#I LOVE SPEEDRUN VIDEOS I WAS SO OBSESSED WITH THEM LIKE A YEAR AGO

[purplesurveys]

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What's the first thing you do when you wake up in the morning? I check the time from my phone.

How do you usually start your day? After checking the time, and depending on the time, I decide whether I want to go back to sleep or already try to wake up in which case I turn on YouTube or Instagram and look for something to watch.

What's your morning routine like? I don't really have any given my life revolves around work most days...I mean I stay in bed until 8:55 AM (9:10 AM if I'm feeling like a rebel), then I do this speedrun of making coffee, letting the dogs out to pee, changing clothes, brushing my teeth, and washing my face within 5 minutes. Then I set up my TV to have videos playing all day, I take my seat on my work chair and it's work for the next 8 hours from there.

What's your favorite thing to do in the evening to wind down? These days I've reignited my obsession with Rhythm Hive so there's that; I also have dinner and play with the dogs then later on in the night I settle down by watching YouTube videos, TikToks, and IG Reels and go through Reddit too.

How do you usually spend your weekends? Unless I have plans with friends, I like spending my weekends at home napping. Sometimes I'll take myself out on a date and go to a coffee shop or a gallery or something.

What's your go-to breakfast? I only ever prepare iced coffee.

What's your favorite type of coffee or tea? Caramel macchiato. 

Do you prefer to cook your meals or eat out? Eat out. I don't know how to cook! I've tried but the sizzling noises and the oil popping and the fire having random bursts are just too much for me to handle lol.

What's your favorite restaurant in your area? School Tteokbokki means everything to me and I hope they will stick around forever.

How often do you exercise, and what do you do? I don't. I'll walk but I don't do it as routine.

What's your favorite way to stay active? ^ Ooh, there we go then. After my trips to Thailand and Malaysia I've really taken a liking to walking and I'm also really happy that it didn't turn out to just be a phase?? I actually Like walking, apparently.

What's your favorite way to relax after a long day? After a long day? Tbh BTS is my comfort so if a day has been rough then I just automatically look for something of theirs to watch.

What's your favorite way to socialize with friends and family? Eating out! With friends, same thing but with drinks.

Do you prefer to stay at home or go out in your free time? I love staying at home but I can't imagine turning down an offer to go out. Momma needs her socializing haha.

What's your favorite way to spend a rainy day? Staying in with a cold cup of coffee.

What's your favorite way to spend a sunny day? Ideally, at the beach. But I'm not always at the beach and this is real life so realistically a perfect sunny day is spent indoors with aircon.

Do you have any pets, and if so, what are they like? I have two dogs. Cooper is very very VERY excited about everything but he can be unpredictably grumpy when he's lying down, so you always just kinda have to play it by ear with him lest you get bitten in the face like what happened to me. 98% of the time he's a total sweetheart, loves strangers, and will always play fetch with you.

Agi is also okay with strangers, but unsurprisingly as a small dog he likes to pretend he's big and brave and can rule the world so he can be very loud with the barking. He too is a sweetheart who will always hop onto your lap if you ask him to, and will whine/grumble nonstop if he senses he's not getting any attention.

What's your favorite thing to do with your pet? Playing fetch and petting them. :) And just being around them.

How do you usually stay organized throughout the day? I have a to-do list that is my entire life at work. Kata made it for us two years ago when she used to be my manager, and it's since served as my lifeline so I do not get lost with my tasks. I've handed it down as well to the associates I've had so far.

What's your favorite way to keep track of your schedule? ^ I will occasionally put timestamps on my to-do list so I can manage my time. Otherwise, I use Google Calendar.

What's your favorite type of music to listen to during the day? I can't listen to music while I work...will usually end up singing along. I have on vlogs instead and let YouTube play stuff on shuffle. It's easier for me to work if I hear talking noises instead of songs.

How do you usually handle stress? I play with my dogs. Or vape a lot.

What's your favorite way to pamper yourself? Buying expensive food for myself lol

Do you have any hobbies or interests that you enjoy outside of work? I like museums and galleries, K-pop, trying out new chocolate chip cookies, reading about history - especially social history, and keeping up with a good number of YouTube channels.

What's your favorite way to wind down before going to bed at night? I alternate among IG Reels, TikTok, and YouTube videos until I feel sleepy. These days I've also grown a habit of setting up that one live of Jungkook (where he literally went live just to fall asleep) as I turn in because that shit does wonders in making me fall asleep instantly lmao.

