5th time around in D6, and with the division boundaries shifted + how insane everyone is now (as if they weren't already), this is one of thr most stacked D6 lineups I can recall (excluding whem D6 was the highest division). I hope I can pull myself together and get myself a top 8 badge, but there's so many people that have potential.

I'm struggling with having the mental energy and feeling awake enough to play, but also feeling as if a wrist injury is on the horizon. In the last few sessions, I've had to stop very early due to some pretty sharp pain just from warming up on things around level 80. I've also been having polling issues and dropped inputs out of nowhere. In any case, these things have started to sap the real enjoyment I have had with FFR over the years and it may be te for that next hiatus I was talking about before, or to throw in the towel for good. But for now, I hope I can put up a good fight in this OT and maybe even reach D7 leaderboards before I call it quits.

Round 1: Elif And the Night of Twilight -Called- [visD // 84]
Score: 1-0-0-1 (11th)

It's no surprise that we get the hardest D6R1 file to date. Some tricky minijacks and 12th jump jacks, and a fairly speedy file but I should be able to pass through so I might not have much to say here.

Round 2: life flashes before weeb eyes [Psychotik // 87]
Score: 2-0-0-0 (9th)

This looked way scarier during previews, but a quick lazy playthrough proves it to flow very well and have a very nice balance of the tricky parts and the breaks. And we get another really great song. People were making comparisons to Trap Funk and I don't think I agree with that, however.

Gonna take it easy for the early hours of the round to avoid mindblocks, but this should be smooth sailing to R3 with another session. This is probably going to remain as one of my favorite files released during this OT, really good shit Psychotik.

Round 3: BarGain [mi40 // 89]
Score: 4-0-3-2 (11th)

D6R3 has been notorious for being really, really rough for some number of us, but this time we get a file that's actually favoring me, which is surprising given my track record with mi40 files (Stinger......ugh.....). Fun handstream, an intense track, and some speedy long jacks to close the file out. I won't say this is a free ride yet, but I'm excited.

edit 1: NEVER MIND THIS IS TYPICAL D6R3 FUCKASS SHIT IT'S SO MUCH MORE UNCOMFORTABLE TO PLAY THAN IT LOOKED LIKE.

edit 2: a couple days into this round now and i think i've gotten my jack consistency back to where i'm not feeling so much in jeopardy here. My initial thoughts with this can probably be chalked up to being mad cuz bad, this file does test a few different skills despite the ending being the real obvious kicker. It's a shame to see who is going out this round due to a bad case of jackletitis.

Round 4: Flashbacklog [Dragolord // 90]
Score: 6-1-3-1 (15th / at the cutoff)

This might be a situation like D7 has had in R3 with Nageki. The patterns just feel so strange to hit, like when it feels like my left or right hand should be doing a certain pattern, it becomes biased towards the hand that feels more uncomfortable to use.

First few plays were cold and I had to be quiet due to family sleeping, but maybe I can put together something respectable. File feels really mindblockable too...in any case, this won't be an easy round and we're gonna start seeing some variation between the people just scraping by and people who will be in contention for top spots.

edit: HOLY SHIT I'M SAFE WITH AN HOUR LEFT THIS HAPPENED WITH AIAE AS WELL LKJSDFLGHKJSDEFLGHSJEKLHSJKLHJKLSDHJKLSDHKJLESRD PLEASE

[RIP] Round 5: Catalinesie [Gradiant // 93-94??]
Score: 8-2-4-3

Ah yes, Amnehilesie's sister. A little nervous with how the jumpstream is stepped since it's stopping me from having a good score on the aforementioned one, but maybe with this being a new file it can come with a refreshed feeling. Love the song though, and the charts gives nice calms before its storms

first play thoughts: this is gonna be an even tighter squeeze to get by than Flashbacklog. There's nothing particularly too hard about this file, it reminds me of a faster/denser Elif (r1 file). SDG cutoff, but how low it will go is a tossup.

Real Day 1 Thoughts: oh god oh fuck the part at 1100 is going to consistently bone me in full runs. If you have played the file, you know this part. it's a wrap for me here unless i can actually pull something from nothing.

Yeah, rip me. Fought until the end so i can't complain about that, although I knew i had potential to SDG and i wish i could have proven myself. Good luck to everyone still out there, and I hope to make a return in D7 next OT!!!

Pretty much any questions are on the table as far as I can think of, excluding NSFW topics and politics/religion, maybe some other things not coming to mind right now. I think it would be nice for people to get to know me better, and to be honest, this is useful as a way for me to understand myself better as well. Try to keep the silly meme questions to a minimum as this is meant to be a serious experiment.

I'll respond here, so fire away. If I wish to not answer a certain question, I'll say so.

Honestly it feels surreal to see myself having come this far. When I came back in March of last year, I was sitting on level 85 and a heaping pile of rust, and now I'm on the edge of reaching D7. I almost teared up a bit after getting Level 93 on the call with Flynn, LeftyRighty, Mike, Pizza, Haku, and a few others, and I absolutely wouldn't be where I am without them and several others.

I don't know how long it will take, but it's going to happen. I'm not going to let myself stop without getting it.

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3/29/21: Okay Flynn The Wall Of Text Has Left

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