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  1. stripper
    I've returned to the competitive Melee scene and I'm recording and uploading funny moment videos again. Want to subscribe to either of my channels? https://www.youtube.com/user/UsurperKingZantwill host individual moment clips and https://www.youtube.com/user/AlterKingZant will host moment compilations
     
    I prefer the individual clip format because It shows off only the main event and I can make witty titles to them if I'm clever enough. Compilation videos feel like a random assortment to me. I have to keep a slow upload rate of moment clips on my main channel to retain subscribers and optimize subscriber views. For those who want to see moments sooner, I can upload compilations from fests/tournaments whenever they get rendered. I don't care as much about my experimental channels as I do about my main channel
     

    shows me doing the tilt moment during the draft crew battle last Friday. Ty for uploading it ♥ 

    (Blatantly copy/pasted from a Facebook group post)
  2. stripper
    I hate advertising my videos on Reddit because it feels like I'm doing nothing but spamming the forum users with simple content that anyone can make that isn't what they're interested in. CSGO's an esports game and in my experience with Melee, they hate casual play. I don't know if CSGO's (competitive?) community views casual play. The thing about my channel is that I play a lot and a lot of moments happen, so a lot of moments end up on my channel. I hope I filter my videos well enough so that only good stuff ends up on my channel. But I'm also afraid that by filtering, I lose content. The last, major problem is how easily biased my opinions on moments are because I make them happen. I know all of the context before the moments giving me more to laugh at. It's also just mere psychology
     
    But self hate aside, I hope I advertise my best videos well. Just a favor from anyone who reads this; would you like to help view boost my moments to help make me look more popular? I'm just trying to make myself look more attractive to get more subscribers ^.^

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vevcOOQWlE

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbIpyImPn7I

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4ij9B9y2wE

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkCzVidftIM

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnpFACb1QvU

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jjul7opRpg

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKcLhEXfeRI

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bU4ZH7XXURA

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQe6doYwzy0

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWJe2KjSwzI

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wh7xL1nWKA0

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mun8e4ORrbQ

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH5wPAUeJdM

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeXxyDmMN_c

    Ty ♥
  3. stripper

    Bad Future Sight

    By stripper,

    I fast forwarded my moment video backlog to publishing a new video every 8 hours because I wanted my Melee career to end. I thought I'd play FPSs as actively as I played Melee, but strategies have changed. A lot of my time off from work is currently spent working out to maintain my health and youth while I still have them. The daily routine lasts 1.5 hours, the little pre-workout ritual to prepare myself for it lasts .5-1 hours, and after the workout, I'm too tired to play for 1-2 hours. I also nap for 2 hours after work so I can have enough energy to do everything I want to do. In total, from estimations only, staying in physical shape costs me 6.5 hours every day, including the 2 hour nap. The only time I can play games online well is during the wait before the workout while food digests and while I gradually fully wake up from my nap. Looking sexy has a high price
     
    I do it because it feels better than playing games and making moments just to entertain at most 50 of my 4,446 remaining subscribers. That's only 1% subscriber activity. At least if I workout to improve my looks, I feel better because of the endorphin rush. But also, being healthier just feels better. When I inevitably get my 2nd job to help me afford to stay alive, the extra strength might help my performance. Having good looks helps candidates pass interviews, so there's that perk too. And of course, looking hawtter might help improve my chances of getting a girlfriend, LOL. I wouldn't actively try to get 1. They have excessive demands and don't contribute as much in return for their partners. The reward isn't worth the work, so I'll letting single women do all of the risky approaching. Too bad the vast majority of women prefer men approaching because it's hawtter to them. The only 1s who'd approach are the ugly older women, if they even tolerate a man who never talks. But let's be real, I'm too socially awkward to get a girlfriend, LOL. A few of my unattractive female coworkers teasing me doesn't mean anything
     
    If I foresaw this change of Youtube success and life strategy, maybe I should have kept my Melee moment upload schedule at 3 videos/week. I'd still get comments and my subscriber count would decline slower. My views/video would still be better. But I'd still get banned by September on Reddit, so there'd be no Reddit view boosts after a while. Before the last filter on my Melee moments, the backlog would have lasted me until sometime in 2020. With the filter, it would probably end by 2019. By that time, the games I've been playing ever since I quit Melee would have become irrelevant. I would probably have to fast forward that backlog to 3 videos/day which could last probably up to a year. Maybe I shouldn't fast forwarded them?
     