[meandmyvidyagaems]

It's funny, actually. I've always been a gamer. I always was into video games. I got a bootleg NES when I was very young. That's when I played the original Mario Bros, and a bunch of other NES classics. I loved every second of it. I didn't expect that to alter my life forever.

I had a good friend when I was young. I played video games with him. Various types of video games, from PS1 classics to free to play MMORPGs (since I was young, and had no money). We kinda fell apart, and I remember him telling me that we talk about video games too much. I still see him once in a while when I'm at home. We stopped talking around the time he started smoking weed, and lost all interest in video games.

I had another friend, slightly younger than me. He was big into Nintendo, loved video games too. He had an older brother, who liked impressing people. He made up the alias that I still use all over the internet. We also fell apart, because he started taking harder drugs and stopped playing video games. Seems to be a pattern.

I had one more friend. This one I still keep in touch with, albeit online since he moved to the UK. I remember coming over to his place and playing my Gameboy Advance when we were very young. We still talk, on a variety of topics, including but not limited to video games.

Then I went to high school. That's when I met some of my former best friends. Mostly because we drank a lot of vodka, but also they loved league of legends. I played it at the time, but I never got too hard into it. I remember them being really tilted when we lost, even if it was just an outclass on a team scale. They liked other video games too, including a lot of MMORPGs that I played a long time ago. I no longer talk to any of them, we had a really big fight that no one wanted to apologize for. Some of them acted like dicks big time, so I decided it's not worth my time. I kept in touch with a couple of them, but we kinda stopped talking just naturally.

I was in a serious relationship with a goth girl. She was nice, had some problems but who doesn't. After 2 years, I grew really tired of her mental state, which she just ignored. After a few more outbursts, she decided to seek help, and jumped ship. Broke up with me and moved on to another guy that I knew. I was numb at that point, I didn't care too much. One of the biggest thing that bothered me was that she didn't like video games. We played some stuff, but she usually got bored really quick. That bothered me way more than it should have. Is this mental illness, or just a personal preference?

And here I am. There's a lot more to my life, but video games always were a big part of it. I still like video games. I like following the news, checking out what's going on. I'm not active in the speedrun community, but i love watching AGDQ and SGDQ. I no longer follow league, but I watch world games when they happen. Sometimes I check out competitive Dota 2 games. I stick to retro stuff when I can.

I'm not sure if it's anything wrong with me, or am I meant for this? Is this the best background you can have for a twitch streamer? I considered it, but not yet. Some time soon.

Having a gaming friend would be great. But people seems to not be into video games that much. I know there's a lot of gamers out there, but it's hard to find them in the wild. Especially around here, people living around here are not like me. They like to drink, and sports, and to beat each other up for no reason. I do not vibe with here.

I need to get out of here.

Not to mention my borderline obsessive attraction to girls who are into video games. That's definitely not healthy, but it's hard to change who you're attracted to.

#my diary #my life #journal #tumblr diary #gaming #long reads #life story

[infinitystation]

For me it’s old any% runs and summoning salt videos but I should probably watch some more algorithm stuff

i love summoningsalt

#I LOVE SPEEDRUN VIDEOS I WAS SO OBSESSED WITH THEM LIKE A YEAR AGO #I STILL LIKE THEM BUT BACK THEN THAT WAS LIKE. ALL I WOULD DO #asks #anons

[thesquareinthecircularhole]

hey stupid, i love you [MCYT: Dream x GN!Reader]

song: hey stupid I love you by jp saxe

warnings: fluff

im pretty sure i made this an gender neutral as possible but if there is an error lmk thanks bby :*

im in a simpin mood bby

as always, song lyrics in italics

i skipped a couple versus due to repetitiveness oops

this is the one i complained about losing, but it actually worked out bc i like this one better...less wordy

word count: ~2k

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Nothing's wrong, and it's not what I'm used to Oh, does it surprise you too? When it's simple, is it easier than it should be?

"Hey babe, are you okay? You've been quiet today," Dream practically pouted as he asked you. He loved the sound of your voice and while you definitely weren't giving him the quiet treatment, you sure weren't as talkative as you normally are.

