#PastebinMonday 11/30/2020 Motivation is Hard Edition

Hey guys, how’s it goin?

I've been in a bit of a holding pattern this week while I shove all of these PPL 2020 videos off of my hard drive—all 550+ GB of them. I THINK they'll all be copied by tonight. It's been a process for the past week to make sure my connection stays up long enough for each file. I've had multiple outages and multiple disconnects that, coincidentally, took place while my Streamlabs bot was up.  When it's been down, my connection has been a lot more stable. I may need to migrate more functions to the cloud bot...

That said, I have had trouble getting the motivation to get things done. When I'm not eating Thanksgiving leftovers, I'm going through my YouTube Watch Later list while verifying some runs. Then I just binge more YouTube videos. Part of me wants to be lazy. Part of me wants to do a bunch of different things, whether it's figuring out my own stream layout or uncluttering my bedroom for once, but I get down once I realize what I need to do to get anything done and, as a result, nothing gets done. Motivation is hard.

I have started looking into the design of the Tetris Attack tournament layout for next year. Once again, I'm not worried about my performance in the next tournament, especially when I can just boot up an emulator and get a sloppy 9:16 V-Hard run like I did Saturday. I have ideas for spicing up that tournament that will influence where parts of the layout go, but expect a familiar look based on the Pokemon Puzzle League tournament. I'm not sure what I'm going to use for half of the scenes since Tetris Attack doesn't do too many fancy transitions, but I have plenty of time to think of something.

Oh yeah, I've also spent some down time playing Yu-Gi-Oh! Reshef of Destruction in earnest for the first time. I'm actually stuck trying to beat [REDACTED] and Reshef back to back at the very end of the game. There are too many power spells to work around to be consistent. One can only hope to keep enough monsters on the field long enough to summon an Egyptian God that is unaffected by all of the power cards. The problem is that cards are subject to a cost system to put them in your deck and you have to literally play HUNDREDS of duels to build your deck capacity high enough to power level through it. I don't have the patience to grind anymore and I only have a few hundred more deck capacity than the RNG-manipulated speedrun has. HOW ARE YOU SUPPOSED TO WIN WITHOUT WASTING YOUR LIFE OR LOSING YOUR MIND?!!! It's okay, I'll find a way.

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

--Cards