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I don't understand shit, smash the buttons

I know a guy who started getting into SSBM as Fox and he really got into like, studying framerates of different moves and learning all these complicated tricks and stuff, and the other guy he would play with played Marth and just smashed everything all the time, and the Fox player got so mad every time because he could see that the Marth player wasn't using all the technical tricks and meanwhile half the time Fox would try to do something fancy and end up dashing off an edge or something and giving up stock. Like yeah if you're trying to get to top level play you need to learn the tricks but you also gotta learn how to deal with button mashing.

Totally different kinda game but I've had the same experience with Go. Lots of people overplay in all sorts of ways, leaving weaknesses behind to play faster, making too many groups to take away points, trying to build too large of an area, etc. It's easy to get mad and frustrated because you know that it goes against theory and it shouldn't work - but a lot of times if you try to punish it too early or too severely, you're the one that ends up in a bad situation. You have to respect that their moves have value and that their strategy can work, and you have to engage with what they're doing while remaining calm and looking for ways to bleed them.

fucking glorious video ngl. literally my only experience with fighting games is never having played one, picking chun li at random at an arcade, and then beating my super experienced friends for 9 rounds straight. this is how we know communism will win

Yea the belief that losing with honor is better than winning in a crass way like not following the script is fundamental to libs.

Libs long term political strategy is smugly saying "you don't know how bad you look right now" while digging their own mass grave.

Rember when she said something right exactly one time when she said "half of Trump supporters are irredeemable assholes, fuck them, were trying to appeal to the ones who might actually conceivably vote for us"

And then she apologized for it 24 hours later.

It really is wild that 7 fucking years later their top political priority is still blaming literally anybody except Clinton for losing the easiest election of a lifetime.

I would argue that they did actually learn their lesson: they can raise way more money when they're running against fascists, and at the end of the day, they don't really care whether they win or lose.

Build the scaffold. Ascend the scaffold. Challenge God.

One of the downsides of being light itself.

It takes a really high intelligence to not campaign in states fundamental to your election strategy.

Eraserhead

Man that movie was pain. I can only imagine that David Lynch movies are for the same people who love ghost pepper challenges.

14 Dec 2016

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2016/12/clinton-campaign-may-have-been-too-smart-to-win.html

She would have, if we had only let her.

Here are some general answers. They do not cover every individual opinion of hexbear users, but instead I'm trying to give you the common sentiment.

Hexbear users are communists.

Hexbear users are both critical of and supportive of existing communist countries.

Hexbear users do not like US Democrats because their goals are anti-communist.

Hexbear users have a wider variety of opinions of Bernie Sanders. He is not a communist and therefore will never be fully supported by Hexbear users. Some Hexbear users believe that Bernie Sanders' goals are not anti-communist because they expose Americans to some socialist concepts. Other Hexbear users believe that Bernie Sanders' goals are anti-communist because they distract Americans from the more complete concept of communism by offering piece-meal solutions to capitalism.

Hexbear users are more united on opinions of AOC. She is not a communist and therefore will never be fully supported by Hexbear users.

Hexbear users do not like libertarianism and conservatism because their goals are anti-communist. However, individual libertarians and conservatives may have the potential to be future communists.

Hexbear users do not like fascism.

We aren't that complicated. We're mostly Marxist Leninist communists and anarchists here, I'm sure some other tendencies as well as we're a non sectarian left space.

@[email protected] answered your specific questions. I just wanted to add what we generally are in case its confusing you.

Liberals/democrats

We hate them, yes

Bernie Sanders and AOC

A lot of people were radicalized by Sanders in some way so many have a soft spot for him, but we recognize that he's ultimately just a social imperialist

Current Communist countries (or, as we refer to them, Actual Existing Socialism)

There's some debate but the Hexbear Party Line, so to speak is probably something like:

• Critical support for China, DPRK, Vietnam
• Uncritical support for Cuba
• I don't think anybody knows much about Laos (and Nepal too, probably?) but generally they're viewed positively

Libertarians, Conservatives, Fascists

(and yes we hate them all)

US politics is just two right wings fighting over whether to be particularly depraved in one way or another.

AOC and Bernie are capitalists that sheepdog budding leftists into putting false hopes into capitalism and the Democratic party.

Usually the place to ask this would be as it's own thread, but the answer is that we uniformly despise "libertarians" (in the American sense), Republicans, and fascists, and we support socialist states, though with varying levels and types of criticism.

We dislike Bernie and the Squad, but some people oscillate between that and liking them every time they tweet something that sounds nice. I personally think a Congressperson we elect to only tweet and vote "present" on monstrous bills is not worth dog shit on the bottom of a shoe unless they are tweeting state secrets (and even then, it'd need to be really targeted to be useful).

Note: don't worry, in America, liberals are also rightwing, just the "moderate" right compared to the Republicans.

I still like Bernie and AOC I know a good amount of other hexbears do like Bernie as well.