"Yeah, I'm good. Just distracted thinking my thoughts." You smiled at him and leaned against him. He looked down at you and pecked your lips. You gave him a sweet kiss back. The smile he gave you made your heart boom. Loving him was as easy as eating a cake (because the usually analogy 'baking a cake' isn't true, its sometimes hard to bake a cake, especially when a hungry streamer keeps trying to eat the batter or start a flour fight).

"Anyway, don't you have a stream with the Dream Team to get ready for? One that starts in," you look at the clock on your phone, "three minutes ago?" The slight panic that crosses Dream's face makes you laugh loud. He gives you another kiss and in less than five seconds has practically launched himself across the house into his recording room. Your laughter follows him the whole way, a smile and blush upon his face.

Nothing's wrong, but when you're not in my arms I send voice notes, you send hearts And get quiet, and I know that means you miss me

Okay, granted, you were the one to remind him that he was streaming with his friends today and speedrunning, but you didn't expect it to last well over five hours. At the beginning you worked on your classwork for your [college degree of choice]. You got it done quickly, as it was nearing the end of the semester and most professors of yours were laidback and wanted you to study more than write nonsense papers (fictional you, i'm so jealous). Occasionally you would jump in fear when you heard Dream shout, still not used to it after years.

After finishing your classwork, you started cooking dinner. Soup was the vibe for the evening, and you had found a wonderful chicken and dumplings recipe a while ago that you wanted to try. You did have to go to the store for some of the ingredients, but luckily it only took you an hour. You can back and he was still streaming. It took about another hour for dinner to be done. You let it cool and prepared yourself a bowl. You set your laptop up and started watching Dream's stream. Hearing his voice made you miss him, so you pulled out your phone.

Going to the two of y'alls messages, you started making him a voice message.

"Hey baby, I made dinner, so don't play so long it gets cold. I love you! Kick the enderdragon's ass baby! Mwah."

You continued watching him stream, and he took a pause for a minute, his screen not moving from the create a new world screen and his mic muted. A couple seconds later you got spammed with every heart offered in the emoji index times what felt like a thousand.

He continued being quiet for a couple seconds, although he did unmute and continue playing, answering George's and Sapnap's questions of where he went with, "I had to take a message."

You're jealous, you shouldn't be I want you obsessively But I know how complicated it can get When you're not in front of me I know insecurities get in your head

Chat sometimes upset you. Sure, you got Dream, all of him, but sometimes the comments made by some of the more obsessives fans were a bit to much.

'With the way he killed those mobs you know he's got good fingers'

'His voice is hot so he must be'

'Heyo dream baby lemme see them feet'

Okay the last one was more weird, and actually turned out to be a joke from Quackity but anyway moving on.

He was your guy, and he promised himself to you, but sometimes he seemed to have a genuine connection with some of the sweeter and not gross ones. It made you scared that someone, one day, will swoop him off his feet with a comment and he’d leave you for them. 

But I'm not gonna interrupt if you need to talk about it Roll my eyes, get offended by the way you doubt it You know you're mine, you just forget sometimes So promise me you won’t And you know I'll remind you when you think I don't

The stream ended a little under an hour later. Dream left his recording room, grabbed a bowl of soup, and found you in the living room, lost in thought. He plopped down right next to you. 

“Talk to me baby.”

“About what?”

“Anything and everything.”

“Okay.” You’re quiet for a bit, despite his offering of listening. He knew you were gonna take him up on the offer, you just needed a bit of time, so he was going to wait patiently. He finished his soup quickly, he was much hungrier than he thought. He put the bowl on the coffee table and before he was all the way leaned back on the couch, you were leaning against him. His arms wrapped around you, your head was tucked in between his head and shoulder, and a blanket covered the both of you. You looked towards the blank tv screen but felt his eyes on you.

“I love you a lot. And I know you love me too, but I’m afraid I’m not enough. You have so many options, especially with your popularity online. I don’t know what I’d do if you left me, whether it be for someone else or just because you’re tired of me.” Dream waits for you to stop entirely, with you breathing heavily.

“Well, you’re right about one thing. I do love you, a lot. The rest of it is wrong and I’ll spend the rest of time telling you so.” Dream says, pressing several kisses against your forehead. 

“Yeah I know it’s stupid to feel this way, but my anxiety gets the best of me. It’s stupid, I’m stupid.”

“First of all, you’re not stupid. Second, hey stupid, I love you.”

