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I wish I could join the army. Imagine being a cute 168cm hooman fighting alongside the communist bug bretheren. At night we'd snuggle in a bug pile, say "don't let the bed humans bite you", laugh about it and then snooze happily. But nooo, I have to live under capitalism and observe the passage of time until I'm homeless and jobless. :(((((((

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[-] Aryuproudomenowdaddy@hexbear.net 33 points 1 year ago

Buenos Aries was a false flag attack. It would takes hundreds if not thousands of years for that meteor to reach that planet from the area of space the bugs come from.

[-] Des@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago

you know the old saying: can't have a neofascist stratocracy without an external enemy to throw bodies at

[-] CarbonScored@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

..Hmm, you do make a good point. That's like 50,000 light years.

[-] Tabitha@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

IDK, this picture is out of context, the axises aren't labeled, and the emperor's seal of approval is missing.

[-] 420blazeit69@hexbear.net 4 points 11 months ago

The bugs may have FTL -- they're in multiple systems, after all.

What's unbelievable is that a human civilization with a space navy couldn't easily shoot a meteor down.

[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago
[-] Spongebobsquarejuche@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago
[-] Comradesexual@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 1 year ago

The story, writing, CGI, scenery and acting are all really great. All things considered, it might be the best movie I've ever seen. I am so sleepy, but I must see the end.

[-] Flyberius@hexbear.net 11 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I watched again it last night. It really is a fun film. The gore is spectacular.

I also lol'd hard at the "Mormon extremists" bit in the early news update.

I doff my cap to Stremio for outright describing the humans as fascists in the blurb too.

[-] ashinadash@hexbear.net 9 points 11 months ago

I fuckin love this post. Some good bugremoved coming through with this Starship Troopers discourse that I support.

[-] Comradesexual@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 11 months ago

I love you. Sorry I don't respond more to you, but sometimes I worry my advice would be condescending, and I don't want that.

[-] ashinadash@hexbear.net 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Consider this your free pass to give whatever advice wherever, maybe it'll help? This post made me giggle.

I'm kind of befuddled but I appreciate it too.

[-] Comradesexual@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 11 months ago

I think you should stop deleting your stuff and be your true, candid self. You seem miserable now, and filtering yourself isn't doing you any good. People are unlikely to like your fake self, and even if they did, I doubt that'd make you happy. As hard as it may be, I think fully embracing yourself is the only path to happiness.

[-] ashinadash@hexbear.net 6 points 11 months ago

I guess I'm putting this in your thread Idk, read if you want

Ironically what you see now is kind of the catastrophic blowback from unmasking* 100% and resolving to be as unfiltered as possible. It seemed like I became really offputting basically overnight; part of it is that I went a bit overboard and lost some ability to filter, which oops. I'm not that rude a person though, so it's not like I just atarted being an asshole.

My observations are that people at-worst hate it when you post long unrestrained infodumps or rambles, and at-best don't know how to respond. It's awkward, they also tend to hate it when I monologue at them, like I'm kind of doing now. I don't know why I do this or how to stop or if I even should. However, masking, being fake and pretend-pleasant and speaking like a "normie", filtering myself a lot is excruciatingly hollow, so I don't do it anymore and hence the walls of text.

But I guess I'm just generally unwilling to subject myself to the self-perceived pain and embarrassment that comes with spilling your guts on something you care about in public, and only getting tumbleweeds in reply. My rejection sensitivity is fucking jacked which is a problem. I also have this issue where the shit I'd say or talk about or whatever might not really be appropriate to the space? Some of that is just that nobody likes negativity, and nobody wants to read your 20,000 word essay on why their favourite game is dogshit. But also I find myself nowadays staring at two or three comms, or two or three discord channels and wondering "where does this even go? does it go anywhere?" I used to just say "fuck it" and post ridiculous giant rambles anywhere, or jump out of the proverbial bushes and ambush somebody with longwinded opinions about whatever stuff, but it never worked very well and it seems like it's getting worse in terms of people even responding. Progressively less reward for the risk.

