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I’m Afraid To Let Go
I’m Afraid To Let Go
One day you will see
How you were so focused
On self-soothing
On finding your comfort alone
You forget that you ignored
A man who loved you
For a game
So trivial
You may lose interest in the next month
For you, it’s a question of winning
Of being right or wrong
But for me
It’s a question of love
I wonder
If I have so little self-respect
To spend so much time
Money
Effort
To cheer you up
Just for you to go back to the game
And put me second
Or perhaps this is what love is
And I should keep believing
That you just need
More time
To see
That you can let yourself
Need me
Valorant 31: Class in Session – Unit 1 Day 1
UNIT 1: VOD Review | Day 1 – TenZ
Exercise: Imitate Tenz and imagine I am him
Lessons learned:
- I’m exhausted – fell asleep for a long time after watching and imitating for a short period of time
- Knife to gun transition – keeping knife out until dangerous angles, then switch to gun or do a jump peak while switching if no room
- Hold for peeks – clear where they might peek, not where they might be, continue to hold it or switch to another angle they can push you from
- Set graphics to low
- Don’t push smokes unless with flashes or off of someone else’s contact
- Spray with good spray control – pulling down
- Fall after spraying to reload
- Jiggle if holding close to an angle
- Warm up at the start of each round by flicking onto teammate heads
In game what I did very successfully:
- Spamming through smokes – I got many headshots through the smoke
- Holding peekable angles – I felt I got a lot more intentional to where I was staring
- Holding off angles when watching for the flank (specifically I utilized the place Tenz hid on Pearl in the first round to get kills
- Being more intentional of when the knife is out, I rarely got caught out with my knife. I figured out how much time it takes to pull out the gun, and I always timed it so that I pulled out my gun before peeking anything.
What I can improve on:
- Pulling out the knife more often when I know no one is close
- Spam more boxes
- Utilizing jump peeking more
- Making sure my peeks are still tight and clean and fast
- Being much more focused on holding specific peeks when slowly scaling up
League Challenge Rough Cut
Like
- Love the energy throughout
- Love the beginning
- Love the day title cards
Work On?
- Maybe more music that is different
- Try to make it more clear that it was the first game
- Maybe make it more clear what is happened? (I’m the guy with the green highlight, screen turns dark, I’m dead)
- Maybe explain my strategies in improving in league more? (Practice tool)
- Maybe explain how league works more? (Explain mini games)
- Break up the footage or shorten it more, might be slow at times.
- Maybe explain that it was a two day challenge earlier?
Specifics
- 0:05 better grade
- 0:19 better grade, harder cutting
- 0:32 harder cutting, feels slow
- 0:53 timing feels off, out of sync with music
- 1:41 great energy but need something to transition better
- 8:30 more kinetic editing on final words
- 2:48 need to fade sound out from voice to cut off extra words
Thoughts
- Need to draw inspiration from other league youtubers who post highlights (maybe Professor Akali?)
- Take a step back, and work on something else for a bit, maybe my business idea. Need some time away to see what I want to do next clearly.
- Get specific feedback from multiple people.
Gameplan
Overall, I feel like this is an excellent rough cut, great pacing and energy but it lacks polish.
To work on the polish I will:
- Break down portions I need to work on and split them out to perfect them
- Work with my brother or someone else by my side in order to make it easier
Feeling Awful Waking Up
Yesterday, I went to bed late. I didn’t want to wake up the next day.
Today was the next day. And it sucked. Just like I had feared. I was tired. I was stressed. I was an hour late to a meeting that was at 8AM.
Today I wanted to find a new solution. I want to find a different way to look at things. And I think I found it.
Here are the key parts of my new mindset:
- Think about how much money I want to make today from 0 to about $500. Think about what projects I want to work on that will be worth that much.
- Think about how I want to increase the value of the company I am contracted to – so I can have a success story and be paid more.
- Take care of myself. Make tea, go for a walk.
- Go to a nice place to work, go through my to do list. Create my workpost for the day.
If work is demanded early without having time to prepare, compensate myself an hour. Then bring blankets and other comfy things to my chair to make myself comfy and allow myself to wake up slowly.
Finding the First People On Social Media
I had a thought today. I have a friend on Instagram who has a handle @theirname1. I was wondering who got the handle without the number at the end. I was thinking, they cannot be that old since Instagram itself is not that old. And why stop there…why not look at the people who old the handles for the most common names? Like who owns @bob? Or @john or @mary? Do famous or rich people ever buy those handles or are they owned just by early adopters?
Valorant 19: The True Warmup
In my Valorant journey right now, I’m very interested in perfecting strafe shooting and proper clearing.
I heard that one of the elements of getting really good is about focusing on fewer things. What I’m really working on right now is getting something out of my warmups.
I usually play deathmatch until I feel like I’m hitting my shots and then jump into a match. But, now I’m thinking I need to let go of trying to push off from the confidence in a good deathmatch and instead working on making the mechanics more intuitive…meaning I need to deathmatch until I can hit shots even if I’m not match mvp, my clears, peeks and jiggles feel COMFORTABLE. Even if that means going into some deathmatches where it is really hard and everyone on taps me. The point of warmup should be when I feel like I’m not having trouble hitting shot anymore.