I apologize for a bit of a delay this time around. @Othello@hexbear.net will be taking a hiatus from Hexbear to redirect focus to local organizing efforts. For the time being, I will be taking over the posting of EM POC weekly threads.
With that aside, how’s everyone doing? Any exciting news, funny memes or stories, or interesting takes? We’d love to hear it all!
Remember, EM POC only!
I’m doing well, been trying to just focus on my physical fitness and skill improvement. Trying to retrain myself for employment purposes.
I getting back into fighting games and I found a really cool POC/Queer community for fighting community. Lots of these katz are really cool and great at teaching systems and mechanics.
Because I’m having to retrain myself I find myself reading about corporate jobs. I am thoroughly convinced that private tyranny is something that has been thoroughly normalized in our society. I find it so strange that everyone must do exactly as their employer says or face starvation. This isn’t a new insight, but I do believe it’s worth talking about always. As a worker/proletariat/regular dude, I think it’s always important to focus politics on the regular everyday stuff, and I think a lot of regular everyday stuff gets overlooked because of how normalized it is. It’s really fuckin’ wack that private tyrants have made the idea that democracy only happens in the “public” space, and the “public” space is getting privatized more and more every day.
I wish I could be good at fighting games but I don’t have the technical skills/muscle memory for it. Lots of overlap with chess and go, but in real time. RTS games I have the same problem, despite playing them for most of my life.
As far as I’m concerned, these are the only two genres that come close to being sports. You legit have to do cardio exercises to play at the professional level. That’s not the case with MOBAs where people are taking smoke breaks between matches at world championship events lmao
Confidently I got into Fighting games and RTS games from Chess in middle school. My parents didn’t want me playing “violent” games that had contemporary violence (like a Call Of Duty) and let me buy/play games that had violence that was either 3rd person like an RTS or absurd like fighting game. I have always liked games that make think about how I’m playing them rather than just responding to whatever the “current” meta is. The moment to moment in an RTS or a Fighter is very much like Chess in that you’re constantly examining yourself and yourself in respect to your opponent and vice versa.
I’ve heard lots of good things about street fighter 6 in terms of accessibility. They have a new input system that removes some of the muscle memory & combo execution requirements while keeping the tactical depth the genre is loved for. It also has a single player campaign mode with mini games that teach you combos. The most inaccessible part of the game is the £50 price, which has prevented me from giving it a go (as well as not knowing a good place to pirate games for linux). I’d be worried to spend so much on a game if I don’t really get into it, but I did notice it had a free demo while I was looking up the price, so maybe I’ll give that a go