*NEURODIVERSE DEFINITION

[-] Comradesexual@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 11 months ago

I had a friend like this, but he had a lot of mental diagnoses, and idk which one was causing it, I think he stopped after BPD or schizophrenia medicine was readjusted for him. I'm not saying it's the case for you, of course.

nobody wants to read your 20,000 word essay on why their favourite game is dogshit

I actually hate seeing people liking shit games, e.g. Dragon Age Inquisition, and people writing long critiques of such shit is what keeps me alive.

It is hard to respond to walls of text, I won't lie, but I have ADHD and I blame it on it.

I feel like you'd fit right in into my childhood hobby of online forum roleplays. I remember when posts initially were brief descriptions of events and eventually the minimum standard turned into two A4 pages per post. If you never heard of it, you can try to find something up your alley in the I reckon most popular directory here: http://rpg-directory.com/index.php?c=4 I haven't interacted with the hobby in so. many. years. I've no clue what the culture and activity is like nowadays, but I think it would give you the space where your long posts are welcomed and sought for.

I'd also recommend avoiding Discord. Welcoming Discord communities are very rare. It's mostly cliques who won't accept you even if you act like a normie.

[-] ashinadash@hexbear.net 3 points 11 months ago

I could see me having some bonus diagnoses, I already have depression and anxiety and ✨ the tism ✨ on my record so why not more?

I'm actually really glad to know someone else feels like that, like I do my best not to judge obviously, I just have a lot of insanely contrarian-seeming takes on games and stuff Idk. My wife also doesn't like DA Inquisition, lol

Okay what is this board, what am I lookin at? Is this rp like when Final Fantasy 14 players do rp? Like rp groups in general? I'm familiar with the concept, ish...

I learned the cliques-on-discord lesson the hard way, I had some success existing as a social abberation and disrupting the GOOD NORMAL SPACES, but they tire of being tolerant eventually, fuck em shrug-outta-hecks

[-] Comradesexual@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 11 months ago

My wife also doesn’t like DA Inquisition

I love your wife.

disrupting the GOOD NORMAL SPACES

Thank you for your service, comrade.

The board is a directory. You can find any setting you may like. Of course, not everything exists, but a lot does. Not everything is from licensed universes, there should be original too. It's not like DND sitting around the table. It's pure writing and writing a lot. Just linger and see yourself.

[-] ashinadash@hexbear.net 3 points 11 months ago

She is cool :)

Of course, my Protracted People's War against the normos rat-salute-2

Okay, I have a tab open and I'll try to poke at it, see what's up. Thank you for taking the time to respond to all of this and offer advice.

[-] Comradesexual@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 11 months ago

I have very little energy left after yesterday, but I'll do my best to be here for you.

[-] ashinadash@hexbear.net 2 points 11 months ago

I really appreciate it, but also save your energy you know?

[-] Comradesexual@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 11 months ago

Honestly, I have no energy. I function out of pure spite.

[-] idkmybffjoeysteel@hexbear.net 3 points 11 months ago

The info dump to cool snark pipeline

[-] Sickos@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago
[-] Comradesexual@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 1 year ago

I'm done. Are the sequels as good?

[-] Aryuproudomenowdaddy@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

No the sequels are all generic Sci fi / thrillers, none of the subsequent directors were able to come anywhere near the tone of the first one. The second one I think is kind of a spin on Species where there's a new infiltrator bug that turns into a hot lady and picks off the cast stationed at a remote outpost one by one with her feminine wiles.

[-] CascadeOfLight@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

It does have a good ending, where

spoilerThe jaded deserter who fragged his commanding officer, who despite being an effective soldier has been spitting on the Federation the whole movie, dies holding off bugs so a transport ship can escape... and then his actual death montages straight into a recruitment ad by the Federation praising him as a hero and retconning his literal last words from "Murderers don't get to go home" to "Don't cry for me, my glory lives forever!"

[-] Aryuproudomenowdaddy@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I haven't actually seen any of the sequels in about a decade, think I watched them all once during a marathon showing on Syfy

[-] Comradesexual@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 11 months ago

Second movie starts off super weak, but it got very good eventually! I'm off onto the 3rd one, but it seems like 1080p of it doesn't exist. Google's rentals offer 720p max. So odd!

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