Sup Guys, I had an epiphany.
No lie. I had to google how to spell epiphany and make sure I’m using it right. Do I sound kinda smart?Anyway, ehh so like. I think me bullshitting around and never worrying bout rushing life is cause things are really good. I know any lines you cross on growing up, you cant cross back. So I don’t feel pressure to ‘grow up’ ya know? I’m wondering if I’m gonna regret it tho. I’m always having fun and I know if I cross certain ‘grow up’ lines, you don’t cross back. Like having kids. But more so, just once when you change in an older way, you can’t bounce back. Kinda hard to explain. It’s like that person that just got outta a very long term relationship and is trying to party but it feels really forced. They’re trying too hard to be that party person but you can tell they’re just trying to make up for loss time and now, they don’t know how to naturally party and in general - have fun. Do you guys get what I’m talking bout? So.. I’m afraid, say I cross a line, grow up and then I realize ‘hmm this is kinda lame af. I’m going back’ it’s gonna be too late to go back. But then there’s this fear of ‘I def missed out on some other things in life cause I acted 22 my whole life’. Ughh I dunno what to do. I don’t think this is an epiphany now. Is it?
I wake up, chug soda, smoke hookah, get a lil work done, play some video games and go out w friends n fuck around. It’s a really nice life. Waking up to black out curtains, no alarms and no worries. I don’t know if honestly I really have it that good or if I’m just a big child. Don’t get me wrong, I’m def happy. I’m just wondering if I’m missing out on happiness in other ways. Yea the one big potential fomo is having kids. My mom wants me to just get someone prego now. She’s saying ‘you don’t need to get married to have kids’. She’s given up on waiting for me to get married at this point and doesn’t give a fuck lol. She just wants grandkids.
Hdisjcjekdiekakdklwks maybe I’ll ’work on myself’ and focus a bit more on eating healthier and working out. And smoking less. And less soda. But I’ll be fully honest w you guys(as I always am, seriously) I’d only do those things to just get better looking for sex lol. Not cause I actually care bout self improvement. I’m already awesome lol. Diamond 2 bitches.
Truly I’m lost.
Rant done.
Cleaning out my PS5 files. Check out my Elden Ring builds.
Past few weeks.
1/14 Tues got up at 1am. Just quickly made food. Another ramen rice paper wrap. Lit the hookah and watched one more episode of Dexter Original Sin cause its so good. Watched some youtube on Dexter in general. Went back to bed at 5am.
Got back up around 8am. Just working on this blog and other bullshit w youtube on the side. Harrased the shit outta college students to join my Lunar New Year Event and omggg…. Guys, l get it… college is 50 things at once… but when l reach some of them and they say they saw my email and oh yea, they’ll let me know…. They totally read it and forgot it. I understand there is sooo much going on and to keep track of everything is tough but you gotta. I screenshot everything l gotta get back to and keep my photos low. I upload all pictures of me and friends and stuff to my PC a day or two after they’re taken. My photos are MORE SO my notes of things to take care of. Until l transfer that to my To Do Lists on google docs.
If l didnt do this, l would def miss things. But l feel like a lot of the students dont have a system yet on keeping track of everything. Notes, calendar, screenshots. Its all important.
Actually, I don’t know how ANYONE WITH A LIFE doesn’t keep their work and things to take care of written down in some form.
Ok anyway… Spent the afternoon on and off working on stuff for real estate and nightlife and then headed out to get my check and some Honeygrow. Stuffed face while watching youtube and played some Street Fighter 6 ranked for a bit.
Headed out at 6pm to get dinner w Brown Joena and Julian. Its crazy, Brown is right across the street but l dont get to see him much but l understand his work is mad busy. Ate like a king and yoo l love JB Dawson’s so much. Just loading up these steaks w so much stuff. Thank you guys for dinner. Brown and Julian came over to chill for a while after. Watching Minecraft videos lol. Hung out till bout 10pm ish and then afterwards knocked out hard.
Weds woke up around 130am. Just got up to eat, hookah and watch some youtube then back to sleep at 5am lol. Got up again around 12pm to start my day. Just a lot of gaming. Mostly Marvel Rivals ranked but yo omg… the Gold 1 to Platinum 3 grind is so real again. No ones got mic’s ever. The only good thing is all the shots l call, for the most part people listen since lm the only one spouting a gameplan.
At 6pm Brown brought over Julian for me to babysit. Just had a chill time, playing w toys, watching youtube, eating mad McDonalds and icecream.
Vee came through to chill as she’s leaving soon. Brown came by and brought home Julian then came back to chill. The 3 of us just took it easy all night, talking bout whatever and some old times. Crazy college is half a lifetime ago now. Glad l got to chill w Vee before she leaves but she’s coming back again in March.
Afterwards, a bit past midnight, played Marvel Rivals again. Using a bit more Dr.Strange and got myself back into Platinum 3. So Season 0 l got to Diamond 2. Im sure I can hit Grandmaster this season since its 3 months instead of 1 month. We’ll see. I still gotta maintain and work on some stuff for Street Fighter 6. Monster Hunter Wilds comes out end of Feb. I still got an active social life and l should prob focus on making money now that l dont have closings coming up lol.
