Wednesday, May 25, 2022

Can't Work On It Forever (TØP Fav Songs List)

Welp, this has been brewing for the past 6 months. And, frankly, it could brew for another 6 months. A list of this size is constantly shifting around, especially when compared to my other favorite lists. I listen to Twenty One Pilots almost on a daily basis. 

I (sadly) don't play board games every day, let alone several. I don't finish a book a day, let along several. But I do listen to many-a-Twenty One Pilots songs a day. And so my opinions are constantly being revised about the exact order of where they place.

But, I decided, I needed to just post the list and then make revisions in the future. But the first step is just posting it. So here it is.


Couple notable things:
-Lovely has the Regional at Best cover art, but I'm actually referring to the Vessel version of the song.

-The songs in the D tier are the only songs I would say that I dislike. And even then, I do like to occasionally listen to them.

-I split S tier into three different tiers because I just love so many of their songs that much, haha.







Wednesday, May 18, 2022

Rhythm of War (and what's next on the reading chopping block)

Welp, I finally finished Rhythm of War.

And boy o boy did I love it.

2nd favorite in the series, I think? I think I preferred Words of Radiance, but it's been so so long now since I've read that that I could be embezzling just how good it was in my mind. I can say pretty confidently that I preferred Rhythm of War over The Way of Kings and Oathbringer, though.

Current order:

1. Words of Radiance

2. Rhythm of War

3. The Way of Kings

4. Oathbringer


I am itching for more Stormlight Archive right now, but it'll be a little while yet until book 5.

So in the meantime, I have a few other things I intend to read.

I do need to prepare for Wax and Wayne Book 4, which I am so pumped for. Already preordered it. Only 6 more months! 

I'm planning on rereading the Mistborn trilogy and then the Wax and Wayne books to prepare, but I'm not sure when. I might read some of Brandon Sanderson's short stories first (such as Dreamer and Snapshot) that I haven't read yet in order to spice in some quicker reads amongst the heavier reads. Sometimes need a break between reading Stormlight and the entirety of Mistborn stuff. But maybe I will just dive straight into Mistborn. Currently undecided. Will probably end up making a decision tomorrow.


Also currently reading The Zookeeper's Secret for my Career and Self Discovery class, which has been a really good read so far. Definitely has some solid insights and has been proving useful.

Tuesday, May 10, 2022

My First Month of Wordle

Welp, first month of playing Wordle has been a blast.

Stats and link to google drive that has all my wordles thus far are at the bottom of this post.


My general strategy and what I go for when creating words:

Obviously it was different the first week or so, but now I've kind of gotten into a groove. Credit goes to a random youtube comment on this general strategy, although I do mix it up, which I will talk about.


I always start with the word STOMP. If only one of the letters is used in the correct word, I follow up with the word ADIEU. This two words in conjunction get some major common letters and all the vowels used. 

From there, I use all the correct letters I've been giving and try to mix in the letters R, C, H, K, or L. Those five tend to be my priority. I try to avoid all double letters until I would reasonably feel confident that the correct word has a double letter.

However, I divert from that base if two or more of my letters from STOMP are correct. I then use my correct letters and mix in the letters E, A, and R as my top priority. 


That's the general idea of what I do each time. But obviously in every Wordle my thought processes and methods change depending on what letters show up as green/yellow and such.


Anyway, I'm excited for my continued Wordle adventures :)


Google Drive of all my Wordles thus far: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1P-5NqezY1_TMhU6S30H-kA7Qd3GqrUtr?usp=sharing




Sunday, May 1, 2022

SSBU Tourney Results (Updated List Explanation)

Just look at the stuff in bold. That's all that really matters.


Newest Change: Adding in my seed going into the tournament.


Explanation of the new list currently entitled "SSBU Tourney Results". (SSBU stands for Super Smash Brothers Ultimate)


Format of each item in list:


The first item: A link to this post.

The second item: A link to a recap of my previous season including all of my placements and such.

The third item: The kind of but not really Official PGR. This is a website our region has been using to keep track of players' rankings within the region. It auto-ranks people based off how well they did in tournaments they have attended and such.

There are debates on how well it does its job. It seems to weigh certain things more than many people in our region would weigh it. I'm under the tag "Theo".


All other items:

Placement (out of number of people), Seed #, Abbreviation of Tournament Name, Money Won.

If clicked upon, they are linked to the tournament's bracket found on smash.gg.

Newest tournaments will now be at the bottom of the list instead of the top.


My seed should help you (and me) see how well I should do vs how well I did. I think it'll help put a lot of things in prospective.


The tournaments taking place, their names, whether they're a weekly/bi-weekly/monthly etc. vary, especially compared to last semester, so I'm not going to try to list all the tournaments and describe them like I did for last semester.