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- Hey guys, how’s it goin? Heads up, this MIGHT get a little heavy.
- I don't know about you, but I've found it easy to look at my Twitter feed lately and feel a little down, lately. Between news regarding allegations of abuse within Smash and speedrunning, people coming to terms with their inner demons, Trump and his people showing more and more signs of their incompetence, and more and more reasons why we can't go anywhere due to the C-word, it's hard to face reality these days. It has, at least, given birth to a pastime for me of finding people on Twitter who say stupid shit and blocking them. There's plenty of that to go around and it's cathartic for me.
- While I'm being exposed to several people who need their headspaces examined, I'm finding myself wondering where my headspace is at with Pokemon Puzzle League. I am really close to a boiling point when it comes to S-Hard. I've been playing it mostly the same way for seven years and nothing has really changed in making it more consistent. Thing is, I keep trying to find ways to make different things work and nothing else works. How in the hell am I supposed to come up with a plan that works more often than not when NOTHING works more often than not?
- Most speedruns can be planned out meticulously. You can know exactly what's coming. If you can't know, then you have a general range of known outcomes from what's coming to work around. None of this applies to Pokemon Puzzle League S-Hard—or even sometimes V-Hard. Your capabilities and your opponent's capabilities are determined by the starting stack of panels that is generated very randomly so that you practically never see the same panels twice. There are so many possibilities in any given run that no one has ever been able to reasonably consider them all, making meticulous planning impossible and resulting in high-stress, reaction-oriented, flying-by-the-seat-of-your-pants routing and executing with only one or two general building blocks of knowledge to build that routing with.
- It's been like this for SEVEN. YEARS. I've been powerless to change that. I'm starting to get legitimately frustrated and depressed. I hate being like this with my all-time favorite game. It's because I love this game so much that I try to figure it out for myself. However, I find myself unable to figure it out on my own. And I feel like I've been on my own trying to figure it out for seven years. I'm getting tired. It's affecting the runs that I do now. I did runs every day for a week straight in search of new answers and found pretty much nothing. S-Hard is not putting me in a good place right now. It makes me question what I want to try to do with the game going forward. That... I will have to figure out on my own.
- That’s my life story for the week. Until next time, everyone, thanks for reading!
- --Cards
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