No one understands my struggles.
Ended the night watching Subservience which was really good cause lm biased. I LOVE movies about AI. Most the time thriller/horror’s and l just like the idea of it every single time. Yea it can be a bit predictable but they’re just always good. Ex Machina being one of my favorites. I enjoyed AfAId. Tau, Her. Esp now w AI being the hot new thing. Its def interesting. And that l use ChatGPT daily. Finally went to bed thurs morning.
Thurs woke up at 10am with little sleep. Got up and hit downstairs craving the fuck outta sugar. I sat there w simply lemonade and Canada Dry, just sipping a bit of each. Like an addict. My sugar cravings are so bad sometimes. Lit a hookah and watched YouTube and then went back to sleep a bit after 12pm. I was gonna hit The Lab but it was snowing kinda bad. Slept more into Friday at 315am. I pretty much slept away my Thurs.
Friday got up at 330am after bullshitting on my phone for a bit. Got up and just had a chill day. Ran errands and got new Airforce ones. Was looking for a very specific North Face 1996 Retro jacket but Dick’s sporting goods didnt have it. Got new shorts for sleeping out for my sleep out bag and got Taco Bell.
Hit home to eat, watch the movie Her which is so good and then played some Marvel Rivals which is fun but a pain. Sooo much work for what feels like a coin flip of gaining or losing rank points lol. Got myself up to Platinum 2 though. Played a lil Street Fighter 6 ranked and then headed out to Chinatown.
Got my haircut from Happy at Room 209 and then got some Mike’s hard lemonade and hit KellyT’s birthday. Happy Birthday Kelly!! Just the squad stuffing face, having some drinks and talking bout all sorts of stuff. Mostly judging people’s looks as we were talking and then ended up watching some of Single’s Inferno Season 3 and 4 lol. I had fun. I love judging. Ate a ton of food as there was a ton of pizza and wings from Soho. Also cake. Just had a really good time talking a lot of shit. Vampire. Sociopath. Pokadot. Fun nicknaming people for their flaws lol. The show is actually still very addictive how they set it up. Talking bout boobs and outfits and how they make boobs look. It was a really simple good time w everyone. We were talking bout some past stuff too how Heng and Nicah called me out on a facebook post during covid and l didnt know the date of events so l just apologized immediately lol. Hung out till people were getting tired. Its always someone who leaves who creates the chain. Im always down for late hang outs. Gave Nicah a ride back and hit home and ended up staying up late, just bullshitting.
Sat l def stayed up too late cause l totally slept through my alarm and missed Go for Broke. Both those events and the Shadow Royalty events, l’ve been missing a lot in the past year. I always write it down in my calendar. I always set alarms. But yea, was not able to get up to make it. Took it easy all evening. Just food and hookah while watching youtube. Later on, got on Street Fighter 6 ranked for a bit till it was time for Ricky’s birthday at XOX. Got there first and settled in and yooo Happy Birthday Ricky!! We had a great time acting dumb and celebrating Ricky’s birthday. Got bottles and a hookah. Other friends came through and just partied till closing.
Later on Ryan Zack SteveC and Jeremiah all came down to watch Solo Leveling and Severance and yooo these shows.. So fucking good. We’re having such a good time. Solo Leveling is def a re-watch on season 2 after its finished. I’ll do it all in one day. Ryan got us mad pizza, thank you Ryan. Also did some youtube. We were talking bout SteveC’s ghost who l named Sakura cause we believe its that old school typical asian ghost that is banging above his ceiling sometimes nearly at the same time (2:07am). We went up to the loft and realized there is a little door that leads to whatever the banging is. I freaked out and so did Zack. It wasnt funny anymore. We were curious to go in but Zack and SteveC are highly against it. Superstitious or whatever… they believe, whatever is in there, is in there. If l open the door, we release it lol. Im laughing but deep down like ‘good point just in case’ so the mystery continues. Afterwards passed out early.
1/20 Monday got up at 630am and bullshitted all morning. Worked on nightlife stuff for a while and then played some Marvel Rivals ranked all evening. Ended the day early w some youtube and just slept at 1030pm.
Tues got up at 130am, up bumming, watching youtube and eating. Did some Marvel Rivals ranked and then headed out at 10am to check out a listing Shemmay has on doing measurements and price estimations. Afterwards, we were feeling viet food. Viet food l think is overall my favorite food. So asian food is my overall favorite but its kinda cheap to say since ‘asian’ food includes - all of Asia. So you got multiple styles from China, you got just several banging selections from Japan. A ton of variety from Korea. Then there’s all southeast asia. So its a lot more choices than say Italian which l do love Italian food. Anyway… l wanna say Viet is my favorite overall. For one, Pho is my favorite food overall. Then everything else at viet places are just banging. And those eggrolls god so fucking good. We got a ton of food and stuffed face hard. Just a good time hanging w Shemmay. Afterwards, we were gonna go to Cherry Hill Mall but my tire was not right and l had to get all 4 tires changed. Took a few hours and was kinda annoyed but it had to be done and now l dont gotta worry bout tires for a while. Hit home to bum for a while.