    I wanted all of my games in my moments modern so that they'll be more relevant to share. The problem is that I secretly don't like advertising my videos because it feels like I'm spamming. I thought it'd be fun to share epic moments as soon as I can make and upload them after they happen. Again, my workout habit gets in the way and slows things down. Maybe you might enjoy a nice little clutch I did last night https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0OuiGvbnSg
  4. stripper

    Being A Ghost

    By stripper,

    I've been thinking; if a famous tournament series runs another tournament in the same location as this year, a mall for top1%ers, I wonder how people would react if my name was on the registration list and assigned to a certain pool. People would have to look for me to find me though because no 1 knows me. I wonder if the news would spread to me. I also wonder what would happen if I dropped a stack of business cards for my Youtube & Twitch channels there. Would Melee players talk about me? I'll have to be stealthy for the in person event and willing to throw away like $50 in both scenarios. Maybe I could still shop at the mall at their cheapest store which sells sunglasses that cost $100-$400 or eat god tier cake
     
    The unfortunate reality is that I wouldn't be given a fuck about
  5. stripper
    I'll whine forever that my rageretirement ruined my channel, costing me 751 subscribers from peak count to current lowest count. But 1 perk about the long break was that it let me reset my perspective and strategies for what I do. I escaped the mental trap of routines and could start planning with new strategies. My video banners aren't well designed. Initially, I trusted FoxInShadow (the best clop artist ♥) to design them for me and they have flaws. The controller my OC is holding looks much more like a PS2 controller than a Gamecube controller. The names of my channels are too boldly written and there's no description for them. Both sides have my OC which is redundant. These flaws need to get fixed and I'm waiting for him to finish his backlog so I can get mine drawn next. I'm also going to ask for a commission of a better avatar, 1 where my OC and Peach are cutely posing together so that viewers will be able to guess that I play Melee
     
    Another problem is my conversation mic. A cardiod mic pointed up blocks controller clicking well, but it also blocks the audio from people talking. It's too weak and gets drowned out by the game's direct audio. I should have bought a shotgun mic and an XLR interface to capture conversation audio while avoiding capturing game audio. They're much better designed to capture what they point at while blocking sounds outside of the desired angle. I'm considering making a $250 or $170 purchase tonight to improve my moment video's audio as soon as I can. I think I might also be able to connect it to my weirdly made mic stand that uses an acoustic shield to block noise from below, ideally controller clicking. And since it has a Blue Yeti shock mount, I might be able to easily connect my potentially new shotgun mic to it. Shotgun mics are very sensitive to shocks so this will help greatly. I could probably use my Blue Yeti Pro for home use only, which will make transporting my gear easier. Maybe I could try commentary/vlog videos on 1 of my side channels
     
    I never had opportunities to record/stream for the MeleeAtlNorth channel because other streamers have already established themselves in the region too well and they're simply better streamers than me. But now I'm using it again for reuploading grand finals of their streams to entertain people online again and promote the other streamers of Virginia. I might also expand to other states, but I'm starting the idea small for now before expanding it into anything. Of all people, I know I'm 1 of the best for this service because I had a little known reputation for getting tournament videos on Youtube quickly. I can do it again. Secretly, hopefully this service also helps me grow my channel too. A link to my channel will be hidden below the links to the other streamers' channels. At least if these channels grow, my region will improve its reputation and maybe I can grow indirectly. I hope other streamers would like to help me grow too
     
    Aside from special events, requests, or free events, I'm no longer entering any tournaments. It'll only make me hate myself if I do. Trimming $5 per event will help me cut costs because I do not have any money saving skills. There is a reason why my bank account gets drained of money so often. Trust me. I'd rather avoid publicly disclosing it
     
