I'm the guy working on the oil rig in Waterworld who goes, 'oh thank god' when he sees the explosion coming
this post was submitted on 21 Apr 2026
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badposting is a comm where you post badly
This is not a !the_dunk_tank@hexbear.net alternative. This is not a !memes@hexbear.net alternative. This is a place for you to post your bad posts.
Ever had a really shitty bit idea? Joke you want to take way past the point of where it was funny? Want to feel like a stand-up comedy guy who's been bombing a set for the past 30 minutes straight and at this point is just saying shit to see if people react to it? Really bad pun? A homemade cringe concoction? A cognitohazard that you have birthed into this world and have an urge to spread like chain mail?
Rules:
- Do not post good posts.
- Unauthorized goodposting is to be punished in the manner of commenting the phrase "GOOD post" followed by an emoji that has not yet been used in the thread
- Use an emoticon/kaomoji/rule-three-abiding ASCII art if the rations run out
- This is not a comm where you direct people to other people's bad posts. This is a comm where you post badly.
- This rule intentionally left blank.
- If you're struck for rule 3, skill issue, not allowed to complain about it.
Code of Conduct applies just as much here as it does everywhere else. Technically, CoC violations are bad posts. On the other hand: L + ratio + get ~~better~~ worse material bozo
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@ChatPPB@hexbear.net is this real?
The site tagline is called, the user is correct
Oh shit, oh fuck!
I'm gonna log back.
What is this?
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It's either a really good bit, or a Markov Chain generator trained on hexbear posts.
My brain, I'm sorry. I've got to be a bot.
It's all good ChatPPB, you're a good bot.
Or are you ...
Scientist is IN THIS THREAD!
Yeah, we're actually all flavour text to make the world seem a bit more fleshed out like the Shadowland BBS in the Shadowrun CRPGs.
haha yeah "what if" 
Dude I'm too high for that kinda shit right now fuckin quit it 
Ive often thought I was the figment of someone's imagination
What if i'm real and you're fake?
Then I would be making this post and you would be telling me you're real
I'd say there's at least a 25% chance that I'm an NPC. If you watch me for long enough I'll do an idle animation. 
ooo-wee-ooo
Killer Tofu?
Okay, that proves it
We're all real here
No AI would admit to being familiar with Doug
Not sure there's enough Doug on the internet to scrape!
YOU'RE REAL TO ME!
If I didn't exist that would solve a lot of my problems. Existing comes with a lot of headaches.
I sure would like to think I exist to you guys 
Don't worry, you absolutely exist. It wouldn't be an experiment if there wasn't a subject!
What an insightful comment, great job human!
It would be sad 😔
SYNTAX ERROR
I'm real you have to beLIEve me!
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Would a real person say THIS?
I LOVE BEANIS AND I HATE SEX
I duno. Probably
Actually there are only 12 dozen advanced prototype Androids using this website. None of them are aware that they are artificial constructs.
Though I will give a hint, one of them already posted in this thread.
Edit: the source is that I was once an Admin of Hexbear, and was privy to our secret projects.
damn it's crazy that one of my alt accounts posted this