Afterwards, SteveC and Jeremiah watched a ton of my replays and we analyzed things l could be doing better. Vod reviewing is more fun and more productive w friends. They’ll see things l dont see. We can then discuss and analyze together different options. I just enjoy it a lot. Ended the night watching kpop videos cause those bitches are fucking hot. Music is banging too.
Thurs got up early and drove to Philly and hopped in the car to Magfest. Thank you Alex for driving us. I use to do so much of the long driving but lately everyone has been and its really nice to just hop in and chill. We had a great talk(me Alex Brando AJ) in the car and time flew by like nothing. Got to the hotel and its literally across the street from Magfest. The best we could do for not getting a room in there. And yooo, if we cant get in there, it was easily the next best thing. A 3 min walk. The room itself was spacious and l was really happy with it.
We got our badges and did our annual Nidhogg 2 to start and they did the friendly loser stays unless they lose 3. Winner moves off and gets a random magfest $ coin. So… l just got lucky and got the only $20 again lol. I bugged the fuck out and friends were shocked. But there really was no way l could tell. I actually just got lucky again. Since the amounts you could win is $1 $5 $10 and the one $20. So that was a great start. Had fun cheering on friends playing and just socializing.
Next ran around shopping w Matt. We did about half the area as lm really serious going through and seeing everything. There were some instant buys and a lot of ‘take a pic of it and decide later’ as l didnt wanna carry around bigger stuff and l rather buy after lm sure l want it. We hit the arcades to play and chill and ran around meeting up w other friends. Did the Soul Calibur 2 tournament for fun and won 1 game and then lost and was eliminated on the 2nd game. The only issue doing arcade tournaments is that a single set up makes it sooo long till you play. Waited an hour to play and another 40 mins for my next match since l was towards the end of the single elimination bracket. Met up w Kristine Eric and Dom and we were ran around for a while. Hit back to the hotel to smoke hookah at the end of the night. Dom came through too and yooo we just had a great night, talking and smoking. Chilled till 5am.
Friday smoked a hookah and hit the Magic the Gathering draft where l went 2 wins, 1 loss. The draft was fun and l made a solid Boros(white red) aggro wide deck. But against my second opponent, got massively mana fucked. Gave away my cards to my last opponent since he plays w paper Magic(physical cards) and l dont so it doesnt go to waste. Plus, he sadly lost all 3 of his games so lm sure it made him feel better.
Got food w Kristine and Eric. Just a quick meal and quick break mid day before hitting my next tournament.
Hit the Street Fighter 6 tournament. Warmed up and beat 6 people best 2 of 3 while warming up. It was a single elimination tournament and went up against a Zangief who was at my level. Final guess of game 1, guessed wrong. Got him game 2 and on game 3, got into another guessing situation where l was wrong and l lost. Just like that lol. Ughhh..
So next l hit the mystery fighting game tournament w Brando Alex and Jeremiah. Last year, me and Alex got to grand finals where the game was Marvel vs Capcom 2 and he won a collectors edition of ps4 Death Stranding. Played a ton of random fighting games and the strategy is… find your anti air button. Find a good solid poke or something abusable and then adapt only if they find an answer against the abuse, not till then. Beat 5 people in 5 different games and some of them were mad close. Ended up facing Alex in the Finals again. This time l won and got a $20 magfest coin. Not as good as a $350 collectors edition PS4 but whatever, its about the win. Good games Alex. Me and Alex just got those solid fundamentals down lol.
Next swung by the Maryland Squad’s room to chill for a while and then swung by Discord House’s party. Kristine and Eric joined and it was so good to catch up w the Discord House and also meet some of the people from there that lve played games w but never met in person before. Just drank and socialized all night. Havent gotten to see them since Otakon. I feel like l get to see them 1-3 times a year usually. Hung out late till everyone went down to play games.
Got lunch w Kristine Eric and Kotey as another quick food break and break from everything. Its so bad that the only thing lm eating each day is tenders, fries w a soda. Cause lm just playing games, shopping and partying lol. Which is really fun. I just wish l had more food chill out time. Great seeing and catching up w Kotey too.
Ran around shopping and used all my magfest dollars that l collected over the past 3 days. Got a ton of shit. I like stickers for labeling my shit and same w charms to hang off stuff. Got more posters from this artist that’s great. I got a Malenia, a Deathnote and a Igris(solo leveling) but lm not sure where to hang them. But the art is sooo fucking good. Hit back to the room to drop off my stuff and smoke hookah. AJ Brando and Alex joined to chill out for a while too.
Later on, back to Discord House to drink and hookah. Kristine Eric and Kotey came through too. Just socialzing and talking bout exactly what you’d think bout at an event like this. Lots of talks bout gaming and anime and its just good to nerd out w everyone on all of it. Just partied w them all night again and thank you guys for hosting and having us. Crazy how l met Kalianne back in 2016 and how fast time flies. Really glad l got to know her sister Raksmey and their whole squad slowly overtime. This group is just a lot of fun. Def wanna play more games w them but l gotta actually check discord more often. Partied late and hit back to the room mad late. Where everyone was already asleep.