    Being active on Smashboards drained me online and I don't like talking to people. I'd much rather silently do things. This time, I'm never logging back into my account, aside from 4 more video self promotions happening on March 31 and April 1. Maybe if I can get away with spam again, I'll spam Reddit some more, but more slowly, and with compilations, maybe. IDK. During my freetime, I'm going to somehow keep working out to maintain my health and good looks, if that's possible. Workaholism makes it difficult. I can get very tired after Smash sessions and I rarely have opportunities to do my ideal 1.75 hour full body workout. I'm likely going to trim it down to 1 hour to keep my whole body in shape. It'll simply be easier and more motivating, rather than daunting. Everything I do will be cut in 1/2, going from 100 rep limits on almost everything down to 50. It's either that or nothing. Too often it's nothing. But I still want abs worth showing off, so my sit up limit will still be high, at least 200+
     
    Hopefully I'll be doing things better soon
     
    http://heartisnaked.deviantart.com/journal/Breaks-Are-Very-Good-Take-Them-670526670
    https://heartisnaked.tumblr.com/post/158723230215/breaks-are-very-good-take-them
  6. stripper
    Just to introduce my channel, I'm a funny moment video uploader formerly for Smash Bros Melee and currently for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. I made a famous Melee video called "It Takes Guts to be AMAZING" and I currently have 4,425 subscribers. Want to see what I've done?
     
    CSGO
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=909DWGdw-tU&list=UUtu4yuaEIBcYYMnZie43sfQ
     
    SSBM
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dj_54hAA3f0&list=PUtu4yuaEIBcYYMnZie43sfQ
  8. stripper

    Dethroned From Melee

    By stripper,

    January 2, 2009 - April 10, 2016 were the best 7 years, 3 months, and 8 days of my life. I had a lot of fun and friends and I've never seen them ever again, except 1 of them when we played OW together at his house. But beyond that, I just don't care about this game anymore. Really, I'm just too disinterested to care anymore. Fame is nice, but it's not worth doing the work I did for the amount of fame I got. I'm just so apathetic, or maybe that's my current mood right now. I just recently woke up and haven't ate yet
     
    But I guess during these 7 years, I learned 1 valuable lesson specific to me that I wish I knew before I ever started; I'm not a friend kind of person. I don't need any. It sounds odd, but I'm just so disinterested in other people. I love doing my own things on my own strategies to benefit other people. I wish I kept playing Counter-Strike: Source and other PC FPSs and got more serious about recording gameplay than ever getting into Melee's tournament scene. The genre's just more fun for me (?now?). It would have also saved me probably $12,000 that I've put into my career for just 4,785 subscribers on a decline right now and only $719.68 earned from Youtube revenue. That's a major money loss. I've rarely ever won any tournament money ever
     
    I guess I have memories and maybe connection if I ever need them. I have no idea how anyone could benefit from them. I think my contributions have helped the Melee community greatly. Thank you, everyone who watched what I've made
     
    This blog is just a time stamp of a major life event, but you don't even expect a quality blog ever. Want to watch a Youtuber continue losing everything he ever had? http://socialblade.com/youtube/user/usurperkingzant/monthly
  9. stripper
    I used to play and make Youtube videos actively for the Smash Bros Melee scene and I'm considering returning. My favorite thing about going to tournaments was recording myself playing the game with others and uploading individual funny moments to Youtube. Want to check out my latest 1?
     
     
     
    It would be nice if I could gain subscribers again, but even if I don't, I think I'm going to return just to help out the new players get better. Playing to win is too stressful and I'm not among the ultra talented. There's no point for me to hope to win. Maybe I'll also play hyper-aggro to make the game more fun for them. I play a variety of characters
  10. stripper

    Hit Record, [insult]

    By stripper,

    This is just to help put social pressure on me to help me not forget to hit record when I'm playing games that I want to make funny moment videos of. I need social facilitation to help improve what I do. Typing up a blog about this mistake helps ingrain it in my mind better to help me remember. I can't show you the epic things that didn't get recorded because they didn't, but for fun, he's what I missed being able to show everyone
     
    T on Mirage
    5 consecutive AWP kills in a 10 second span
     
    CT on Mirage
    Flash bang + decoy + smoke + P90 distraction kill, took the T's AK, ran to T spawn, kinfed an AFKer, ran to middle with AK ablaze, killed 2 Ts, picked up an AWP, ball banged a T through the carriage
     
