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Aiko.Octo

Aiko.Octo

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  • Aiko.Octo
    Saw like hundreds of tetras yesterday. At the aquarium, lol.

    Also saw a very shy octopus and watched it for ten minutes until it crawled out for a few seconds and then hid again. still very cool and worth it.

    Second best part was watching the rays. They were so graceful, like they were flying through the water. Worth the two hour trip out there. And I brought back a tiny snowglobe with an octopus figure in it :>
    Aiko.Octo
    Man. When you're putting in a ton of effort but just not seeing any results from it, how do you know if it's just because you just haven't put in enough effort yet and just need to trust the process, or if it's because you're like... doing effort wrong somehow? I feel so stumbling-around blind in all of this sometimes.
    Aiko.Octo
    I love blueberries. They are the best fruit.

    (MAYBE a perfectly ripe watermelon in the summertime can challenge it MAYBE).
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    Aiko.Octo
    @sevenleaf lol I wonder what three fruits they could even possibly narrow it down to. Apples/Oranges/Bananas feel the most 'common' but it leaves out so much. Also once I got a 15lb bag of oranges from a farmer's market and they were the BEST oranges I had ever eaten. I was eating 3+ oranges a day until they were gone. I have missed them ever since.
    youre_a_squib_now
    youre_a_squib_now
    I feel like so many of the fruits people dislike are just hard to find when they're properly ripe

    I've had people tell me they don't like mangoes because they're too bitter and like. that just means you haven't actually had mangoes
    Grushi
    Grushi
    I was traumatized for years as a kid by an unripe kiwi so fair enough haha
    Actually took me years before I tried one again
    Aiko.Octo
    Clams is making me cry again ._.
    Aiko.Octo
    Aiko.Octo
    me: wishing clams would be in rotation when I'm not working so I can practice it more
    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
    Aiko.Octo
    Aiko.Octo
    Yall I am dying. I lost every single game this rotation (along with all the rank progress that I made over the past two days) EXCEPT for the LAST GAME of the rotation. Which we won, and which got me the badge for 100 clam blitz wins. What the shell. XD
    Aiko.Octo


    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.
    Aiko.Octo
    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!!
    Aiko.Octo
    Please do not hand me a power clam. I will just panic and freeze and be afraid of everything until I can get rid of it 😭
    Aiko.Octo
    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.
    Aiko.Octo
    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. 🥲
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    Okay but what about games where you get a good lead, but then one of your teammates dc's with like, 2 minutes left. I usually lose those, but whenever we win it feels EPIC
    Aiko.Octo
    Aiko.Octo
    @sevenleaf oh NOOO that's so unfortunate. But also just funny that rainmaker is the only mode this happens in (mmmaaybe it could happen in clams? I've never seen it though)
    Aiko.Octo
    Aiko.Octo
    @Grushi aaaaaa yes it does feel so good to win those! Hilariously I was on the other end of that a few days ago when we were ahead, the other team had a DC around 3 minutes in, and SOMEHOW they came back and won. :what: A humbling experience for sure but that must have felt amazing for them, lol.
    DzNutsKong
    Just wanted to mention that I got around to watching your streamed set with YY last night. Really good stuff, you made some great plays there!
    Aiko.Octo
    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.
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    Me: It's sooo hard to keep myself from going on autopilot during matches and maybe it's just an ADHD thing but I need to figure out how to break that because I can't actually learn anything on autopilot.

    Me Later: Huh, when I'm recording my matches I seem to go on autopilot a lot less, and I don't know why but I guess I'll exploit this as much as possible to my benefit.
    Aiko.Octo
    Aiko.Octo
    Also Me Later: Haha I always feel compelled to talk about/narrate what I'm doing when I'm recording my matches... I'm so weird but oh well.

    Me Today, reading an article: "Self-narration is a method used in professional esports to avoid autopilot. The player talks to themselves while they play and tries to narrates as many of the important details that are going on in the match as they can."

    Me: .........OH.
    youre_a_squib_now
    youre_a_squib_now
    thanks for the idea, I think I'll try this
    Aiko.Octo
    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.
    Aiko.Octo
    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.
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    neonscreenlight
    neonscreenlight
    this is too relatable stop calling me out man
    Aiko.Octo
    Aiko.Octo
    @Grushi Fair point, I mean there are certainly some folks around who could be considered experts. I guess in my head I was thinking more in an imaginary situation where it was just me and said experts where I could be more open/vulnerable than I am on a public forum, heh.
    Grushi
    Grushi
    @Aiko.Octo Oh yeah I get it, it's certainly not the greatest place to get too personal
    Aiko.Octo
    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)
    neonscreenlight
    i think i might have just seen you in anarchy open
    Aiko.Octo
    Aiko.Octo
    AAH SO THAT WAS YOU. I saw the name and was like nah that couldn't be?? what are the odds?? haaaah that's wonderful :D
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