[-] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 11 points 13 hours ago

There are some pretty good independent games out there tequila-sunset

[-] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 22 points 1 day ago

And Reddit dipshits will tell you with a straight face that feminism is obsolete in the West (but not in the countries of scary brown people, of course).

[-] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 34 points 1 day ago

I wonder how exactly liberal brains would break if that happened

[-] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 29 points 1 day ago

It is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism

[-] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 33 points 2 days ago

Real cyberpunk hours

[-] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 19 points 2 days ago

I love when libs say stuff like this because it's a sure bet that I can discount everything that comes out of their mouths. If they're wrong about me being a Russian agent, why should I believe them about anything else?

[-] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 40 points 2 days ago

bloomer Climate change will destroy capitalism
doomjak Along with everything else

[-] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 40 points 2 days ago

Where does their cabal meet and who takes their secret orders?

parenti-hands "Those who suffer from conspiracy phobia are fond of saying: 'Do you actually think there’s a group of people sitting around in a room plotting things?' For some reason that image is assumed to be so patently absurd as to invite only disclaimers. But where else would people of power get together – on park benches or carousels? Indeed, they meet in rooms: corporate boardrooms, Pentagon command rooms, at the Bohemian Grove, in the choice dining rooms at the best restaurants, resorts, hotels, and estates, in the many conference rooms at the White House, the NSA, the CIA, or wherever. And, yes, they consciously plot – though they call it 'planning' and 'strategizing' – and they do so in great secrecy, often resisting all efforts at public disclosure. No one confabulates and plans more than political and corporate elites and their hired specialists. To make the world safe for those who own it, politically active elements of the owning class have created a national security state that expends billions of dollars and enlists the efforts of vast numbers of people."

[-] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 68 points 3 days ago

~1% of the population, yet they're able to bring America to its knees. Hand the world to the Trans Illuminati, they've earned it.

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This is for work and ASP.NET and IIS are the technologies my organization want me to use, so I can't change those.

So, I have an ASP.NET MVC webservice. When I start it up, I get the following message:

info: Microsoft.Hosting.Lifetime[14]
      Now listening on: http://localhost:5000/
info: Microsoft.Hosting.Lifetime[0]
      Application started. Press Ctrl+C to shut down.
info: Microsoft.Hosting.Lifetime[0]
      Hosting environment: Production
info: Microsoft.Hosting.Lifetime[0]
      Content root path: [Path]

Path removed to avoid exposing sensitive info. I can access the site just fine on the server it's hosted on by going to http://localhost:5000/. However, it needs to be accessible from other devices. The machine it's hosted on also has an IIS server with a company website, and ideally, I should be able to access this webservice through a URL on the company site. I'm not sure how to do this, though. I've tried dropping it into the site's wwwroot folder and registering it as an application, but that didn't seem to work (I tried entering all of the obvious URLs from another device but only got 404s, and I can confirm that the site itself is accessible from that device).

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back-to-me stalin-pipe chairman fidel-wut juche-rose uncle-ho hoxha-turt honecker-interesting tito-laugh xi "Are we jokes to you?"

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It's late and I can't sleep and I was just reminded of this, so you get all get to hear me ramble about a movie that's probably older than a good portion of this site's userbase.

For those unfamiliar, Without Warning is a sci-fi movie which begins with aliens attempting to contact Earth by dropping asteroids into precise patterns in unpopulated areas. When an asteroid is aimed at the North Pole, human military forces intercept and destroy it with tactical nuclear weapons and, in the process, accidentally destroy an alien craft. The aliens retaliate by attempting to drop more asteroids on Beijing, Moscow, and Washington D.C. (okay, that last one is admittedly based), which humanity also intercepts and destroys with nuclear weapons. This leads to the final alien response, which is to swarm Earth with hundreds of asteroids, too many to intercept, aimed at every major urban center on Earth with the intention of completely annihilating every single one. The movie ends with the quote "The fault, dear Brutus, lies not in our stars, but in ourselves," the implication that humanity deserved and brought about its own destruction through its violent acts.

It's the implication that the destruction is self-inflicted and deserved that irks me because - and crucially, I don't think this was the artistic intention - the aliens in the movie come off wayyyyy worse than humanity. Yes, the humans are too trigger-happy and in the process kill some of the aliens, which is definitely bad. But the aliens' response isn't to de-escalate the situation or fuck off entirely, which they have the privilege of doing - nothing is obligating them to keep coming to Earth. Instead, they launch a massive retaliatory strike that would kill orders of magnitudes more than the destruction of their ship and, when this fails, the deliberate extermination of an entire population. You could actually draw a strong parallel between the aliens and a colonialist power - they show up where they don't need to be and aren't wanted, respond to violence with massive and indiscriminate retribution, and ultimately, commit genocide. It's the equivalent of carpet-bombing North Sentinel Island to avenge John Allen Chau.

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Lots of reviewers shitting on it saying "I don't hate it because it's political, I hate it because it's a bad game!"

Meanwhile all their top-voted comments are pushing DEI conspiracy theory and Great Replacement bullshit

FWIW I have no desire to play the game myself, but anyone who has a comments section full of that shit and doesn't think long and hard about what kind of audience they've cultivated is a Nazi in all but name

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Oh wait this is Literally Karl Marx

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Haven't seen the anime itself but it looks pretty cool

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I hate 2FA Hell (hexbear.net)

Installed Steam on a new computer. Signed in. It sent a passcode to my GMail. I signed into GMail. It wanted me to 2FA because I hadn't signed into Google on that device. It sent a notification to my phone, which I never received. I had it resend the notification twice, still nothing. Tried again with my phone's offline passcodes. Neither worked. Tried the QR code/Bluetooth connection, and that finally did it.

At least I got through in the end, but fuck, it's annoying.

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