    T on Dust2
    Sniping in mid with SSG + P250, notice a CT run into tunnels, chase after him, attempts to knife him, allies kill him 1st, funny stare at the killer, run out of tunnels, got killed by CT in cat
     
    T on Mirage
    1v3, low health, bomb in mid, holding a FAMAS, gets 2 kills, gets spotted at A site, runs to B site, plants with 8 seconds remaining, guards the bomb, CTs kick their stupid saver 1 second before the bomb explodes
     
    I know there's 1 more funny moment that I can't recall right now
     
    I'm a funny multiplayer gaming moment uploader on Youtube and all of my moments are purely unstaged. Everything happens naturally and it's impossible for me to recreate these things. Even if I could, they'll lose their authenticity which is 1 of the main things about my moments. At least I wasn't an idiot throughout the entire day. I played a lot of CSGO this morning and got some decent footage. I hope I never make this mistake again
     
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpBATx6sWZg
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    I Quit Live Streaming

    By stripper,

    I don't have the personality for it. I'm a completely silent introvert who never talks and it's not entertaining. I don't have someone to outsource being entertaining to. It's a waste of my time and everyone else's. I used to live stream to grow my Smash Bros Melee reputation and use it as an alternative to Youtube in case bad things happened to my channel, like getting hacked or suspended. But also, it was just another way to entertain the Melee community. It would be easy for me at tournaments, but I quit going to them
     
    My 1st channel only peaked at 399 followers, 394 currently, and my 2nd channel is at 63 right now, at its peak. Just some numbers so you know
     
    From now on, I'm just going to continue what I'm already doing which is merely me recording myself playing PC FPSs. Nothing's changed, really. Personality is an unchanging factor that can make or break someone's performance. You can act, but you can't be authentic. I used to do it for a long time and it's not something I want to do again
     
    http://heartisnaked.deviantart.com/journal/I-Quit-Live-Streaming-654394536
    http://heartisnaked.tumblr.com/post/155187511740/i-quit-live-streaming
  12. stripper
    We've tried to coordinate gaming at his house twice in 2 weeks and both times failed due to lack of communication on his part. He doesn't want me on the days he failed to get shit together that he couldn't do them because of who knows what shit. A warning would be nice. I've had issues with this guy before. If I abandon him, I'll be truly friendless in person. He was hardly even a friend anyways
     
    Coordinating anything with him is a selfish request though. I'd hate to be with anyone else because I willingly committed social suicide at my benefit. Bringing my whole 30 lbs gaming rig with me to play the same games we could just play online is a logistical waste of effort. We wouldn't even play Smash Bros Melee much, which is only worth playing locally. If I'm going to play games with anyone, I'm going to have to make sacrifices too and play their game of choice which I hate. Friendlessness is better for me because I never get let down by anyone and I never have to do things I don't want to do
  13. stripper
    This list is completely subjective and only has subjective reasons behind each place. I don't know a thing about story/character theory, so you automatically win every debate against me in that regard ever
     

    4. Princess Celestia
     

    In canon, Celestia was the well praised princess that everypony loved and Luna got ignored. In the fandom, the opposite is true. Luna is praised to no end and Celestia's often ignored. I think this is because a lot of introverts relate to her, behind introverted, hidden, an underdog, or just simply a night owl. I love Celestia because she's the underappreciated leader no one gives enough credit to. She's also quiet an introvert, given how little she acts in the show and even how she hates The Grand Galloping Gala, a big fancy party full of socializing with other fancy rich people
     
    I relate to her really well. We're both introverts who aren't in the limelight yet still have an influence in our own worlds. More like I had an influence and calling it an influence is definitely a delusion of grandeur. I'm not a king. There's also the trollestia and other fanon personality of hers ♥ that I relate to well too
     

