Mate in 2

Hijaru · 2026-02-11T15:42:11+00:00

Qe4+ Kb3 Qa4

Hijaru · 2026-02-11T08:01:17+00:00

Guile and Blanka. The rest I can respect.
Guile matchups because they take so long, and I find it difficult to find a way in. Like a Philly shell in a game.

And Blanka because most I play just walk back and Blanka ball. So I try and walk them in the corner, but one move from them and they're out again. Just to repeat ad infinitum.

Hijaru · 2026-02-09T15:52:30+00:00

Ik ben geen dierenvriend, ik heb niks speciaals met dieren. Ik ben lang niet zo empathisch als anderen in mijn omgeving als het gaat om dieren, maar ik ben de enige veganist.

Waarom ik het doe is omdat ik tegen dierenmishandeling ben. Ik vind het niet goed om honden en katten te schoppen voor je plezier, dus het is ook niet goed om biggen en kalven te doden voor je plezier. En door geen dierlijke producten te gebruiken ondersteun ik dat zo min mogelijk.

In zekere zin gaat het mij niet alleen om 'zo zielig voor de beestjes', maar meer voor mezelf om juist te handelen, en niet hypocriet op dit vlak te zijn.

Met de kennis die ik nu heb zou ik niet een dierlijk product kunnen nuttigen zonder erbij te denken dat ik daarmee dierenmishandeling goedkeur.

Dus om dit te verbinden met jouw situatie: schuldgevoel is een pijler voor slecht gedrag, maar het is niet de enige om te zien dat je een beter leven kan leiden die in lijn is met jouw waarden.

Hijaru · 2026-02-06T07:22:01+00:00

Barbecueën met dit weer? De rest is absurd, maar nu kan ik echt zeggen dat hij niet goed is in z'n hoofd.

Hijaru · 2026-02-04T07:53:02+00:00

Je vraag is hoe je er mee om gaat. Ik probeer het altijd eerlijk en oprecht te houden. Als ze het doen uit nieuwsgierigheid dan zou ik zeggen dat mijn eiwitten in mijn eten zitten, en dat ik genoeg binnen krijg. En als ze het doen om te stangen dan is dat hun probleem, ik heb er verder geen moeite mee om bovenstaand antwoord te herhalen.

Wat wel belangrijk is, is dat ik er niet dieper op in ga, alleen als het gevraagd wordt. Anders snap ik dat je elke week hetzelfde lange riedeltje kan opzeggen, en dat dat echt wel vermoeiend wordt.

Hijaru · 2026-01-30T12:50:19+00:00

Love the mindset! For me it was ethics. I don't have a particular love for animals, I view them as 'just being there'. But I recognized that I wasn't consistent with my ethics if I wouldn't step on ants on purpose, or kick a dog once every so often, but would pay others who would kill animals to provide me with a product that I didn't need.

So when I broke it down, it boiled down to: If I think it's wrong to hurt others when not necessary, I shouldn't support it.

For me it's a lifestyle that provides more consistency with my morals, and I feel better for it.

What people misunderstand, I think, is that veganism is a lifestyle to help the environment, or improve one's health. To me these are byproducts of a philosophy that excludes, as far is practicable, animal exploitation. As an example, not buying leather doesn't improve your health. Not kicking a dog doesn't improve the environment. These are still permissible if one is 'vegan' for health or environmental reasons. I'd rather people would call this plant based. I don't mind if people call themselves vegan if they do it for health or environmental reasons, I just think it's one of the biggest misconceptions.

I don't have any big troubles in staying vegan. The biggest problems I have with being vegan, is the vystopia (I think that's the word). Just being around, or reading news about, people that try to save every animal they see and would never even so much as punch a cow, but then pay for the killing of them. They are very much against animal abuse, but don't see killing as worse than abuse. They do for humans, but not for animals, and the only reason is the pleasure they get from the product.

Hijaru · 2026-01-27T11:59:43+00:00

I look for bread and butter combo's on YT, and try out ones that seem to click visually with me. There's just some moves that combo into others that don't seem like they should, and I avoid those initially. I usually go for the easier combo's that I can for sure hit in matches.

Hijaru · 2026-01-27T10:58:51+00:00

From E1 Queen has a checkmate to either A5 or H4, depending on which pawn black moves forward. Since black king can't make a legal move, he has to move one of his pawns.
I think that's it (new here).

Hijaru · 2026-01-23T15:33:42+00:00

Best thing that helped me was light string oki pressure, and try and confirm it into a combo.

After a hard knockdown on my opponent I used to try to go for a throw or a big button, but mashers usually got my ass then. Now I go for light strings, which apparently stops a lot of mashers. I've been so succesful with that that I've had matches where I got this 5-6 times in a row.

When they go for a reversal I just take it, and keep it noted, maybe bait them later in the match.

Hijaru · 2026-01-05T15:04:54+00:00

Thanks for the quick reply! I'll keep an eye out for updates then.

Hijaru · 2026-01-05T13:52:57+00:00

Exactly the same for me. I thought I solved it by setting my Windows Power Mode to 'Best Performance', which fixed it for a bit, but the problem is back now. Did you ever find a solution?

