Batcake

So happy to get a WR on my childhood game! Thank you to everyone that believed in me over the years, no matter how persistent I was against the idea originally 💚

MARIO KART WII LAN TOURNAMENT EXALT BACK FROM THE DED WOOOOOOOOO start.gg/tournament/exa…

@EmilP_595 Happy to share the top with you💚

One of the MOST overdue World Records ever! Glad to see Batcake finally pull through with the run

@Kasperinos Love you and so unbelievably proud 💜🏳️‍⚧️

🏳️‍⚧️ & proud 💖💖

@superfx64 gm

good morning

@superfx64 the greatest ever

Today, one of my world records in Mario Kart 8 remained unbeaten for 3,000 days (8.2 years). It's quite shocking how much time has passed. While I don't play this game anymore, I think it's ultimately changed the trajectory of my life for the better. Here are some things that I've learned through competing at a high level in this game: Overcome imposter syndrome by faking it until you make it Imposter syndrome is really hard if you haven't dealt with it before. It affects your self-confidence and really messes with your head as you doubt yourself. When I got my first world record at 14 years old, I thought I got lucky. Deep down I didn't really think I deserved it and thought I wasn't good enough like the other players I looked up to. Over time though, I learned to just fake it until you make it. Eventually if you keep repeating that you're as good if not better than the others, you end up believing and manifesting it. Being an underdog is a really great gift When you want to reach the top, you have a bar that you need to exceed set by the players above you. Meanwhile those at the top do not have that bar -- they set it. As a result, top players tend to get complacent and don't improve as fast as you do because they don't have any pressure to do so. Looking in retrospect, I feel that this is similar to startups competing with bigger companies. Startups need to move fast and improve quickly, while bigger companies don't feel pressured to innovate. Thinking on first principles is how to improve fast When learning a new course, I always broke a world record down to the finer details and learned why something was faster or slower. Eventually that's how I understood the game at a fundamental level, leading me to make optimizations in records and even creating new strats. I use first principles today when learning anything. As long as you know the fundamentals and can build up from there, you can become a master at any given subject. Don't let others know anything unless it benefits you World record grinding is not just about skill -- it's about mind games. If you can influence your competitors, you can make their actions work to your advantage. There were times where I would strategically not tell other people about tracks I was playing just so the person holding the current world record would not feel threatened to improve it. After I beat them, they would not be able to improve immediately since it came as a surprise, and I would keep improving from there. The opposite is true as well. When I noticed another person starting to improve on a track, I would come back and raise the bar even higher, causing the person to get demotivated and stop playing. When you are competing against others in anything, you need to carefully control the flow of information you give to other people. Being delusional is better than being realistic I feel that a lot of these world records happened because I set very unrealistic expectations of myself. You don't know what you don't know, and you just have to keep trying. It's always good to push yourself to your limit, because you might actually exceed your and others expectations, leading to growth. If you're always realistic, you might not actually know your potential. I'm currently building a startup at YCombinator's winter 2025 batch, and I feel that a lot of these learnings apply right now to what I'm doing. I'm really grateful to have had these experiences, and I hope to gain more learnings as I continue on with my life. Thanks for reading

Grand Star Cup season 10 division 6 champs! And top two individual scorers in the regular season! What a way to start off 2025! More to come soon! GGs to Ez and everyone else in d6!

@21Kevinz Happy bday

23 mogis… Lets do it?

@Sxmmeh right side

Now that ultra is done, the fuck do i do now

@nomorepikakumo you're the best, keep it up

ラウンジ始めて約2か月、初めてランクが上がりました

@Apocalypse_MKW guys we got bottom 11…

Should we kick him?

He’s really having the best time of his life..

4️⃣ teams, 4️⃣ divisions, 1️⃣ common goal. 🏆 Apocalypse is ready for #GrandStarCup Season 8! 🏁⌛️ #MKW

@lumanificent this is adorable💜

2 Teams. 23 players. 1 Goal. Team Apocalypse is ready for @GrandStarCup Season 7.🥇👀

disappointing finish to the 2023 MKW world cup but we overachieved for the expectations set by the community. overall happy to have taken down the previous undefeated champs but fell short. ggs england they were an amazing team to play

I’m really happy we made it this far, I love all my teammates, we started scrimming very early on throughout the world cup, we developed and worked on our flaws. Despite the doubt from the haters, I feel happy to have made a difference for a team I really enjoyed playing with.1/2