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Varies depending on when you ask me this; at the moment I'm going through newer black metal releases such as Mesarthim's new EP, Vacuum Solution and Algleymi by Misþyrming (2019 is new). I also listen to a lot of more experimental artists such as Clarence Clarity, black midi and World's End Girlfriend. Oh, and I'imperatrice released a new album so that broadens my horizons in French! Overall I try not to limit myself musically so my playlists jump around a lot.
Hard question to answer, honestly, I think Snake has its upsides and its downsides for sure. The format lends itself to a decently mid-high range player becoming a manager then if they have 1st or last pick they can straight up remove the top players without getting punished because of how small the playerbase is, especially for older gens. Say, for example, I decide to manage. No one knows if I will self buy or not and I get 1st pick. I now buy Jordy and you have two slots winning SM because Jordy isn't gonna be out-piloted easily and you have two top tier builders for the tier to make sure my player wins. World Cup isn't a format I enjoy, either, as it's super top heavy, moreso than any other tournament format.
tl;dr keep Snake cause there is no perfect teamtour format
I leave my house disguised through my back garden. I dress up as a German tourist and inconspicuously glide through the crowds like I'm a Rillaboom about to sweep your team with 0 resists.
I hear Farsi is very easy to might pick it up to converse with you, yeah. Croatian highkey is a language I wanna pick up again and get PROPER good at, I like slavic languages.
Denmark is the best country I've visited by far, it's simply perfect, from the weather, the people, how clean the streets are. Paradise on Earth for someone like me who wants things neat but not the extent of German "beep boop put everything in a box". London is my favourite city OAT, though, I try to visit it as much as I can. Always something new to do/see. I wanna visit Australia cause I have a friend in the suburbs of Melbourne who would kill to see me; otherwise, I've always wanted to go to Iceland.
I feel like there's a couple of users who'd shank me on sight. Lowkey, I'm kinda scared of Mx. The mysterious aura he exudes... the power of a Room Owner... who knows what he is capable of
my mum tried to get me to learn an instrument when I was a wee lad, started crying because I hated the idea when I was little LOL. Nowadays I'd love to be a piano player or better yet, a HARP player. Just imagine you can lull your bae to sleep by playing them a SICK NASTY tune on your harp?! Unmatched.
Ping Pong the animation, boys on the slope, Evangelion, Samurai Champloo, Monster but that's off the top of my head and it can change if I think hard enough. Any anime released after 2020 I haven't touched with a 50ft pole so I can't tell you.
I usually watch series I'd never watch otherwise. I watched Utopia (BBC one) and it was such a fucking banger I ended up binge watching 2 seasons of it the next day. Would reccomend!
Make all PS weebs appreciate PPtA, be the first person to get a CAP Contributor badge exclusively through winning every tour in a single year bar none.
reading in 2020 was a bit difficult, had to adjust to a new reality for me and then re-adjust back to normality and it took a big toll. I did make a New Year's Resolution of sorts to read more books, because I used to binge read a LOT and yes, it was mainly fiction! Favourite series was "Her Majesty's Dragon" (Zmaj njegovega veličanstva or something for you) for a while! I've also read quite a bit of non-fiction, mainly from Greek authors the past 2 years but also some stuff from Haruki Murakami and Nick Hornby.
gonna give you a real answer and say that in CAP, especially for roomtours, I just kind of click knowing my superior builds will win me a game, lol. however, in a tournament setting, I try to read the team preview as well as possible and to have a back-up plan if the plan of going through the first 4 moves doesn't work out. My favourite thing, however, is thinking of a play, calcing, then spending another 30 seconds calcing for NEXT turn. The added timer pressure makes people overthink and cancel objectively correct moves, no matter how good or bad they are.
Much worse than in OU, between Tomohawk and our insistance on using Slowtwins it won't be as impactful. I actually plan to ladder next week just to spite OU players by voting unban.
Wait, if it goes to OU I get to remove it from the Ubers VR? Hell yeah, pumped!
quziel will just challenge me to games at random times, I'll bring my newest creation, we're both happy. During seasonal, I only tested twice for my own teams, once with The Number Man and once with againa. Big fan of "if your team is good and you built it yourself, you don't need to test it" mentality for solo tours which I may or may not have also employed during Snake
If someone wants to get into Ubers, Gen 7 is probably the most inclusive thing I can suggest them. It has a bit of everything, both viability-wise and playstyle-wise. If they're big fans of Hyper Offense I point them towards ORAS and if they want long-ass games, SS is for them. For no team preview enthusiasts, ADV Ubers probably has the biggest skill expression.
Personally I'm a BW Ubers main but I don't suggest it to anyone, it's turbo-esoteric and most players win off of having learned every team ever built. Also, hazard removal is non-existent in a tier riddled with great Ghost-types to spinblock so it's a tough life.
What's your hottest take wrt the current CAP meta? Who is the handsomest?
What do you think is the most underrated Pokemon in the current CAP metagame? When am I getting unlocked?
What do you think could be done to improve the state of the CAP ladder? What's the best topping on a crepe?
Your boomer status implies that you have extensive life experience. If you could give some advice to those younger than you, what would it be? What's a Tadasuke?
