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Anyone else in a dying org? (hexbear.net)
 

I’m in a small-ish org. There are about 60 members total, but only 10 are actually active in any way. There are another 15-20 or so who are semi-regulars, or who will sometimes attend meetings, or sometimes attend demonstrations or actions etc with us.

It’s gotten really bad over the past few years as people have sort of started fading away. People are flaky, and it routinely takes several weeks to get an answer or an update from some members for even trivial things.

Several of us have tried doing social activities of all kinds, but they always end up the same.

This gets really embarrassing when we try to do things with other groups and can’t muster the numbers to be effective.

We’ve tried to do outreach to members to see what’s going on, and we just get the same explanation - I’m busy.

Has anyone here faced something similar? Any tips to get us out of this rut?

Where were you on September 11th, 2023? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I was in the 5th grade all my teachers were crying but I was happy I could go home and watch dragon ball z but then they showed the news instead

Lattimer Massacre - New General Megathread for the 9th of September 2023 in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Anyone have any app recommendations for accessing this site? I’ve tried Memmy but don’t know if there are better options out there. I’m on iOS.

Lattimer Massacre - New General Megathread for the 9th of September 2023 in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

And obligatory “What if the Nazis won? Cringe counterfactual. First of all, they couldn’t have. Second of all, they did.”

Lattimer Massacre - New General Megathread for the 9th of September 2023 in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Have you tried Bioshock, Doom, or Wolfenstein? I think you could probably get all of them working on a terrible PC.

Bioshock 1 is about how libertarianism is bad, and Bioshock Infinite (3) is about how Christian theocracies are bad. There are some funky politics in 3 but it’s a fun game. The newest one came out over ten years ago so it should run ok.

Doom is about a guy who has to undo a bunch of corporate malfeasance by sending everyone back to Hell. One of the core mechanics is that you recover health and ammo by getting yourself into the action instead of hiding or waiting around. I think this one might be ok as well, at least the first one, because it runs pretty well on the Switch with all the graphics downgraded a bit.

Wolfenstein is about an alternate reality where the Nazis won and have lots of advanced tech. You have to kill Nazis. The story is really good.

Apologies if you’ve played these before but they’re all worth a shot if you haven’t.