Zuzak [fae/faer, she/her] @ Zuzak @hexbear.net

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There are certain toxic behaviors that aren't unique to them but are very common on the internet, so much so that it's easy to take them for granted. The behaviors I'm talking about, which often go hand in hand, are 1. Crybullying, and 2. Making shit up. What makes Hexbear good is that we do not tolerate either of those. What makes .world awful is that those behaviors are extremely common and widespread.

It's very common for a user on .world to get banned from some community for doing something shitty and then lie about why they got banned and go make a post whining about it, and the culture there lets them get away with it, nobody asks them for the receipts or goes looking for them and they instead give them sympathy and the benefit of the doubt, which bad actors take advantage of to spread drama. I have an .ml alt where my profile reads, "If someone claims something happened on the fediverse without providing a link, they are lying," and I have lost count of the number of times I have posted those words and been 100% correct.

That shit does not fly here. That's not to say we don't have drama sometimes, but if you try to pull that shit, we won't just dismiss it until you can show us the evidence of what really happened, we will dig up the evidence ourselves and if it turns out you're full of shit and just trying to stir the pot, we will mock and bully you for our own amusement before bringing down the banhammer, and we don't give a fuck if that makes us look like the bad guys or if you run off to another community to whine about us.

That might sound harsh, and admittedly there are times when that gets misdirected, but there's plenty of people who come here after hearing all kinds of terrible things about us and don't encounter any of it and wonder what all the fuss is about - because they simply don't do the whole crybully routine. This is a tradition going all the way back to the r/chapotraphouse days, when so many of us found our way to the community by way of hearing all the worst people on Reddit talking about how terrible it was.

That sort of thing is the biggest culture shock I experience when I'm on my alt, the way people will just casually lie, just constantly, to the point that you start to second-guess if they're even conscious of it or if they're just so used to running everything they say through a filter that makes them look better or more like a victim that they aren't even conscious of what they're doing - and the way people just let them do it, never fact-checking, giving them the benefit of the doubt, coming to their defense when they're called out. It's a very different environment that's way more succeptable to bad actors playing the social media game.

Cut Lemmy into pieces, this is my last resort

Defederation, preemptive

Don't give a fuck if I - that's all I got, sorry.

Looks pretty white to me, checkmate

It's from "March of the Volunteers"

I saw a reply to that question that just said, "Look up the first line of our national anthem"

:::spoiler spoiler

起来！不愿做奴隶的人们！

Stand up! Those who are unwilling to become slaves!

I've just discovered Unicorn Overlord, a spiritual successor to the classic Ogre Battle games, where you form teams of units to send around the map. Story's a bit bland but I like the gameplay and the complexity curve that gradually introduces more unit types and bigger formations, making it very approachable, and I'm not aware of another game in that style since Ogre Battle 64.

Ofc there's a lot of Fire Emblem games, and many of the older ones hold up just fine. Awakening (3DS), Path of Radiance (Gamecube), and Blazing Blade (GBA) are solid all around. Radiant Dawn (Wii) is ambitious and jumps between groups which tells a fairly complex story and keeps the game fresh, but some groups (the starting one in particular) have much weaker units that you probably won't want to use later on. The SNES ones (Genealogy and Thracia 776) are good, both are very distinctive (Genealogy was strangely my introduction to the series, and remains a personal fav), but use a guide. The other GBA ones (Binding Blade and Sacred Stones) are fine but personally I didn't get hooked; Fates seemed like it had amazing gameplay but I couldn't stomach the level of incest/anime tropes; the early games and their remakes are a bit bland imo (though Shadow Dragon gives you a lot of flexibility in reclassing characters which was neat).

The Front Mission series has a similar format to the tactics games you mentioned, but instead of fantasy it's mechs. The original SNES game got a remake (Front Mission 1st) and I've only played the original but it's really good, you get a lot of different customization on how to put together your team of mechs.

Kinda deviating from the premise but the Shadowrun games are good. Dragonfall is my favorite, but Hong Kong and Shadowrun Returns are good too. Lots of character depth and challenging tactical gameplay.

