For centuries, humanity has worked towards building an AI that will understand all of physics. Now, upon completion, we have learned that the key lies in the idea of “four simultaneous 24-hour days”.

This is my new screenplay idea.

then elon musk walks in and is declared saviour of mankind as shitty country music plays

Snuck that in right at the end. I couldn’t get through the video the first time I opened it, but this line convinced me to watch the rest. When it was winding down I started feeling pretty irritated that I got tricked into watching the rest of the video.

Are we expecting Musk to have regular cameos and shit and proudly claim that he’s closely involved with the show, only to distance himself once it starts becoming apparent that everyone hates the cartoon?

if someone tries the attack helicopter shit

Oh cool! I kind of figured, but I didn’t want to assume. You do really come across as something straight off the Boeing production line.

For any future historians looking for clues, I’m making my confession here: I did it. I ate all the expensive pints of ice cream that were in the freezer. And by the time you find this, it will be far too late to do anything about it.

TBH I’ve always wondered if there could be an effective bit centered around reclaiming attack helicopter. (Will delete/not argue with mod removal if this is in poor taste.)

As a certified idiot I’m kind of embarrassed to ask this, but what is the subtlety I’m missing that differentiates this bit from the one joke?

Yeah it’s like my brain seems to file things in specific containers, although many things end up in multiple places. Being asked to name pokemon you’re just focusing on the subject of pokemon, but I don’t have one single generic spot for people so maybe I’d think up a topic like math and look through people involved in mathematics, then try to find a different topic and go through people in that, etc. Naming 100 people would definitely take me longer, although with enough time my people list would pass my pokemon list.

Recruiters hate this one trick! Elon Musk pioneers brilliant new technique for preventing your children from dying overseas!

I actually love this rule. I had the dunk tank blocked for a year or two because I was finding that the experience of getting angry at random nobodies while scrolling through posts was making hexbear a lot less enjoyable for me. With that said, at some point (a couple months ago?) I saw some great piece of comedy before logging in and decided to unblock.

Sometimes I still think about this guy’s glowing endorsement of the IDF when he was asked if the US was concerned about civilian deaths way back in early November:

On Israeli efforts to minimize civilian casualties, NSC’s John Kirby says: “We have seen some indications that there are there are efforts being applied in certain scenarios to try to minimize, but I don’t want to overstate that.”

Really helped put things in perspective for me about how ridiculous the demands that we stop backing the IDF are once I understood how much these decisions are weighing on them.

Great example of “feature, not a bug”.

I thought this was satire until I looked at the twitter thread. This is one of the best things I’ve ever seen on hexbear.

Holy shit I had no idea politifact was that awful. The video quite obviously went viral for that brief moment where it seems like the “single word” is complete gibberish. I’m capable of imagining a person who doesn’t find that very funny (that person I’ve imagined is wrong btw), but it’s very hard for me to imagine a person who can actually watch the video and think it’s going viral for a different reason. The only place you can pause that video before he gets to the word “possibilities” that could possibly be interpreted as him having completed his thought is immediately after the gibberish, which they explicitly state is not where the post in question ends.

It’s not that I doubted the many people who have said politifact is bad, but I always figured that being bad would involve more sleight of hand than just assuming their readers aren’t going to have seen the video in question. I was picturing something like refuting a claim by citing a reference to a source that most readers will find is too much effort to dig into, not relying on none of their readers having seen a very short clip they’re describing as viral.

This solution feels extremely forced.

I’m pretty dense and it took me a couple minutes to figure out what this meme was getting at, but now that I get it I love this image. Does anyone have the original image?

Even though I’m not a furry, I’m like 90% sure I regularly “engage in anthropomorphic behavior”. I probably would have been more confident before I saw this, but now I’m wondering if I’ve been misunderstanding that word for as long as I can remember.

Why can’t anyone make a decent monster collecting/battling game? The closest one to being good that I’ve played is Cassette Beasts. It shouldn’t be this hard.

Monster taming games are kind of my niche (although I’m not particularly interested in playing Palworld). Yo-Kai Watch 3 is the best I’ve played. Ni No Kuni (the first one, I haven’t played the second) is also really good. Those are both big studio games.

Of the indie games I’ve played, Monster Sanctuary has the best gameplay. The game mechanics are well-designed, rewarding, and very respectful of your time. The main drawback is that the story is not engaging at all. (Also the art style is not super memorable.) The studio that made it has a new game in the works which will be called “Aethermancer” that looks better graphically, if they get a better writer that could be really great.

Nexomon Extinction is another good indie game which is on the exact opposite end of the spectrum. The actual gameplay is somewhat lackluster, but the dialogue and story are fantastic and make the game worthwhile.

You mention Cassette Beasts, that one is solidly in between the other two. The gameplay and the story/dialogue are both pretty good. I feel like it gets the most fanfare out of the three and I have milked a good bit out of the game, but I actually like the other two better in spite of their flaws. The aspects they excel in make them memorable games. Cassette Beasts felt fun enough to kill time and had some innovations, but just didn’t make a lasting impression on me.

Asking in the megathread because I don’t know the better place, sometime I’m logged into lemmy.ml and post to hexbear and lately it’s been a crapshoot whether my comments from that account actually appear on hexbear or not. For example, here is one that went through, here is one that got blocked. There were a couple comments (this was one as an example) that had been blocked for over a month, but checking now they seem to have made their way through now long after the threads have died.

Is this a federation issue or are the posts getting flagged?

I generally love monster tamers/pokemon clones, but I played a bit of cyber sleuth for switch and it didn’t do it for me at all. I think it was mainly that the vast majority of the monster designs I came across were visually unappealing to me, and generally seemed to get worse the stronger the monsters were. The shitty base forms were somewhat endearing, but I just wasn’t vibing with most of what came after. Part of the fun is feeling attached to your stupid creatures.

I’ve read about the general idea behind warrant canaries before, but I’ve never actually looked at one in action so I don’t know what an issue is supposed to look like.

In the sidebar of the /c/feedback community, there’s a link to the “Hexbear Warrant Canary”. I’ve never looked at this before, but I was curious so I clicked it, and I can’t get anything to load other than “Connection timed out Error code 522”. Does this indicate that the canary is dead, or is this a purely technical error?