Well
VaporeonIce, you won't be seeing it any time soon despite your love of symmetry, because my worst nightmare was just realized:
Let me just say this first—at the very least, I am actually glad that I have told you all that I've refrained from posting a legitimate loss in favor of just running it back up real quick and getting close to where I was. It sets the proper precedent of legitimacy here, because if I had just actually lost, you can be sure I'd rather just run it up again than post about a loss. I'm also glad that I coincidentally just posted last night about my progress, strengthening a "this just happened" reality, and for what it's worth here's a screenshot of the time the pic was taken on my iPhone:
So yeah, those are the things that are important to me right now—validity and forthrightness. In a way, those both dovetail into awareness—awareness of the truth of things and awareness of all the things that go into that. All the things that go into how I battle—being aware of how slippery my hands may be, how tightly I'm holding the DS, the trainer I'm facing, what pokes he or she is using, how many turns are left in Trick Room, where my DS physically is on my person when it's closed and I'm carrying it, whether I'm currently in a battle if my DS
is closed, who has used Kangaskhan or Blastoise or Specs Sylveon before I thought them up and how if so...I could go on and on.
When I pulled into my snowy parking lot about 30 minutes late (like the rest of Pittsburgh because nobody knows how to drive in the snow), I was fully aware that I was on turn ~20 against Candela's lead, Male, no-Intimidate Luxray, having switchstalled between Ice Fang and TW (or maybe Thunder Fang, something I intentionally did not make myself aware of because it didn't matter to a Gliscor that would just kill Luxray once Protect and Suicune's Pressure had stalled it out of Ice Fang). Hell, I was fully aware five minutes prior when she sent that Luxray out that "great, I may not finish this battle before I have to park, meaning I can't save, meaning I may lose my streak if my game ejects or whatever." But I was also aware of the 25 hours I spent this past seven days on Greyhound busses, and several more in my girlfriend's apartment, opening and closing my DS literally over 100 times with no incident. (An infuriating reality if you think about it, especially given that I repaired this DS last winter.) So I felt comfortable putting my DS into my left inside coat pocket and walking with care to my office building, aware of where my DS was positioned against my chest as always.
Call it paranoia if you want—some would say paranoia is just a heightened sense of awareness anyway. Whatever it is, I was shocked but not really surprised when I opened my DS, "safely" seated at my desk with my game suspended as had been the without-incident case dozens of times. Only once had I pulled my DS out of my left coat pocket and found my progress to have been interrupted, and that was a full game card eject on some inconsequential streak years ago (one that heightened my awareness of where my DS is positioned against my chest in such pockets). In this case, my game card was still securely snug inside my DS, which meant that interruption of my streak had little explanation, especially given the recent and numerous DS closures just this past week. I don't get it, and I'm incredibly tired of "this".
I can't blame myself for missing a trainer, or not finishing the battle in my car, something I didn't do because I wasn't aware that the 9:30 meeting I arrived in time for had been postponed due to this very weather. I can't blame the snow itself, or myself for not having read my boss's 7:43am email about the meeting postponement, because a game "eject" like this was bound to happen at any time given the circumstances (no incidents through 100+ closures the past week, careful carrying, no actual game eject, etc.). I can't even blame "having been driving" like I could partially when I missed Anastasia in battle 1,269, because carrying my DS in my pocket has no bearing on having been driving. So I just don't know about this one, guys.
What I do know is that I genuinely have nothing further to prove here, and that getting back to 1,560 as though I legitimately lost a battle (which hasn't happened in almost four months), is not at this time my idea of fun. I will even go so far as to say that someone in my position could justify hacking up some super team to get back to 1,560, and savestating often to safeguard against losses given the circumstances.
The chilling thing is that even if I were interested in doing that (I'm not), Kangliscune is easily the fastest team the Singles Maison has seen and "why would I need to savestate, this team's lone loss in over 2,800 battles was due to not being aware of a trainer's ability to use Medicham3 and a good deal of hax as well." The only reason, therefore, that I would savestate is to hedge against my worst nightmare recurring. I would very literally rather "take my chances" with Kangliscune than some hacked wonderteam anyway because I have quite simply mastered how to use Kangliscune.
I may give the Maison a shot in AS, triples or singles. I think that if anything my Y cart is the problem, but seriously who gives a shit at this point if I start a streak in AS and lose it to a game reset, I've already lost over 2,000 battles' worth of streaks to that anyway (1,560 + 290 in triples + 241 pre-DS repairing with Suizorus are the highest). Or I may wait for the Frontier to be updated into the game as the hints suggest (not getting my hopes up or anything). I'm just really not in the mood to try again right now, because at this point it is legitimately more about proving how long I can battle without losing my streak on a technicality, which isn't a very valid challenge if you ask me. Good luck to you all.
