#PastebinMonday 08/23/2021 I Don't Have to Beat Myself Up Edition

Hey guys, how’s it goin?

That was so much easier than I expected it to be. Wednesday was supposed to be a day where I spent two hours trying to get a sub-20 S-Hard for PPL2021 qualifying and failing miserably. Turns out that I need two hours to warm up for Pokémon Puzzle League because the first two hours were a miserable failure, but another half-hour later I ended up with a 17:20, only my second 17:xx run in recorded history. And that wasn't even the highlight of my weekend. Saturday was a day where Hard was supposed to make me struggle to get sub-8:30 without much success. Well, it wasn't much for about two hours, then another half-hour later, yet again, BOOM! 8:04! WFR! Oh, and I was able to pull a 7:59 Normal later that day. Whatever. This game as a speedrun is hella weird. How did I rope people into doing this with me?

In any case, my #1 seed in the tournament is all but secure. Not even a sub-15 S-Hard from FFRPro would be enough once I expect bbforky or Jennifer_Dawn or another name I've long forgotten to jump in and be #16. I can just worry about finalizing the broadcast layout for the start of things in two weeks. In fact, I was distracted at work today by an idea for the broadcast

By the way, again: puzzlegeneral.challonge.com/PPL2021. Really could use people to sign up to help! In fact, I'll just link that form here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1fQIt6mWp-KD-RAZN6QfnIZO5DNIgFk7q94LesETbt6E. Please help out however you can!

Here is this week's schedule:

Wednesday – 8pm EDT – !PPL2021 Qualifying Day 9 – Normal, I guess? – Estimate: 2 hours
Thursday – 8pm EDT – Final Fantasy X Gets Lost in a Maze – Estimate: 2 hours
Friday – 8pm EDT – Friday Night Salt Mines with !pg and !PPL2021 Qualifying Day 10 – Estimate: 4 hours
Saturday – 5pm EDT – !PPL2021 Qualifying Day 11 – I have no idea – Estimate: 4 hours

That’s my life story for the week. Until next time, everyone, thanks for reading!

--Cards

P.S. Has the "Council" sealed your fate yet?