Summit

Blog

I am in crunch time today so I won’t be able to do any of the more elaborate blogs I talked about last time, but here I am nonetheless. The unfortunate reality is that as I sit here amidst this crunch time, since I have to work for the rest of the night, I really can’t think of anything to write about. For my own sanity I should really make a more conscious effort to give myself much more time to write these things. But hey, then I would probably be writing about one of the ideas I mentioned last week, then, wouldn’t I? Well, that’s the whole point, isn’t it? I can see I’m getting no where here.

As much as procrastination has been a problem for me in the past, it’s not actually procrastination that has left me with such limited time to write this time around. It’s actually because one of my favorite events to watch online, Smash Summit, was streaming all yesterday and today. And since I was working and then watching The Forever Purge with some friends yesterday (bad movie, by the way), I spent pretty much all day today just catching up on everything I missed plus enjoying everything that has been coming out for it today as well. I have it muted and still playing as I type this, because I just had to pull myself away for at least a little bit if I was going to have any chance of writing the blog today.

Smash Summit (this one specifically is Smash Summit 11) is a four-day event that brings together some of the best Super Smash Bros. Melee players (a 20-year-old game at this point, by the way) for a more intimate invitational tournament environment, which is also padded with a lot of fun side events and skits to round it out. Most notably it features a lot of the players playing games of Mafia at the end of each day, which is always one of my favorite parts of the event. Melee is my favorite game to watch competitively and Summit has always been my favorite event to watch because of the really unique vibe and superior production quality that it offers. This time around it will have the largest prize pool in Melee’s history and there are so many great players present this year that it has been a joy to watch thus far.

I honestly always wish I had thought to take off these days from work so I can watch it all live because there is just so much to catch up on after a whole day of work, on top of editing videos and everything else. But regardless I’m just excited to get home tonight so I can catch up on everything again!

In terms of my mental health, I’m still dealing with smoothing out the real low lows that I experience in any given week, but I am also working on maximizing the highs as well. Just trying to enjoy things more in the moment, but there are still some obvious steps I need to take to really improve many aspects of my life. A small first step would be to give myself more time to write these so I can start bringing out some of those ideas!

Videos I Posted This Week:

Luca Review – Tarqaron
Reacting to the Top 100 Songs of June 2021
Survivor: Vanuatu Ep. 9 Reaction (Estrogen City) – Tarqaron
Ball is life
This vocal coach gives me life (ft. So Hyang)

Things I Enjoyed This Week:

This vocal coach gives me life (ft. So Hyang)

Music (Zach), Videos

Ball is life

Videos

Survivor: Vanuatu Ep. 9 Reaction (Estrogen City) – Tarqaron

Survivor, Survivor: Vanuatu, Tarqaron

Discussion:

Reaction Highlights:

Reacting to the Top 100 Songs of June 2021

Music (Zach), Videos

Luca Review – Tarqaron

Film (Tarqaron), Reviews, Tarqaron

Ideas

Blog

I know I’ve kind of been saying this for a while now, but I’d like to have some more specific topics for blogs moving forward, with personal life/mental health sprinkled in there (since I won’t always have enough to say in that regard to fill a decent blog’s worth of content). Since I have limited time for this week’s blog, I thought I might use this opportunity to just rattle off some ideas of things I could talk about in future blogs. Some of these could end up being worked into videos instead potentially, but could work as blogs too. Pretty uninspired idea for this week’s blog, I guess, but let me know if any of this stands out to you or if there’s anything I’m not thinking of that could be interesting…

The Greatest Compliment I’ve Ever Received: This is an idea I’ve been tossing around in my head for some time now. The idea would be to actually have this be a collaborative thing, and get a bunch of my friends to send in submissions for this, just sharing the greatest compliment they’ve ever received. I thought it could be a fun little thing to do to promote some positive thinking and spread some good feelings rather than some of the more serious topics I have listed here. I think this would be a cool thing to do in video form as well, but I just don’t know if I’d be able to get people to send in video submissions for something like this. Regardless I really want to do more collaborative blog things like this Rick and Morty one I did back in 2017.

Does God Exist? And other such fun religious topics: Religion has always been an interesting topic to me. As someone who is firmly non-religious, I think I could go through some interesting thoughts on these topics in a personalized blog environment like this. I always wanted to do a video on my channel where I could discuss religion with one of my more religious friends back in the day, but it just never end ended up happening. I enjoy having meaningful conversations about stuff like this, so I think it would be fun to delve into for some more in-depth blogs.

What is the meaning of life? And other more focused philosophical questions: Philosophy is another thing I really enjoy pondering, but never have had much of an opportunity to delve into in a public setting. There are so many routes I can go down with this, and endless discussion to be had.

My experience in education: This is one that I’ve always envisioned as a series of videos I would do, but it just as easily could be translated to blog form if I’m feeling that more at the time. Basically, since I’m all done with my long history of public education I thought it could be cool to go in-depth talking about my experiences with each stage of education and putting it out there for the world to see. I’ve always thought this could be fun to do, and maybe therapeutic as well. I’ve never really seen anyone online do something quite like this, so I would definitely like to at some point, before I’ve forgotten everything in my old age.

My experience being involved in online communities: The internet has been a significant part of my life for most of my life at this point. I started being involved in different online communities around the age of 10 and haven’t stopped since, so I’ve been through quite a lot and met a lot of people I am still in contact with to this day. So I feel like there would be a lot of ground to cover here, just in recounting memories without any added message.

Talking about my passions in life, and principles that are most important to me: It could be interesting to really try to get to the heart of what motivates me in life and what things are most important to me, as well as just gushing about the things that I love.

Talking about specific games/movies/shows/music and how they have had an effect on me: This kind of blog would be reserved not just for any piece of media I’ve enjoyed but rather the ones that have really stuck with me since I experienced them, and which seemed to have a more profound effect on me.

More out-there topics, like hypothetical situations or alternate timeline talk (what if I never did this or what if I did that kind of stuff): Would love to go down rabbit holes of wild topics like this.

Well there you go! Those are just some ideas, and most of those I didn’t even have in mind until I started writing this, so thanks for that! Even just putting some of these ideas out there like this has gotten me more excited for the future of doing this blogs. Now it’s time to embark into some really uncharted territory and have some fun with this thing.