Sunday hit home and the ride was really fast from just talking the whole ride. Hit Giant to get stuff to make burgers and potatoes. Cooked and just ate and bummed allllllllll night. I was so beat from the weekend. So much socializing and gaming. My mind wanted to be derpy all day and all night. Then eventually slept early.
Tuesday got up early again to get work done and then bummed. Later on, made ramen and lit the hookah while watching this show Silo that got all these awards. Im liking it so far. Took it easy all night and really just been grinding on Street Fighter 6. Playing ranked and doing made training mode practice. Its crazy how I almost practice in training room as much as l played ranked mode looking at my overall hours in game(it shows you how many hours you spent in each). Training room is just answering questions, testing theories and its just peaceful to me. Others find it like doing homework and dont like it. Im glad l do. Ended the night eating, smoking and watching youtube again.
Weds got up for lunch w my Mom at Umi Seafood buffet for Lunar New Year. The food was pretty banging there. Def a spot lm gonna go back to. Talked w my mom about a ton of stuff and lm glad she doesnt seem too bored. Im really tempted to buy her a puppy but l think its gonna be too much for her to train but l think it’d be good for her. Esp how much she loves my sister’s dog Ari. Ate a ton of seafood and yoo, lobster is always a good time.
Hit home to smoke and bum and then had a full gaming night. Just Street Fighter 6 training room and ranked and then a lot of Marvel Rivals ranked matches all night.
Friday got up late. Food hookah youtube combo and then headed out to get pizza, gas and cash. Its a pawwtyyy!! MattK came over and we played a lot of Street Fighter 6 against his Ed and had a nice full discussion on the game.
Kristine, Eric and Mike came through and we hit XOX for my Venom and Velvet event for Lunar New Year. Got there at 840pm and set up. Took it easy smoking and drinking till the crowd slowly filled in. The odd thing was, there was a lot of really early people who then left early cause there wasnt many people there. I mean, some people showing up at 9 910pm. Later on at 1130pm a bigger base crowd came through. Good work to Burkazzee as he always does an amazing job playing. By midnight XOX was fun and lively. Met some of the people l was working w and their friends. We did have an influx of girls at one point. Binh rolls out w girls squad deep lol. She def seems popular in general. Had a good time w everyone at the table and then Rich was mentioning to do an after party which a bunch of us hit. Tried to convince more like the Villanova Sigma group. Always got a soft spot for them since l’ve known and partied w their members since they chartered. Ok now l sound old. Rich got a ton of pizza’s. I brought soju and we had a chill after party till 6am. Burkazzee even came through too and we got the girls opinion on what more and less to play. Def good insight. Knocked out for a lil while. Morgan was knocked out as well. Afterwards, dropped off Binh’s squad and hit back home w Mike. We got back at 7am lol.
Sat was slept away. In the afternoon, bummed w Mike and then later on MattK came through to watch youtube, play Street Fighter 6 against his Ed and chill for a while. Im glad MattK is visiting a lot more. Plus little Matt is always using his Playstation 5 lol so Matt comes through.
Next headed out to meet up w Binh and her squad. Brought hookah pizza and soju and met Josh’s home friend and other people that were coming out. Had a chill pregame w them but yooo these girls take forever getting ready lol. We hit up Roar for an event and ran around dancing w them. Though it was somewhat outside w it being tented w heat lamps. I just wanted to party by the heat lamps. The crowd kinda helped but there was def some too cold moments. Got to know some of the other people from pregame better and had a good time partying w them again. Afterwards, dropped off everyone in my car and hit back. There was a postgame but l was just tired and cold and needed a hot bath. Got wawa on my way home. Hot bath, food, hookah and youtube the end the night.
Ryan Zack SteveC and Jeremiah all came down and we did our typical shows - Severance and Solo Leveling. Watching 2 episodes of each. Fucking loving it. Afterwards, bummed late into the night re-watching Kakegurui the anime again.
2/3 Monday did mad work in the morning and was just on my PC all day. Getting personal crap done. Organizing notes and shit. The anxiety builds as the To Do Lists grow faster than l can knock out lol. The double edged sword of my life. Smoked hookah and watched a ton of Kakegurui. I fucking love this series so much. The games def make me think. There were some episodes that l paused the show for 15 mins thinking bout what l’d do in the game presented. Just also how the show works. She gambles, gets bullied, figures out the bully’s cheating method. Asks to play more games and for even more money, outplays the bully and then bullies the bully as she’s beating them. Its very satisfying and fun to watch. As she gets scary but your rooting for the scary person. Stayed up late organizing shit, taking care of small things and bullshitting into Tues morning.
