1/1/18

Oh My Gawd, I can't believe the earth is 2018 years old already!!!!!

	Seriously though, HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! I hope everyone had a great New Years and Christmas! No pastebin last week because, well Christmas. That being said, AGDQ IS NEXT WEEK!!!!! I'm already excited and cant wait to go. As a reminder, I'll be there for part of the first day, and then once I get there on Friday (probably like 2-3PM), I'll be there the rest of the time. Torchic is coming once again, so keep an eye out for my lovable Torchic on stream. Speaking of being on stream, I'll be on couch for Nacho's PMW2 run, and that's about it. If you are reading this and going to AGDQ, message me if you wanna meet up at some point! My favorite part of AGDQ last year was meeting so many awesome people in person, and I can't wait to meet more of you guys! Next week is also my birthday! I probably won't do a birthday stream, as I tend to just host AGDQ for the week, but who knows?

	Finally, people have asked me what my speedgoals for 2018 are, as well as any new games I wanna learn for the year. While I end up not accomplishing most of these goals, I will lay them out so you guys know what I might be doing in the coming months

	- Pokemon! I started doing red glitchless and I'm enjoying myself! I definitely want to get into doing more pokemon stuff in general, such as bingo's and side series runs. Specifically, I want to do speedruns of Sapphire and Pearl, as they are my favorite games!

	- The Super Mario 602! Ok, this might be a bit of a stretch, but at the very least Im gonna do more SM64, and I want to get going on galaxy runs (both 1 and 2). The only reason I would not do the 602 is Super Mario Sunshine. It probably won't happen this year, but who knows?

	- Octathlon Attempt 2! I've been having a decent amount of fun with Mario Party lately, and I'm thinking about doing Octathlon again. The next one is late March, so I have time to practice/think about it. I would say as of now, I will do it, but we shall see I guess.

	- 100 games Challenge. 1 Year Ago, I began this crazy adventure. So far, I've played through VVVVVV, Hotel Dusk: Room 215, Papers Please, The Oregon Trail, Super Mario 64, Castle Crashers, Banjo-Kazooie, Super meat Boy, TY 3 GBA, and Undertale. This year, my goal is to finish at least 25 of the games on the list, starting off by finishing up two of my favorites from last year that I never finished, Earthbound and Banjo-Tooie. Also high up on my list that I want to play soon are the GTA games, as I love GTA! Also...Conker. i just bought the cart, so my playthrough will probably start as early as the week after AGDQ.

	- Crash 2 and 3. After Sprashfecta, I usually don't want to touch any of those games for like 5 months. Not this time. I've decided I'm really not happy with my Crash 2 100% and my Crash 3 105% PB's. Both can be improved by A LOT! I want to improve them, badly. Not so much Crash 1, or the Spyro series, but maybe, we'll see.

	- LEARN NEW GAMES! I'm always wanting to speedrun new stuff, and I've got some good ideas for new speedgames. Things that are being considered include Banjo-Kazooie, Donkey Kong 64, various Rugrats games (Not Search for Reptar or Royal Ransom, new ones), and Super Mario Odyssey. Something a lot of people probably don't know about me is that unlike most speedrunners, my favorite thing about speedrunning is the routing. To me, it's like a puzzle. You need to figure out how to accomplish everything you need to in as little time as possible. This is one reason I tend to shy away from more popular speedgames, and go for more obscure ones. The reason I bring this up is I also want to find new games, games I may not have even heard of, that have 0 speedruns done, and I want to route it, optimize it, and run it. IF YOU HAVE SUGGESTIONS FOR A GAME I SHOULD RUN, MESSAGE ME! I will consider nearly anything that I see within reason.

Alright, I'm done for now. Good Luck in not writing 2017 as the year anymore, and I'll see you all later (some of you even in person!)