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Ranga's FGC Log 2

Howdy, how is everyone doing?

These are meant to be daily, but they haven't been, so whatever.

The past few days I've been playing Guilty Gear, but I'm at a bit of a wall where I keep running into the issue of feeling like I'm fighting my controller instead of my opponent. So what I'm doing is just locking in on one controller for like two weeks, and then we'll see if I'm still having the same issue.

It is a little annoying that I haven't really made as much progress in Guilty Gear as I would've wanted, but I think part of that is because I don't really have the best system in place for practicing or improving yet. So, I mean, that's fine.

As far as Guilty Gear goes, I'm kind of just hard-stuck in Gold right now. I would like to get out of Gold and hit Platinum. I'm trying not to overthink Gold too much because I feel like I shouldn't need anything crazy to get out of it other than just playing okay. I'm just slightly struggling to figure out what my biggest issue actually is. Like, what is the key thing keeping me in Gold right now?

But we'll figure it out.

I still very much enjoy Guilty Gear. It has had me slightly annoyed lately, but that's more for personal reasons, like just not really growing or improving as fast as I would like. Guilty Gear is a game that I very much like and have a soft spot for, even though sometimes it makes me question my sanity.

Then I'll fight a player who hasn't hit my level yet, and I'm like, "Okay, all the work I've put into this game has actually done something."

Across all platforms, I have now officially hit 1,000 hours in Guilty Gear, which is annoying because now it's like, "Oh look, you have 1,000 hours and you're in Gold." But, I mean, I also took a pretty long hiatus from the game, so there was a decent chunk of time where I just wasn't playing.

I recently read Relentless by Tim Grover, and that book was pretty interesting. I got some good information from it. I don't think it was a bad book, but I also don't think it had as much of an impact on me as Daigo Umehara's The Will to Keep on Winning.

There were quite a few things Tim talked about that I just already did in my day-to-day life, and overall it felt a little more generic of a read. Daigo's book felt very narrative and personal, whereas Tim's book kind of felt like ten other self-help books I've already read, if that makes sense.

I think the points in the book were good. I just found the way they were delivered kind of boring. Overall, I'd still give the book an 8/10. I thought it was a good book; it was just a little boring to read, even as an audiobook.

And now I'm reading Atomic Habits. I haven't finished it yet, so we'll see how I feel about that one afterward.

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