Tues still up doing more work and made this fried rice w the egg done from this video l saw. It turned out pretty well and def plan to do my scrambled egg in fried rice the way l saw it. Pretty much, mad hot pan, throw in 3 eggs and mix it around really fast while adding rice. Made a plate for SteveC cause he’s bae and then worked on Street Fighter 6 stuff. Just training room and ranked matches w Zangief. Watched some Kakegurui and slept at 530pm.
Weds got up at 10am, bummed and hit BJ’s to get mad food and supplies. Mad bagel w lox for me and SteveC cause he’s bae. I miss Hackney thinking bout it. I met SteveC through Hackney. Sold Hackney his first home and SteveC moved in and thats when we started to become better friends. Anyway, played a lot w Mai in Street Fighter 6 as she just dropped. Def mad fun. A mix between training room, ranked matches and watching mad youtube, studying as much as l can. Taking mad notes and then practicing and testing stuff for myself. Seeing what l want to have as part of my Mai gameplan and what lm not a fan of such as meaty Butt tackle to be +3 or +4, depending if l landed H Ryuu into M Butt meaty or M Ryuu into L Butt Meaty. But its a 100% get OD DP’d/Lv1/Lv2/Lv3/Drive Reversal if they buffer it. I’m also DPing people who do it meaty as you just buffer and you can see it happening before you fully get up and its 100%.
Got my Mai in Diamond 1. So a little bit of a climb to get her to Masters but l do wanna get her to Masters. Esp since its been a while since we had a new character. Its something to just work on. Ended the night watching Kakegurui and youtube.
Thurs got up late and MattK came to visit cause he loves us. Bummed in the afternoon, watching youtube, playing Mai and going over her stuff. Went out to hit The Lab and then went… 0-2 lol ughhh it happens every now and then… like once every 2 years or so(for Street Fighter). For games that arent my main focus, it can def happen like me trying to relearn Tekken 8 the week of Evo lol. It happens. Still had a good time hanging w everyone. Just smoking, talking gaming and other junk. Hit home and thank you Jeremiah for the Halal food.
Ate and played Monster Hunter w Mike and Jeremiah and yo lm loving it. Im being open minded w weapons. Testing and feeling out alll weapons and lm not sure how many lm gonna main but of course, minimum of 2 but probbbbb up to 4. To have diversity and to enjoy the game w different weapons. We’ll see. Im liking Long Sword, Great Sword, Lance, Sword and Shield. I dont think l’ll be a Dual Blades or Hunting Horn player. The rest… lm still undecided. We’ll see. I think Great Sword and Lance are defs for me like in the past. Ended the night watching youtube late night.
Friday got up and hit NYC to bring groceries to my sister and give her a ride to the airport. I know it sounds excessive but also, l was bringing her dog Ari back to my Mom’s so all of it made sense. Got to her place, cooked, ate and lm just glad me and Allison got some good catch up on everything time. A lot of time, me and Allison are always out w people so yea, we’re chilling but its not as much bro/sis time. Well besides the most recent trip, we got to chill a lot. Got her stuff in the car along w Ari and brought Allison to the airport. As she’s on her 30th trip since 2021 lol. She really does work and she works hard but her IG would make you think she’s retired cause she’s always on trips.
Brought Ari back to my place for the night. Hit Giant for mad dog treats and good food. I dont want Ari eating what she eats everyday. Needs some variety. MattK and Amy visited and we just hung out. Amy loved Ari. Set up youtube, the hookah and just took it easy. Playstation network went down so it was a youtube, eat and hookah kinda night lol. Hung out mad late and it was nice to have Ari for a day.
Ended the night finishing up Kakegurui. Gonna watch the spin off show again and then the live action shows again cause its so damn good.
Sunday got up, smoked hookah and hit XOX to set up for the Super Bowl. Placed a ton of bets on Fanduel. Dude… the crowd was huge. Tho they were wild, nothing bad happened. Everytime l had to bring hookahs to tables, it was so stressful but no knock overs, no fights, no drama or really drunk people doing dumb shit. I feel kinda old saying this but it was a hype but mature party lol. We had a really solid team for the night and l got to watch the game here and there. Talking w guests all over the place. Everyone was just mad easy to talk bout since we were always talking bout the game. Won my $50 coinflip on tails. Won $200 on the Eagles and some small bets on Jalen Hurts but then lost other bets throwing $10-50 on players scoring multiple times and stuff. Then won about $700 on a random tennis match because l bet on the underdog by accident but then he started winning lol.
The game was fun and hype but also a good relaxed feeling since by halftime the score was 24-0 Eagles. It was a ‘just dont fuck up and you win’ kinda situation and yea, it kinda makes the game a bit boring but honestly, everyone just wants them to win and l also had $200 on them winning lol. Ate a ton of wings and fries in the back and yooo amazing work by the whole team. Afterwards, cleaned like crazy and thank you Edwin for the lil surprise bonus. I really appreciate it. Edwin also got us a ton of fun to chill and eat afterwards. Didnt wanna leave too soon after the game ending anyway. Had to wait for traffic and chaos to die down.
