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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

On this day, 4 years ago the site was first launched (then a day later the first post made), Formed from chapotraphouse remnants, the old admins decided to make a site using Lemmy as its base. Originally called chapo.chat, Hexbear has grown into one of the biggest instances in the lemmyverse.

Despite various sitewide struggle sessions, wrecker incursions from other forums and federation drama, Hexbear has keep growing strong in its 4th year, now with 4 megathreads, over 4 million comments, 300k posts and much more.

Its being great running the general megathread for a bit over 3 years, since i took over i have tried to get it mostly in time and just one unlike during the old times, i like to think i have done a decent job, plus i have also added a bit of reading material to them so you nerds can learn from them and i like to think you have been reading them garcia-cock-shotty, its also nice to see the new megathreads how they have slowing grown up to the size to the old general mega in the time of the old admins.

dont have much else to say so have a good day nerd. also

Whats has been your favorite post/event from last year (july 2023-july 2024)?

I wont lie, all the fedidrama has been fun to read, especially when libs wander here

Megathreads and spaces to hang out:

reminders:

  • πŸ’š You nerds can join specific comms to see posts about all sorts of topics
  • πŸ’™ Hexbear’s algorithm prioritizes comments over upbears
  • πŸ’œ Sorting by new you nerd
  • 🌈 If you ever want to make your own megathread, you can reserve a spot here nerd
  • 🐢 Join the unofficial Hexbear-adjacent Mastodon instance toots.matapacos.dog

Links To Resources (Aid and Theory):

Aid:

Theory:

Also 24 hours after this is posted the admins are closing the site for a day, sorry

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[-] ThisMachinePostsHog@hexbear.net 7 points 4 months ago

It's wild how fast 4 years went by. I had just discovered /r/cth maybe 4-5 months before it was banned, but it quickly became my favorite online space and was pretty instrumental in me getting exposed to leftist politics.

I was bummed when it was banned, so I was super eager for whatever came from the remnants. I joined chapo chat maybe 2-3 days after it launched, and it's been a cool place ever since. I haven't been as active as I used to be, but I still like to come back from time. I'm glad to see the site is still going strong, and federation finally happened.

[-] PaX@hexbear.net 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Cooking up an OGAS larp for my website

Can't get ogas.su domain cuz no Russian passport :(

[-] copandballtorture@hexbear.net 7 points 4 months ago

Most of the posts on badposting really are bad enough that I don't bother opening them

[-] ComradePlatypus@hexbear.net 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Kind of funny/sad how in Fallout 4 every single one of your companions who is not Danse is like "The Brotherhood of Steel are the worst". Every interaction with the Brotherhood of Steel they're like "We're the worst and we love to totally eat shit and lose". Literally there's two plotlines about BoS teams arriving in the Commonwealth to immediately eat shit and get almost the whole party wiped out, in Danse and Brandis' teams. Once they arrive their vertibirds start falling out of the sky every short walk you talk, trying to engage some mutants or raiders.

The reaction from a majority/plurality of the fanbase? "Ad victoriam brother! the Brotherhood are the best!"

[-] vertexarray@hexbear.net 7 points 4 months ago
[-] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 7 points 4 months ago

Did Jacobin actually pitch Bernie as a VP pick flattened-bernie

[-] FuckyWucky@hexbear.net 7 points 4 months ago
[-] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 7 points 4 months ago

If anyone is looking for some not bad Guy Talks About a Game For 6 Hours background noise, Duke of Whales has so far been solid, got hooked with a 2 hour video of the first Assassin's Creed and then saw the Assassin's Crew 2 episode is 6 dang hours, but the first one was solid, dude did outside historical research, mentions Gramsci and even mentions dialectics, it's nothing mind blowing but for the background noise about video games genre, it's damn good.

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[-] Kiagz@hexbear.net 7 points 4 months ago

Steam won't let me install Noita on my linux mint laptop for some reason kel-sad

[-] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 7 points 4 months ago

Check that you have it configured to allow Windows games. I run Noita with Proton just fine.

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[-] Moonworm@hexbear.net 7 points 4 months ago

I feel like that as I've climbed the ladder in MTG Arena I'm getting way more people who just stall out their turns until they automatically lose, I guess hoping that I'll concede first? Super annoying.

[-] Babs@hexbear.net 7 points 4 months ago

I'm working on a water cooling thing, and it seems there's a teeny tiny leak between two aluminum bits that are tightly screwed together. I will never have any reason to unscrew them. What's a good way to seal this up? Can I just run some super glue along the crack?

[-] Sickos@hexbear.net 6 points 4 months ago

Can you take it apart and put it back together with Teflon tape on the threads? That's what it's for, sealing threads.

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[-] Rojo27@hexbear.net 7 points 4 months ago

Been texting my crush daily, sometimes with some funny stuff and other times just cool shit I've seen that I think she might like based on our past conversations. Even talked a bit about coming up with a nickname for her since she's had one for me for a minute now. But whenever I've seen her at work she's seemed to be feeling down, especially the past two days. Like usually she's laughing a lot with her coworkers and she's been super quite. I ended up texting her after work yesterday to ask her if anything was up and just seems like work has had her a bit stressed. She had to work extra hours to make up for a mistake or mistakes someone made. Kinda wish I could do something to help her out, but everything we do is completely separate from each other.

[-] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 7 points 4 months ago

There's a fair going on across the street from my work this weekend and while.its a bummer my smoke breaks are as loud and crowded as my work, the do have a sick PA system and we're blasting Motley Crue last night when I left and I heard both Quiet Riot and Ratt tonight.

[-] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 7 points 4 months ago

Did you know you can use a bass as a bow for a guitar and if they're both plugged into a neat of pedals it sounds really neat?

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