I ran yet another silly Smash tournament with custom modded characters featuring some of my friends, and it ended up being a ton of fun to play in and watch, check it out!
Last night on the way home from a tournament, I got robbed by two guys at a gas station. They took my phone and unlocked it which has all my passwords and stuff saved on it, and took my debit card and withdrew all my money, leaving me with nothing. Nightmare scenario.
What got ZeRo banned was the situation with Katie, which nothing has changed for. I understand wanting to let people grow from mistakes in general, but soliciting nudes from a minor isn't a mistake I'm willing to overlook, and has no place being accepted in the place it happened.
Yeah, I'm not going to Panda Cup anymore, so unbelievably disappointing on so many levels to see this happen, but from someone who's roots are in the PM Smash community, this feels quite familiar.
I really did try, but competing today has unfortunately reinforced my decision to make this my last Ultimate tournament. My heart just just isn't in this anymore. I tried everything I could over the last 1.5 years to change how I feel and nothing has worked.
I still love…
He's the perfect blend of skill, structure, and style.
And he's the best Captain Falcon player in the world.
Welcome to our family,
@FatalityFalcon
. Welcome to FURIA.
#DIADEFURIA
Just woke up from a nap, and from the looks of what I've discussed with my bank, looks like the overwhelming majority of what I've lost I'm getting back (except for my phone, RIP), so I really don't think a GoFundMe or anything like that will be needed at all.
Late saying this, but no stream last night or today because I'm in the streets of Atlanta protesting. I implore you to support our black brothers and sisters in these difficult times.
Adding
#FreeSplatoon
to my profile after Nintendo shut down a Splatoon tournament's stream simply because some of it's participants had
#FreeMelee
related tags. It's honestly ridiculous how far the company has gone to shut down people enjoying their games in competition.
In light of Rockcrock being outed as a sexually abusive person, the Falcon and Ganon communities need to come together and decide on a new name for this, as I refuse to in any way glorify someone like that.
In the process of trying to get the money back, or at least some of it if possible, and completely revamping everything from scratch on all accounts for everything to try and hopefully prevent them from damaging my life anymore, been up all night trying to damage control.
Some rich dude didn't show up for his flight, so they let me take the first class seat for free since they slightly overbooked. Great start to Smashcon
Not gonna lie tournaments hit different when all the people you went to events with when you started never show up anymore. Making new friends is great too, but I miss those people sometimes.
People partying in the apartment next door
Some guy yells
"WE SHOULD ALL WATCH SHREK"
5 minutes later I can hear Shrek at movie theater volume and everyone has quieted down.
What a world
Big D went on an absolutely amazing run today, even better than his already stellar GOML run. Starting to make me question how good Ice Climbers are. If any of you missed the run, just google Big D to find out more.
Talked to my grandfather for the last time today. He was a great man, and had a profound influence on me, but was also just a pillar of our family. He'll be missed, but it's hard to feel too sad for someone who lived to 98 and had such a fulfilling and varied life. <3
Now that I'm no longer playing the fever dream that is the new Falcon, I can talk about Patch 8.0
It feels like Christmas, and not just for me, they did so many wonderful things for so many characters who deserved it, and we're all so happy, it's great.
Falcon is high-tier
Man, I've gotten pretty good in so many of Falcon's losing MUs, but still suck against Roy, doesn't help that Kola does a perfect job not letting Falcon move ever. Maybe should learn that MU for Aegis in the future. Had an amazing run otherwise, 4/777 at
#CEO2021
#DIADEFURIA
For almost all of my life I struggled with severe depression, and got very close to calling everything quits multiple times. And it dawned on me just now that I've been living without those internal struggles for more than a year straight now. Finally found my internal peace.
Happier than words can describe to finally be attending a Summit, gonna rep Georgia, FURIA, and Falcons everywhere to the best of my abilities, gonna go hard at this, but first I need some rest, streamed for more than 170 straight hours for this lmao.
The better player does not always win. Even if someone does better than you most of the time, you can still play better than usual, catch them lacking on a bad day, or just surprise them. Never respect someone so much you forget to respect your own potential.
Got 2nd at Ultimate Wanted 3 out of 525 entrants, put up a good fight, but Gluttony at big French tournaments is too powerful. Amazing week in Paris, one last night to enjoy before going home to Atlanta, GGs!