The most important questions are colored blue, and the color scheme isn't meant to imitate a certain flag hahahahahahahaha.
How the fuck do we buff malaconda into a viable mon?
There are three traintracks. You are stood next to the right train track with a lever next to you and a stranger is stood next to the left train track with a lever next to them. Your family is tied to the traintrack next to the stranger while their family is tied to the track next to you. On each track is a train rushing towards each family. Dick Cheney is tied to the middle track. If you pull your lever, the train will move on to the middle track, killing Dick Cheney and saving the strangers family. If you don't, the family dies. The same applies to the strangers lever. However if you both pull your levers, the trains collide in the middle, causing an explosion, killing both families as well as Dick Cheney. If neither of you pull your levers, both families die and Cheney gets to live. If you attempt to circumvent the rules in any way, Dick Cheney escapes, kills everyone (including you) and goes on to profit from another war in the middle east.
Do you pull your lever?
Alright bby is time for me to know everthing about you.
Do you feel like your time in the military changed anything about you? If so was it for the better?
hit me up
Yes and no respectively. I fucked up a lot of friendships while in there and the months right after coming out, I was jaded like never before and felt like genuinely less than human with no purpose even though I had a clear goal and plan in mind I had already set in motion. I guess I'm more patient? Yeah, that's a boon.
Mostly a US citizen/Australian that can help players with tests while I am asleep. Anyone who's whiling to open their DMs to my exorbitant whining about misplays and bad builds which is nothing more than me letting out steam, lol.
Again, unless ALL THE STARS ALIGN, I WILL NOT MANAGE!
I really want Aegislash to rise, even if it's just a tiny bit. I also no longer enjoy seeing rain being played all the time because I think it's match-up fish nature has reached its zenith and it's just progressively getting shittier and shittier. Also, I want more people to bullshit the VR by winning once or twice with some shitmon (see: my builds for Rabia) and then force us to rank it even at C.
Human? I have a man crush on Matt Champion and this Russian artist who goes by the name "Eleventh Vibration"
If you mean in CAP, I just got a haircut today and worked out for 2h so definitely me. Oh you meant besides myself? I don't know what 90% of the playerbase looks like so, uh, SHSP? Yeah, I at least know what he looks like.
We actually wanted to start all laddering at certain times to get the random ladder heros to up their game then decided this implies we either a) scare them all away or b) mald everytime we face Scarf Body Press Plasmanta and start yelling irl. I actually want to have our resources be more visible, but the average player doesn't actually read resources because he finds them boring... Might partner up with Voltage to do a small video series for CAP? That'd be neat.
You need a strong cheese, not feta, just regular boring yellow cheese. Then, you add some thinly sliced chicken breast. It's OK if it breaks into small fibres, you just don't want your eventual mouthful to be really chicken-y. You then add a carb, I personally like chips aka french fries. Add a few mushrooms in there you cut up earlier and a strong sauce and you have what I prepare for dinner every Sunday night during the summer.
Don't overshare, work harder and be more open about what you want to do and say. Even if you get a lot of doors slammed on your face, the pain of not having tried is almost always worse. This applies to all you younglings out there, do more stuff, be adventurous! OK, not right now, COVID is still in fool bloom but you're picking up what I'm putting down.
Rationale is a human invention and if you can believe that you yourself are real then you are by definition a rational being and thus everything you experience is something your brain has rationalised. So yeah, I'd say so. Lack of understanding to me falters to the sands of time.
I hate all movies that play during Easter. They're all the same and they're all directed and acted as if I'm seeing tapes by my kindergartner plays. Absolutely horrendous.
We deadass need to buff its stats by a significant margine because it's not its typing, movepool or abilities that keep it back, it's that it hits like a paper noodle WHILE having a 4x weakness.
Actually, if we all spammed Latios, eventually someone would bring Malaconda to stop us, right? Yeah, that's technically a buff since it pushes into niche relevancy.
There are three traintracks. You are stood next to the right train track with a lever next to you and a stranger is stood next to the left train track with a lever next to them. Your family is tied to the traintrack next to the stranger while their family is tied to the track next to you. On each track is a train rushing towards each family. Dick Cheney is tied to the middle track. If you pull your lever, the train will move on to the middle track, killing Dick Cheney and saving the strangers family. If you don't, the family dies. The same applies to the strangers lever. However if you both pull your levers, the trains collide in the middle, causing an explosion, killing both families as well as Dick Cheney. If neither of you pull your levers, both families die and Cheney gets to live. If you attempt to circumvent the rules in any way, Dick Cheney escapes, kills everyone (including you) and goes on to profit from another war in the middle east.
Do you pull your lever?
Hey guys, sorry bout the delay, exams and such have getting me down! Nonetheless, we will be continuing our Player of the Week! This week however, our voting/nomination slate will change somewhat. Instead of voting, then nommination, we will just be voting who you want to be the next player of the week. This comes from the recent large amount of double and triple nomming thats been happening.
Other than that, it's business as usual. Pick your top 3 choices for any CAP player and put your votes below! The nomination/voting period begins! This period will be open for 48 hours!