Nothing's wrong, I just get in my head too Can you reassure me you, you're still in it? I just wish you could lean in and kiss me

As much as Dream loved you and reassured you, sometimes he would get caught up in his thoughts too. The life of a streamer/youtuber, especially one with as much fame and subscribers as him, was rough. The constant need to feed his fans with entertainment and content, and the need for the content to satisfy his fans was stressful. He hates to admit it, but he some days he spent to much time working and not enough with you. He thinks you would be so much happier with someone without a tight schedule and without a large, intense fanbase. Any random person on the street would be better for you than him, he thinks. 

When he gets into this headspace, the only thing that grounds him is your lips on his. When you kiss him, the clouds go away and all he can see is your eyes, as bright as the sun, and your smile, which can tempt even the purest. 

Say nothing's wrong, tell me to settle down You do it better than I've ever known how Won't pull some tricks for attention But could I get a little now?

Now, everyone knows that Dream likes some attention. He especially likes attention from you. Good thing is you also like attention, especially from him. The not so good thing is both of y’all get distracted so bad, it’s almost too funny.

He tends to get your attention by tickling you, whether it be in the comfort of your home or in public. One day, when you guys were walking through town, you stopped at a flower booth and got to talking with the friendly and flirty florist gentleman. It had been a couple minutes, and Dream was really needing some love, but you continued chatting with the florist who was definitely going to ask for your number but you genuinely thought he was just being nice. Dream crept up behind you and placed his hands on your side. You froze for a moment and looked at him, confused. The smirk that crossed his face barely gave you a second to prepare as he tickled your sides. Your laughter filled the street as you turned around as he tickled you. You wrapped your arms around his neck, which got him to stop ticking you, and gave him a kiss. The two of you continued on your way, attached at the hip.

And one day, when you wanted his attention, it was after he was done recording a manhunt with his friends. The actual video had been done for a bit, but they were just fucking around in the minecraft world and talking to each other. You had had a not so nice day, and wanted the crushing weight of your boyfriend on top of you. You crept into his recording room and came to stand right behind his chair. Based on the conversation you could tell he wasn’t recording anymore, so you knew it was safe. Your hands started in his hair, trailed down to his face, and slid down his body till your arms were wrapped around him snuggly. Your head was placed on top of his. 

“What are you doing?” he asked, and received no response. Instead, you began aggressively shaking him and the chair, turning it this way and that, making him slightly dizzy. His laughter filled the room, and he quickly ended the call. The two of you spent the next 12 hours cuddled in bed, leaving only for the necessities. 

You're jealous, you shouldn't be I want you obsessively But I know how complicated it can get When you're not in front of me I know insecurities get in your head

Dream got jealous as well sometimes. You were beautiful and a lot of the time attracted the attention of random passerbyers. Those people, who you don’t even know, who lived normal lives where they didn’t have to spend every second worried that their face will be revealed to the public and suddenly all their fans from around the world will know what they look like or the general area in which they live, who don’t have to obey algorithms and bend to the will of the masses to make sure they get paid enough to live, who could give you a normal and safe life. Every time one looked at you with some attraction, he pulled you a bit closer and kissed you a bit harder. 

But I'm not gonna interrupt if you need to talk about it Roll my eyes or get offended by the way you doubt it You know you're mine, you just forget sometimes So promise me you won’t And you know I'll remind you when you think I don't

Sometimes, Dream needed to rant. A long, hard, intense, rant. Sometimes it was about how someone accused him of cheating his speedruns. Sometimes it was about how someone said something nasty to him or one of his friends. Sometimes it was about a comment someone made about him or you that got on his nerves. When he needed to talk, you sat there and you listened. You did whatever he needed to get better, whether it was just listen or talk to find solutions. You did it because you know he would do the same for you. And afterwards, a cuddle session was a must. 

How could you forget? I told you seventeen times before 7 AM I love you How could you forget? I told you seventeen times

The morning after rough days were one of the bests. Arms tangled together, legs tangled together, everything tangled together, no one able to tell where one started and the other ended. Lazy kisses pressed to faces, hands, necks, any part of skin the lips could touch. One particular morning you woke up earlier than he did. A quick kiss against his cheek woke him up, and he gave you the most love filled smile any man could do.

“Hey stupid,” you said, “I love you.”

