It’s hard to define what “Hexbear” is anymore, with so many of the posts coming from random Lemmy instances. Our brand and subculture are diluted and it shows. A lot more confrontation and friction in threads. So it got me thinking. How can we recapture the authentic sense of what Hexbear is and do something nice for the world as a community?
If you’ve been watching India’s moon mission, you know how happy everyone looks in the footage. They’re so proud of their work and the whole nation is congratulating them. Actually the whole world. It’s a massive publicity boost and unites an otherwise polarised nation. Well what’s stopping us from doing that? Think of all the cool things we could accomplish with a space programme. Designing new rockets, exploring new galaxies, maybe colonising a planet or two as a forum. We would let everyone know what Hexbear represents and could mine asteroids for orbital factories that supply our fleet of ships. One thing we might build is a Dyson Sphere, or maybe even a generation ship to raise the next ten generations of our families together on our way to another solar system. I’m a plant scientist and could probably even grow lettuce in microgravity.
We can do this. I just ask that you trust me and send me the money to do so.
I have played Kerbal Space Program, which is like a PhD program in aerospace
Has the sequel stopped being a disaster yet? Actually got to the Mun and back in KSP2 but the aerodynamics were borked as hell last time I tried
Hahahaha nope.
It’s so bad that I’m honestly starting to think KSP2 was just a scam. KSP1 unmodded still has many more features and gameplay mechanics than KSP2 does. With mods, the difference is astronomical. KSP2 has slightly better graphics than unmodded KSP1, but with mods the difference is once again astronomical.
You can make KSP1’s graphics look massively better than KSP2 with mods, and even the most graphically taxing mods only require something around a 1070ti. KSP2’s recommended graphics card is an RTX 3080, and for all that power you get a shittier looking game and lower frame rates with stutters. That’s absolutely disastrous.
In the months following KSP2’s release, the daily total playerbase of both KSP1 and KSP2 halved according to steam statistics. A ton of players left KSP1 for KSP2, realized it was garbage, and were so soured by the experience that they never even returned to KSP1. It’s almost certain that the game will never have all the promised features because it’s most likely not selling well enough to continue development long enough at the very slow pace updates are coming out right now.
Edit: Almost forgot to mention the most comical part of this. After all that, KSP2 in early access costs more than KSP1 completed.
Sad!
I already wasted my money and put too many hours in to return it so will continue to monitor its miserable progress
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I disagree. We should host the Olympics instead.
This would get especially funny when we get to the part about deciding which countries get to use their flags and which athletes have to enter as independents because of the various atrocities their nations have performed and liberals would mald.
Hosting the Olympics would be exclusionary. I can’t run or fence well enough to participate as part of the Hexbear Nation so I’m just left selling hotdogs or delegating where chairs go. With a Starfleet, everyone can participate. We can fly Badger-class fighters in a squadron, haul ore in our Badger-class freighters as a convoy chain, or branch out into the universe on our own in Badger-class generation ships. You give me $50k or whatever you’ve got today and within a year* you could be destroying Neptune with a Badger-class titan. Just for fun with your friends.
I have a degree in astrophysics but I’m really lazy. I’ll help if I feel like it maybe
Congrats, Chief Technology Officer. You now have sole and legal responsibility for the safety of my mining fleet.
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I think federation was not a good idea as federated structures create multiple cores over time we will become periphery to another instance and then just die. I cant tell if that’s happening at this point. In my mind hexbear is life capsule for the tail end of the Bernie moment, the left right now is largely discredited and that was hard for me to accept I have focused not on a turn to self like the boomer left and some milianial left have begun to do instead going on some personal journey.
Instead I’m trying to reform my local psl and dsa to build a relationship with the local community and you know actuly provide skills shareing and physical goods, and community for the working class It took me covid siting inside reading the history of the American left to understand why we failed why we keep repeating the same mistakes over and over, I refuse to play that game any longer. And I’m not gonna lie its been hard, but its also been rewarding in friendships and prespective, but somedays I want to not live, and others I feel connected like that hole in my heart is filled.
The one message I guess I want to give the people is two things.
