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Thoughts on the past year. Wishing everyone a good 2026 & a happy new years day 🙏

I should enter stuff

He gets it

@DapperTroy Saw you helping out at LVL Up too! Much respect for the work you do 🫡

@tale_val I’ll be there working as a vg judge. Will definitely say hi if I spot you.

If you see me at the LA Pokemon regional, yes that is me, no I don't play VGC, please say hi to me I'll be in full social anxiety mode

Jokes aside, I've been going through some physical & mental health issues lately, partially due/related to competing. I'll probably take a step back from competing for the remaining season, maybe longer. I think I can afford to be kinder to myself with what I've achieved in 2025.

Have yet to lose to mod users on Elite. Sure, they may have less online delay, but trivial delay never once affected me, as my plan is always to camp plat & press Grenade in hitstun, reacting never once considered. My gameplay is deterministic, beyond any mod, even time itself.

Some nights, I'm at Canes after a local, sitting by 3 PR players talking about how they each work the hardest in the region. Then it dawns on me: all 3 players are unemployed; I, the employed one, objectively work hardest. There is no debate. The cold 2 AM fries taste sweeter.

Very unfair that Socal's #1 active Snake is an old friendless chud doing lame ass office work, while the #2 active Snake is a handsome and athletic celebrity that rivals the physical fitness of Snake himself. We should kill that first guy wtf does he even do