#mcyt #mcyt x reader #dream x reader #dreamwastaken x reader #fluff #songfic

[dropintomanga]

10 Years of Manga Therapy

Today is a very special day as it’s the 10th year of this blog. Yeah, it’s been that long.

I think back to what the manga world was like 10 years ago. I remember how huge Naruto, BLEACH, and One Piece were to fans in 2010 and now we have a new generation of Jump series to follow (My Hero Academia, Demon Slayer, etc.) today. I remember how the manga industry decided to take steps to deal with scanlations in the start of the decade albeit they were very weak attempts. Now there’s better digital manga services with more to come. I remember how the closing of Borders bookstores hurt manga in the U.S. and in 2013, the 1st season the Attack on Titan anime’s success gave the U.S. manga industry new life. Today, I see so much manga series I heard about online in bookstores.

What hasn’t changed over the past 10 years is the perception of watching anime compared to reading manga. Reading still feels frowned upon as a leisure activity. Many fans prefer watching anime since visuals and voices are they’re often easier to follow. There are attempts to get anime fans to read manga as anime adaptations still drive manga sales overseas. What I would like to try and do is come up with some ideas on how to get interested fans started on reading manga and go on to become lifelong readers of it.

It’s easy to think about all the changes I’ve seen in manga, but I want to talk about my own changes over the past 10 years.

I still remember when I first started the blog, I made 2 serious posts along with a few quotes. Then I made a post stating my commitment to take the blog seriously. I wanted to have some kind of fame. I hoped that I would get a great job/career with help from my blog. And here we are today. I had social media pages and decent enough followings at the start, but over time, my attitude towards the blog began to change. 

I realized how I was beginning to obsess with metrics like SEO, analytics, retweets, likes, etc. I remember a friend pressuring me to do online ads. Thank god I didn’t since ad-blockers are now a thing. To be honest, I was really surprised that my blog did well. I still can’t believe my top article ever is the one I wrote about why incest is popular in Japanese otaku culture back in my first year.

At the same time, my life was starting to change around 2015. I wasn’t really watching as much anime as I used to. I also got back into gaming thanks to watching speedruns of Japanese RPGs. I felt that video games were always my first love. Thankfully, my second love was reading, especially of the comics and manga kind.

The first half of the decade was fun for me, but the 2nd half was where I managed to grow into my own as a person. I started to see life outside of the blog and social media in general as I was tired of seeing so much online discourse over topics that are so nuanced and devoid of proper context. I began to take more walks, check out sights and sounds offline, observed people in the streets and spend more time with my family.

When I started Manga Therapy, I had so much self-hatred. It was a big problem that held me back. As much as I had support at the time, I felt so dependent on other people helping me to feel better. I wanted to help others so bad because I wanted to ignore my own problems.

Some of you may have read my Anime NYC yearly recap posts and those were the years that I felt like I’ve made a huge stride in getting past my persistent depression. I finally stopped hating myself. I started to put my own care first. I stepped away from unnecessarily comparing myself to other people. I walked away from any rhetoric (especially online) that sounds super-ideological and/or full of “-isms.” I feel like I have a sense of self-worth and peace of mind that I wish I felt 10 years ago. Hell, even 20 years ago, I wish I had that feeling. I still suck at a few things and I’ll continue to work on them.

The more I’ve changed, the more I feel both compassion and sympathy for people who’ve been through so much and have been ignored by most of society. I realize that even people considered “good” aren’t exactly good. The people you need to worry about aren’t necessarily your enemies; it’s sometimes the people closest to you. That was perhaps the biggest lesson I’ve learned in my life so far. I also learned that chasing happiness is a trap that leads to less happiness.

I think about how different I am from most people. I don’t fit into systems labeled in black-or-white fashion. I despise both extremism and groupthink. I see that notable folks in the manga industry are outspoken about things I don’t necessarily agree with. I see notable folks outside of it are outspoken about things I don’t necessarily agree with. While I do enjoy talking to the people who work in or cover the manga industry, I feel that I occupy this in-between area that not many people want to reside in.

I’m starting to believe that not being too involved in fandom has helped me process life better. Fandom is fun to get involved in, but you have to be able to deal with and/or accept BOTH the good and bad sides of it. I don’t know where manga fandom is going because both the fans and industry are going to struggle finding a middle ground with regards to digital manga. Yet I do know that manga fandom has to continue fighting for acknowledgement because it’s not just anime fans who may not care about manga; it’s also the Western comics industry and fans who still ignore the continued success of manga for whatever reason.

