DANDY!!!!

shes gooooone 😭

went out the house today LMAO

honestly i needed this hang out w/ how depressed i been high key 🥲 ty for coming out y'all it was beyond fun @stormysenpai.bsky.social @whoomfy.bsky.social stara @landonzang.bsky.social and @tormi.bsky.social <3

Regardless of my ability to improve over time. People often forget the human components in all of this and then wonder why our community is so stunted.

This echoes my feelings exactly. The first impressions bit especially. It's why I am so scared to do pick ups a lot of the time. I often feel like I need to practice insanely hard in solo before I jump into pickups or sendou because if I'm not ready then I'll just have a label over my head

I’ve been seeing a lot of people say that if you’re good enough, the server or environment doesn’t matter you’ll eventually get noticed and end up playing with strong players. I used to believe that too. Im pretty sure I can go back to my 2023 VODs and find myself saying mid-level players were just making excuses and they are terrible entitled players lmao. But after talking and playing with so many people, my perspective has changed. Yes, outliers will rise very quickly some players are just that good and improve at a crazy pace. But not everyone develops that way. At higher levels, growth often depends a lot on opportunities, and who you’re able to practice with consistently (or if you can play Japan x rank at their time zones+fast queue times) . First impressions also carry a lot of weight. If you don’t immediately perform, people tend to label you as “not good” and often ignore your improvement over time. The current competitive enviorment just doesn't facilitate growth overtime at all. And while it’s true that some people blame the system instead of putting in the work, that’s not something that should be applied for everyone. What I’d really like to see is a healthier community path for improving players, back in S2 solo queue wasn't that big of a factor at least for me, you could grind tournaments, scrims, colo etc and it was very easy to set a clear path for your growth without worrying about result culture or getting dodged. You only really got blacklisted if you proved time and time again you just weren't cut out for your current level. Overtime I'm starting to understand why everyone gets so heated about +server etc. It's just not fun to play in the current community environment for comp and I hope eventually people will be a bit more opened minded to making the current comp environment more enjoyable instead of just "God I earned my way up here they can do it too I'm so good and they aren't ego ego ego ego 🤬🤬"

To the people saying oh the + server is inactive anyways so voting doesn't matter and no one should care. Try asking yourself why it's inactive and the answers may shock you 😱😱 (this is irrelevant to my thoughts below) #compsplatoon

thats super lame honestly.

like i was mentioning in a server, a teacher wouldn't let someone telling an artist "they suck" to fly in an art critique. the critique has to be intentional. yet constantly people are allowed to vote based on biases or bad intent in a server meant for people to improve. doesn't make sense.

especially when the people who want to get -in- are trying so hard just for that to be completely cut short by one or two votes short. it's just one simple idea i had of many. this community is based off of kids/teens so expecting that to kind of drive itself is just not gonna happen in a clean way.

and those that do vote in bad faith ("i dont like this person""they suck") could get penalized thru vetting the written responses, or at the very least dissuaded from voting altogether if theyre not educated on the player. hearing abt how often ppl just vote no or yes for everyone is discouraging.

my suggestion for a + adjustment would be to have mandatory written criteria that you have to write in to explain the reasoning behind your vote. i feel like even if it's just not even that in depth, but intentional and proven, it would weed out a lot of people that might be voting in bad faith.

aww dang i def was LOL i would have been down to c hill w/ u in call or someth even if we were in diff x ranks

next time tho for sure

tako/jp~! how come?

When I need to lock in I think of myself as a little feral rat fighting a rival colony of rats to claim a promising, bountiful territory of the NYC Subway system to help my own family of rats survive

[ #Dandyclips #Splatoon3 #Splatoon #CompSplatoon ]

duck umbrella

#DandyArt #Splatoon3 #Inkling #SplatoonArt

drawing has been rough cuz i recently started an antidepressant and that shit is kicking my ass

that and i rly want to try and get comfortable drawing humans/splatoon again. i feel like i am kind of in a bit of an art block with that

getting back into a drawing rhythm
pastel inkling girly
want to name her Maki

#DandyArt #Splatoon3 #Inkling #SplatoonArt

we are still a bit short on this months rent :( and we need more preorders in gen to order the stickers (i think? stickerapp is not letting me do a lower minimum)

please boost if you can! any help is appreciated.
help doesnt have to be just donating, suggestions or ideas for future merch helps too!

we have not had the best of luck these days with work and I'm putting out sticker preorders to help suppport us!

please boost!

‼️PLEASE READ & BOOST‼️

We're short on rent and I wanted to offer stickers to try to support us!
Both stickers are made of high quality vinyl and are available for pre-order in my shop!

ko-fi.com/dholedays/shop

#pokemon #sealion #furry #furryart #furries #pokemonart #zangoose #digitalart #Dandoodle

we have not had the best of luck these days with work and I'm putting out sticker preorders to help suppport us!

please boost!

I wish I were surprised

ahhh i get ya 👍

unredact it*

just because an educated, media literate population found a way to redact it and understands doesn't mean a great population of media illiterate people that support him understand the extent of whats going on

friendly reminder to not post anything that will get feds knocking on your door and putting you on no-fly lists, no matter how upset you are about injustices. it doesn't matter that you're not serious and it doesn't matter if you append "in Minecraft". be careful with what you say, here or anywhere

Be sure to have the name of the office you want to be directed to and that be all you say to them bc if you say anything that isnt direct instruction they will hang up on you

www.answercoalition.org/venezuela clickable link. PLEASE show up to a protest today. show your support for the anti-war movement, and connect with other people doing the work. I can't think of anything more important right now.

5 Calls Spend 5 minutes. Make 5 calls. Make your voice heard.

I'm seeing a lot of posts to call your reps but little on actually how. 5calls.org is a great site where you can put in your zip code and get numbers for your house representative and two senators. You also can get a script if you're like me and stumble over your thoughts.

Having to watch AGAIN while my country plays world police while its own citizens are struggling for basic needs. We can barely get by but sure let's use my tax dollars to start a war no one wants.

That's what I was thinking