@clarity i always thought of it as less an elite design sort of thing and more of a misconception that you have to hit the opponent's sword at exactly the right time during a precisely defined swinging animation when a lot of times it's more like the entire length of your blade is in the way of the entire length of theirs (or at least your half your blade is in the way of "your" half of theirs once leverage is accounted for) and a lot of parries are as much them getting your sword out of their face as you getting their sword out of yours
@prettygood@twinspin6@sapphire our habitual refusal to read is just a natural defence against being destroyed by all the bad faith slop, and it's the false positives that cause the damage
(example i recently had to deal with: i can never find the releases of a project hosted on github because the only link to the releases is not on the top horizontal list like everywhere else, but buried in the right-hand column under a bunch of tracking stats that no user could possibly care less about, in that spot where on any blog or commercial social media you'd expect an ad)
@coolbean i was into sabaton towards the tail end of a period of my life when i was a lot worse than even that (so / but despite that) i see where you're coming from with this
@allison@fiore the dawkins hitchens folks did too good a job debunking their old shit and since then the media environment's been far too fragmented to do something similar at a similar scale now
they/them, PNW, not whiteassume my reply is a yes-and unless it's obviously notformerly apophis at mycrowd dot ca but not really planning to be as loud here as i was on that account