ເສືອຫຼິ້ນ/seu-lin

A crude drawing by reddit user MetalGearTom of Anne Shirley from Anne of Green Gables breaking a chalk slate over the head of Frieza from Dragonball Z

Wonderful things are happening in the Anne of Green Gables subreddit

Really though I think I like this engine although the calibration is driving me crazy and the aesthetic is decidedly not to my tastes. I downloaded it because I wanted to try the Paradise City chart. It's good! Although without practice mode at my skill level I can't imagine getting close to an FC.

Gold stars in Paradise City X Pro-Lead.

wtf is a fortnight? how did I get here HELP!!!

(62/70) Black Magic Woman
I was terrified of the strumming on solo 2 but I got it really quickly. I feel a lot more consistent on strumming on this engine.
This chart is weird. The HOPO forcing feels almost random

(61/70) Knights of Cydonia
I guess I'm better at strumming than I thought? Playing at 32ms video feels weird but I definitely needed it.

I got a sudden burst of energy from recovering from a surgery, used the drive to get back into SF6 and get a new highest MR, prepped to play Mai, and then I got distracted by a hardcore Pokemon Black nuzlocke in which I keep losing and having to reset.

(60/70) Number of the Beast
Another short grind.
Having only 10 songs left makes the fgfc feel more possible

Cult of Personality FC results screen

(59/70 FCs)
Not that hard tbh XD
Now that I'm almost to the last chunk of songs, I'm going to have to work hard on strumming consistency going forward

Cheryl: Extremely Inconsistent. One of the peculiar additions to Platinum was a battle with each of the partners you encounter. All of them are BRUTAL. This one took 3 hours for me to crack and even then loosely. I'm sure there is a better method than my insanely luck dependent one. Pokemon I Used: Totodile, Cyndaquil, Chikorita, Pachirisu, Drifloon, Magnemite With Totodile, Scary Face and then Bite Drifloon. If it doesn't flinch reset, if you flinch twice or get a crit, reset. You need a clean switch. Take it out with Cyndaquil and then switch to Chikorita on Wailmer. Hope it doesn't KO with Rollout or it'll stomp your team. For Makuhita use Drifloon and purposely faint for Aftermath damage. Then stall with Pachirisu and charm it. If you can use bide for massive damage. If you can't, Cyndaquil can take it out. For Chansey use captivate. I used Cyndaquil but I lived consistenly with only 2-4hp. If your Cyndaquil has a bad special defense or HP IV, or -special defense nature it's likely this will not work. Then use Magnemite to paralyze and then sonic boom it to pieces. I used an oran berry on it which was crucial because my luck was only OK instead of amazing.

I once tried to finish the super hard Pokemon hack Renegade Platinum with 0 exp and no items in battle. I made it all the way to the elite four.
I even documented the absurd strategies I employed.
I think I could optimize it if I had the time but that's so much work
Here's one of my proudest strats:

"My Curse" took a long time until I adjusted my calibration.

I have to experiment more with that. I was able to hit a lot of sections like in Black Magic Woman I couldn't before on other songs at 32 or 50ms lag.
(58/70 FCs)

I spent like 2 hours grinding "My Curse" last night and when I got bored, I got this FC in 15 minutes.
These songs are getting really tough
57/70 songs FCd (I recounted)

First impression of the VF5 beta before I go to bed is that it's pretty good : )
I've made excuses on why I haven't before, but I want to really invest in learning VF. The best chance to do so is now after all.
Although, I'll have to see if my time permits that with everything else going on

Whoops it should say 15 songs left Aka the really hard ones. Who knows? Maybe in 2025 I'll be posting about FCing Through the Fire and Flames

Over the past year I've been slowly chipping away at a Full Game FC of Guitar Hero 3. A lot of these fcs aren't notably hard but I feel proud of them as a casual. Currently at 15/70 songs.

P!ATD ended up being my most listened to band for another year which is cool. I should've been into them far earlier.

Next year I have to make a concerted effort to diversify my tastes. i.e. delve into significantly more Japanese artists

The recent glitch is completely gamebreaking and it's good the WWs have been postponed. Although, I have to admit I kinda wanted to watch SF6 players turn on negative edge and try to piano their reversals like ST

I like ALL of the Cammy changes, they could've gone further tbh

I mean uhhhh Cammy gets nerfed and everyone celebrates but Rashid, Ken, and Akuma get off scott free when will misogyny end???!!!

Of course!

Here Lies Link

Our grand warriors of light

I'm liking FF1 a lot more than I'd thought; I didn't intend to play any of them before FFVI. It's surprisingly focused, streamlined, yet varied for a 1987.
Ye olde FF charm is what's really compelling me. Uematsu drops bops, Amano's art's still impressive, and the writing holds up

I've been quite deep into my JRPG era so expect mostly that with occasional fighting game stuff

It's got some issues but it's playable. NMH2's port is really bad though