Don’t worry, I’m not going to make a prediction list of what’s gonna happen in the next 10 years. I do hope to see a bunch of manga titles that discuss mental health and illness licensed here. Other than that, the one thing that’s certain is uncertainty. Life is always full of randomness. I didn’t think I was going to start a blog 10 years ago about my own experiences. I didn’t think I was going to last as long as I have. I didn’t think this blog would leave me feeling heartbreak and later renewed joy from a healthy distance. I don’t know where Manga Therapy is going to take me. All I know is that I’ll enjoy this ride for the time being. It’s what I’ll do for myself and my readers. 

So, thanks to all my readers for reading and huge props to anyone who’s read for the whole 10 years I’ve been around. Reading manga still provides value to my life. To everyone who has mental health problems or mental illness, I hope that manga with all its complexities can help you cope and build resilience in ways that last not just 5, 10, or 20 years, but a lifetime.

#manga industry #manga #fandom #mental health #psychology #decade retrospective #blogging

[steve0discusses]

Yugioh S2 Ep 47: How Exactly Can Any of This Get Resolved In 2 Episodes?

Ah, it’s 4AM, and these people decided it was finally time to pass out after a day of getting tied to bandsaws, getting tied to anchors, getting abducted, getting possessed, getting tied to various types of chairs, building box forts to escape your abductors, falling off of the box forts you built, beating up like 8 people, falling madly in love with Serenity, throwing lots of dice at people, falling out of love with Serenity, learning to see for the first time after a very major operation, having a fistfight on the roof of a 4000 ft in the air blimp, eating a mountain of tacos at a buffet, falling into the ocean, driving a helicopter into a shipping crane, drowning, telling your school bully that you are a reincarnated Pharaoh, learning that your favorite playing card is your one true love who died 5000 years ago, getting dangled off of a 20ft rope tied to a flying helicopter, deciding that your favorite playing card is in fact NOT your one true love who died 5000 years ago, telling a bunch of strangers about that one time your baby brother killed your Dad after seeing a single motorcycle, and getting trapped in the Shadow Realm in a giant hourglass.

They’re pooped. And, we get a nice montage of all of Kaiba’s itty bitty luxury beds that were really only built for Yugi and Mokuba and have been just super inconvenient for everyone else.

And Joey is not dreaming about donuts, instead he’s having guilt dreams.

and then, yes, she in fact did chain herself up to a wall and he watched her drift away.

CONGRATS, GIRL!

Man, by Yugioh standards she just got engaged, right? Good thing everyone else thinks Bakura’s in a plot coma because that is going to be the most unexpected walk of shame.

Also in this montage, Kaiba is not sleeping, and is instead staying up on his computer researching dragons. Yeah. Sounds about right. I honestly can’t picture Seto asleep. I don’t think he does that. I think occasionally Seto kind of pauses wherever he’s sitting like a fish, does a quick Rem cycle, and then he’s back to furiously typing on whatever computer he’s sitting at 10 minutes later.

(read more under the cut)

Meanwhile, these two are duking it out on the roof. I reallllllly wish they were actually punching each other like Tristan and Duke showed us a few episodes back but, nah, it’s cards.

Again, no matter who wins this fight, it will be a very good outcome for our protagonists, so it’s really a fight between which of the evil dudes do you like more? Do you like the Local Nasty Boy Next Door who cannot go to card prom with you because he’s too busy stabbing himself in the arm and murdering? Or, do you prefer the New Cargo Pants obsessed boy in town who seems completely unaware of which century it is, what a blimp is, and what clothes are supposed to be worn with what clothes. Or, is your fave Oldstyle Cargo Pants, who committed atrocious acts of blasphemy, violence and murder just so he could drive a motorcycle around at a moderate speed while wearing a sensible helmet and senseless pink crop hoodie?

All of them really want to destroy/rule the world, all of them really want to kill god (well, Yami, so basically the laziest godform I’ve ever seen in an anime) and all of them probably smell like super bad. Make your bets, they’re all three gonna have a card fight.

And to make this duel somewhat more confusing, Marik likes to sort of take over Bakura’s body and shout at himself. It’s...there’s a lot of psychological stuff going on right now. Anyways, this is when we find out officially that Odion decided not to tell Marik that he killed his own Dad, and instead blamed it on Shadi.

