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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:

  • 💚 You nerds can join specific comms to see posts about all sorts of topics
  • 💙 Hexbear’s algorithm prioritizes comments over upbears
  • 💜 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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[-] RION@hexbear.net 14 points 4 months ago

wondering when it will be my turn to spontaneously take a shitty, uncompromising opinion that gets me a sitewide ban

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[-] ashinadash@hexbear.net 14 points 4 months ago

Who put all these leftists in my phone??? I mean thank you but who????

[-] PaX@hexbear.net 13 points 4 months ago
[-] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 14 points 4 months ago

The RDR2 epilogue should've just been the entire RDR1 story.

[-] WhyEssEff@hexbear.net 14 points 4 months ago

olimar-point pikmin-carry-lpart-of-historypikmin-carry-r pikmin-onion
FWIIII ^Huh!^ ^Hooh!^ ^Huh!^ ^Hooh!^ ^Huh!^ ^Hooh!^

[-] PaX@hexbear.net 14 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Don't really like when you suddenly become acutely aware of your mortality randomly

Like your brain is just like an egg yolk wiggling around in your skull when you move

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[-] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 14 points 4 months ago

Oh shit! Hexbear anniversary is also the anniversary of my kitty Darby getting named! It was 9 years ago for her. She lived a couple months under the name Kitty cause it was really hard to come up with the right name. Then. While watching Decline of Western Civilization, when The Germs were being featured, this asshole cat takes a dive from the railing of the stairs into a pot of Chilli we had been cooling to freeze. She then blasted all over the house smearing Chilli everywhere and then slashed the fuck out of me when I had to give her a bath and the tub ran red with blood and tomato sauce. Never before had a name become so obvious when I came back down covered in cuts with a soaked cat who's white parts were now orange. Darby Crash.

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[-] Yanqui_UXO@hexbear.net 14 points 4 months ago

Can't believe it's only been four years! They've really felt like forever.

Thank you for a refuge. Thank you everyone. Long live the mods rat-salute-2

[-] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 14 points 4 months ago

Sometimes management will have reactions to minute changes in project scope or a major technical hurdle that are like "oh no this throws off the entire fiscal year's plan". And, like, you didn't plan for stuff happening during the year?

[-] SterlingPooper@hexbear.net 14 points 4 months ago

Damn, like, how do you make close friends?

It feels like I'm too late in life for lifelong friends, like, they'd have to have met me before I was an adult, right?

Like, I want to be close to someone, dammit. I thought other people wanted that. I think I'm confused. I need a nap

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[-] Acute_Engles@hexbear.net 14 points 4 months ago

Who got banned i don't want to browse the modlog

[-] take_five_seconds@hexbear.net 14 points 4 months ago

4 years? i need to get a life holy shit

[-] AndJusticeForAll@hexbear.net 14 points 4 months ago

Got a knife sharpener and oh my god my knives cut so much better now. Can actually slice through an onion now instead of having to almost saw through it.

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[-] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 14 points 4 months ago

And I'd like to see how your hair would fair in a blizzard.

[-] Kestrel@hexbear.net 14 points 4 months ago

I just learned from my dad in law that Kamala is actually a radical leftist

Big if true

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[-] rootsbreadandmakka@hexbear.net 14 points 4 months ago

has Kamala Harris ever had anything resembling this type of support in the past? Like, she had to drop out of the 2020 campaign in 2019 because she was polling so bad in her own state, then most people (at least that I knew) were disappointed with her choice as VP in 2020 because she was a cop and the decision was made on the heels of the George Floyd protests. And idk I feel like no one cared much for her for the past 4 years, people made fun of the coconut thing, people made fun of her wine mom cadence and the fact she always seemed like she was on something. But overnight it's like she's become the most popular politician in the country, at least among liberals.

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[-] CliffordBigRedDog@hexbear.net 14 points 4 months ago

im so sick and twisted that this just looks like a normal white lady to me

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[-] autism_2@hexbear.net 14 points 4 months ago

loser ass incel cricket chirping outside my window all night

[-] jimmyjohnsandwichsix@hexbear.net 14 points 4 months ago

Missing my old house right now sadness

[-] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 14 points 4 months ago

Just found out there are non-binary butterflies and they're fucking cool! Wing patterns tend to be sexuallt dimorphic in butterflies and these theys have one of each wing! It's neat!

[-] Greenleaf@hexbear.net 14 points 4 months ago

At a family function right now, this side of the family has NO idea of my politics because they’re hyper reactionary and a little dangerous, so I just pretend to be completely aloof from politics.

