Blood drains from my jugular as my brain leaks into the drain and the cops are calling the party off

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

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

Something I've come to realise recently is that I never really hated cute things, like cute anime girls or cute animals or cute children, and the fact that I immediately want to defend myself when saying the last one is kind of part of why. I don't know if it's an innate masculine desire to want to subdue feeling "cute" feelings, and I feel too afraid to ask this to everyone, but I know I feel that way. I realised that just now reading "Bloom Into You", where I was audibly positively into the story and wished the characters well, but immediately wanted to replace this feeling with listening to some heavy metal to replace that "cute" feeling with some raw aggression. Maybe it's because reading that manga made me realise how badly I do actually desire such a relationship with another person, which is something I constantly told others I didn't need until I achieved some tangible yet constantly moving milestone. This also relates to my rec