1.We need to take serious the task of building left social reproduction a leftist should be able to go to most cities and find a party that has within groups they can date people in and make friends with at any age.
- Peoples social alienation is bad for them and the unique captliat milayse that everyone seems to be under is bad letting people become anti social and alienated makes the task of organizing the working class impossible. The level of atomization right now we are watching the working class decompose in real time the levels of lumpenisation are at a historic high and yes even in the third world.
If this last trend dosent reverse we won’t have a political subject anymore, if that happens we won’t get power until climate apocalypse renders nation states redundant.
no more half measures walter
Dyson sphere? Outdated scifi. How about a Dyson hexagon?
Also, if a mod doesn’t delete this you’re cowards.
This kind of collaborative brainstorming is why it’s such a good idea. NASA has one brain per engineer. We have 20k brains and a couple engineers. There are so many ideas we could feed them. I don’t care what shape the Dyson enclosure is, only that we show the Fediverse that we’re still a forum by enclosing the sun.
remember those “Chinese spy balloons”? We totally could do something
Fill the space balloon with all of our collective semen / whatever the ladies shoot out their pee holes. Just get it all out and be done with it.
Thank me later, Volcel Police.
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The VOLCEL POLICE are on the scene! PLEASE KEEP YOUR VITAL ESSENCES TO YOURSELVES AT ALL TIMES.
نحن شرطة VolCel.بناءا على تعليمات الهيئة لترويج لألعاب الفيديو و النهي عن الجنس نرجوا الإبتعاد عن أي أفكار جنسية و الحفاظ على حيواناتكم المنويَّة حتى يوم الحساب. اتقوا الله، إنك لا تراه لكنه يراك.
Oh, so where the FUCK were YOU last night when I was getting horny about about my Croat gf from 30 years ago??
Defund the Volcel Police.
The VOLCEL POLICE are on the scene! PLEASE KEEP YOUR VITAL ESSENCES TO YOURSELVES AT ALL TIMES.
نحن شرطة VolCel.بناءا على تعليمات الهيئة لترويج لألعاب الفيديو و النهي عن الجنس نرجوا الإبتعاد عن أي أفكار جنسية و الحفاظ على حيواناتكم المنويَّة حتى يوم الحساب. اتقوا الله، إنك لا تراه لكنه يراك.
Okay, I’m gonna give you the gears now, Volcel Police, just you wait!
The VOLCEL POLICE are on the scene! PLEASE KEEP YOUR VITAL ESSENCES TO YOURSELVES AT ALL TIMES.
نحن شرطة VolCel.بناءا على تعليمات الهيئة لترويج لألعاب الفيديو و النهي عن الجنس نرجوا الإبتعاد عن أي أفكار جنسية و الحفاظ على حيواناتكم المنويَّة حتى يوم الحساب. اتقوا الله، إنك لا تراه لكنه يراك.
I can’t believe it! I’m being brigaded by the Volcel Police!
We should defrederste from hex bear imo
The VOLCEL POLICE are on the scene! PLEASE KEEP YOUR VITAL ESSENCES TO YOURSELVES AT ALL TIMES.
نحن شرطة VolCel.بناءا على تعليمات الهيئة لترويج لألعاب الفيديو و النهي عن الجنس نرجوا الإبتعاد عن أي أفكار جنسية و الحفاظ على حيواناتكم المنويَّة حتى يوم الحساب. اتقوا الله، إنك لا تراه لكنه يراك.
And don’t forget Valentina
This post made me realize building a space program is the nation level “solution” equivalent of “if we just have a kid it will save our marriage”
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We would be the most powerful forum in the solar system if we all come together and build the Badger-class Dreadnought. The earth would be forced to go wherever we want.
I have an engineering degree
that has nothing to do with aerospaceand I would be willing to provide my talents for the low low price of 1 million dollarsWould you really choose $1m today over trillions of dollars once your ship successfully snares even one asteroid?
It would be much cheaper to replicate the Spanish Space Program. Hypothetically. In Minecraft. [PARODY].
I’m waiting for my comrades to join me. Where is everyone.
here, i’ve brought supplies.
