Meme

Here you go. Probably a bit longer than expected

1.	From about… 6th grade to the end of high school, I was about as serious as you could be for a baseball player. I played first base, since I was a pretty big guy and didn’t have the arm or hands for third base, or the speed for the outfield. But I could hit! I used to go to the batting cages for, at minimum an hour per night, or until blisters forced me to stop. I rarely watch the game now; the only part that still fascinates me is the GM role; trading and signing players is super interesting. I consider softball to be more watchable baseball at this point.
2.	I’m used to being relatively young among my peers. My birthday falls in an odd place, so the option was either to go to school as the youngest or the oldest. My parents chose to send me at a younger age.
3.	I feel like I’m relatively bad at execution for a speedrunner. It’s something I’m working on still, I’m hoping I’ll eventually sit down, play a fighting game that isn’t Smash at a decent level and that’ll become a turning point that lets me actually execute platformers and other games at a better level.
4.	Speaking of, Rosa’s my Smash 4 main. She just kinda clicked, even though I’m not a huge fan of the character herself. Her playstyle is super simple, fits what I normally do and has a relatively low bar for execution. If I could choose any character to main, it’d be Robin, but I haven’t put in the time to play her combos, even if I’m relatively okay at using her zoning tools. I’m also hopeless with her in doubles, even though it’s my favorite event (even though Rosa is a bad doubles character, I play a really solid back line in doubles)
5.	My biggest fear is going blind. Not even necessarily the dark or whatever, but being totally blind just sounds terrifying to me.
6.	I normally hate gambling, but I love pachinko in Japan. It’s super cheap, has great music, and it’s super relaxing. I once missed dinner entirely because I played for about 6 hours once. The total money exchanged was I lost 10 dollars but gained 4 green tea juiceboxes. Totally worth it.
7.	I have a pretty big Super Famicom game collection. It started with wanting boxed copies of all the SNES Final Fantasies and ended with an eBay binge. I think the main things I don’t have are most major Nintendo games, and I really want a copy of Thracia but it’s super expensive.
8.	I tend to unironically enjoy bad musicals. I love the old DKC TV show and the Persona Stage Musicals. Seriously, go check either of them out on Youtube; they’re glorious.
9.	I’m really bad at finishing video games. I think I’ve gotten to disk 3 in FF9 at least 3 or 4 times and never finished. My owned games list is littered with games like this.
10.	I’ve had one serious girlfriend, and it lasted about 3 months. Super nice girl, but was heading to college and wanted to do my own thing.
11.	I’m by nature really shy. It doesn’t come off that way when I feel comfortable around people but around acquaintances, I tend to struggle. If I seem a bit off when you first meet me, just recognize that’s what’s going on – I’m just that bad with people by nature.
12.	I hate conflict or making people upset at me. I tend to overthink things way more than I should, including flamers or trolls. It’s probably the hardest thing when I try to step up into a leadership role for communities or events.
13.	My hands are kinda weird; for some things they feel totally fine. For stuff like when I was trying to run Breath of the Wild or TWEWY, they would hurt so badly that I’d struggle to do them for more than an hour. I’m planning on getting back to Zelda eventually on the Switch version, but TWEWY will probably require me using a SNES or PS2 controller through a Gamecube modification.
14.	I’m super competitive at times in speedrunning. I’m still mad that I’ve never beaten Spike in a DKCTF race. That said, I have beaten Moustache in SA2B stuff before (shhhh, it was a totally normal category that I’m sure other people have done before).
15.	I’ve got about 6 or 7 theoretical youtube analysis videos about random RPG thoughts. Everything from Persona 4 Golden tier list, what RPG battle music works well and why, why Charge and Concentrate in SMT/Persona are badly designed abilities… the list goes on. I just haven’t sat down and recorded any of them, but I tend to practice talking them through in my car when I’m driving.
16.	I hate driving. It’s super boring, super dangerous, and feels like a total waste of time.
17.	I have two sisters, one older and one younger. I’m super close with both of them. My older sister is pretty artsy – works in advertising and has written a crapload of books. My younger sister is still in college and pretty different – super social. She’s a closet nerd though.
18.	Random collections I started in Japan: the aforementioned Super Famicom games, Persona merchandise, Japanese Disney musicals (as well as a few other fun dubs. I need to watch my Game of Thrones Season 1 at some point), Japanese PS2 and PS1 collection. Most of them have pretty annoying holes but so many of them are fun to have.