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  1. uko's sub 3:40 crusade???
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  3. The whole problem is that I really don't wanna grind this, lol. But I also really really want it, in my heart. Either way though, I feel like another pastebin will be an effective way to help me lay out exactly what steps I want to take to get to where I wanna be in Glitchless.
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  7. Before we start, here's some of my favorite quotes from my sub 4 crusade pastebin (https://pastebin.com/nJjhpDMa) to fondly look back on:
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  9. 1: "With being crushed out of the EarthBound Super Series pretty much because of RNG, the question became what will my next move be? Well obviously being the person I am I want my revenge. I'm coming after sub 4."
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  11. Pretty nuts because like. I won the series this year. I guess it's not revenge that I want this time, it's more like I'm getting kinda tired of the idea that I've saved less than 30 seconds since June 9th (over 6 months ago at the time of writing this) :P
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  13. 2: "Onett manip took 3 days to learn, and about a week from there to memorize."
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  15. Tuteson happened a couple months ago. Took me about a week to learn, and about a month of pulling my hair out and breaking my back until I nailed it all single-segment on console (excluding that first one which was definitely a fluke, because I yolo backup'd my cultist HQ reroute, which wound up not working consistently anyway). I find it paradoxical, since I'm now the fastest Onett manipulator with the legacy route and have been since not long after this year's limit break. Just goes to show how tough it is, I guess.
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  17. 3: "On Day 50 of my crusade, I finally hit sub 4. This was more than two months after my 4:01 PB, and around 8 months after the start of my EarthBound speedrunning career ... My new goal is to hit that top 5 spot sometime in the year 2017, and with my cart on the way this is gonna be pretty fucking exciting."
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  19. A couple things: A. I hope this doesn't take another 50 days for me to be happy with my time. That's just a tad too long, I feel, lol. and B. I think it's rad that although it took 8 months after my first completed run to finally sub 4, it still took me less than a year from my first completed run to finally sub 3:50, which was an all-around great run that lurched me from 9th place (iirc) to 3rd. With tuteson I've been bopped by two titans, ClassicJames and ceriam, but I still hold 5th, which is nice enough. Glad to know my past self would be happy with this.
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  23. -----Step 1: Regain my rightful throne of third place, with something maybe a little bit more respectable than literally three 3:47's (3:45 time goal)-----
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  25. I have 9-10 minutes to save total (with some padding) off of my big splits. That's stupid, and dumb. I just wanna hit some of it, and maybe 3:45 or something. Don't really care how many runs it takes to meet an overall satisfying run, I think all it'll take to meet Step 1 is to have a similar run to the PB I just had but maybe near-match gold on two splits instead of just one. Or yknow save a minute on three or four.
  26. I would just love to be able to get more runs started with tuteson, and all throughout this I'm trying to figure out the best way to make sure I only stream Glitchless attempts when I'm really feeling up to it, yknow? Because I think my biggest problem lately is that I get agitated or irritable sometimes in general, not even just to do with the game, or I'm really tired or my mind's not in it enough to concentrate, regardless of how well-rested I am. The human body sucks. Or at least mine does.
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  28. ~~~
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  30. MET ON DAY 03 (sort of) [3:45:26]
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  32. So uh, after an involuntary break from streaming for the holidays, I come back and within the first hour get to carpainter but drop the manip. I decided, however, to keep going, and it resulted in a sub 1 mini barf and my second post-butts dad call.
  33. Improved the quality of my non-early mondo mole PB, which is gonna make things a tad more complicated, lmao. But I did re-snatch 3rd place, and I imagine I'll probably hold at least top 4 for a while.
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  37. -----Step 2: PB, for real. (3:43:13 time goal)-----
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  39. Yesterday I finally scored my smallest PB of all time, a PB of two seconds. This was my first PB with mondo mole manip, and second run completed with it. I STILL haven't budged on the board.
  40. What this essentially means is that I lost 4:37 in relation to my PB, only to gain back 4:39 by the end purely via mondo mole manip timesave and PB by two seconds. That means in order to meet Step 2, which is to bop myself (in terms of onett manip only run quality), I need to sub 3:43:13. So basically I gotta wr still. Lmfao. (wr at the time of writing this is 3:43:18 by ceriam)
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  42. ~~~
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  44. MET ON DAY 11 [3:42:40]
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  48. -----Step 3: Secure a run with Summers Dad Call and an overall nice second half (3:42 time goal)-----
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  50. I decided to cut the stonehenge split in half, and I really think that's gonna be a good idea for my morale. It's already opened my eyes in terms of where I wanna be at during that huge portion of the run, and I think just one more opportunity for being able to say to myself "okay, I can still match gold here" will help my attitude and help me continue to play well even in the face of major timeloss. I was a little discouraged during my PB run because of the 2:03 crash landing, because that's by no means where I wanna be at all, but with my recent confidence in my Sanctuaries section I was able to save just the exact amount of time back that I wanted to and PB. If not for that Giygas fight I'd definitely be in low 3:46 range, which is comforting.
  51. Neither of the two 3:43's on the board right now have Summers Dad Call. I'd love to match the second halves of those two runs with a more optimized early game. And with my recent overscan fix on my crt, this should be just a little bit easier. I just gotta keep my head up.
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  53. UPDATE: I guess the time goals of both Step 3 and Step 2 are too similar now. I may even meet step 3 BEFORE meeting step 2. But uh, I'll meet y'all at step 4 I guess.
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  55. ~~~
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  57. MET ON DAY 11 [3:42:40]
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  59. Yup. Look at me go.
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  61. So it's been several, SEVERAL months since the creation of this paste, but I've finally come around to getting tuteson solid and I managed to PB by nearly 3 minutes. I'm finally within a minute of WR again, feels pretty good.
  62. My early game's gonna be ass to run against, but my sanctuary split has loads of time to save. Also had a rough endgame, so all of that will probably push me to keep going. I have so much confidence and I'm so thankful for everyone I know who believes in me and supports me in this. <3
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  66. Step 4: Sub 3:42 time goal
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  68. At this point I would finally know that I'm truly advancing timewise. It would equate to an onett manip only 3:45, give or take, which I know I'm capable of.
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  70. Step 5: Sub 3:40 time goal
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  72. I dunno about you, but I believe in miracles.
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