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This has been a strange day full of surprise twists, many of them wonderful.
I hope you all have a wonderful dinner (or whatever your next meal is) and that it is perfectly portioned and exactly the right temperature and satisfying to all of your cravings.
If my math is right (it very well may not be) it should be pretty doable to get to A+ by the end of the season. 11 points doesn't seem like much on paper. But I did play for nearly two hours yesterday and only came out +3 points in the positive so.. I dunno. Regardless, I think having manageable numbers to chase each day will help motivate me.
I had all this motivation to grind anarchy a bunch as soon as splatfest ended but now I'm just so tired and want to take a nap instead. But I think my brain just likes to fake being tired when it's anxious about something to try to get out of doing it. I see through you, brain!!
The frequency of S+ badge players I come across in my A- lobbies is a little boggling but I'm going to choose to believe that I'm getting matched with them because matchmaking thinks I belong there C:
Don't think I've mentioned but I uploaded my silly Drizzle 2022 montage. I don't know how it comes across to others though because it wasn't intended for an audience and is mostly full of little personal references/foreshadowings that only make sense to me/no one else has context for, but... it does make me very happy, so maybe at least the positive vibes translate, lol.
I had a rainmaker game where we were well on our way to KOing within the first minute but then someone on the other team DC'd and the game ended just as we were climbing up the goal pedestal. 🥲
It's always so validating when you find out that a solution to a problem you sort of unconsciously worked out independently is actually a well-accepted solution to that problem used by many people.
SHJDFGhjahjsagfd I finally got back into A- for the first time since like probably last drizzle season!! After failing my rank-up battle three times lol.
Now I have a month and a half to try to get to A+ so I never have to do that B>A rank up battle again. Then I'll worry about what's next.
It's occurring to me that I might feel less overwhelmed and lost 95% of the time if I had a panel of splatoon experts that I could just ask 10 million questions to and have long drawn out discussions about complex concepts and they wouldn't mind or judge me.
...and also if I could actually convince myself they didn't mind and I wasn't wasting their time or being annoying by asking them.
If you told past me that I was going to get into alpha bracket in my first tournament ever I would have looked at you like you had two heads (we got immediately eliminated by the team that ended up winning the whole thing but still)
Most days my endless hope and optimism and stubbornly wanting it badly enough are enough to keep me believing I'm still capable of overcoming my skill issues eventually.
So I wound up in a coaching group for folks preparing for Junior Draft and I participated in my first group session tonight and honest to cod it was so. unbelievably. fun. I should have gotten involved in group stuff years ago. I can't believe I let my shyness keep me from this for so long. Not to mention I got some actionable advice that I am hopeful about and excited to put into action. :>
My solution to not having the energy to find someone to commission a PFP from and not wanting to just use a screenshot was apparently to....... paint-trace over a screenshot, lol. I am not sure if this actually works or just looks like a badly photoshopped screenshot but it'll do for now.
me when clams is actually in rotation: having to take so many breaks to recompose myself I barely get to play the rotation anyway ]:
this is so painfully catch-22 lol