the thing about hackmons cup is it’s a great gauge for how the universe feels about me. today, the universe hates me
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i won a game in spite of this due to my skill and my swag. but it informs me how i should approach the world
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You only remember the times it does happen
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yes, and i remember it happening every other game
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have you tried having better RNG
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lol
lmao
its SO FRUSTRATING
I AM ARTEMIS
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“Unfortunate” doesn’t begin to describe my series, this game rewards blind luck and nothing else, I am beyond convinced at this point. After getting completely tooled by scheduling with my opponent changing times on me last minute and refusing to provide confirmation prior to the day of the match as to play times, losing this way somehow felt even worse than I had thought possible. My preparation was superior, my play was superior, and I lost, so I don’t see a reason to continue engaging in an activity where what is within my control is overwhelmingly outweighed by what is not.
I am done with competitive Pokemon, and you won’t get a fond farewell. This community is infected to its roots with a degenerative disease that grows stronger over time but stops short of killing its host. Tournaments used to have a competitive spirit at their heart, this has been transplanted and replaced with an artificial organ that feeds on vitriol and mockery from insecure little boys that heckle by the sidelines and tear each other to shreds over scraps of attention. The environment we fostered has trapped us all like this in a vicious cycle, and escaping it requires acceptance of the harshest reality we all scramble to explain away, that none of the countless straining efforts we put ourselves through here will ever amount to one single shining glimmer of significance. I would make this the end, but World Cup is still ongoing, and I would never leave so many great friends out to dry, so I’ll suffer through a few more games for them.
One last thing before I leave you all to react with disdain, ridicule, and self-righteous fervor, before you do everything in your power to minimize my words and thoughts, box them up and shove them to some cobwebbed corner of your memory, and hope they disappear forever as a stain on your finite time ground to dust. From this moment on, nothing you say matters to me. The foulest insults you hurl with intent to wound will calmly settle at the earth before my feet, and the venom you spit will bring all the pain of a warm summer breeze. You are less than anything you can conceive, while I carry on, brimming with joy distilled from detachment.
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lfol is my lowkey proudest achievement
I couldn’t have done it without all my experience in design
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so what you’re saying is that nuzlocke is canon
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pain
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nuzlocke is pretty fun
my favorite part of nuzlocke when compared to ironmanning other games is the rule about the first pokemon in each route
it forces play diversity in a fun way
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fire emblem ironmans have the fundamental issue of basically just being normal fire emblem but you’re punished hard for overextending
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a friend recommended me to play fire emblem on my switch
I hadn’t played a game from that series in over a decade, and damn it has changed a lot. Somehow I felt more bored.
they keep saying all this shit about beating your inner demons but what am i supposed to do when mine are kicking my ass
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what made you feel more bored
curious
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