In the past if we've been having internet outages id go to our service provider and theyd respond with essentially "well its fine on our end." At least this time theyre aware that something went wrong and theyre trying to sort it out before i even bring it up. I love australian infrastructure 🙃

Its another Strive commentary into Pokemon Speedrun stream right after kind of Wednesday.

There we go, stream schedule for the week. The Friday and Saturday streams I'm not sure what I'm doing with yet, I'll figure that out over the course of the week.

I so very much want Cake to qualify, hes been working his ass off to give himself the best possible chance. And doing so from OCE would be an absolutely massive achievement.

Oh lord, SM64 is doomed. New SBLJ setup just dropped. I already managed to make a blindfolded setup with the new strat and its decently easy...... New 1 Star WR this week?

ATTENTION SPEEDRUN FANS‼️ I accidentally bought AGDQ tickets on the same day I'm supposed to get married & they cost me $2,000 (plane, registration, hotel, etc.) If anyone wants to go take my place for FREE it's going to be at the St. Marys church his name is John he's 5'10 super nice guy

Im at that point in street fighter 6 where i feel like i can kinda hold my own in the 1600s with Blanka. Sure every now and then ill have a session where ill donate about 100 points, but being able to get back there feels pretty good. Next step, maybe 1700s.

I keep on seeing stuff about Riftbound, and Id really want to get involved in it if only because of how invested ive been in LoR since its beta. Things that are currently keeping me from getting some cards is availability, current economic situation, and how often id get to play irl.

KIRYU-CHAN! 🔪✨ #yakuza

Huge PB in the ZA run! Still some areas to improve upon, but also going to be tough to get even close to the luck i got in some of the royales.

Oh yeah, ive been doing that thing again where I forget to mention that Im streaming, so im doing that now. Today and tomorrow, doing more Legends ZA Speedrunning twitch.tv/glphoenix

Hand editing your Windows Registry is not something I would normally recommend, but these instructions are simple and direct. Do exactly as directed and you'll be fine. If you get lost/stuck for some reason, tag me.

capture card wasnt working with obs just as I was starting stream. tried it again right after stream, works just fine. sometimes this shit doesnt make sense.

Why am I so against generative AI in games? Because I simply do not want my initial reaction to art to be one of suspicion and scrutiny, AI slop is fundamentally damaging my relationship to art and artistry, and I am deeply resentful that it is forcing me to be guarded when I should be wowed.

technology is conspiring against me so im gonna have to switch some things around with the stream schedule...

Pretty happy looking at the 2xko patch notes. Touching on a lot of the really egregious stuff, and as someone whos playing a lot of Blitz the buffs look like fun. A lot of those champs that got toned down are still likely to be a pain, but maybe itll feel less like a struggle.

Gonna have to call for a raincheck on the stream for tonight. Somethings come up, but I'll be back on tomorrow. I'll get to the rank F runs next week, in time for the submission deadline.

Streams for the upcoming week. Going to be spending a bunch of them focusing on shorter categories and things i want to submit for the Sydney event.

As much as I would love to submit my 4+ hour speedrun games for the Sydney event, with it being just a two day thing I should probably go for the shorter categories. Can save the big ones for the longer events.

LP, LP, ➜, LK, HP. I went back redid my Homer Akuma. This time with synched mouth and tweaks.

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There we go, Legends ZA under the 7 hour mark. Still a lot of improving to do, but encouraging to say the least. Just need to do a lot of cleaning up of movement, major fights, and the royales. But overall quite happy.

anyway pokemon legends za fanart

I'm excited about an event being much closer to home for me. Now to figure out what I want to be submitting.