    3. THE GREAT & POWERFUL TRiXiE
     

    This pony won my heart the moment I saw her. She's such a showoff. Again, my love is another matter of relatedness. I love showing off too. Back when I played Smash Bros Melee competitively, I almost never played to win. I almost never researched how to win, almost never practiced in the game, and only played on my own strategies only with other players. Practicing and researching alone is boring. I aim to entertain and some have told me they enjoy seeing me play. We're both actors with emanating personas. She's great and powerful whereas I love to satire and tell everyone I have no skill. There is some truth to what I say, but let's be serious for 1 sentence about my skill. I have some, but I do stupid things, and when they work, it's even stupider, because my opponents are. No hate
     

    2. Maud Pie
     

    This pony won my heart more instantly than any other. I rewatched Maud Pie 3 times in a span of 3 days when I 1st saw this episode. It brings such a good light to very introverted people. They may be weird and difficult to talk to or befriend, especially if they have a focused obsession with only a certain topic and weird social behaviors, but they're secretly good people
     

    1. Starlight Glimmer
     

    Call me an SJW. I'd love to pretend to be 1 for trolling fun. But really, I love her because she has an ideology to create a perfect world and she works to achieve it. She's the most pacifistic villain in the show yet also the most powerful. She's the only pony in MLP lore who could use Starlight The Bearded's time travel spell more than once. Her use of it drastically changed the universe's fate 7 times (creating 8 parallel universes?). And she did this primarily through nonviolent means. She was fighting to fulfill an ideology. She lost twice by having her ideology proven wrong. There's no villain better than her in power, story, nor friendship ♥
     
    But I still respect some of her ideology she tries to bring to the world. Her exact ideology of equalizing everyone by limiting their talents to nothing isn't the right way to go about it. People have differences, including differences in abilities. Those outcomes shouldn't be equalized, they should be embraced. My own ideology I'd like to see in the world is an equality in contribution to each other. Take a look at the Smash community for example. That place has the worst equality of contribution I've ever seen. Everyone gives so much support to the Melee community and the Melee community gives nothing or shit in return. I understand that Brawl is a bad sequel to Melee and it cut Melee's player count in half during the 1st 6 months of Brawl, but I disagree with the bashing of Brawl and its players. I know they have their freedom of speech, but I won't stop them from insulting anything they don't like. They have understandable reasons. Thankfully, they didn't bash Smash 4 as hard as they bashed Brawl, so some of my ideology has been achieved
     
    Brawl and Smash 4 helped Melee in ways that might not be appreciated. Brawl players donated a lot of money during the Breast Cancer Research Foundation donation contest that EVO held in 2013. Ever since July that year, Brawl tanked in popularity and Melee soared. Does anyone else find it unfair? What's also unfair is how Mlee gets featured at so many FGC tournaments and Melee players almost never host anything for the FGC at their own events. The exposure to boost popularity is unidirectionally in Melee's favor, greatly. No fighting game ever had as much growth as Melee
     
    I can't do much of anything to push my own ideology onto others. I shouldn't tell others what to do. At 1st I tried playing Street Fighter and Guilty Gear and uploading videos to my channel. But then I stopped because it created too much stress and didn't help me grow my channel. In the end, I just left. There is no room for casual gaming in Melee's competitive scene. My current choices of games benefit me better and I do what I'm good at to benefit viewers online who enjoy casual funny moments in games
     
    Melee can't give back to the developer of the game like other esports games can. There's no way to keep bringing in revenue from active players because there's simply no DLC. Melee players don't buy the new consoles nor Smashes, generally. Modern esports games have DLC to support the developers and the developers in return support their competitive scenes. What could be a better equality of contribution?
     
     
     
    (No proofreading for fun ^.^)
     
     
     
    Also, Twilight Sparkle is cannonically the best pony. Proof!
     
    http://mlp.wikia.com/wiki/Transcripts/The_Ticket_Master
     
    "
    Ponies: SURPRISE!
    [trumpets blow]
    [Pinkie Pie]
    Twilight is my bestest friend
    Whoopie, whoopie!
    Twilight Sparkle: Pinkie...
    [Pinkie Pie]
    She's the cutest, smartest, all around best pony, pony!
    "
  15. stripper
    https://68.media.tumblr.com/8a65462955fa673a093c67682645e93b/tumblr_ok6b5uNkWu1r3mfzpo1_1280.png
     
