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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.
Did you know there are wikipedia pages for "Cephalopod Attack", "Cephalopods in popular culture" and "List of squid-faced humanoids" (don't ask me how I ended up down this rabbit hole) (It was definitely not looking up how hard an octopus can bite you)
just registered for junior's draft and if all goes well this will be my first ever comp experience of any kind and I'm sooo nervous and excited and aaaaaaaaaa!!!
I wonder how much practice I can cram into the next two weeks. I feel so rusty since I've barely had time to play all month with this move nonsense happening but.... there's still time to get back into the swing of things.
I ought to commission an actual PFP at some point. or at least get a cute in-game screenshot of my octoling or something. Or I could just learn to draw < has been saying this for decades to no avail lol
Yaaay my team won splatfest :> And I managed to find enough time to play on sunday after all to get to ruler. But now it's back to nonstop cleaning and unpacking, hah.
I hope I have time/energy to splatfest at all... it's moving weekend and we're gonna be up half the night packing and tomorrow morning we rent the uhaul and hope we can get everything moved over before we have to bring it back. Maybe I'll have time sunday if I don't spend the whole day asleep/recovering, hah.
Salmon was weirdly hard today. Started out with four wave-one wipes in a row and a derank. Then I got six clears with a full king meter before the king finally showed up. But we got a gold scale and I got back into EVP, so I can't complain too much. I think I just wasn't expecting it to be that difficult, but I suppose a lot of the freelance life is luck-based after all.
They should make a brella themed after a betta fish. Since they flare their gills when they feel threatened. I have no creativity to expand on this idea but this is extremely funny to me. (I also am suddenly realizing how sleep deprived I am right now so I am blaming that for these weird thoughts.)
Few things in this world feel as amazing as when you end up in a full group of randos in salmon who all communicate well and stick together despite wipe after wipe after wipe and then finally clearing and taking down the king and getting a gold scale.
I love you little inkfish in my screen!! I feel like we bonded through this experience even though we will probably never see each other again.
oh heavens there are those days when I am anxious about sitting down to play anarchy games, but then I do and I just absolutely have the time of my life. Emotions are so heightened and I feel so alive and regardless of the outcomes I am just so overwhelmingly overjoyed to get to take part in this. I hope I find the opportunity to have this experience in a team setting one day.
I feel under a lot of pressure lately to branch out from tetras and I know it would be good for me to diversify but it just breaks my heart a little. I don't know why I'm so emotionally bonded to these little squirt guns. The more people encourage me to use other weapons the more I feel attached to them and I cognitively know that's not great for like, my growth/development as a player but... man it's just hard.
I finally got around to finishing a little personal clip video for Drizzle Season 2022 (over a year later lol) and it's got me overemotional and full of memories. Now I'm motivated to work on the memory-videos for the other seasons but I'm even more motivated to just go play more and make new memories. Like I can relive the old ones whenever I want but there's just so much memory-making potential right now, you know?
oh my cod my dualies challenge experience was such an emotional roller coaster I can barely handle it. I had like a 30% win rate but in the end I got my last stamp by the skin of my teeth and I think I am just going to go collapse now.