I’m a solo indie dev and I made a whole-ass indie RPG! Please check it out, and tell me what you think!
Telling my partner “don’t be a lib” when she criticizes me for being rude when closing the door on a solicitor who continues to talk after I politely tell them I’m not interested
What blows my mind the most about Americans gobbling down the anti-China goop being fed to them is the fact that just about every single fucking person I’ve ever met in America absolutely hates our government, and for one reason or another we all openly agree and joke about what a farce it is. So, why are all these same people so eager to tear down the CPC, just to replace it with the exact same type of system they all fucking hate? I suppose because then the news would stop telling them how bad and wrong China is all the time, and they can just go back to never thinking about it at all.
Maybe you can just conveniently silence the part of your brain that says that you’re backing someone supporting a genocide - or maybe that part of your brain just doesn’t scream as loudly as mine does - but I know for a fact that I wouldn’t ever be able to stop hating myself if I went out of my way to show support for someone as despicable as Biden.
Reading one of the threads in the Hbomb sub about James Somerton potentially having taken his own life and finding a comment from a guy actually criticizing Somerton for killing himself instead of pulling himself up by the bootstraps and getting a 9-5 job.
We are so far from an empathetic world.
The heavy sigh that escapes you upon hearing new slang that you immediately hate, realizing it’s gonna be like 3 years before people stop saying it
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Hey where y’all doing your these days?
Every stream chat is now at least 80% people just spamming “W” and/or “L”
depression hitting harder today than it has in a long time, I am borderline catatonic, just sitting at my desk unable to do much, avoiding my partner
I can feel that my body is struggling with sitting still for so long but I cannot make myself get up or adjust much at all
a soft taco is just a burrito that you don’t finish wrapping
Hello yes I am an indie dev and I made an RPG and it is on big sale
today is also the second anniversary of its release so I am celebrating by eating WAY too much pizza
Wait, I unironically want to abolish bedtime
The wet mouth popping sounds that come from ASMR make me cringe off the face of the Earth, I cannot fathom how people listen to this stuff
in the last 24 hours I have experienced more -tier contrarianism on Hexbear than ever before
time for me to logout, back later
Was in the emergency room with someone couple days ago, thankfully they’re okay, but while we were there we heard someone get probably the worst news they’ve ever gotten in their life. Aside from hoping she can eventually find some peace, I am also hoping the sound of her wailing will not haunt me for the rest of my days.
What experiences are you actually talking about? Because I will gladly take an hour out of my day just to fish for a few first-hand examples of people who lived in the USSR talking about how much better life was before its dissolution.
There’s a popular youtube channel called Bald and Bankrupt, and the guy who does it generally sucks, but almost universally whenever he talks to someone who actually lived in the USSR, they talk about how much better it was before its dissolution. There’s also statues and portraits of Stalin all over the dang place.
“Many old people like me lived better in the USSR” …later on in the video… “In the USSR it was better … [now] the poor people have to pay for their apartments, they don’t have enough for medicine, don’t have enough for housing fees”
Here is a woman who describes her time in the USSR as “living wonderfully” before restructuring.
Here is a woman who talks about how her community was cooperative right up until the USSR’s collapse. Later in the video another woman talks about being forced from her home overnight while the USSR was being picked apart in 1992.
“After the collapse of the Soviet Union, everything in Russia became dirty”
For the sake of covering “both sides”, I did find another clip while skimming of a woman talking about how her family was sent to Siberia by Stalin (as soon as she said this, I knew her family was probably very wealthy, which she confirmed immediately, lol). Her family wasn’t sent to a gulag, but rather to another village. Eventually they were allowed to return. If you’d like to know more about what the kulaks did to deserve being sent to another village, and you’re not aware already… well, that’s a whole other can of worms that frankly I don’t feel like getting into right now. But basically, by withholding the harvest of crops en masse from the people who needed them for the sake of their own profit, the kulaks - who were dissatisfied with communist redistribution of wealth (kulak means a person who is wealthy enough to own land and hire labor) - caused the deaths of many, many citizens of the USSR.
There are more examples of older folks speaking positively about the USSR, but that’s all I feel like combing through right now.
Anyway, I wanna go play video games now. I hope some of this was of actual interest to you, and helps you feel a little more open-minded. I appreciate you actually making the effort to confront your viewpoint, not many people make that step.
You’re not allowed to talk about North Korea, at all, in any context or capacity, until you go read this book.
Like, you - specifically you - are forbidden from ever talking about the DPRK again, until you go read about what happened during the Korean war in this book. Every time you decide you want to say something about North Korea, I want you to ignore all those smirking news anchors and smug headlines telling you stories about unicorns, haircuts, and concentration camps and remember that you have to go read the book.
It’s not a super long book. The link I provided is free. Go read it. Until you do, anything you say here about Korea is going to be laughed at, by all of us.
About to call lawyer number 9 to try to get help with the foreclosure notice and my dad’s house, lol. Referrals lead to dead ends, again and again.