FD Signifier got the videos that can explain better why it is he’s got so much influence

Just to suggest this might just be someone’s Vanity Plate lol

She was so cool

Shame she was a Cool character in Saga lol

I am the #1 Ranking of Kings pusher around here that shits food for the soul

Thats such a complex design lol giving the mousie a little housie

I had good success using a few of these little tip traps a few years ago, when my folks had a mouse problem

The purpose of a system is what it does, so too with it’s intellectuals.

Gonna say, Stanley doesn’t impress me with his work. I read ‘How Fascism Works’ and it’s pretty typical liberal fash apologia; focussing solely on the cultural flashpoints the fascists like to use to gain power and barely if ever addresses the material interests bound up in fascist states and how the rich business class props them up. After having read it I found Blackshirts and Reds to be all but a direct counter argument to basically everything he says and properly addresses the most important question about fascist states: for whom does the state benefit? Parenti never shies away from explaining that they only gain power because they have rich sponsors who want for state power and how it contrasts so much with Socialism which puts the proletariat first and foremost. Indeed, Stanley never properly goes into any of the class dynamics at play when it comes to the levers of power.

Kinda late to the party, but the new chapter of Radiant just dropped and I’ve been pushing that one hard for a while here, I think it’s perfectly suited to any Hexbear who enjoys manga. It’s actually French, and the story so far has been pretty amazing, with plenty of charismatic characters with such lovely nuance and runs the gamut tackling themes of marginalization, oppressive politics and class relations, even spirituality and environmentalism.

Seth is an apprentice sorcerer from the Pompo Hills. Like all sorcerers, he’s an “infected”, one of the few people having survived an encounter with a Nemesis, those creatures falling from the sky and destroying everything around them. Being immune to them, Seth wants to become a Hunter and fight the Nemesis. But what Seth really wants is to find the source of all Nemesis, the Radiant. Helped by his fellow sorcerers, he will seek the Radiant, under the harsh scrutiny of the Inquisition…

The sell is kinda tropey, but I swear it actually gets really good.

I think it’s still my favorite out of the series, even if only because there’s this intangible spirit of possibility in the setting, until the sequels took a more concrete tongue in cheek tone. It has this compelling balance of darkness and humor that appeals to me, before it became mostly jokes with an internet meme appeal, even if I share the mainstream opinion that -strictly speaking- the series gameplay has only improved.

Jesus, that’s like the worst way to go too

Didn’t he have to personally get involved in getting firefighters their compensation for having helped in 9/11? You’d think he’d know better wrt labour rights in the US.

I remember the Saboteur, it was part of that period where if you bought the game firsthand it came with a 1 time use code unlocking certain content, to deter secondhand purchases. The content for the Saboteur was uncensored titties in the burlesque shows you could visit lmfao.

I’ll bring up Alpha Protocol, the janky secret agent rpg, it wasn’t particularily good, but I remember playing it.

Say what you will for the song, I have no particular fondness for Trek like that, but I find the animatic intro to be fairly evocative along with it, the condensed history of exploration by land sea and air speaks to something in my soul

That period between 2002-2006ish when everybody was flexing their best water shaders, I figure many games chose a tropical island theme to show off their new tech, made for a memorable vibe

This especially, with regards to how Hexbear often criticizes Breadtubers or whomever, seem to expect these creators to drop everything and start making hyper-specific reviews of obscure theory or something that’ll accrue generously 1k views and be absorbed by absolutely nobody. Unfortunately I think Social media isn’t going to serve the cause in any meaningful way since it’s largely devoted by their owners to avoid that kind of thing, since people click on the digestible videos that interest them.

The eternal problem of FPTTP voting, of which Canada suffers, is nobody has anything to vote FOR, only against. Thus why Poilievre is gonna be the next PM, not cause people love him or the conservatives, really, they’re just the opposition party so people will vote for them to punish the Liberals but ofc, due to FPTTP, this just results in a sort of seesaw elections where people vote whatever the opposition of the time happens to be.

Oh, nope yeah I see it in the cocked eyebrow

Look at what they must do to imitate even a fraction of our power

Watched this a few days ago, was a compelling story