HelluvaBottomCarter

joined 1 year ago

If I had to do a takesmith moment, maybe they finally have an operating model of a EMP device? It's one of those things conservatives have been shadowboxing that for years, which means they've been working on it. It was one of the fabled weapons from the dubya years and a big part of apocalypse fantasy under Obama. I could see them doing a big commercial for it, a live demonstration (just like my star wars!). Of course it would probably be half-assed so they would follow up with analog carpet-bombing of civilian infrastructure. Then "we have a nuke without the nuke" discourse will carry everyone pretty far over the next decade.

[–] HelluvaBottomCarter@hexbear.net 20 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

This is going to come off really crabby, and I'm sorry for that, but you being frustrated with a couple of people is not a problem with site culture. Both you and OP are not actually communicating well or taking care of this in a productive way. The person you're frustrated with don't even know this thread is about them. You have experience with communicating to strangers and talking to people with differing views at protests. Apply that here. The opportunity was when it happened, not 4 days later.

If Hexbear has a culture problem it's poor communication and a seeping anticipation that the person you argue with is a latent fash.

[–] HelluvaBottomCarter@hexbear.net 11 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

I went into your history. You got into an argument with one poster about whether or not it was worth it to convert libs at the event. By argument I mean one reply. That's the ultraleft position in our community?

[–] HelluvaBottomCarter@hexbear.net 35 points 3 weeks ago (12 children)

I don't know who you're replying to so the impact of this post is lost on me. If someone on Hexbear said that Walmart is paying people to show up to protests then you should have called them out in the thread where they said it. Making a new post to say that all hexbears believe that is odd. Your whole post is like "Listen up here you fucking cracker reactionaries, I'm gonna set you strait and let you know that we need to build popular support before we can have a revolution!" Like who is disagreeing? This is premium Hexbear online posting. I don't know why we're kidding ourselves thinking this is some kind of grass-touching anthem.

[–] HelluvaBottomCarter@hexbear.net 7 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

What do you mean by believe?

[–] HelluvaBottomCarter@hexbear.net 17 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

God could you imagine Trump's version of 9/11.

Ride for Immortan Trump and you shall ride greasy and gold.

When Marxists don't get their way:

The satanic panic MAGA people lost their cred when Trump held the glowing orb of globalism in a dark ritual.

[–] HelluvaBottomCarter@hexbear.net 27 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Go talk to Jimmy the Fish down at the docks. He has a few jobs that need takin' care of.

Reality barrier: 45%

It's almost like random redditors backed by a non-profit suck at organizing. They don't know who is at their protest. They don't know how many people there are on their side. They don't know who is running security, they probably never considered having organized security. They just let randos show up and stake over marshaling duties.

 

If you could attend a protest for funsies what would you do for a sign? Mine would be like "TACO Tuesdays? I don't think so, hombre!" or "Um...there is a criminal in the white house...wow I guess I need a drink!"

 

He also brought out the flag after winning: https://www.tiktok.com/@irishunity/video/7510741009085598998

Critical support

 

What I liked about S1 was that it was a bit tighter than The Walking Dead. Pedro Pascal, of course, is always great to watch. I liked the little vignettes as the road trip across America played out.

S2 lost all of that momentum. Interpersonal moments became overly contrived. The show settles into a predictable pacing of running, action, stop and talk, running... Actors get even less to work with and good character moments are sparse and mostly used for cliffhanger bait.

I just want grumpy Pascal escorting a vulnerable but sassy child/alien across a map and making/killing friends along the way. I do not want a late 00s zombie c-movie with theater actors doing metaphors about Israel/Palestine. Especially when the punchline is "Wow, Israelis sure are brutal but have you seen what they're fighting?"

What did YOU think about S2 and its ending?

 

I was watching this for a project and I noticed how much better the cinematography was and how much more it was stylized than BHC. It seems like a weird photography choice for the sequel of an action comedy movie. Then I found out the director was Tony Scott and it made much more sense. This isn't even all of the great shots in this movie. It has no business being this good. Don't worry though they fixed the good cinematography problem for Beverly Hills Cop 3. In fact they fixed a lot of stuff with that one.

(ACAB includes Axel Foley)

 
 

This website has a culture problem around being fucking annoying at times with the tedious task of attending to the "every post is talking about me" crowd.

 

Dude I only got this job because you were offering an internship two summers ago. We don't have the budget for that. We're still working on the last changes you made and the plan was to return to the normal schedule after we implemented your "fixes." Why do you not know this stuff man you're the boss, you should know our team has been cut down by half over the past 6 months. Where are we going to get the time for this? We're already pushing crunch time. You just got here and had a 1 hour meeting now you know everything we're doing?

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It was an art forum but super edgy and toxic. They would be horrible to any new artist and if they didn't improve quickly, they would continue to bully. They would even do the lolcow thing with some people. They hated deviantart because they felt it was too soft.

It was also populated with professional artists from the games/movies industry. So you would have these industry leads shitting on literal children for drawing poorly.

I know a few of them splintered and started conceptart.org, which tried to be more professional about it. But the owner and his friends used it to grift. Eventually the owner (who started a production art company an used the site for recruiting) got accused of being a creep. I just remember their attitudes and the way they would present themselves like rockstars.

Anyways, I saw someone mention SomethingAwful and it got me thinking about all the old forums from the 00s that, in retrospect, were fucking horrible.

Also LUElinks. That was more like right on the edge and was close to when 4chan started.

 

BUT I'M DOWN TO ONE LAST BREATH

 

Exactly what the title says, badposting in all its various strains still stems from horrendous filthy birds, and with all the awful shit that endorses, as well as with things like irony and the general doomsday cult foundations in the beanis, why do some people still act so charitably towards it? Badposting has proven itself to be a morally corrupt and oppressive institution at every turn. Or maybe I'm just too negative?

EDIT Ok guys I get it this was rather reductionist, and I definitely was disregarding all the good that shitposters have done, and that memes has inspired people to do, but again over correcting into enthusiastic support for badposting can also be problematic.

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