One last thing worth remembering, protests over systemic racism and rampant police brutality are still going on and needed, there are still so many innocent black men and women who have died without justice.
Don't let
#blacklivesmatter
be a trend, it's a marathon, keep fighting
99% sure no character reveals are tomorrow, but the only exception I could actually see would be Sakurai talking about the end of the broadcast and joking about no characters being revealed, the screen goes black, and then Phoenix Wright screams "OBJECTION!"
With all the gamer rage I've seen over the years at tournaments, genuinely surprised this is the first time I've seen this happen.
That being said get that ass banned 💀
The Georgia homies came together at
@4o4esports
to throw a surprise party with pizza/wings/drinks/cake to help me feel better after recent troubles. I honestly teared up a few times with how kind everyone was, I love the Georgia Smash community so much. Got a lot of cards too.
To hell with it. Just gonna focus on solo Falcon for the rest of this game. There's probably 0 chance of being the best in the world like this, but I just want to play Falcon, and there's still a lot of stuff I haven't mastered yet. If I can just win one major I'm happy.
As much as I enjoy SSBU, ngl as a competitor I sometimes wish there were less characters, it's actually so hard to learn and maintain 80+ MUs to avoid getting blindsided, and with less characters you can afford to go more in-depth with individual MUs more.
Putting this out there again why not;
Free Agent.
One of the most consistent top players with content creation.
Been on every single PGR since Smash 4.
50K Youtube subs.
Successful and growing Twitch stream.
Only looking for Tier 1-esque sponsors.
Please retweet!
I haven't really talked about this in a while, but I'm still a free agent! My stream/youtube have been growing amazingly fast recently, and my main character got buffed to being really good, so I can ravage offline tournaments too once they return.
Would love getting a sponsor.
My first Summit ends at 13th place, I'm pretty disappointed with myself, but I know what I need to work on. The grind resumes, gotta win at least one major one day, much work to be done.
I have the luck of a god, 1 minute before my flight was scheduled to take off it got delayed 20 minutes, and with 5 minutes left after going through security, I sprinted full speed to my gate and made it with 10 seconds left before the gate closed and made my flight home.
Maybe a hot take, but I'm not particularly disappointed about no Smash at EVO. It's great for spectators and exposure, but the player experience has stunk from my experience. Wack scheduling, wack seeding, wack payout structure, only best of 3 until top 3, no friendly setups, etc
Falcon is a character you NEED confidence in your play to succeed with, and the last month I haven't had that. Going to try reading some sports psychology writings before Port Priority to get back in the groove. I was Top 15 in Smash 4 for a reason after all. Time to climb back.
Let's Make Big Moves 2 was a 10/10 event. 24/7 venue, sick location with endless cool stuff in walking distance, great hotel deal, everything ran smoothly, the scheduling was great, AND all best of 5 out of pools? Can't recommend enough.
Beat ESAM 3-1 to make it further in Top 6 at
#CEO2021
, another demon down, playing MVD next. Shoutouts to
@LCLIAMM
(Florida Pikachu) for helping me warm up in the MU, and telling me some useful stuff to watch out for in Falcon vs Pika.
I can't get over the fact that they not only gave Falcon a super relevant buff, but also nerfed several of his losing MUs in the same patch. Solid chance he's around the bottom of top-tier now, I'm so happy.
My complete lack of tournament motivation didn't change this weekend, and only got stronger in all honesty, feel nothing when I lose, feel nothing when I win. I'll grind the rest of the year out, but if that feeling doesn't change I'll probably retire from competition.
I know this is completely out of nowhere, but this year marks my first where I can genuinely say I like myself as a person. I've come a long way in the last few years, and it's a nice feeling.
I'm absolutely exhausted from being up all night with such a stressful situation, but I'll check up with friends and the like once I wake up from a much needed nap, unsure how long that'll be, might not be able to fall asleep, or might casually nap for 8 hours, dunno.
Fix/remove spotdodge canceling.
Slight lag increase to neutral airdodge on landing.
2 less frames of input delay.
Parry has 3 more frames of reward.
Bring back perfect pivoting.
Fix all inconsistent hitboxes.
Fix all shields/shield poking issues.
SSBU wishlist