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From chump to champ with chimps in 2021

I've really enjoyed working on From Chump To Champ With Chimps (playlist linked here ) over the past year. It's taught me a lot about video editing, scripting and just generally how to make content for fighting games. I've tried to stick to a somewhat weekly schedule but missed it a few times and needed a break once in a while due to lack of motivation/being busy, so overall I've learned a lot about how much I can stick to a schedule and how likely it is that I can finish something given a time frame, without it being overtly penalising like university. Making tons of videos ranging from 2-8 minutes has shown me what my optimal timeframe is for a video as well. I think I do best with 5 minute videos, since it's generally more than enough to get relevant info out without dragging on too long. The topics I pick also most likely have something to do with that perception I still want to keep working on these videos because I like them, and it seems like people generally

Running events for two days at Biggie III

I will preface this by saying that evidently no one cares about PM, and it will almost certainly be ending on Saturday. This post is mainly concerning SSBM (and to a small extent, RoA) because this keeps popping up, and hopefully I can explain my stance thoroughly and without any confusion. Currently: SSBM has 27 entrants. In 27 entrants, the top seeds need to play two matches to get to winners side top 8, and in the event a bottom seed loses round 1 and makes top 8, they would need to play five matches. The post will discuss a few aspects of whether it's viable to have SSBM top 8/4 on Sunday. Players With top 8 on Sunday, people play 2-5 matches tops and then, depending on if they entered other games, either just wait or play games in other tournaments. Is this really good for the players? Considering out of town players will likely either not play or go very far in other games, it seems like a waste of their resources to me. Comparatively, even if they had a one day tournament

26SEP2020

My grandfather died this year. He had dementia. While dementia wasn't the official cause of his death - think it was kidney failure or something - I have since been really infatuated with it, trying to understand it, to see what it would be like. A physical ailment is easy to imagine - if your hand is broken it's broken and it makes sense how that affects your day to day life. A mental illness is different. It's almost like something doesn't compile about the world, or at least that's my interpretation of it. The only mental illness I have is idiot syndrome, chronic since birth.   I have wanted to understand his struggles since I heard of it. I couldn't be there to see him perish in such a state but my dad could, and from what I gathered he had almost lost touch with reality, referring to the past as his present, calling for his wife who had been dead for close to five years at the time. It had to be fuelled by morbid curiosity - maybe one day I would be r