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Hi
Im writing this pastebin between playing matches in Splatoon as there things I feel I should express to twitter seeing as I rarely do that.

As indicated in the prior sentence, Ive been playing a lot of Splatoon. I basically havent played anything else other than occasionally spm since it was released. Im really bad at the game and I want to get better so that I dont always feel useless whenever I play. I dont even have s+ in ever mode (I did but then lost it in towers because Im so bad). All my gear is also really bad and to get better gear I also need to just keep playing and scrubbing gear (I just did that so Im thinking about that OpieOP ). I dont have any more sea snails and Im at level 50 so as far as I know the only way to get more is just wait for a splatfest :).

I said earlier that I havent been playing anything other than Splatoon, although I am going to need to change that soon. I agreed to run spm this Sunday in a marathon thing (https://horaro.org/mrm2/schedule if anyone cares) and Im also racing dead sunday night. (Dead and I didnt race last Sunday because he wasnt able to.) This means Ill have to finish 2 spm runs in a day, I want to die. I havent practiced at all and I dont think Ive played since the last race with dead so Ill probably do that Sunday before the marathon run but I wont be prepared for either run and both will be bad.

I also havent done more than a few serious any% spm runs for about 2 months. After I lost the run that finished 8-3 at 3:57:37 and died to bleck, Ive been kind of depressed and havent really felt like doing more runs. That run didnt have any mistake that cost me more than 10 seconds other than bps, I had a 7:06 7-3 and had really good rng for most of the run. I thought dead running spm again would motivate me to do more runs, but it didnt. I thought dead getting wr would motivate me to do more runs, but it didnt. I thought dead getting 4:20 (with a run 21 seconds behind mine after 8-3 with horrible bleck rng) would motivate me to do more runs, but it didnt. I thought almo relearning spm would motivate me to do more runs, but it didnt. (This is starting to feel super redundant.) I thought almo pbing by almost 4 minutes (although more than a minute of that was from wii u being faster) would motivate me to do more runs, but still, I have almost no desire to play that game. Whenever I think of playing spm, I just think that Id always rather be playing Splatoon and just do that instead.

It frustrates me that Ive been capable of runs just as good or better than dead and almo for longer than them yet still I have a 4:23 and they have 4:20/4:21. I think the reason for this is that I reset so many more runs to gbs than dead or almo. They both time pressing a and 2 while I have always just mashed a and hoped to get it. I reset so many more runs in 1-2 because of that and I think that more than anything else is why I have such a bad pb. I want to start timing lsj and I want to be at least as consistent as dead and almo are before doing more runs.

There is another thing keeping me from being motivated to do more spm runs. Im going to be traveling for several weeks in September and October and wont have time to be running spm. I know this hasnt happened yet, but I dont want to be trying to get an optimal time, have to stop for several weeks, and then have to spend a while relearning things when im able to do runs again. So I probably wont be doing any runs until the end of October or November.

When I start doing runs again, Ill probably spend a while trying to improve my time. I absolutely want to take wr back and I want to beat my run that died to bleck after 8-3. If Im able to beat that and not die in 8-4, I should easily be able to get 4:19. I also mentioned that I want to start timing lsj. Depending on how consistent I am, I may consider also doing boomer skip. Boomer skip has never been timed with much accuracy, but it saves about a minute. The main reason no one has done boomer skip rta isnt just because its another lsj, but also because it can only be done by timing it and pressing 2. The space you need to jump through only exists in 3d, and the only convenient way (you can use a poison shroom to die in the air in 2d, and you can also hit yourself with a shell shock to die in the air in 2d but these are slower/rng dependent/difficult to preform https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAaV-cwU0h4) to die in the air is by taking damage from the 3d meter.

With boomer skip, I would likely be resetting at least as frequently if not more so than I do to gbs today no matter how consistent at lsj I get. Boomer skip would be about 39 minutes into the run so resetting would be 25 minutes more painful than gbs. Every time I think about Boomer skip I think about resetting to it and I never want to do it, but every run I get to late game, I just think about how I could be a minute ahead of whatever pace Im on.

Boomer skip would make 4:18 realistic (its theoretically possible without it but youd need to play near perfectly for more than 4 hours) and 4:20 practically free, but that doesnt stop it from being such a stupid trick. I dont know if Ill do boomer skip yet, but its possible. I really want to get a good time in spm because Ive been running it for so long on and off and I still dont have a single good pb, which makes me even more tempted to go for boomer skip, but I might not if I can get a good run without it.

After I get a time Im satisfied with in spm, Im going to relearn and run Color Splash. I helped make the old route and learnt it, but I never got a run past chapter 3 (they arent labeled as chapters but idc). Color Splash is 8 hours long, and I wouldnt have enough time to do nearly as many runs as I do for spm (its length is also mostly why I never finished a run). Singlescoop made a new route, quite different from the old one, but I dont remember anything so I need to relearn it regardless.

I dont really even know why I want to run pmcs, its long, has a lot of rng, it has a lot of unskippable text, and its just a really bad speedgame. Yet still, for some reason, whenever I see someone running it (marioman has been running pmcs again recently) I want to. I know that this is true to some degree with most games but for some reason it is for me much more so the case with pmcs. Although seeing as its such bad speedgame, I might change my mind about running this after spm before this happens OpieOP .

I think thats basically everything I wanted to say. This was a really long pastebin and Im sure no one actually read all of it but if someone did congrats on wasting your time Keepo .

tldr; splatoon is fun, fuck spm, boomer skip WutFace