Did you struggle session ur asses to death or something? I’ve never seen this site move so slow. Gonna post my butthole on main to get this place moving again
Did you struggle session ur asses to death or something? I’ve never seen this site move so slow. Gonna post my butthole on main to get this place moving again
Work is brutal and the Lemmy.ml trenches are awful.
Thats like saying sun shines, snow falls, and birds fly lol
Yep, but the sine waves of each managed to line up for once. My usual escapism from work is also bad, lol
My escapism promotes philistinism, in the Marxist sense, so it can’t be as bad as me just wallowing in the mud and eating slop out of it, proverbially, with my enjoyment of Korean webcomics
Haha, fair. My escapism is either video games or lemmy, assuming I’m not hanging out with my spouse and doing something together. Haven’t read any webcomics in a long time, might have to do that just to mix things up.
I’d recommend “greatest estate developer” because it was recently completed. Most excellent story, genuinely one of my favorites.
I’ll check it out! TheLastAxolotl also has me wanting to read Absolute Batman too, so there’s a fair bit I have to check out right now. Thanks!
Oh you’ll have a well-rounded profile of comics to read between the two, then. The former’s a more light-hearted fantasy-comedy, while the other is a more serious action-adventure(?) (I haven’t read absolute batman. Nor any u,s comics for decades). If nothing else, it’ll be interesting to bounce between the two when you find time to chill.
Yep, picked up on that haha, haven’t read superhero comics in a long time but TLA keeps posting about it and making it look interesting. Appreciate it comrade!
I’m not really a reader of western comics (not that I hate them, it’s just that it’s saturated with like multiverse soup stuff and not even the fun “middle period Philip K Dick” kind), but the Absolute comics in general seem to be really incredible, even Superman, and I’ve always thought Superman is impossibly boring.
My favorite is the one-shot called Absolute Evil, which is sort of a big cross-story issue that covers an intersection of all the series, but you don’t really need to know who any of the characters involved are to understand why I like it, except: Green Arrow (who is historically sort of a naive liberal progressive inspired by Robin Hood) and Hawkman (who is historically a reactionary piece of shit who always got in political feuds with Arrow). idk if this is familiar to you or not so I’m just saying it for completeness. There’s a lot of benefit to knowing who the others are before reading it, but I think you can basically vibe it out with a vague recognition of the very biggest characters.
On the other hand, it’ll be a little more familiar if you read any amount of Absolute Batman first, but besides genuinely being my favorite, I mention it because Absolute Evil is just the one issue rather than 15 and ongoing.
Thanks for the write-up! I’ll have to check them out then. TheLastAxolotl already sold me on the Batman story specifically, as well as Wonder Woman, so I’ll check them out first.
This is apt. There is a confluence or synchronicity or syzygy–some form of seemingly meaningful alignment–of just absolute shittiness in the Real and posting hog into the void about it just isn’t hitting the same.
Things have never felt so despondent, nor so ripe for true organizing
Very well said. I should channel this into more org work IRL, I just feel absolutely drained lately.
I’m worried we’re gonna have another db0 struggle session soon :(
Eh, there are some users there that are truly awful, and the head admin is pretty bad for harboring them, but there are also good comrades there and decent content.
I know, but they’re really being awful today.
I still find it ironic they banned brain in a box for ragebait but not any of the other ones doing even worse ragebait
There’s absolutely selective tolerance going on. If it isn’t corrected, this will probably die down for a bit then pop up again in a month or two.
Brain was 100% right. I looked at that thread during my lunch today and db0 was on a tear being an even worse power tripping mod than almost any example I’ve ever seen in their own power tripping bastards comm.
It’s weird how excited they get when it’s people getting banned for being assholes, and wild only the ones pointing out op did the exact same thing got locked almost instantly
Yeah that and the fact that if we defederate it will be harder to push back against the obvious bullshit lies they peddle about hexbear. I had to stay out of that thread because I was a work and there was no way if I started replying I wasn’t going to get banned for some petty bullshit. Fuck the admin and every Nazi apologist allowed to continue to post on that platform. Spineless fucking worms.
The sooner the mods and admins can separate criticism of AES from Nazi apologia the better.
There’s a user over there that’s “anti deutsche” and openly zionist now, I expect absolutely nothing from their admins/mods.
The slim bit of hope I have is for their internal contradictions to force change for the better. There are some good users there and I like talking to them, and I have hope that this improves over time. Then again, I tend to be optimistic, perhaps to a fault sometimes.
I agree that not all their users suck but that thread now that I read through it all shows the bad probably outweigh the good and there comes a point when I am conflicted on engaging with them. The Debs guy is the worst. Just constant lying and extreme bad faith. Also db0 using autism as a shield for allowing that shit is very tiring as an ND person myself. I wish I shared your optimism but if they keep banning people for pointing that out like they do it’s only going to get worse. The funniest part is it won’t stop all the even worse subs from calling them tankies for the occasional okay take.
Not to bat too hard for them, but not everyone participates in those threads. That thread was awful, yes, but isn’t representative of everyone. There are some good users there, either they will grow in number or likely leave for here.
Isn’t there a shitshow temper tantrum with their admin on a banning spree as we speak? In yptb comm hilariously enough.
While still not banning the one who literally says they are just for causing drama and always being a giant asshole.
But yeah it’s totally hexbear being the issue when it’s a post from someone who earlier banned a user for pointing out they were using slurs
As long as we have grievances and they hate ‘tankies’, the struggle sessions will continue
I haven’t been back to their ecology-related comms to see my allotted science denialism in a while. Perhaps I’m due.
it has been particularly bad lately, I too have been very busy with end of year shit at work
Sorry to hear that, comrade. Seems a common story every year.
Work seems to have gotten pretty shit for a lot of people recently. I used to have lots of time to goof off and post bad posts but recently I dont even get time to go to the toilet. The late stage capitalism mill grinds ever harder
Grind grind grind it goes.