Gave Chua, one of the bartenders/bottle girls a ride back but yooo getting just outta a ONE TURN spot from Chinatown took bout 20 mins but then after that, it wasnt bad. Got back home late and just bummed hardcore for the night. Too fragile, cold and tired to go out and run around the streets. Plus the walk was too far from Chinatown to the chaos. I’d go see the chaos if it was like… spring or summer time and l got some friends to walk w lol. Stayed up all night eating, smoking and watching youtube and junk.
2/10 Monday still up watching youtube and slept midday. Got up at night and took it easy. Just was aching from the hard work on Sunday. Got on Marvel Rivals ranked w Mike and climbed back up to Diamond 3. I ended the Season 0 in Diamond 2 and l wanna get to Grandmaster 3 atleast this season but we’ll see. Watching sooo much videos has been helping so much. A lot is philosophy on how to play Peni properly. As there are so many routes which you could play her and l think the style where you just extend webs from the nest and only shoot webs when
You will def land it so you wont lose the extended webs
Stopping an Ult
Securing a kill
Plus you can always fix the extended webs w the web dash if you do miss and now 1 of the 3 extended ground webs is now gone. Had mad fun and then watched an insane amount of Mai videos on youtube to take mad notes. The note taking, studying, testing and organization lm doing is so damn clean. Its interesting that - HOW you learn is so important. And it just gets better, faster and more organized the more you learn. So for learning new characters in fighting games, it just gets more and more and more efficient.
First watch the video and take notes. Second, go into training mode and practice what l like. Third, practice it in Ranked matches(dont need to do it in casual match). Write down what l do like and that l have as my gameplan naturally and then write in the ‘Add in Arsenal’ section of what is good but isnt mentally part of my gameplay yet. Worked on it all night.
Tues got up late and got Taco Bell. Hit Giant to get more food and hit home to chill and watch Dexter Original Sin. Loving this show and so glad Dexter is coming back. Played some Marvel Rivals ranked w Mike for a while. Still trying to climb. Played for a while and then smoked hookah and watched youtube w Jeremiah.
Afterwards cleaned like crazy. Just my whole dining room and kitchen area as it was getting a bit sloppy. Trashing a lot of stuff that is just taking up space. Worked on this blog for a while and worked on the Street Fighter 6 notes for a while. Its just so nice to have. There’s no way to learn AND REMEMBER everything. Especially w updates. So having the notes ‘oh yea punish this on block w that’ ‘this is the range this character wants to play at’ ‘look at for this, can react and stop it w X’ kinda stuff. I try to keep the notes for each match up as brief and important so its not overload for when lm reviewing at a tournament. Worked on it into weds.
Weds still up, did some training in Street Fighter 6 and watched some of Dune 2. Slept midday and got up at 9pm and MattK visited cause he loves us. Played some Street Fighter 6 w him and bummed, watching youtube and smoking hookah. Later on, did some Marvel Rivals w Mike again till 1230am ish. Cooked for a while and ended up on a call w Malena for a lil as l was bugging out that shes into Elden Ring lol. Also got a lot in common w dance, real estate, greek life and stuff. Fun call and then later watched mad youtube videos on Marvel Rivals on Peni Parker stuff. Watched some youtube videos on the new Elden Ring game and then videos on Mai in Street Fighter 6 all night into Thurs.
Thurs still up watching mad youtube. Finally knocked out at lunch time again. Full week of nocturnal life. Its a good life. Got up in the evening to do work for a lil before hitting The Lab. Went 2 wins, 2 losses and took 3rd out of 10 in Street Fighter 6. Smoking hookah, just bumming w the squad all night. Its so crazy how long we’ve had The Lab for. I really appreciate Jimmy for all his hardwork to give us this spot. Because of The Lab, lve made so many long term friends over the years. Hung out late and afterwards, hit Wawa to get some food. Got home to eat, smoke and youtube late night.
Friday got up at 1pm, got ready and headed out to XOX as they needed my help again. They knew it’d be another big event being the Eagles Parade. Sold out of all hookahs again, ate mad fries and also Vada and his squad came through to chill. Just had another busy day at XOX. Def a solid day and just hit back home afterwards. I’m not a parade kinda person.
Hit back to Langhorne, got a cheesesteak from Steve's Prince of Steaks and then hit Giant to get burgers and fries for Sat. Got home to just eat, hookah and watch mad youtube. There was options to go out but l dunno…. Everything is a concert now, not really a club. Its wild that getting bottle service is more so for the squad to dance together as the dance floor vibe for me is typically killed by everyone facing the front w their phone out ya know? I like dancing w people face to face. I dunno… clubs are mostly concerts now. Its also kinda why l prefer lounges more as its not sooo much like that.
Anyway, stayed up late w Jeremiah. Late night… ‘yo wanna bet on Tennis?’ lololol and yooo we were laughing like kids, betting on random tennis matches, losing money then betting money on the same gambling Fanduel’s digital casino and winning our money back on roulette lol. We were like children but yoo we were just hype and laughing. It was a really good time. We then watched gameplay of this game The Cabin Factory and yoo very dope creative game. It was fun to watch this certain youtuber play it and just enjoy the show. And freak out. Scary games, l think, are actually more fun w friends watching. There’s something about being scared w friends thats really fun. Had mad fun doing that and then watching Youtube videos explaining the backstory to the game which was a good but simple story. Hung out till 7am.