Two particularly religious nutty family members were right next to me talking about the end times and if they think Jesus will be coming soon, and if Kamala and the dems are the antichrist. One let out “do you think we’ll have full communism before then”. And I just had to step away and laugh in the bathroom. Americans are so incredibly brainstormed.

[-] HarryLime@hexbear.net 13 points 4 months ago
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[-] oscardejarjayes@hexbear.net 13 points 4 months ago

happy hexday!

[-] SoylentSnake@hexbear.net 13 points 4 months ago

me & my lady friend have agreed to a once a week seeing each other schedule, to balance the clear fact that things are deepening against her understandable fears about getting close to someone new/desire to take things slow & her general work busy-ness & working on herself/her own mental stuff (before this we'd been once every 1.5 weeks - 2 weeks and once 2+). i'd be open to a little more than that and i do miss her during the week and can occasionally get frustrated, but i'm also a bit lonely and should be wary of looking to her as the sole plug to the hole that is my loneliness so this is probably good for now.

apparently attachment theory does have some scientific backing, so IG it seems i can occasionally get a lil anxious attached and maybe she can get a lil avoidant. but idk we've been communicating extremely well so far, in ways that feel kinda jarring compared to a lot of my previous romances, so i think by working together we can probably be healthy and secure overall or whatever.

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[-] PaX@hexbear.net 13 points 4 months ago

An American pretending to be Canadian is such a good bit

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[-] MF_COOM@hexbear.net 13 points 4 months ago

Water closet is a funny name for it

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[-] GVAGUY3@hexbear.net 13 points 4 months ago

Is anyone's TikTok algorithm flooded with people screaming at you to vote

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[-] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 13 points 4 months ago

There should be a synonym for Thesaurus.

[-] Rojo27@hexbear.net 13 points 4 months ago

Can't believe its already been 4 years. Where the fuck does the time go?chomsky-yes-honey

[-] Breath_Of_The_Snake@hexbear.net 13 points 4 months ago

Storm season is almost over, I’m going to miss how dynamic the weather can be. Thunder in the distance, a light rain, voluminous clouds unable to obscure the brightness of the lightning. Won’t miss the heat though that’s for sure.

[-] hopelessbyanxiety@hexbear.net 13 points 4 months ago

So if i understand correctly the us doing wars: 1.they dont care if they win as long as they sell the killing stuff, even if it doesnt work, just sell it. 2. Somehow dollar hegemony is kinda linked. 3.they just like killing a lot of people, especially poor and/or non white.

But i feel like, as a community, we focus a lot on winning/losing wars. Why??

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[-] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 13 points 4 months ago

Local thai place has had a drop in food quality. I no longer support multiculturalism or immigration.

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[-] WhatDoYouMeanPodcast@hexbear.net 13 points 4 months ago

Me realizing I was 2 days late to hexbear (formerly chapochat without which my name makes no sense) walter-breakdown

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[-] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 13 points 4 months ago

4 years of bear hexbear-retro

[-] SoylentSnake@hexbear.net 13 points 4 months ago

i want nothing more than to be a wife guy. i'd reach enlightenment if i could unrionically pepper conversations with phrases like "my lovely wife" and "my better half." i will fully become slayer guilty gear if given the chance, i am not fucking around hear

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[-] SoylentSnake@hexbear.net 13 points 4 months ago

i take it back i dont think i need to know about hawk tuah lore there's too many weird contours and treacherous paths therein

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[-] Dolores@hexbear.net 13 points 4 months ago

death to youtube how is there 10,000 people somehow making livings delivering asinine, incorrect takes on films and videogames. every single fucking 'suggested' is a) a chud b) a slick-sounding bullshit merchant.

criticism really is dead and i'm showing up to the archaeological dig on top of the grave to say that, but why the fuck can't normal educated people make this shit anymore? i follow many actually trained entertainers & critics and none of them have the pull of these fucking amateurs. yahtzee crowshaw used to be a relatively low-end critic and he's practically ebert now (like he was never bad he just kept a tight format that excludes deep analysis)

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[-] take_five_seconds@hexbear.net 13 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

god this olympic opening ceremony is stupid as fuck nice louisfuton ad dorks

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[-] WhatAnOddUsername@hexbear.net 13 points 4 months ago

If I had a nickel every time a Kennedy lost part of their brain, I'd have at least 4 nickels by now.

[-] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 13 points 4 months ago

It's insane that "you can brick your tesla if you don't remember to put it in car wash mode" is a thing.

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