#PastebinMonday 04/07/2025 Offer Accepted Edition

Offer Accepted Edition

'Sup, doods!

As I sit down to write this update, I am having lots of trouble processing how everything in my life is transpiring as it is. This past week has moved by really fast. Here is what I do know:

I am 30 days away from being a first time home owner, doods.

Two Fridays ago, I received a notice that I was being evicted from the home that I had known almost my entire adult life. This past week, I went house hunting. With the great credit that I had built up over the years, figuring out how much I could afford ended up being the easy part. Finding good housing within that budget, even in a very affordable area of the world, ended up being tricky.

On Tuesday, I looked at two houses. They both had massive upsides and downsides (and stairs).
On Wednesday, I looked at two more houses. One would've been fine if it didn't have an awkward driveway. The other would've been great if it didn't have tenants with a ton of junk to move.
On Thursday, I found two more houses with very contrasting styles.
On Friday, I made a decision and made an offer.
Yesterday, after a light back and forth, an offer was accepted.

I expected the process to be a lot more involved. I expected to have to struggle with negotiating, with finding houses, with going under budget, with everything, really. I knew I had to move fast on my borrowed time, but I'm wondering if I'm going a little TOO fast? I'll figure that part out later.

What I will have trouble figuring out, doods, is how I reached the heights I did to beat thebfin314 in yesterday's tournament match. My house hunting endeavor left me with less training for the match than I would have liked. The runs I did on Friday to prepare were not all that great, all things considered. After a clunker to start the match, I thought the match was going to go on like I expected it to. I then proceeded to average 7:58 over my next three V-Hard runs to take the match. Again, I hope I'm not going TOO fast too EARLY. Defending champion Yoschi happened to average 8:06 over their three straight wins over bfin. I'm going to need to compete with that going forward. All of the remaining matchups will be really tough, but I like my chances more against everyone not named Yoschi than I did against bfin.

Now if you'll excuse me, doods, I need some extra time to breathe.


Today's (permanent) extra streaming goals:

Goal #1: record footage for my Puzzle League tutorial series. The scripts are done! I am now challenging myself to find time amidst my tournament duties to work on recording the gameplay. I would then need voice-over on top of that. In a perfect world, I would be done with all of that this month, but in light of recent developments, I have ZERO time to start this.
Goal #2: release the Puzzle League tutorial series YouTube shorts once a day until they're all done. I really do think I need to time the release of the series with a ramping up of my streaming schedule so that I can take advantage of whatever there is to gain from releasing the shorts. Recent developments are pushing this date further and further back.
Goal #3: clean up my own stream layout. Most of the framework necessary for a semi-proper stream is done now thanks to streaming the process, though I'm not currently motivated to stream any other part of it at the moment. Next major objective is to make alerts. I have stream reaction clips to put in. Emotes, one or two alternate overlay themes, and alternate timer themes would come soon after. As soon as I think of things to put in, I will add them to the list. I added a list in a dedicated channel in my Discord server. If you have any time to kill and want to contribute, check it out.
Goal #4: catch up on video archives that I have yet to upload since I restarted streaming. I may put them on a separate channel.
Goal #5: edit personal best videos in Tetris Attack Easy – V-Hard (post commentary recorded) and Normal (post commentary recorded)—and everything I did in Pokemon Puzzle Week—and that S-Hard PB—and that V-Hard WR—and that Easy – S-Hard WR—and that TA Easy PB—and another Easy – V-Hard PB (twice). Standalone archival videos are already attached to my speedrun profile. I'm hoping to make eye-catching productions from each speedrun. I'm considering it to be my personal test to be a YouTuber. I am failing miserably right now.
Goal #6: finalize the tournament layout once and for all in a way that I can adapt for every game we might play. Until someone volunteers to help broadcast the matches in my stead, this is not actually a top priority. I feel like making this happen will encourage others to help out, not the other way around. There has been little interest so far.


This week's schedule:

Wednesday @8pm-10pm ET – TA2025 Training: Breaking Down My Tourney Play Edition, Doods!
Thursday @8pm-10pm ET – TA2025 Training
Friday @8pm-11pm ET – Friday Night Salt Mines – How Am I Here Edition, Doods!
Saturday @2pm-4pm ET – twitch.tv/puzzlespeedrun – TA2025 Winners Finals / Losers Semis
Sunday @2pm-4pm ET – twitch.tv/puzzlespeedrun – TA2025 Winners Finals / Losers Semis


That’s my life story for the week. Until next time, everyone, be decent to each other. Later, doods!

--Cards