Afterwards, watched more Street Fighter 6 videos on youtube into Monday.
2/17 Monday still up. Just working on real estate work and nightlife stuff for my next event. Was up allllll day and later on MattK came over to chill and play Street Fighter 6 w me and Jeremiah. Hung out, made food, lit the hookah. Same old stuff. Chilled and stayed up till 11pm and then finally went to bed.
Tues well… I woke up at 11am so 12 hours of sleep but l went to sleep a lil more and then… it was 6pm. Gahh fuck lol. Felt great though. My body is ready to fight stuff. Worked on nightlife work for a while - harassing college students to promote my event. Got some new people too. Then just took it easy all night just watching mad youtube, eating and smoking hookah into weds.
Weds morning, finally slept at 10am. Got up at 1245pm to get lunch w my Mom at A1 Japanese steakhouse and had a solid hibachi lunch w my Mom. Just talking bout mostly family stuff and whatever. Had a solid lunch and then hit home to bum. More youtube and hookah and then slept shortly after.
Got up at 9pm and took it easy. Youtube, hibachi left overs and hookah and then hopped on Marvel Rivals w Mike. Got up to Diamond 2 and then the next game was a loss and yoo l lost tons of points and got sent halfway into Diamond 3 lol. ONE LOSS lol. I didnt look at the ranks of the other players but there had to be multiple Diamond 3s then. Esp since Mike was still Diamond 3. Had fun tho trying new strats out that lve been watching off of 3 different Peni Parker mains. One being CringeAlert, the #1 Peni player. He makes really good videos. Afterwards, bummed upstairs for a bit, took a bath and then downloaded the Fatal Fury: City of Wolves Beta which is a game l may take serious. I need just another fighting game. 2XKO is still gonna be a while. ONLY having Street Fighter 6 is kinda lacking. Also l got Monster Hunter coming out soon. Played all night into Thurs.
Thurs still playing Fatal Fury into the morning. JustinJ was playing it after l told him bout it and after a bit, he thought he was ready for me. Like he thinks he is in Pokemon and Mortal Kombat lol. Justin, l love you bro but for a while now, youre at a tournament level. Not just online level. He did come to one tournament a longgg time ago. I dont even remember what game. But he was baffled at the level of play. With Pokemon, thats prob where he’s the most threatening though, l’ll give him that. Anyway… SWEPT HIS ASS in Fatal Fury lol. GG2EZ haha.
Watched some youtube on political news and Fatal Fury and slept at 1230pm. Got up at 730pm and hit The Lab for Street Fighter 6. We had 7 of us but 7 is JUST low enough where we can still do round robin tournament. I think its better for everyone and more worth it for everyone that EVERYONE is guaranteed 6 opponents for their money and time to come out. I know it can be rough, esp when newer when you go to tournaments and just lose to 2 opponents and thats it. Or maybe you squeeze 1 win out in Losers bracket then lose right after that. You’re like ‘am I any good? Is it really worth me coming to this?’ But everyone getting more matches, it makes it more worth it. I went 4 wins, 2 losses. Losing to Jeremiah in the final game, final round, final hit to his Mai and to Geobraun who won the tournament. Took 2nd place based on scoring and hung out for a while. Just talking, smoking and going over tons of stuff. Game related and just other junk.
Worked w Walter w his Juri as he goes for, what l call, ‘Just do it Heavy Shimmy’ where you shimmy and use a heavy attack, which scores you more damage if they did delay tech(trying to stop the throw but delayed so you block incase of an attack) or Drive Reversal(a get off me move) or DP(a get off me move that nets damage). Just in tournament, l assumed throw/shimmy and went for a forward jump which got me a cross up Punish Counter leading to damage and putting him in the corner. So overall, lm a fan of, what I call, ‘On reaction Shimmy’ which you hit a Medium attack but only in reaction to seeing the throw whiff. Less reward but you also beat or worst case, block the jump if they go for that on wake up. Ok too much detail that 96% of you wont understand. We went over all options and turned in the training dummy to multiple options so he could react and practice to the different Defensive Mechanic options - all that lose to Shimmy
Delay Tech
DP
Supers
Drive Reversal
Also you can still anti air and either keep them back in corner w an air to air or DP them but they get outta the corner. Though they still take damage and get knocked down.
Hit home to watch youtube and make snowcrab legs. Called Anita and Binh to talk bout the gameplan for the weekend and then got on ranked on Fatal Fury. Went 40 wins, 17 losses. But climbing through the bottom ranks, l went on a starting 24 winstreak simply from
Anti airing
Shimmying
Using one bnb(bread n butter combo) for solid damage and took out the ending and would replace it for one of the Supers
Poking
Thats it. FGC fundamentals. Got to Rank C2 but l dunno how high it goes. Played mega late.
