthetic to promote itself, it uses the aesthetic primarily to inspire hope in eco-socialists and combat activist burnout

i would largely say it is eco-socialism's counterpart to soviet sci-fi, it imagines the world eco-socialism would create, working to inspire eco-socialists as soviet sci-fi inspired the soviets

[–] Esoteir@hexbear.net 2 points 6 days ago (3 children)

the dispossessed is more like a thematic foundation for solar-punk, the ecologically sustainable anarcho-syndicalism is explored in new ways, in the same way that most cyberpunk media doesn't exactly mirror neuromancer or explore all aspects of that particular society (albeit cyberpunk being a capitalist-realist cry for help for an incoming doom that came and went, and solar-punk being more of an ecological/sociological example of what could be)

 

OST for the post: https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=L31pory1RpI

"We’re headed for hexbear… That’s where our new home is now. Hey. That was some subreddit we had, huh? Four years ago… pinging the chuds… Posting pig poop balls… And they took it away. We're gonna rebuild it… Make a new place, together. That we can call home. Yeah, we were bears, alright. Slinking around out of spez’s sight, picking up whatever kind of dirty upvotes we could find. You name it, we did it… You see this? Hexbear… Our new home. A phantom of our former selves… Shitposts, dunks… We weren’t allowed either. Yeah, I remember it all."

[A flashback plays from 1 day ago, the attack on the_dredge_tank]

”Comrade… Why are we still here… Just to suffer? Every night, I can read UlyssesT's elon posts, and the random twitter feed lib posts… and even the lemmy.world posts… The comms we’ve lost… It won’t stop hurting, like they’re all still there… You feel it too, don’t you? I’m the one who got caught up with lemmy, a group above hexbear, even the chapos, and I was the parasite below, feeding off their votes… They came after you in the_dunk_tank, then the_dredge_tank. Lemmy just… keeps growing, federating with everything in its path, getting bigger and bigger. Who knows how big now… comrade… We're gonna make ‘em give back our past… Take back everything that we’ve lost. And we won’t rest… until we do. Our new dunk comm. I don’t know how long it’ll take, but we'll make it bigger… better than before… comrade...”

[The helicopter lands at c/commrequest]

”Things have changed, comrade. We pull in upvotes, users, just to combat comm closure. Rubbing our noses in thirty rainbow reply lines, all for a new comm. The site calls for dunks, and we answer. No greater good, no just cause. They sent us to c/counterpropaganda… But we’re going even deeper”

”I know… I’m already a joker. Reddit’s not my kind of place anyway.”

”Chapo dot chat, for four whole years. That ends today. Now you’re not logged off, and we’re not reddit shitposters... We’re hexbears.”

”We can dunk, comrade. And you can recruit the badposters that can do it.”

”Just one thing, comrade… This isn’t about the_dunk_tank… We’re fighting for the new comm.”

 
 

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An indie RPG bundle with 500+ games and supplements on itch.io with proceeds going to Florida charities, so far it's raised 160k :trans-ferret:

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Gubat Banwa - Filipino folklore RPG inspired by tactical combat-focused games like Lancer, ICON, and D&D 4e. Uses the separate narrative/combat system concept like Lancer and has rad art

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