So I guess that’s why Shadi’s been hiding this whole tourney? I mean, Shadi...just kind of peaced out...and like other than being an exposition dump I’m not sure why he ever bothered to come here today?

But because Marik was in Tea’s brain without me knowing, he overheard the true story for the first time, and he was like “ah yeah I’ve killed a loooot of people, this makes sense.”

Bakura has taken almost an entire season, but he’s decided that now he’s playing cards anyway, he wants the good kind. Bear in mind, Bakura was passed out during the other duels where we found out that God Cards are ass.

And I will say that like, in caps there’s some things I can’t really show you since they’re meant to move--but Bakura and Marik turning into pieces as they duel was visually a pretty fun idea. It felt like the animation team was really enjoying it. Like this was their duel to cap the season and so they made it as much a ridiculous spectacle as you can a paper card game. (and the animators probably welcomed a change of place, they’re running out of weird ways to place cards down on a very large watch)

And then we revisit a familiar locale.

So like...this place is different.

First off, my favorite giant green bowling pin is just...gone...and then second off, either Yugi is just getting older, or Yami is just taking up that much more space. But this room definitely wasn’t brick lined before, which is...that kind of says a lot about what Yugi’s been sacrificing to have this puzzle installed into his brain.

Also, apparently Yugi drew a fish once and he was so proud of it, that it got immortalized in here.

The red tomagachi is exactly like the one I had in Middle School. I killed it so many times. I also like how they dodged Nintendo copyright but still gave us a little nod that yes, Yugi is a Nintendo nerd but legally cannot say so. I actually went and looked up handheld systems, and this one looks a lot like the Gameboy Advance. I cannot imagine the spooky stories that happened involving this particular Gameboy Advance, and if maybe that’s why Yugi no longer plays the thing.

Like I’ve been catching up on some GDQ and with Yugi’s curse, do you think he CAN just casually play a video game? Or, do you think he’s just always speedrunning and breaking games whenever he sits down to them? Like he’s just naturally doing TAS runs every time he picks up a controller, glitching through walls and going to the final boss when he’s only at like level 2? Like when he picks up Pokemon he probably almost never has encounters, and then when he finally does it’s just MissingNo and he’s like “Man, I have like 20 of these, and they all look like ass! I just want a freakin rattata.”

Anyways, Yugi was feeling kind of bored here so he went across the hall to visit his friendly neighborhood parasite.

And so, much like how Marik has decided to have a heart to heart with himself on a very tall ledge, so has Yugi and Pharaoh. Except, they’re not having a chat about who killed their own Dad, because we have never seen that guy and he may as well not exist, it would make no difference on the show.

Unless there’s a twist coming up that Yugi killed his own Dad, which, even with this show, I think we can safely assume he has not.

I’m pretty sure.

Just angsting out in my mind labrynth with my 5000 year old emo ghost, wearing lots of guyliner and belts around both our necks. Staring into the abyss made of the convoluted maze of unused stairs and unopened doorways of my unraveling mind. Don’t mind me.

I can’t believe they brought up Shadi only to completely change the subject because even these two are like ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Bro brings up that between the two of them, Pharaoh is a lot more hesitant about looking into his past. Something about people being stored underground for 5000 years and the murdering and all that extra stuff makes him maybe consider that maybe this power ain’t so great. So he’s just...decided not to open doors anymore. Yugi’s going to do it anyway, and Pharaoh will support him in that search, but Pharaoh alone is just fine not knowing if he was an evil asshole 5000 years ago. He doesn’t want to know or really see the point in finding out if it’s fact or not. There’s enough evidence already there. Ignorance is bliss and all that.

But it seems like if one is doubting the other has to not doubt just out of necessity. I don’t know what happens to this brain if both Yami and Yugi become depressed.

I mean like...

...

It was on the wall in the museum, right?

And like, Ishizu is down the hall and you could just ask her, right?

Shadi is around, he probably knows, or at least can go invisible and check.

The short term memory on all the children on this show, I swear. It’s almost as bad as real life children.

Anyway, the very last episode of the season is next and like...we made no steps towards resolving any of these plot strings so next episode is either going to be 4 hours long or it will just be a title card at the end of the episode that says “And then they all died! The end!” just like my very first stop motion animation feature when I was a wee tot, which honestly would probably make more sense than how they will probably end up tying all these lose ends. If they...ever do it.