Friday got up and just got changed and hit Philly to get Binh and Anita and we hit NYC. Oddly… the traffic was super smooth the entire drive. For evening, thats insane. We met up w Wes and Edwin and got dinner at a sushi spot across the street from Wes. Stuffed face, introduced everyone and had a fun dinner. It was just right, not TOO much but filling enough. We hit Wes’ after for pregame and slowly mad friends showed up.
Met a lot of new people too and l love pregame. It was about 2.5 hours of just drinks, hookah and socializing. A lil house party. Pregame is just nice lol. And when we go out, everyone is well acquainted at the least ya know? Sean took mad good photos so l can steal them and post them here. Thank you Sean. Pregammed till a lil past midnight and then hit up Maru.
We drove to Maru, tho it was close by cause l need my car. Got into Maru and we got our table and yooo. EVERYTIME the music is so on point. Its just hype music and its not too much build it. Its just a steady flow of hype music. Some DJs have WAYYYY too much build up… its like 30 seconds of build up, 30 seconds of hype, song change, build up again. Like it kills the flow when you trying to party when every track has down time. I like the DJs that have it hype for a while and every now and then have a build up and drop. And when they do it, its really hype. Ok lol.
Got on the sofas and just danced w everyone. Jing and Anita were furniture stomping w me. They get it lol. We had a coat mountain and got a few bottles. Just going ape shit, running around to socialize a lil but thats more so what pregame is for. At Maru, lm always looking to dance. Partied till 330am and yoooo such a good time. Thank you Wes for setting it up. Afterwards, a few of us hit across the street to eat at Miss Korea BBQ which was mad good. Hit Wes’ as the girls forgot their stuff there and then hit home. Got back home at 7am lol.
Sat slept the day away and it was iffy if we were still gonna make XOX. Texted more friends and then slowly groups were down to come out. Jing Anita Emily and April were down to come out. SaraW Jenny and their friends were coming by earlier. EmilyD and MichelleC also came out. Kristine Eric and Jeremiah also came through. Felt like l needed more guys to balance things out. Got mad soju and hookahs and had a good time partying at XOX w everyone. Introducing friends to friends. Also found Victoria by chance. Just another solid night but was so exhausted. Got McDonalds w Anita’s squad afterwards and hit back to her place to eat and smoke. We ended up hanging out till almost 6am. Always a late night w them but l know Binh and Anita are nocturnal like me. Got home w the sun out again.
Sunday still up, watching Dexter Original Sin and then finally slept at 10am. Got up at 4pm and Ryan Zack Eric Kristine Duron SteveC and Jeremiah joined for shows. We had to catch up hardcore as we havent gotten together in a lil cause of the Superbowl and people being sick for the Sundays.
We watched and caught up w Solo Leveling and yoooo such a good fucking show. Then we watched Severance which is also a ridiculous show. We did talk a lot before and after and yo, we can just talk for hours bout whatever. Had a really good long night w everyone.
2/23 Monday got up early and had a productive day. Working on real estate, nightlife and personal to do list. Got mad food at Giant, got my car washed and got Popeyes. Stuffed face, smoked hookah and finished Dexter Original Sin which l really liked. I think its a one off though. Because Dexter itself is coming back. Back to work for a while and then at night just played Marvel Rivals w Mike. Still floating Diamond 2 and 3. Just trying to sneak into Grandmaster. Worked on a short reel, a real dumb one.
https://www.instagram.com/p/DGfXG7URh4S/
Late night, watched movies into Tues morning. First this movie Companion, another AI related movie and l really liked it. Thanks Ryan for suggesting it. Then watched The Gorge and yooo such a dope movie. Anya Taylor Joy makes everyone fall in love w her. I’ve had a crush on her for like 8 years now lol. The movie in general is really fun tho. Pretty much, mystery, curiosity then action/horror.
Tues finally went to bed at like 1130am lol. Got up at 630pm to play w Julian on Fortnite for the new season. Got him the new Battle Pass since l havent gotten him anything in a bit. We played some games and took a 10th, 12th and 2nd. Really wanted one win tho.
Went back upstairs at 8pm to work on nightlife stuff for a bit and then played w Marvel Rivals w Mike all night. Going on win streaks and losing streaks and yooo the game is exhausting lol. Watched a lil youtube and went back to bed at 1am.
Weds got up early. Made fruit bowls for me and SteveC. Strawberries, blueberries and raspberries. Just trying to be healthy. Watching youtube on the side w just news in general. Mostly nerd news. Hit downstairs to snack some more, hookah and watch youtube. Worked on my Matchup Guide in Street Fighter 6 for a lil bit. Just adding questions or making adjustments. Hit Chinatown for a meeting at XOX w Edwin, Jacky and Elijah about Go Rae’s future gameplan and talked future events. Thank you for bringing mad food Elijah. Emei is so fucking good. Had a great meeting and afterwards hit home to chill. MattK came through. Smoked and watched footage on Fatal Fury but wasnt feeling well. Just too much sleep then too much lack of sleep. Ended up passing out at 8pm..
Now your moment of Hack.
Late.
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