so my way of handling the “no self-capture” rule, is to say that “the active player’s captures take priority over being captured, therefore it is not self-capture and thus a legal move”
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Same.
Ko is often my first example of that, that way it makes a nice segue into the ko rule, of which I only explain in terms of superko until they get better
It’s not an explanation, it’s a rule. Surely that would have convinced them?
In this case, no. Shrugs. It was like they had a philosophical problem with the game…
I don’t like the term “liberty” at all. It’s just a confusing term.
I prefer to talk about “breathing spaces” when introducing people to the game. Only later I may tell them that these spaces are actually called “liberties” (for some reason that I don’t know of) in the standard terminology of go.
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Huh, okay. Well it’s not like I have never criticized the rules of a game. 
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some people really get stuck on “no self-capture” sometimes, honestly it’s kind of an unnecessary rule to teach to beginners, since most of its real effect is to limit certain ko threats
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AHEM!
Don’t make me tap the sign 
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This. One really needs to chose words very carefully and with precision when teaching go. This person really took issue with ‘liberty’. How is it a liberty if I am not free to use it kind of attitude…
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I’m not sure it’s a Go Meme, but:
My reaction to the fact that the WAGC was uploaded with class D (0.25* rank change, +9 instead of +36)
My graph confirms it:
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This has to be the cutest pun I’ve ever heard of. Let’s adopt this convention immediately 
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And sure enough, Alpha Dog became the Alpha Dog…This is perfect.
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