    This is just a status too long to post on Twitter
     
    I don’t really like my subscriber base on Youtube which is mainly occupied by Melee players. I’ve always had disloyalty throughout my channel’s history and ever since 1 month before I quit Melee (April 11, 2016), it has almost never gained a subscriber on any day. No 1 appreciated the (amount of) work I put towards Melee, relatively speaking. It’s not absolutely 0, but compared to the other channels that grow ultra fast in the community, I’ve always felt that I unfairly never got the same success others had, even despite my earlier start on as far back as January 3, 2009. But Youtube is a game almost purely about luck and I’m just 1 of the many (or few) lottery losers who bought too many tickets
     
    But I’d still rather have my freedom playing PC FPSs than any amount of fame I’ve ever had playing Melee. It was never much. My record subs/day was 66 because I bought them for $50 during the Melee for EVO 2013 donation drive contest. My 2nd best record is only 29 in 1 day. http://socialblade.com/youtube/user/ghostrager at 1 point averaged 713 daily. The game, the community, and the work have caused me an unbelievable amount of stress and several online people who knew me outside of Melee could clearly see that I needed to quit. Sometimes I need a healthy vent
     
    Youtube statistics, June 26, 2007 - April 10, 2016
  16. stripper
    If I ever follow, or even merely like, someone online, I avoid ever seeing photos of themselves in real life. Not knowing their real life counter-parts make them more interesting. Online, people can be limited to their usernames, avatars, text, and maybe whatever else they want to share. You get to learn their semi-anonymous side that they might hide in real life. You get to know someone by how they want to present themselves, with fewer social restrictions. I'd never upload photos nor videos of my face because it'd ruin the fun mystery for others. Being a mysterious introvert is just how I'd like to present myself. I'm even like this in real life to an extent. Some people have stated or asked incorrect assessments about me. Personally, Online, I like to boast about being sexy and there is some evidence to back it up. But you'll never see it, of course ^.^
     
    I have liked and followed a few people online and met them in person, often at Smash Bros Melee tournaments, and it's... interesting. I guess that's what everyone else says it is, but it doesn't interest me
     
    http://heartisnaked.deviantart.com/journal/Not-Seeing-You-Is-More-Fun-654614628
    http://heartisnaked.tumblr.com/post/155228035820/not-seeing-you-is-more-fun
  17. stripper

    Potential Girlfriend

    By stripper,

    She's my manager at my shame job who's 3 years older than me (30), probably 30-50 LBS heavier than I'd prefer, and the only female to express a lot of interest in me. She clearly has a muscle fetish because she has groped my arms often, and with no attempt at subtly, holds my hand openly in front of everyone. She's trying really hard to get me, so... why not give her a shot? I'm a sex-obsessed pervert and I would really like to have someone to get sexy with. She's just a little bit too heavy for me to touch her anywhere near her holes. I have no idea how to politely ask her to lift some weights to help her lose some

    Out of no strategies impulse, I bought some perfume for her in a nice case that I'll probably give to her in a week with the excuse of an early Christmas present. It'll be blatantly obvious it'll be a crush gift. Her crush is far more obvious. She even invited me to a date after our shifts ended at the same time. I declined

    No 2nd guessing. I'll give her 1 try and see what happens
  18. stripper

    restART

    By stripper,

    I quit competitive gaming, entirely. I don’t even have the motivation to make moment videos anymore. It feels like a chore. Playing competitive games is too hard. Everyone’s always trying to win. The only way to compete against that is to compete. It’s a retardedly simple idea, but I’m sure you get it. Players are only valued or respected when they’re good. From my perception, you’re only respected if you’re among the top 10% of players at local levels. At national/world levels, you have to be among the top 1%. The reward is nowhere near worth the work. The bottom 90% get NOTHING. That’s where I’ve been throughout almost all of my Smash Bros Melee career, especially on Youtube

