I appreciate the friends who have been trying to teach me to relax, indulge, and enjoy life like a normal person. Thanks to them, I have finally realized that actually I should work harder and be even more uptight.

Konami's official tournament policy was updated today. Any player who shuffles their opening hand on Duelingbook will now be launched into the sun. Competitive Yu-Gi-Oh is now saved.

Shoutout to all the furries out there! Y'all are eating good. (I'm ace but I'm 90% sure I know what this means.)

Who's up for some 4-player Yu-Gi-Oh? Join us on GoldenNova's Twitch channel RIGHT NOW (and tomorrow!) for the Domain for a Difference stream to support Trans Action for Global Equality. I'll be playing Domain Format with some other YugiTubers at 5pm EST! www.twitch.tv/goldennovaygo

in three hours, you can catch me playing a game of Domain YuGiOh for charity! GoldenNova is hosting Domain for a Difference today and tomorrow, supporting Global Action for Trans Equality. come by and support a good cause. www.twitch.tv/goldennovaygo

STREAM IS GOING LIVE NOW OH MY GOD AAAAAAAAAAA

Pokemon TCG Pocket: A drama in 3 acts

I need to be cooking up new Yugioh decks, but my brain only wants to cook actual food. (More potato & cheese burekas, cookie brownies, and enchiladas with bell peppers and black beans)

Just had a dream that Crystal Beast Amber Mammoth was forbidden and I wasn't even surprised because, honestly, yeah, that card was a menace and needed to go.

After living under a rock unspoiled for years, I've finally begun Pokemon Scarlet! 3 hours of gameplay and all I've done is take pictures in front of my house. CHECK OUT THAT TRAINER ID. 😎

Every time I try DaVinci Resolve, I am freshly appalled at how convoluted and impractical it is compared to every other video editor. (It takes a special kind of dev to decide that the mouse wheel's default behavior should be different in every task, non-customizable, and often deactivated.)

Have you ever seen how the light leaves a man's eyes three duels deep into a Fire King mirror match, when both player's fields are continually blowing each other up and reviving intact?

I think a lot about how many Yu-Gi-Oh players say you can't win going second unless you run 20 hand traps... whose win rates going second are 30% or less. Mine is about even, using board breakers and big engines to reduce chokepoints.

The upside of late-stage gachas is that eventually they run low on waifus to sell and have to start acknowledging the starving gays. (This post is about Fire Emblem Heroes.)

I rejected an offer to make sponsored videos on my YouTube channel. Paying less than 10% of the standard rate, basically asking me to produce free ads for them. Honestly insulting. That they would not negotiate implies that other YugiTubers have accepted... Y'all, you gotta have some self respect.

What deck am I cooking today? I had a life-changing potato & cheese bureka at Bread's Bakery in NYC and just had to make a vastly inferior batch at home. And I did it! They are mediocre AND greater in quantity! Success!

Man, I can't be leading humanity from the icy abyss and reestablishing civilization. I'm tired. I just wanted to get groceries.

Woe is me, for my perfect twink booty belies my overbearing personality.

Those who break the social contract do not deserve to be protected by it. No polite sympathy is owed to those who hatefully dehumanize others.

Apparently lucky packs can appear in Wonder Pick in Pokemon TCG Pocket! Now I can add to my stack of waaay too many Infernapes.

It took a long time to finish this year's big Crystal Beast guide, partly because it's 41 minutes long, not counting the 10-minute section on Snake-Eyes Doomed Dragon that was uploaded separately. I hope I don't owe the world anything more after this: youtu.be/UxWG8I-GUu8

My YouTube analytics sensed a great disturbance in the force of Yu-Gi-Oh tournament policy announcements.

My new Crystal Beast guide video took five hours to record. It'll be the next upload. Please find the patience to wait just a little longer, and share some of it with me as I try to edit this monster...

The definition of insanity is plugging in the same equipment with the same settings, and getting different results every time. Am I eternally bad at videography, or is this just how it works?

I made a video reviewing/gushing/making dumb jokes about the outfits in Mario Kart World. Although the gameplay is lacking, the worldbuilding is wonderful and also it gave us biker Peach, humanity's greatest achievement: youtu.be/ytTVgamKNBo

I know I've aired some grievances about Mario Kart World. But experiencing Rainbow Road for the first time, sitting directly in front of a 60in TV, just annihilated my virginity.

Just as I upload a video about how Yu-Gi-Oh cards are overly complex... Each of the upcoming Enneacraft monsters has 5 conditions and 10-12 actions to execute, written across 150+ words. I can't imagine a new player pulling this from a pack and NOT quitting immediately.

A new upload has 50 views and 3 comments to read: "Oh boy, engagement!" A new upload has 5000 views and 300 comments to read: "Oh no, engagement..."

Here's my breakdown of Yu-Gi-Oh's new time rule, mapped according to game theory. I wasn't expecting to make a video this week, so I made it interesting by trying a new format. I hope you find it entertaining and educational. youtu.be/NXA0ukjVdSo

I WAS on hiatus from YouTube, but suddenly it's time to make an in-depth game theory analysis of Yugioh's new time rule. In Thursday's video, find out how far Kaiba's willing to stretch Konami's tournament policy to force Yugi to surrender to improve his tiebreaker calculation.

The craziest thing about the president being a child sex trafficker is that this has been public knowledge for years. The only new development is that, now, a small fraction of Republican politicians and voters have started to admit that defending a notorious pedophile kind of makes them look bad.

A friend said I'm turning off potential suitors by bringing this as my beach read. As if I would WANT to waste my time with a dweeb who can't handle William Shakespeare's Star Wars!

Competitive games are all so draining. What any of us really needs is a boyfriend who will play the Disney Lorcana board game. Then we eat pizza. Then we get 7.5 hours of sleep. The end.

To the Mario Kart World dev who thought I needed to be hit by all three blue shells in this race, for each time I narrowly reached first place: Congrats! I didn't win! But I did delete a video script from when I thought this was a good game.

PEACH NO #MarioKartWorld

The main theme of Pokemon Sword & Shield is that older generations should step aside so that young people can take charge of the future. Which I appreciated until learning that champion Leon is canonically 21 YEARS OLD and already being shipped off to the nursing home.

Don't profile me, Dora from Animal Crossing.

The wild Machoke in Legends don't attack me??? Is it because of how submissive and breedable I look?

Okay, one last lil dumpy then I'll go back to playing Mario Kart World like a normal person.

for $500 waluigi better jump out of the screen and ride my lil dumpy

when the twink's got no cheeks but knows how to twerk it

This is intriguing... Nintendo Switch 2 provides an error log to review. I got an error during setup when I mistyped my wifi router password. So before the system's time could be synced online, the log printed a date of May 12th, 2024--13 months ago.

Can you even imagine how many koroks are under that bridge

Our queen up on the roof #MarioKart #Switch2

a king descends

yo, cow got cake 😳

It looks like Shy Guy isn't so shy anymore. Enjoying that view, Toad? #MarioKartWorld

Catch me doing gamer boy bench presses until I'm strong enough to lift the Switch 2. This chonker does NOT fit in my pocket.

me when i try to talk to a boy (I just started Pokemon Legends: Arceus and it's already bugging out. I'm so excited!)

Finally playing #PokemonLegendsArceus and I am IN LOVE (with rowlet) (and he likes me back)