Smoking that shit that made Omega Just

Smoking that shit that made Marco Marvelous

Smoking that shit that made Dumpling Flaming

Alright. Huge Genesis X3 Write-up: It's kinda crazy that I wasn't even going to show up at all. I was really, really upset that I didn't get a Rivals 2 commentary slot. Was one of the first few times where I was so frustrated, I had a few tears roll down my face. I just couldn't believe not making the roster after being part of it last year and also living close by. Commentary already felt like such a huge struggle with it just getting EVEN more competitive every year. I've been in the game for a long, long time, and it just felt like I was failing and falling behind yet again. That was the hardest, I think I thought about just quitting. I was finding every excuse to not show up, with a jury duty thing popping up being the final nail. I have a big thing that if I am not working at an event/commentating it, I usually can't really justify So imagine my surprise when Ahntye reached out to me to say that we were both being selected to commentate Umamusume potentially. I was thrown off because I will not lie, when I said I wanted to cast the game at first, it was lowkey a meme since I just loved the game a bunch. But having an actual chance shook me a bit. The difference is that I was directly asked about to see if I could commentate through Annie and that was really different lmfao. Through some more stuff and a tiny interview, I was selected to be one of the commentators. And just like that, Genesis X3 was back on for me. I was really confused and excited to be attempting to cast something new that I was interested in. I spent a good amount of time researching and studying all about the meta/competitive side of Umamusume. It was a genuinely difficult yet amazing experience in HOW in-depth the game is. There is so much more to the game than I initially thought, and tbh that's what made it even MORE interesting. I had a few attempts before the whole casting stuff to get housing, and all fell through due to poor planning and bad timing. But once again thanks to my sis Annie, she once again came up clutch and gave me a contact for someone looking for a roomate. Thank you MTEB for letting me stay <3 I also had to emergency print out two cutouts since I felt like I had to do something. One of them was the Clairen pose for Rivals 2. It was going to be a gift for SBS, but due to no room in the bag, I ended up taking it home. The Agnes Tachyon 67 was a huge hit at the event and it blew me away LMFAO. She was graciously donated over to someone for their Umamusume Locals. Alright let's talk about the event itself. I'm a huge extrovert, but coming into this major I was only focusing on Umamusume and Rivals 2. That gave me a huge anxiety pit and the usual imposter syndrome of not belonging. Plus I hate the part of me that feels so envious? Jealous? That I wasn't able to commentate Rivals. Regardless, Day 1 was easy-going. I had nothing going on and I did my best to fit in and talk to people. DAY 2 was the big one. I was really nervous attempting it, but I was determined to dress up. I wore fem clothes as a cosplay to Misato Akasaka, one of Umamusume's commentators and a real nod to an actual on. I was terrified wearing fem clothes in public for the first time, but the amount of love and support I got was beyond what I was expecting. I legit couldn't believe it and that fueled a lot of my confidence through the entire day. It also further opened my eyes and my fears on doing it. I was brave enough to go outside the venue in the same outfit and that was really nerve-racking. Dinner at a Pho place felt weird as fuck because I could feel the stares of the servers/staff on me because they were trying to figure out what I was lmfao. It was painfully obvious, and that made me slightly uncomfortable and a little upset. I also only used the bathroom that day either in the hotel room or the all gender bathrooms. I felt trapped in being too fem looking to go to the men's room, but not feminine enough to use the women's. That was something I've never felt before, and it honestly really made me anxious. This was the gender dysmorphia I was scared about, and I felt it in full force. I will try to keep dressing up at least for one day during an event to help with my anxiety and more. But holy fuck. I was not ready to feel all those fears and such. Idk how someone of yall manage to push through. As a bad first impression, I slept through my alarm since I rolled over my phone in my sleep. So I had to rush out to my caster block, which thankfully had someone cover for the one match I missed. Commentating Umamusume was something so magical I cannot explain. I was really nervous as I wasn't as well informed of alot of the racing mechanics and abilities like the more experienced casters did. Toph was the BIG one I studied a lot. What did shake me out of it was during the first match, I legit got to see why Christmas Oguri Cap was meat. Jakalak's End Closer Oguri cap was terrifying. As the matches went through, Annie and I started to really understand the tempo and how this commentary thing was working. I took over a lot during the final spurts and sections, but looking back I think I can do a better job passing it over. I was a bit too selfish on the sections and I blame a huge part of it on letting my nerves get the better of me. I know what I can do to improve, besides getting to know the game more. It was genuinly great to get to know more of this community and I think Im setting myself up to do more in the future. I really want to keep trying to commentate Umamusume. As silly as it sounds, the play by play style when I talk really fast actually fit super duper well for the final spurt section. Thank you to everyone in the Umamusume community and I hope to do more! Rivals 2 for Day 2 and 3. Let's talk positives first. WOW!!!! Meeting y'all was fucking amazing. I'm sorry, I was sometimes an anxiety machine and I got silent. It was great to see everyone and talk. I really did enjoy my time playing the game and seeing everyone. The tournament was run pretty smoothly for Day 1 and 2. I heard nothing really bad, and there were SO many friendly set-ups that let everyone play when they pleased, which made me feel the love for the community. The T.O's knocked it out of the park and this cannot be stressed enough. Fantastic work and vibes. So. Is there really much to say about Day 3? I think we all saw it. I think we all know it. It didn't go well. The Top 8 we all fought so hard for was squandered and it had to be a Top 6 anyway due to timing. It was started late and had tech issue after tech issue after tech issue. With from what I've heard is something that could have been avoided. This is not the T.O's fault. They've done nothing but sacrifice their time and hard work to make this magic happen. This was a huge fumble in production and can/will be fixed. There were some game things as well and Dan was there to see it all. Its really hard to say, but it was by far one of the roughest viewing experiences I have ever had for any game. In house mic for the commentators were off the entire time. It was turned on for one game and it made it so much better, but it was an insane head scratcher seeing it get turned off, despite it adding to the viewing experience. The audience's energy was just killed off due to the delays and even I had a hard time trying to stay invested in the matches. It genuinly felt like a lot of these competators were robbed of potentially making a run. No shade at ALL to Beastly btw. Well-deserved dub. But damn all the issues caused so much delay to kill momentum and more that I genuinely believed that things could have been different if it had run smoothly. Besides all that, Genesis X3 was a blast. I was able to meet with new people and talk to more. I was able to present fem for the first time and mostly received a positive reception. Thank you, everyone. I really mean it. I will keep trying to figure out myself and commentary. But in the meantime, thank you for supporting my journey. Whether it be from my YouTube, editing, commentary, vibes, or whatnot. Thank you. And I will keep trying even though there are times when I just want to quit and end it. This journey is something I can't do by myself. Thank you, and let's keep pushing forward. We can do it <3

Will be registering for LVL UP Expo if I can perform satisfactorily in my next few locals 👍

🔴 L FD (seed 50) 3-0 たまPだいふく / TamaPDaifuku (seed 19), out at 33rd - UF 3 #ssbu #GX3

Minor Upset: 🔴 L FD (seed 50) 3-2 へろー/Hero (seed 48), out at 49th - UF 1 #ssbu #GX3

Minor Upset: 🔴 L FD (seed 50) 3-2 Free KayFlock (seed 47), out at 49th - UF 1 #ssbu #GX3

@Monke_geek Marsbars the Puff was Norcal PR HM

@tale_val wait who?

2-2 at the genesis pre local. outplaced my seed at least lol

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Thanks for letting me win scrimblo <3