    But enough about being emo about the past. I like art. Admittedly for the clop, but there are some pictures by bronies, and even furries too, that I can easily enjoy. Sometimes I get creative ideas that I’d like to bring out and the best I can currently do are paying for them through commissions. Drawing them on my own would be fun, I imagine. So after having some art inspiration from the My Little Pony movie, I bought myself a tablet. I have no idea what any art theory words there even are, but something about the movie strikes me as very artistic. The visuals are so great to look at. Allspark did an amazing job making 3D models look like the flash animation counterpart of the show. Everything looks 2D

    Then there’s also the need to do something valuable that I constantly feel. It’s why I can’t enjoy most single player games anymore. Playing them does nothing to benefit anyone. Multiplayer games do nothing good for anyone else either. What does supporting Quake Champions by merely being a player do for anyone? Give everyone 1 more player to play with online sometimes? That’s worth almost nothing, pretty much. I get that communities are shaped by many individual people. As a player and an unknown youtuber, I can’t do anything great for anyone

    Art is just what I think is the best way I can do something good for others on my own strategies. I won’t be looking up any tutorials nor ask anyone for advice on how to draw well. So far, I’ve developed my own grip for holding a stylus pen. I have no idea if anyone does what I do. But from what I’ve discovered so far on my own technique is that it’s great for drawing straight along the X and Y axes. Or at least I think so. But what do I know?

    For now, I’m practicing the most basic of shapes and letters to merely learn how to control a pen. Farther into the future, I imagine myself as a sketch artist. I would like to draw something that gets viewers feeling and thinking in certain ways. Maybe with a monochrome style, they can fill in the colors with their own imaginations. It’s a subtle reflection of myself, how there are so few details about me on the surface. I’m quite reserved. But I think all of you secretly know me ♥ 
  21. stripper
    My job is too shitty to fully disclose. It's stressful, the pay sucks, and it's not always something I enjoy. Our stores get random customer POV reviews which will either pay workers working during that time bonuses if we 100% the review but if we miss 1 point, we get nothing. 1 of the requirements is smiling and I simply can't smile. Even if I try to, it looks hideously fake and ruins my face. I need to drink energy drinks to enable me to smile better at the cost of destroying my heart slowly. The best I can do to negate the health cost is drink water and maybe exercising helps to some good extent too, theoretically. Also, I work a shitty job. Who would smile about that?. Another problem is that I don't enjoy working with people and I'd rather just do things on my own to benefit the customers on my own strategies. I can't do that where I work
     
    I guess I need to try applying to 3 recently opened up job positions at cool stores today. 1 is technical support for a Microsoft Store in a mall near me that I love. The job requirements are slightly high and IDK if I'm good enough to do much with what I'm capable of doing now. I know there's job training, but I know that I know nothing. Another position is cashier which doesn't require a brain so that might be easy to get if I'm not competing with other applicants. The last is sales associate and I tried applying there this Summer and failed the group interview. I'm too socially awkward. But being a sales associate would allow me to roam anywhere I want to in my assigned area, help any customer I want, recommend products to them on my own strategies, and not have my tasks depend on others' tasks nor be dependent on theirs (heavily)
     
    I really need to get out of my current job and take 3 shots at getting into a job less shitty. A friend of mine had a friend who worked as sales associate and he told me that his hourly wage was about $15. That amount's worth mentioning. I'm also going to need to either buy my own formal attire if I get an interview offered or reuse something lame I already have. I need to do this after I get at least 5 hours of sleep when it's possible tonight. I need social facilitation
  22. stripper
    Shameful disclosure, I'm not even getting paid to type this blog. It's just a little PSA, sort of, about what readers can buy to improve their gaming experiences. But really, everyone hates lag and not everyone knows nor cares about reducing lag. I've talked to competitive Smash Bros Brawl online players about it and they're ignorant and apathetic, and they're the kind of gamers who should be raging the hardest about lag
     
    In most modern games, net code has improved so they'll still be playable even without my recommendations. This is more for the perfectionists, competitive players, and anyone who plays FGs
     
    The biggest thing anyone can do to improve their online experience is upgrading their internet service to anything that isn't shitty like dial up (if it even still exists) or even worse, satellite. Your ISP service is going to be the worst bottleneck because it's the weakest link in your connection, which for almost all cases, it will be. Network speeds are only as fast as their weakest links
     
