Oh I get that. I was once deeply involved in World War 2 strategy games, including development. I have spent more time reading slope armor debates and suffered enough Clean Wehrmacht myth arguments than a normal healthy mind can (or should) withstand.

I like to think I closed the loop at myself and didn’t subject normies to it.

It was used in Afghanistan and let me tell you, a lot worse than ‘cope cages’ were used.

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Definitely just the name too.

I always felt his style doesn’t quite fit the anime faces.

But almost all anime looks like the Potato Jesus on some level to me, so maybe it’s just me.

I should probably add there’s also been a community on my instance dedicated to portraying Hexbear, Lemmygrad, and .ml in the worst possible way, usually by taking a single comment or DM out of context. The user running it finally fucked off from the Fediverse just a month or two back.

Since that community is now being run by overt Zionists who are into spreading outright doctored screenshots, hopefully it’ll fall into long overdue irrelevance. If you ever see the term ‘tankie triad’ that’s probably one of them.

Hexbear originated from ChapoTrapHouse fandom which is a part of the so-called dirtbag left that explicitly antagonizes (neo)liberals. They also don’t use downvotes and encourage users to voice their opinions instead.

So every wave of redditor freaks the hell out when they get a handful of hexbear users clowning on some take like it’s a coordinated brigade attack.

“Have you condemned Hamas today?”

It’s all a little fuzzy but essentially the Gros Michel was THE cultivar of banana, but it became susceptible to a disease. It still exists, but can’t be farmed like it used to be.

The chemical was developed and likened to the Gros Michel variety in mind for it being called ‘banana’ flavor since the Cavendish (i think?) hadn’t yet replaced the world market as the banana cultivar of choice.

Mah boi.

Not all communities are run the same way, nor do any intend to do so necessarily.

At a certain point some people are just trying to maintain a walled garden with curated content. Sometimes they can be real shit about it, too. It’s not exactly suited for the Fediverse, but neither are broad, everything-goes communities or ones trying to appeal to ‘everyone’.

Push it to the limit. (Crash the gates!)

Not who you’re commenting to, but for me it’s based on wasting/spending the time to read not only OP’s analysis about the Fediverse, but then looking into their comment history and public modlogs for their ‘perfectly polite’ takes that got them banned.

Which is far more than basing a conclusion on a single phrase.

People wearing the skin of decency usually gives reason for people to fight on social media. And sometimes people do the research so others don’t have to.

The context of the author is valid when judging their content.

You’re showing a screenshot of being told you’re not funny as evidence they’re saying you’re telling jokes?

This is why you keep the trolls around as pets, folks. Who needs AI?

This reminded me of how into RTS games I was when MOBAs really hit. I was deep into Company of Heroes, even involved with official patches and mapmaking. Definitely some bitter jealously at the mobas after that whole effort crashed and burned for us, in retrospect.

The equivalent of the prostate gland in female bodies, the name escapes me at the moment, secretes into the bladder when stimulated.

Debate perving yourself so hard you’re left accusing anarchists of… centrism?

Classic blunder.

The only moba mode I thought was consistently fun was Ability Draft. It was so categorically broken and silly, but DotA 2 killed it off I think.

Oh I get that. That was kind of a disappointing part of ER. They established this sort of sanctuary effect, gave an example of it being revoked, and then never revisted it.

I thought it was like callback to ds1 firekeeper sorta thing, which it wasn’t. Same thing with the Radahn fight and the giant desert arena. I thought it was a callback to Bed of Chaos or Seath with some hidden immortality gem to break and you had to feed phantoms to distract him until you did. Nope.

But in that way ER is truly DS2:2 with the one-off mechanics.