Velta 🐛

@tybotexas So tuff

4th/70 at Battle for Bryan 8 losing to Yalmanac and Ekoh. So glad I finally locked in and made a run at a regional. It was about time I popped off at one of these things. GGs to all!

Had to leave the tournament early but heartbreakers was a great time! Also the gas station we stopped at had hella Pokemon plushes for cheap so I had to cop the goats 😼

I just registered for Heartbreakers 8 ($200 POT BONUS) start.gg/tournament/hea… via @startgg

@gelatinato_ Happy birthday 🕺

it's my birthday

* in 6 months

17th for my first regional after not entering a tournament isn’t too bad. Need to regain comfortability in a bracket environment again.

it’s been eons yet whenever i fgc nod at something the image of lucky dropping his water bottle cap still plays in my head

you want to aim at me with spindash 😵‍💫

@_donnyg827 Japanese players gotta be the biggest corporation shills I’ve ever seen. They treat Nintendo like an omnipotent god and not a billion dollar company that only cares about satisfying their shareholders

I am honest to god shocked about the Japan vs the world latency debates. Maybe since melee has had this exact thing since Covid and I never saw it come up there. Or is it just because Japan isn’t as a prominent scene as it is in ultimate

“Pink Moon” by Nick Drake was released 54 years ago today.

More original Xbox repairs, more funny finds

Happy to help

I just registered for Comicpalooza Fight Club 2026 start.gg/PALOOZA #COMICPALOOZA via @startgg

Joy is a competitive super power. Alysa Liu retired from figure skating at 16. She was tired of not not having fun, tired of being consumed by her sport. She came back two years later with a new goal: to have as much fun on the ice as possible. And now she’s an Olympic gold medalist. Liu won her first national title when she was just 13. But by 16, after competing in the 2022 Olympics, she decided she’d had enough and stepped away. She said pressure and losing her identity trying to be an elite athlete made it all miserable. But then, she said she went on a ski trip that reminded her just how much fun she could have doing a sport. Something in her brain clicked. Maybe she could bring fun to figure skating. Maybe she could approach it in a way that could be full of joy and life and love. She unretired at 18 and won a world championship the next year. At 20, she was ready to face these Olympic games differently than in 2022. Liu went into the women’s figure skating final in third place. After her short program, she said: “Even if I mess up and fall, that’s totally okay, too. I’m fine with any outcome, as long as I’m out there.” One of the greatest competitive advantages is having fun. People love to romanticize the athlete, artist, or entrepreneur who has a chip on their shoulder, fueled by anger and resentment. But the truth is that if you’re not having fun, you are not going to last long at whatever it is you do, and you certainly won’t get the best out of yourself. There’s a foolish idea that you either have to be full of intensity or full of joy. But that’s nonsense. It’s no surprise one of the first things out of Alysa’s mouth after her free skate was: “That was so much fun!” Joy and intensity can coexist, and in the best performers, they almost always do. Alysa is unapologetically authentic and true to her values. She has said where she used to skate to win and be technically perfect, she now uses competition as a chance to show her art, to have fun, and to put herself out there. She’s a fierce athlete with an infectious sense of joy in her sport. And she broke USA's 24-year gold medal draught in women’s figure skating doing it. Excellence requires focus, determination, a little bit of crazy, at times obsession, and living a mundane lifestyle that many people would find boring. But excellence also requires that you find deep joy in your craft, that you learn how to have fun while working hard. What makes for excellence—and not just in sports, but in anything—is the combination of intensity and joy. It’s the latter that makes the former sustainable.

this is what it's like to be an lcd soundsystem fan

@ZuhiyZuhiy Have you been getting any weird frame drops?

My first impressions were an FT5 with Bubunski (who lives in Utah) and the connection felt like the dude was right next to me playing the hype was worth it and i am very happy smash is alive never let anyone tell you otherwise

@TShigura I understand how you feel. I’ve been playing in tournaments for 10 years at this point. Gotta remember that it is not a race. No point regretting the past when the present is truly what is important. Let’s make the most out of the now 🙂

My friends inspire me so much it saddens me that I feel like I can't get to that same level even though I've played the same length of time as some of them Comparison is the thief of joy, but I think about it in retrospect and realize maybe I didn't put as much effort as them

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