I made a joke in my main Discord server about DOOM E1M1 being in a major key and @abigbagofkeys.sickonedude.com actually made it. Jesus fucking Christ listen to this hahahaha

the plan for today was going to be a ZA speedrun, but the Strive commentary went on a bit longer than expected. So just so I dont end up finishing at like 6am, im going to do another Pokemon Sword run. twitch.tv/glphoenix

It's been too many years since I was last here, it's still just as good of a view

I'll be doing commentary for this, and there's an interesting storyline for this one. MetallicCake has been travelling and performing quite well this year, to the point where the points can be relevant for them. But a prize pool ensures that its not going to be all that easy.

"All major game studios are using generative AI" the fact this is a lie aside, the ones that are using it aren't doing so willingly. It's meddling managers and CEOs with no understanding or attachment to game development forcing it on devs who end up not using anything it outputs anyway.

Dynasty Warriors Origins DLC details are up first from the Steam page store.steampowered.com/app/4038930/... -Other than Zhang Jiao, there are also alternate routes for Dong Zhuo, Lu Bu & Yuan Shao -2 new weapon types: Bow & Rope Darts

Dynasty Warriors Origins DLC's 1st trailer is now available in standalone version with Japanese voiceovers www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZBq...

I may be a little biased, but this is my biggest takeaway from the state of play. The new weapon types, along with the extra stories... im super excited, and it cant come soon enough.

I hadn't gotten around to watching the most recent Bond movies yet, so the things I've been reading this morning has raised more than a few questions.

Not used to starting stream around this time, but the things I do to try and fit a 7 hour speedrun into the schedule. twitch.tv/glphoenix

Stream schedule for the upcoming week. I know I said after the second ZA Speedrun that i was going to hold off on more of those until the weekends, but i really want to run it more. Also a rare planned non stream day throughout the week, a busy Thursday is going to be the cause of that one.

Faker is absolutely the best to ever do it, but holy shit the rest of that T1 team is just ridiculous. Oner, Guma, Keria, and now adding Doran to that. Also that coaching staff is doing magic as well with those drafts. Just mindboggling. #Worlds2025

this series is absolutely delivering in all regards. just incredible and its looking like theres going to be one more game to decide it barring any catastrophic blunder #worlds2025

7:04:44 for the second run, already a stark improvement. Should be getting that under the 7 hour mark in no time, but thats a thing for next weekend, because trying to find the time for 7 hour streams mid week aint easy.

Weirdly enough, the speedrun that took over 7 hours didnt really feel that long as I was doing it.

First run in the books, thats a lot of fun but goddamn is that exhausting.

So I've spent the past week trying to learn as much as I can for the Pokemon Legends ZA Speedrun. There's just so much to the any% but it's time to stream some attempts. There's going to be a lot of note checking and fumbling around, but it's all progress, it'll all get better twitch.tv/glphoenix

There we go, decided to grab all the clips of me landing Blanka's Wild Hunt command through throughout the stream last night. The music seemed appropriate. Also this is a real 'video editing is my passion' kind of job on this one lmao.

Turns out trying to find all the clips from stream last night where I landed blanka wild hunt is taking a while. I landed it quite a lot, "I can get it on people once" I say as I hit people with it multiple times in a set.

Usually around this time of the week im doing commentary for some fighting games, but not tonight. I'm streaming some Street Fighter 6, theres that new ranked season and I have some colours to obtain. twitch.tv/glphoenix

There is absolutely a way for someone who does not enjoy Warriors games, either this one or any from the past, to write a negative review that doesnt make them sound this bad. "These games are part of a genre that im not fond of, and this game didnt do anything to change that."

I hate jumping on a game reviewer, because everything is subjective. But mannnnnn I read this paragraph and went “oh the Japan hate hasn’t left western games media, they just learned how to write it more passive aggressively”

Alright, stream schedule for the week. There's to many good games to try and fit in to the schedule, and that's even with me streaming almost every day. This is also not taking into account potential commentary throughout the week.

Fortunately theres already some really solid notes for the speedrun of Legends ZA, making it much easier to get into. When it comes to speedrunning, routing is not my strong suit, I often just throw my head at something a lot. DW Origins has been one of the only games where I had to do it myself.