NailBunny [she/her]

There are 8 varieties of gluons, the subatomic particles that exchange the strong force between quarks. The person answered with one word that more or less satisfied the 8 particle requirement. I think that’s the joke, at least

my ping is normally sub 100, and I have XIVAlexander installed to allow me to double weave with a slightly high ping. Hasn’t been an issue for me so far, but I’m not exactly doing Savage raids or anything yet

I am unfortunately on an EU data center >< Specifically Chaos. I live in NA but started playing FF14 to join an EU friend. One day I’ll probably make an alt on an NA datacenter when I’m caught up on MSQ, though. Fwiw I’ll still :3c you about my progress if you want lol

Of course I’m keen on a new friend to play/chat with! What data center are you on? ^^

Heyyy I’ve been playing! Currently still trying to catch up to current content, almost done with Stormblood. I enjoyed Heavensward a lot but Stormblood is kind of dragging for me. Eager to get to Shadowbringers soon, I’ve heard its by far the best expansion

Lossy means that data is lost on encoding, so the original quality of the recording will be compromised in some fashion.

FLAC is superior to WAV because it’s still lossless but compressed so the files take up less space.

They do this every time.

“They’re genociding people left and right!”

…

“Well if you read this bit it says they were kinda actually assholes”

They will walk back whatever they say until they are saying nothing at all. You’d think through this process they’d come to realize how little evidence they have and self-evaluate, but…

Yes, I acknowledge the system is broken, our democratic rights are actively being whittled away as we are pulled deeper and deeper into the maw of a beast that treats us as expendable resources meant only to line the pockets of the ultra-wealthy. We’re given the smallest necessary concessions by a slew of invariably corrupt political hacks to placate the masses and obfuscate atrocity after atrocity in their endless quest for the violent exploitation of every living being below them.

THAT’S WHY I VOTED DARK BRANDON THIS ELECTION, BLUE WAVE ROLLLLLL

I’d still hug Monokuma, even if he is a bit sassy

That’s one of the more embarrassing things I’ve seen an adult write on the internet

Seems like we don’t have long to find real democracy before he turns to dust anyways.

What age do I have to hit before I become so bitter and joyless?

Never too late for that first “blemish” on one’s heterosexuality, I suppose.

I’m a big fan of Goth, mostly dark wave and post-punk. They fill out a the majority of my rotation most days, but I like breakcore/IDM adjacent stuff quite a bit too.

1.3% dyscalculic

I suppose I can understand that justification, yeah. I’ve always considered it a matter of quantity, i.e. the more people you have in support the better, but In terms of fostering a community/movement I can see the merit in filtering out people who won’t make the effort to understand or learn further since they’re just as likely to be swayed by something else at a later point. Hope you don’t think I’m trying to “change” this community, I just have the outsider experience fresh in my head still and can understand some of the more flippant reactions we have gotten.

It’s not just that you can’t convert them so you shouldn’t try, it’s that by antagonizing them you push them even further away from mutual understanding. We set up the pretense that all their future interactions with leftists will be no better than the time their shit opinion got PPB’d. It’s not rational, but it’s how this stuff often goes. I get the frustration of being met with absolute nonsense when you’re trying to have a proper discussion with someone, but I think we also have to consider the ramifications of creating an absolute shitstorm whenever someone posts uninformed bullshit.

FWIW I am pretty new here so take my opinion with a grain of salt, but when I first encountered a bunch of bears in a thread my first thought was “what the fuck is wrong with these people.” I had to sift through many pictures of shit-smeared pig testicles to find out what Hexbear was really about, and even further to find out that you’re all a bunch of really great people. Not everyone will take the time necessary to separate the rhetoric from the culture like I did out of curiosity. Most will see the worst and form hasty, unfair conclusions about the community and it will only poison their interactions going forward. It sux and I don’t think Hexbear should water down its culture for the sake of any other community, but I think we all could do with being a little more mindful of how aggro we can be when we dunk and what it looks like to people who just want to laugh at shit memes on their phone.

Sure one might change their behaviors when traveling accordingly, but I think people would be generally understanding if an American tried to tip in the UK, and I would hope a waitress in America would understand why someone from the UK might not tip. With federation that cultural overlap is even more understandable because it’s not like I’m getting on a plane and traveling across the ocean, I’m just clicking a link that was already on my All on Hexbear. We’re also a lot larger/more active of an instance with almost quadruple the active monthly users of lemm.ee, and Hexbear has been around for about 3 years. A lot of the “brigading” people see is just the result of there being many active bears + this stuff showing up on our feeds + it being directly about us. When you consider all of these things, does it make a bit more sense why we might show up like a swarm of locusts throwing around our own inside jokes?

I’m pleasantly surprised by your response, honestly. I understand the temptation to make such arguments, and I’d be lying if I told you that astroturfing and shit like that didn’t happen, but hard leftists like us are small in number in American spaces and that level of bullshittery generally requires some alignment with corporate interests to find the resources. We’re just a bunch of regular people from many different corners who are really passionate about our opinions for a variety of reasons. Hope I wasn’t too aggro with my comment, and hope the rest of your day is a nice one

Whenever leftists post outside of their home instance it inevitably breaks down into a rehashed version of “This is America, why can’t you speak American?”