december

yoooo

just wanted to give a general life/video games (they're pretty much the same thing) update.

this week is finals week for me.  all of my "real" finals are tuesday, i got wednesday/monday off, and thursday has 2 finals that are both piss easy.  pretty much as soon as i am done thursday, im heading back home until next semester.  internet at home is usually about .2 down and .2 up (not 2, .2) meaning i can basically barely use discord and only play local games; loading up a fucking dustforce replay takes 5+ seconds lmao.  streaming will obviously be out of the question... even viewing streams is too.  because of this, im definitely tempted to do a like 8 hour stream wednesday just to have a lil fun before i head out for a while.  it would be mostly yotta SS attempts, maybe with a few races and stuff depending who is on.  i'll probably tweet it out if i end up doing it.

so because of this, im in kinda a rough spot for speedrunning games.  i am decently interested in getting a solid 16 reds time, but with streaming being impossible and youtube uploads likely taking over a day, it kinda dents being able to begin the grind.  it isnt a huge issue for learning a new game, so i'll probably pick learning DS1 back up; it was going pretty well but i just got hit with general life stuff, and will have a lot less to worry about at home besides working a few days a week.  honestly i was having a lot of fun with doing casual sms races with dustforce people, but i dont think its a game i could ever seriously pick up... might give that a fair chance?  as for flyn, its a really shit meme but i still feel like there's some potential there, so im going to give routing it a bit more of a chance.

as for dustforce, i am really close to #1 score which is pretty damn cool.  ironic that my 2 year goal of being #1 any% will happen after #1 score, which has always been a side category for me lol.  i have never felt better about my play than how i've felt in my last few grind sessions... 3400 of work are finally paying off i suppose.  i only need about 15 more ranks (not counting yotta, which is a free 120 ranks just by finishing an SS run) to safely get #1 score.  #1 overall is about 80 past that, and i'll definitely try to gun for that afterwards.  i dont think the game will ever see triple 0s again; too many people are just too good now for someone to have WR on everything again, so i think ending at #1 overall is a solid final goal for me.  after that?  who knows... definitely will stick around for tases, but i think i should really put the game down and move on to something else.  my hands are fine currently, but they wont be able to do 3 hour grind sessions of dustforce forever.

as for my life, things are going really well for me.  i know 2016 has been shitty for a lot of people, but it has treated me pretty damn well.  college is amazing, classes are going well, and overall the independence has been fantastic for me.  i fell into a pretty hard slump early 2016 (senioritis + working i suppose) but life has been great since around august.  i've had a pretty obnoxious roommate but shit could definitely be worse, most of his annoyances are just him being a weird ass dude.  regardless, he's studying abroad next semester meaning i'll be finding a new roommate, which could definitely be interesting.  my dorm is pretty well known for attracting introverts so i dont think i'll have any huge issues.  other than that, home should be fun i guess.  not looking forward to working again for a bit, but just chilling will be nice albeit with shitty internet.

i guess that's it?  thanks for reading