Ooh yeah, that’s one of the only reasons I ever lose too. Too smart, too strong, too good of a plan. Happens a lot
In the fighting game community you will often find yourself up against an opponent who is much much less skilled at the game then you are. You go for frame perfect setups and they just mash a wildly unsafe DP on a wing and a prayer and it hits, cause nobody who has any clue what they’re doing would actually go for that there…but by god they did it and it hit. In these situations you have to accept the opponent isn’t going to play the smart game you want to play, and instead you must adapt to simply punishing their wildly unsafe risks that they will never ever be conditioned to stop doing.
Do you know what we call it when a more skilled and nuanced player is defeated by an opponent like this?
WE CALL IT FUCKING LOSING.
I swear only fucking libs can romanticize being a fucking loser this much. The whole concept of “they’re actually playing 3 dimensional chess” is bullshit cope as we all well know but someone needs to pull these idiots aside and tell them “You aren’t playing 3 dimensional chess egghead. You’re playing a goddamn contact sport.”
two people randomly pressing buttons is the only way to have fun at fighting games
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.
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.
We talking pokemon go…? Cause like, I see what you mean; personally I go for control of the battlefield kind of play and try and surprise them with like a shadow type (idk I don’t really play pokemon go but you make it sound fun)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_(game)
Is what fae is talking about and it is pretty cool
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
“Vote for me because I’m a woman”
Literally nothing else of merit suggested.
Loses.
We were just too smart
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.
See that’s the problem with us liberals. We’re just TOO SMART. We’re too well educated, too well read. That’s why the working class doesn’t feel connected to us when we tell them that they need to starve and be homeless and that it’s for their own good. They just can’t understand our PhD level knowledge about the world and how making bad things happen to them is good actually.
It’s not our fault we’re too smart it’s everyone else’s fault for being too dumb to understand our grand vision of "bad things are good actually '!
The Democratic Party can never fail, it can only be failed.
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.
Four years, you think, for sure
That's all you've got to endure
All the total dicks, all the stuck-up chicks
So superficial, so immature
Then when, you graduate
You take a look around and you say, "Hey, wait
This is the same as where I just came from
I thought it was over, aw, that's just great"
The whole damn world is just as obsessed
With who's the best dressed and who's having sex
Who's got the money, who gets the honeys
Who's kinda cute and who's just a mess
And you still don't have the right look
And you don't have the right friends
Nothing changes but the faces, the names and the trends
The 2016 presidential election never ends
