Sunday, February 9, 2025

January 2025 Journal Entry

    Been competing weekly in Super Smash Brothers tournaments. I should probably update the right column and make a recap of last season, but alas, not right now. My placements this semester thus far have been: 1, 2, 3, 1, 3, 4. 22Cents (that's his gamertag) and I are in a very close race for #2 on PR. We've fought a ton in tournament now and have become good buds through it. Shout out to Drake as well who's super awesome.


    Been competing in weekly Lorcana tournaments. My placements thus far in the local game store tournaments have been 1, 1, 1, 2. On top of that, Set Champs were the past three Saturdays. I took 3, 3, 2 in those, which is super consistent and awesome. In total I won 3 Scar Promos and 1 Playmat. Seriously such cool people and such a good community at Set Champs. It's been an absolute pleasure getting to know all of them over the past two sets of Set Champs. I'm sad that I won't be in this area the next time they roll around.


    Been playing a lot of The Bazaar, an asynchronous PvP auto-battler rougelike that's currently in closed beta. You go through various events each 'day', upgrading your board and putting together awesome combos. At the end of each 'day' you fight against someone else's build. Repeat that process until you lose x number of times or win 10 times. Been having a blast with it.

    

    Haven't read, like, at all the past month, but just barely started listening to Steelheart, and am really enjoying it. Have a feeling I'm going to tear through it pretty quickly.


    Been watching more Star Wars content (I need to update my left column, this is the first time since I started it up that I've been slacking on updating it this much). Watched Andor with my roommates Tyler and Tanner. It was very very good. Excited for the 2nd season coming out soon. Watched the first several episodes of The Mandalorian and haven't been enjoying it all that much to be honest. It's decent at least, definitely wouldn't say it's bad. Just not enjoying it a ton for some reason.


    Can't say my classes are my favorite this semester. 

    My Computer Science class is, uh, not great. It's a bad look for your class when your team meets up during team meeting time, and you consistently spend quite a bit of time discussing how poor the class structure is/how various things that could be improved. 

    My World Religions class is very cool (although I wish it was slightly less work, but it's worth it).

    My math class is rough but fun. We're staying afloat.


    Wrote a tad more in Auzzy Quite Liked Her Name. I wrote a ton my last few days in Fallon; Eric and I both wrote a lot in those few days. I've gotten to this part which requires reworking chunks of the previous chapters, which has caused my progress to putter out quite a bit, so I have made very little progress on it in the past month. Very happy with how much progress overall I've made with it since the last time I mentioned it on my blog though:)