Post CEOtaku Pastebin Monday

So this is probably late for Pastebin Monday but here goes.

CEOtaku was awesome. And more than anything, it was exactly what I needed. I was getting too complacent with being okay, being average etc. Being around very competitive people for a weekend and just being able to have fun with it was great. On top of that, I got to spend over 24 hours just being a sponge to Dacidbro and Muscles and the rest of the NorCal AFGC. I haven't had this competitive an itch since I was playing baseball. The whole Catherine community was awesome and it was great to finally be able to outperform my expectations on a large stage.

I still need to work on a lot; I'm identifying larger factors when I lose but not as many as I should be. I'm struggling to keep nerves in check in tighter situations, which is weird since that wasn't a problem in baseball. I imagine I'll get better at it with more practice on stream setups; I should push to get on the TLoc stream more often for practice.

I also finally want to get decent enough at a non-Smash fighting game to where I can properly play it. I think I'm going to stick with Guilty Gear. The problem is that apparently I'm doing better at learning on Pad than stick, which isn't by itself horrible but it's frustrating. I'm not trying to get more value out of my stick; Catherine's done enough with it. However, I would love to be able to play in proper Japanese arcades, and it'd be better for my hands long term to play on stick. On the flip side, I'd also probably develop better finger speed (easily my biggest killer in both smash and speedrunning) and I'm kinda loud on stick. I do think that I'll get better faster on pad though, so for the sake of time, I'll probably have to stick to that.

On the flip side, apologies on the recent lack of streams. I hadn't fully unpacked from taking care of my sister, and even then I'd wanted to stream P5, but I was also ready to do the spoiler free Q&A but never able to stream at a good time for it. Hopefully I should be on a better schedule going forward and I have enough goals now where I need to be awake and active at a better time to actually improve.

On the speedrunning front, I'm at the same spot in Symphonia and working on it, probably going to start routing P5 as soon as my offstream playthrough finishes. I'll look at getting GCN mod on my 3DS to help with making those more runnable before RPGLB submissions; TWEWY on SNES pad would be a godsend. There's a lot in the pipeline and I think I have the tools and knowledge to improve in them much more rapidly going forward.

Thanks for being patient and reading this far
Ghoul