JohnBrownsBussy2

JohnBrownsBussy2, 7 months ago

Place your bets:

A.) Intra-police-gang conflict.

B.) A hilarious training accident.

C.) They knew too much.

D.) They all saw a bag of fentanyl, inducing psychosomatic asphyxiation.

E.) He’s back…

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JohnBrownsBussy2, 7 months ago

I honestly thought that Biden would scrape out a win prior to the escalations in Palestine, but yeah he’s a goner. This, plus the continued economic doldrums plus the resumption of student debt payments plus the clear failure of the war in Ukraine means that he is sunk.

JohnBrownsBussy2, 7 months ago

Hospitals should not be charging organ donors or their families anything.

JohnBrownsBussy2, 7 months ago

You could do some sort of partial equity deal, but realistically just splitting interest and utilities is what I think makes sense. If you’re going to be the person that lives in the house long term, then your roommate shouldn’t be paying principal.

JohnBrownsBussy2, 7 months ago

…wikipedia.org/…/15_February_2003_anti-war_protes…

On 15 February 2003, a coordinated day of protests was held across the world in which people in more than 600 cities expressed opposition to the imminent Iraq War. It was part of a series of protests and political events that had begun in 2002 and continued as the invasion, war, and occupation took place. The day was described by social movement researchers as “the largest protest event in human history”.[1]

JohnBrownsBussy2, 7 months ago

Literally a nullification crisis and the Biden admin does nothing. Useless liberals.

JohnBrownsBussy2, 8 months ago

Obviously, these attacks are bad, but the impressive resistance by the Jenin fighters (as well as the reconciliation between Saudi and Iran, and Israel’s domestic turmoil) do give me some hope for a renewal of the Palestinian liberation struggle.

JohnBrownsBussy2, 8 months ago

It’s also fitting the vanguard of America’s descent into fascism will one of the earlier places (in the US) to be rendered uninhabitable by the climate change.

Fascism is a death cult.

JohnBrownsBussy2, 8 months ago

He’s going out like Robert Maxwell.

JohnBrownsBussy2, 8 months ago

Impeachment needs a simple majority in the House, but a super-majority to convict in the Senate. So, it trivial for the House to vote on articles of impeachment but current partisan divides (and the off-set electoral cycle of the senate) impede any faction from achieving a senatorial super-majority.

JohnBrownsBussy2, 8 months ago

Very funny that they’re looking to throw in the towel relatively early.

JohnBrownsBussy2, 9 months ago

That’s a bit more dramatic than polonium. He was going to get got sooner or later after his tantrum/half-baked putsch.

JohnBrownsBussy2, 9 months ago

I don’t understand the logic here. When the putsch occured and then ignomously fizzled out, I saw Putin as weak for letting Pringles walk out with a (relative) slap on the wrist. Taking Prigo out of the picture was overdue. Obviously, anyone would feel threatened by an semi-autonomous mercenary army, so removing its leadership and breaking it up is just a rational course of action that probably should have been done sooner from that POV

JohnBrownsBussy2, 9 months ago

It was a shock reaction image that became popular on r/cth and kind of became a mascot for the sub & then later for chapo.chat/hexbear.

Honestly, we all got so used to it that it became a nothingburger internally, just a way to tell someone to eff off. I was surprised to see it actually affecting people post-federation, but that’s also attributable to the emoji bug.

CW: Article on the source of Pig Poop Balls

JohnBrownsBussy2, 9 months ago

I think Nigeria could still invade (and drag ECOWAS with it), but hopefully that helps take the wind out of its sails.

JohnBrownsBussy2, 9 months ago

On alternative to traditional hit points can be seen in OSR/NSR games derived from Into the Odd. The game still has HP, but it stands for “hit protection” instead of health/hit points. In Into the Odd, there are no attack rolls, you just roll damage dice. HP is then a buffer that resets after an encounter to absorb a hit or two. After that, characters and monsters start taking all damage to their strength stat, which provokes critical damage checks that can knock them out of combat.

So, the result is that combat is very fast, a couple rounds at most, and very decisive/deadly without having the classic OSR issue of your 1 HP wizard dying because they ran into a cat.

JohnBrownsBussy2, 9 months ago

Looks interesting but a bit finicky. The 3-page character sheet looks somewhat cumbersome, but it could be okay if all the rules and actions/ability a player can take are on it so that they don’t need to reference anything else.

JohnBrownsBussy2, 9 months ago

I think that should be okay. People have fun with Genesys and other die systems with special colored dice. Only having two dice types should be okay, and in a VTT the hope v. fear check would be automated anyways.

JohnBrownsBussy2, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago)

???

I’m obviously biased as an accursed tankie myself, but looking at this thread:

• 1.) The article wasn’t even posted by a hexbear user.
• 2.) The level of discourse seems to be pretty level between hexbear natives and other users.
• 3.) The failure of the US to fight illicit opium production in Afghanistan, despite it being a public aim of the US and its allied government in Afghanistan, is well documented. Just doing a quick look, here’s a New York post article (I know, I know, but it’s well sourced, and certainly not leftist): Why the only winner of America’s war in Afghanistan is opium . It cites the Afghanistan papers and a variety of US and Afghan officials, and illustrates a timeline on how every program implemented by the US to combat opium production only intensified cultivation. The success of the Taliban government in cracking down on it despite far more limited resources suggests either gross incompetence or malice on the part of the US government.

EDIT: I will also point out that the harshest criticism of the US here is from a user from your own instance. That wouldn’t even be allowed on hexbear, so glass houses.

JohnBrownsBussy2, 9 months ago

To be technical, did the US actually fund the Taliban when it got started? The Pakistani intelligence service did, and the Taliban were only able to take power because of the US-backed Mujahideen alliance rapidly descended into civil war when the Soviets pulled out and the Afghan government fell, but idk.

JohnBrownsBussy2, 9 months ago

You see, brigading is when content that I am interested in is algorithmically prioritized in my feed and I interact with it. The more algorithmically prioritized the content is, the more it’s an inorganic brigade.

JohnBrownsBussy2, 9 months ago

We all live together in the posters’ gulag in Yakutsk where we are forced to post incessantly for the glory of the post-Soviet motherland.

We we see a bad post we all gather around the collective 2004 Gateway laptop and laugh at it.

JohnBrownsBussy2, 9 months ago

Glad to see that your instance filter is working. Everyone should be free to curate the content they see.

For the benefit of others, checking your comment history, it is hilarious to me that you’ve never posted in your home instance even once and have the audacity to call us brigadiers.

JohnBrownsBussy2, 9 months ago

Seems like a bit of a stretch if you’re having trouble developing a normal hypersonic missle. Presumably, you’d need to make something faster and more agile.