    The next biggest thing you can do to improve connection speed is by getting an ethernet cable to connect your system to your router. You don't need an expensive category 7 cable. Cat5e will be plenty. It theoretically supports a network speed of up to 1 Gb/s, which is way more than what games demand. You'd have to have like a $1,000/month internet bill to put all of that speed to use. Whatever you do, don't buy these cables in retail stores. They're their profit makers which have excessive markups. Buy them from online stores instead which sell them for like only 10% of the cost
     
    If you can't use a wired connection for gaming online, you could try upgrading your wi-fi router antennas. Most routers come with cheap tiny antennas to cut costs on the final product and maybe also to help them look less ugly so that customers might be more likely to buy them. Generally, the bigger the antennas, the farther they can send signals. Look for antennas with the highest amount of gain, measured in dBi ( I recommend http://www.simplewifi.com/9dbi-large-indoor-antenna-smarp.html )
     
    Also, you might want to upgrade your internal wi-fi card too to improve signal strength on the other side of the connection. The 1 found in your laptop will probably be good enough for most wi-fi use, but you might be able to buy something better. Look for wi-fi cards that support 802.11ac since it's the newest standard. Connection speeds on those cards can reach up to 867 Mb/s. Your router will need to support it so that your wi-fi card can use it. You could also install 3rd party antennas with flat ends to help improve signal strngth ( https://www.amazon.com/PORJET-Notebook-Bluetooth-Broadband-Internal/dp/B01F6GDM84/ref=sr_1_8?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1475905532&sr=1-8&keywords=laptop+antenna )
     
    Lastly, if you have any spare Lego, Rubik's cubes, or anything like them, you could prop up your laptop to stand above whatever surface it's on. It can improve signal strength by up to 10 Mb/s. However, I've only tested this in a specific environment so it might not generalize to other situations well. It worked for me on Windows 7 in a basement with a concrete ceiling in a dorm that holds 180 students. The results didn't clearly replicate when I tried it again like a year later in the same place. You can try it and enjoy what'll mostly be a placebo if you want. I always did it with my laptop to help cool it by giving the bottom intake vents a bigger pool of air to pull from and to protect it in case anyone spilled anything on the same table it was on
     
    Unrelated to network lag, the other key area where lag can occur is on your display. Monitors don't display images instantly. Except CRTs, practically. But new GPUs don't support VGA connections anymore, so you can't use modern GPUs on them without converters anymore. But for modern monitors, just look for any gaming monitor. Asus and Benq are the biggest producers of them so I'd recommend any by these brands. In my opinion, http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824236313&cm_re=asus_248qe-_-24-236-313-_-Productis the best <$300 model you can buy. According to http://www.prad.de/new/monitore/test/2013/test-asus-vg248qe-teil7.html#Latenzzeit , this monitor has been tested to have only 1.6 MS total image change time at 144 Hz mode. Also, the faster the refresh rate on the monitor, the sooner it will display the next frame. More frames/second simply feels smoother. For me, it's painful to go back to 60 from 144
     

    All of the products I've mentioned are only suggestions and only things I've tried using. I know their results from actual gamer feel and placebo. I can't deny that the latter could affect me, especially on my laptop trick. But really, if you find anything you think could be better for reducing lag, go for it. This blog is just a fun little unsponsored PSA for gamers to reduce lag, if they want to. It's more fun. Lag just feels bad. Your opponents will thank you, especially in FGs, if you lag less. It has happened to me when I played Brawl online a few times. You might even thank someone too if you're a competitive tryhard
  24. stripper
    Streaming alone is difficult and a little bit awkward. Want to be part of the show? You can add me on Steam and Battle.net, if you'd like. My Steam page is http://steamcommunity.com/id/HeartIsNakedand my BN is HEART#12458. I tend to stream whenever I feel like it which is usually after midnight EST. I mainly play Overwatch, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Call of Duty Modern Warfare Remastered (When it'll launch) and Quake Champions (When it launches too). Even if you don't have these games on PC, chatting with you would still be fun ♥
     
    http://www.twitch.tv/UsurperKingZant
    http://www.twitch.tv/EPsilon933
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