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SAY IT LOUDER

Japanese OP cooked a bit too hard in their short thread about haikyuu and I absolutely had to translate this

my therapist changed my life when he taught me there are 4 types of conversation: 1) small talk (weather, etc) 2) swapping (you tell a story, I tell a story) 3) listening (you tell a story, I listen/validate) 4) problem-solving (you tell me a story, I help solve the problem)

this quote from Carl Jung hits so hard. "The world is full of people suffering from the effects of their own unlived life. They become bitter, critical, or rigid, not because the world is cruel to them, but because they have betrayed their own inner possibilities. The artist who never makes art becomes cynical about those who do. The lover who never risks loving mocks romance. The thinker who never commits to a philosophy sneers at belief itself. And yet, all of them suffer, because deep down they know: the life they mock is the life they were meant to live."

I read a quote that said "The faster that you do the hard things you want to avoid, the faster you will receive the good things you actually want" and that has changed my whole perspective.

This was an eye opener from Jensen Huang When asked whether he would rather relive his 20s or be 20 years old today, this is what he had to say: "I thought our 20s were happier than these 20s. I think everyone deserves some time to be oblivious, and not wear all of the world's problems on their shoulders on Day 1 We are raising a generation that is very cynical and too informed They are cynical, not because they are inherently cynical. They are cynical because they see so much stuff. It is too much stuff You have to build up some internal reserve of optimism. You have to build up some reserve of goodness."

Compound.

@geofftrainwreck congrats to you and Kim bro, so proud to see the homies winning. must be so validating to see everyone cooking with your amazing game

ngl as the main executor for the playtest, i'm popping tf off right now this is an alternative universe where this game got saved from maximum entertainment's cancelation-- and most of the original devs have been retained like, this game shouldn't even exist man. this is great

The wings of the pirate king

@Kim1234_ALL_DAY Congrats on all the love bro, can't wait to see where the game goes next

Truly humbled that everyone loves this game. We will have more exciting news coming, you just wait :)

she’s so me actually

I love this visual:

You aren't Asian. You're American As an Asian from Asia, I have the authority to tell you that Asians have always eaten rice with their hands

@iamdieforyouuu Choco bun

You have to name him the last thing you ate

so there's this manga called haikyuu

@FishStix @diyfgc If you're hating, you've never been under tournament pressure and it shows 😆

New York 2XKO scene is on something different than the rest of us LMFAOOOOO @diyfgc

I see a lot of English speakers wondering where @neiaa_tk comes from and how come this young 16 years old girl came in tournament so this is the whole story : Neia sent me a message on Insta in May while she was still 15, she said I was a source of inspiration for her. That she is passionate about video games especially since she was 8 years old with Tekken 7. She said she would love to come in tournament and be part of the community but that her age can prevent her to do so. That she hopes to come to my Kayane Session in June at Vitality Hive (Training session for every level with 100 players) to meet and play with me and live this first experience. I saw her message and replied the same day, I am truly happy I could see this message ! I told her to come to my event, that I would personally welcome her and present her to members of the community I trust the most, so that she can feel she's not alone. I told her I never regretted to have come offline, that it changed my life and that I've met all my friends thanks to that. 👍 So she was reassured and came to the event, she was so shy she was walking near the stage where I was, not knowing what to do, that was very cute to see hahaha 😆, I assume it was her who DMed me ! So I talked to her directly and invited to play with me. That's when I directly saw her AMAZING level with Lili, like wow. I know I'm not a Tekken player at first, I have a Soul Calibur background but I still know and recognize an impressive player when I meet one. 😳 Even if I played Tekken seriously only for 1 year and half since T8, I could go to events and play multiple top players from all over the world. And I immediately knew that she is of this caliber. I made her play with some top French players, they all told me the same as me, they were all very impressed. I said it on Twitter after the Session, people could think I exaggerated when I said that she will be a World Top Player if she participates to tournaments, and she actually just proved herself in 4 months only ! After my event, she went to several tournaments in Paris, managing to be TOP 8 at her first tournaments gathering the best French players. She ranked 13th at UFA beating renowned players and managed to be 2nd best French performance after Hexmark and along side Jodd and Super Akouma who have many years of professional experience. Then for #EVOFrance2025, the French Esports Team @BMS_CREW contacted me to sponsor Neia to support her for this tournament. (they also sponsored Verix and Hikari for EVO) Neia was very worried about missing school one day to go to EVO on Friday, so I managed with @B00BI_ to contact very fastly the National Education to alert her school that she has huge opportunities coming her way and she would need to miss some classes without penalizing her. The school director learned about all the story and went to see Neia in person, congratulated her and supported her, so that she could have official good reason to miss class and go to EVO. That was very important for us, Neia and her family, so she could go and compete with all her soul. She just played out of my expectations, ranked 17th at her first EVO over 1169 players, she could beat amazing players and be mentally so strong. I lack of words to say how proud and how impressed I am. I wasn't solid like her at 16 for sure whereas I started competing at 9, I didn't have this vision of the game. And she told me she only trained online in Ranked matches, she doesn't even lab really. Now, I'll make sure she can get the most good experiences offline and play with strong players to gain even more matchups knowledge. Neia has a long way to go, a lot of adventures to live, many countries to discover thanks to tournaments, Tekken players to meet and play with, and I'll make sure that everything goes smoothly ! I hope we will be able to find a good Sponsor or Team for the next tournaments to come as BMS was only for EVO France. She is truly respected and loved by the French community and fans, since the day I met her until now, I shared everything I lived with her and people could follow her story and her amazing performances. (What is that speedrun though !!!) She has made me very happy, I want to keep doing a lot of things for the Fighting Games Community in France, and keep organizing offline events to find other precious pearls like her. If it only took a DM to reply to have such a story, imagine all the hidden potentials we can find ! I hope you guys continue to support her, I truly thank you for all the kind messages towards her and even me. Thank you for reading this very long message, at least you have everything now! 🙏

@Kayane @FemShepFGC That's a boss right there!!

@FemShepFGC She is loved here in France and had nothing but full support We really don’t care about these random people online. I didn’t see any French comment rude about her. Only English comments from random online frustrated guys. She is surrounded by real people. It’s all that matters.

A 16-yr-old Black girl placed 17th in Tekken at EVO France. I am so worried for her. I love the FGC intensely, but I’ve also endured targeted neo-N@zi harassment, constant downplay, and general sexist bullshit. I would not have been equipped to navigate it as a high schooler.