Honorable mentions: Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark is ok, it's heavily inspired by FFT and it does a pretty good job imitating it while introducing some new stuff but it's hard not to compare the two and it doesn't quite live up to it. Wildermyth is worth mentioning, the sidestories are very artsy and it kinda works in what it sets out to do which is giving your random characters distinctive feels and stories, but tbh it'd probably be better if the characters just weren't random. Tactics Ogre: Knight of Lodis (GBA) is pretty good imo but I haven't played LUCT so idk how it compares. I haven't played Triangle Strategy but it's on my list, ditto for Tactics Ogre: Reborn.

But isn't that the whole reason that the concept was developed in the first place? It's not very sound to come up with a hypothesis to explain an observation and then rely on that same observation to support the hypothesis. The concept needs to be able to predict and explain new observations, or else it has no utility and is still essentially just a placeholder.

You talked about, like, "vibes-based reasons," but is there a reason to accept the explanation of dark matter aside from vibes? If it's just about feeling satisfied that you have an explanation for the phenomenon, that's vibes. Like, relativity, you have to accept and account for or GPS wouldn't work nearly as accurately as they do. But everyone could reject the hypothesis of dark matter and it wouldn't really change anything.

Explanations for things are a dime a dozen. There's no real value in having an explanation (other than personal satisfaction, i.e. vibes) for something unless that explanation helps you to make predictions or manipulate objective reality in some way. That's not to say that it couldn't, at some later date, meet those requirements, but at this point dark matter is barely anymore useful than saying a wizard did it - a hypothesis that also explains the observations perfectly well while being only slightly less congruous with the rest of our understanding of physics.

Dark matter is a case of giving a phenomenon a name and then thinking that because it has a name you've explained it. Dark matter isn't really an explanation, it's essentially just a placeholder to say, "Our equations suggest there should be matter here but there isn't, so maybe there's some kind of matter we can't observe? Or something?" It's not an answer or an explanation, it's just a term for an unexplained phenomenon that guesses vaguely about it what might be, and until we can verify the existence of dark matter through other means and explain why it defies other observations, it's little more than a placeholder and cannot be treated as settled science. This isn't really out of line with the mainstream view, the mainstream view is just that there aren't any better explanations (yet) so that's what we're stuck with (for now).

The men's room isn't a restroom, it's just a place for the dudes to hang out.

He's 4 years short of the age/2 + 7 rule. He's fresh out of high school and can't buy liquor yet.

Yeah it's not illegal but it's way too much of an age gap for me.

Yeah, that's how I read it too. It's new territory for me but he seems harmless. Not overly bothered by it but, you know, would like him to stop trying to hump my leg.

Since you have elections, that means that different factions will join together into parties, and you can't remove individual factions, you can only move the whole party. If the tutorial is asking you to eject the armed forces then it's being stupid, I guess just kick out the whole party and bring them back in when it lets you move on.

There should be a button labelled "reform government" and when you click it you can move factions into or out of your government by clicking on the arrows that appear next to them. You can move them around freely to see the effects, but once you confirm it some people in the faction that got kicked out will become more radical. If you have elections, you get the option to move around factions for free every time there's an election, but the factions will form parties that have to be added or removed as a group.

Shakycam. It completely destroys immersion for me, my brain just goes, "HEY DUMBASS THIS IS A MOVIE! IT'S ALL FAKE! You're in a theater with friends or at home on a couch, you're perfectly safe and there's nothing to be afraid of." Really anything that tries too hard to convince me that it's real.

Listen, movie, let me give it to you straight. I'm here to suspend my disbelief and play pretend so that I can get spooked for fun. But here you are being like, "No, suspending disbelief isn't good enough, you need to actually believe," and that is a) not your job, and b) going to trigger a response from my mental immune system and bring out my most critical and skeptical brain functions, which is the exact opposite of the headspace you want me to be in if I'm supposed to enjoy a horror movie. I need to be able to trust the movie enough to let my guard down.

New type of guy just dropped: Guy who loves AI and is willing to kill anyone who uses it in a detrimental way because they're giving it a bad name.

His heart is roughly the same temperature it was before, I'd imagine.

Lol I heard they were removing stuff but I was expecting, like, actionable threats of violence. This is just, like, "It's against the rules to fail to sufficiently mourn your cruel overlords."