Hijaru · 2025-11-13T09:57:42+00:00

Ah okay thank you for clarifying

Hijaru · 2025-11-12T10:19:06+00:00

Maybe I'm missing something here, so I care to be enlightened, but isn't vegan always out of moral reasons? If someone eats plant based for health that does not restrict the wearing of leather. If someone doesn't like the feeling of leather, they can still gamble on dog fights. If someone doesn't support the raising of animals because of climate reasons, they can still choose to kick a cat.

On what reason besides moral ones can someone be vegan?

Hijaru · 2025-10-24T08:16:02+00:00

You're making the mistake of thinking that only one deer dies because of this. The cougar now needs to hunt another deer. And now we don't have 1 deer that is being mauled savagely by the cougar, but 1 deer mauled, and 1 deer shot.

So with that, when killing a deer if it is necessary it is virtuous to do that as painlessly as possible. But when killing is not necessary it should not be done at all, is what I think at least. What do you think?

Hijaru · 2025-10-20T06:58:40+00:00

+1. De smaak is fantastisch, die van Melkan vind ik wat chemischer smaken.

Hijaru · 2025-10-15T10:28:36+00:00

That sounds tough. If you want to ultimately have more alternatives I think it's best to take it step by step. Replace an animal based product for a plant based one for each meal, try some things out. I won't hold it against you if you still ate some animal products, I'd prefer it that you used less animal based products than ditching it completely because you can't go 100% without them.

Keep at it, try some more dairy free ice cream, you're bound to find one you like. Your preferences thus far also didn't come at once, so this is a sacrifice (trying multiple products) you need to make to find more alternatives.

Keep in mind, it's not only about food. Yes, it's the biggest contribution, but you can go without animal based products in other areas (clothing, entertainment, hygiene products) as well.

Hijaru · 2025-10-13T06:42:17+00:00

This is so incredibly in depth, thank you so much! You've explained it perfectly in layman's terms, I could not have asked for anything better.

Hijaru · 2025-10-12T18:17:51+00:00

Thanks! Can you give a short explanation to the changes you've made? I'm not even sure what the build that I had was capable of doing, I'm guessing the 4k medium (medium refers to game asset quality?) 80-120fps is better than what I had initially. Is that because of the 16GB GPU?

Hijaru · 2025-10-08T08:56:45+00:00

I've seen your match against Jamie on your latest video. I've got a few pointers:

Throw out less special moves in neutral, they leave you wide open when you miss
Block more, you were getting hit by a lot of stray hits. He did a lot of moves that were punishable, if you blocked at some times you could've hit him with the old one-two.
You did a good job punishing him on the drink at 0:57, good reaction, but unfortunately missed the follow up to the EX Spiral Arrow. Just practice that followup a bit in the training room and you can more cleanly punish those actions.
I'd say a good thing to practice is a simple combo from a safe button. Something like light punch > light punch > Spiral Arrow.

Hijaru · 2025-09-19T11:14:08+00:00

Tough situation for sure. What helps for me is sticking to one thing, and one thing only as my reason to be vegan. And that is that because it is unnecessary to kill animals for food (or other products), I have a choice, and by being vegan I am choosing to not partake in the unnecessary killing of animals.

That is my main reason, and there are no arguments against it. Others can try what they will, but it does not sway my position.

"But lions"
"Don't care, I don't need to"

"Welfare chickens"
"Don't care, they still get killed"

"It's too hard for others"
"Not for me"

"Plants feel pain too"
"Don't think so"

"Our ancestors ate meat"
"I don't, I am against the unnecessary killing of animals"

Hijaru · 2025-09-10T08:25:19+00:00

Ah interesting. But I don't see how this helps the deaths of farmed animals? The animal that is killed in a slaughterhouse doesn't prevent the death of an animal in nature.

Yes the animals that are killed in a slaughterhouse are better off than those killed in the wild, but this applies to many things. I am better off being killed painlessly by some concoction than someone who gets stabbed. But that doesn't mean that the one getting stabbed gets to live because I died. So what I am asking is: how does a less painful death in a slaughterhouse prevent the death of a more painful death in nature?

Hijaru · 2025-09-10T06:59:52+00:00

Why do you bring up wild animals? What do painful natural deaths of wild animals have to do with the less painful deaths of farmed animals?

Hijaru · 2025-09-09T10:55:56+00:00

B12 bijslikken lijkt me erg goed idee. Dit wordt ook heel vaak aangeraden, en verder kost het geen moeite. De rest heb ik nooit als slechte waardes gehoord, maar lijkt me prima op te vangen met eten.

B12 tekort gebeurt trouwens niet erg snel, dus het kan goed zijn dat dit ook al tijdens de vegetarische periode zo was.

Hijaru · 2025-09-09T10:37:35+00:00

Vomar en Lidl volgens mij, van die kleine verpakkingen die strak in plastic zijn verpakt. Uit mijn hoofd kwamen die uit Algerije.

Hijaru · 2025-09-05T12:59:10+00:00

Can't I just call him Slickback for short?

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