Not holding out.

Anyway, if you just got here, this is a link to read all these recaps in chrono order from S1 Ep1, knock yourself out http://steve0discusses.tumblr.com/tagged/yugioh/chrono

#yugioh #yugioh recap #photo recap #S2 Ep47 #Yugi muto #marik ishtar #Bakura #tea gardner #tristan taylor #joey wheeler #return of Toy Chamber #tbh nothing really happened this episode

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Why do players love Speedrunning so much?

Why do players love Speedrunning so much?

https://theministerofcapitalism.com/blog/why-do-players-love-speedrunning-so-much/

My palms won’t Stop sweating and the drops of moisture coming down on the controller buttons. My hold hasn’t changed in almost an hour, but I refuse to let my wet hands kill my focus. I try to regulate my breathing — I inhale, slowly, exhale — but I’m nervous. Don’t drown, I whisper to myself.

It’s a warm May night in Toronto and I’m crouched on my computer, clicking on a Sega Genesis driver and trying to make personal history. On my screen, a pixelated blue hedgehog approaches through loops and hops from platform to platform. I keep breathing, getting heavier and heavier, until it’s over, until Sonic destroys Dr. Robotnik’s final form. And then I stop my timer: 49 minutes and 51 seconds. Finally, in the official classification tables, I will rank among the best players to win this particular Sonic game in the best time possible. When the realization begins, I am excited. All I want to do is play again.

I started speedrunning Sonic the Hedgehog 3 in January, looking forward to a new pandemic pastime. The classic game, released in 1994 for the Sega Genesis, was a basic element of my childhood: my older brother, then much more of a player than me, played over and over again for the game, and I would watch it every time. It is a game where players are expected to move quickly, spinning and accelerating levels. So when Toronto settled for another city-wide closure late last year, I tried to play it myself and see how quickly I could do it, or at least if I could. surpassing my brother’s pace of all those years ago. I quickly became obsessed, writing down time and notes in a diary. Not unlike a real runner, He longed for a new personal brand, or PB, every time he played. For every milestone I reached, I knew I could do better.

Why is Speedrunning So Fun?

While “speedrunning” is the easiest way to play a game as quickly as possible, there are categories for each game with specific goals. Always complete, I chose to collect the seven emeralds Sonic 3—A tedious task, but ultimately satisfactory. For months I worked, turning the Sonic, like an orb, into secret areas and special stages, gradually improving until I could officially get the status of classification. I would play almost every night; finally, my partner begged me to wear headphones, fed up with the same chiptune songs that sounded in rotation.

You’ve probably heard that the definition of madness does the same thing over and over again and expects different results. This is the fundamental concept of speedrunning. But speed racers do not experience attacks of instability or discomfort; instead, they are excited about the possibility of playing the same game (the same levels, through the same routes) over and over again.

Search the speedrun category on Twitch on a given night and you will find dozens of amateur players quickly playing their favorite games. Speedrunning has become so popular over the years that massive events around the world Games done quickly has amassed hundreds of thousands of viewers and has earned millions of dollars for charity. And when runners win their PB, or finish on the world record, shout or cry with joy or, if they’re like me, walk around their little apartment with their fists in the air, the kind of reactions they ends up on YouTube viral compilations.

So why does speedrunning, a weird sport of doing the same thing over and over again, have such a cult following? A better understanding of how and why we play and the ways in which speedrunning exploits this game psychology can help explain how fast players get to go fast. But at its core, speedrunning fulfills some of them our most basic human needs: the desire to be our best self, to be part of like-minded peer communities, and to get things done as quickly as possible.

How did Speedrunning become so popular?

Speedruns have existed, one way or another, as long as video games existed. There’s a simple reason for this: being the fastest at something is an easy and quantifiable way to measure a player’s greatness, as opposed to getting a high score. As game developer John Romero says Speedrun Science: A Long Guide to Short Routes, “Anyone can get things done slowly, but that’s not a competition.”

When gaming communities appeared online in the early 1990s, speedrunners began to come together to exchange tips and tricks and share their time. Speedrunners of the classic first-person shooter Doom they were among the first to establish ranking tables in 1994; today, the final ranking site Speedrun.com has more than 2 million recorded runs in over 20,000 games.

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