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I'm taking an indefinite break from tourney.
(a very rambly and ranty post)
I've decided to stop special tournament and revolver tourney for now, and for the forseeable future.
The main thing that was the tipping point in all of this was just... the realization that nobody had any major interest in tournament as a "community" hosted thing anymore. Nobody seems to have any real investment or care in Revolver Tourney or a lot of the tournament charts outside of a "grab bag and go" mentality, where peeps just play once and leave it at that; there's no major interaction in that channel nowadays, and the ones that do happen are usually people who have been there long enough to be an established group of friends in the community.
Working for Hajimeli games has also opened my eye more towards how... lacking this community feels in terms of investment, despite how much we've tried to speak about it. When I try and make special tournament more interesting with the whole of Revolver Tourney, powerups, custom graphics for the podium and such... it gets taken very, passively. And it started to make me wonder if it was worth it to continue making stuff for an audience that - at best - is just giving a passing thumbs up. And at worst... an audience that just doesn't care.
What's the point of running a thing that none of you give a shit about?
Call me selfish all you want, but the writing's on the wall. If I continue to provide for this community the way I am, I'm basically just running a one-man-show that nobody even buys tickets for. And that one-man-show costs money to run - or rather, my life to run.
And yet, there's no drive. You all care more about the reward I hand out than the actual experiences that I try and make. There's no satisfaction in trying anymore when I just know people are going to consume and walk away over and over and over again. The art is lost. The people want to mindlessly consume. You all desire that gratification more than anything else, don't you? There's no need for artistry or creativity when all you desire is a high score. Who cares about the value of art nowadays, when you're looking for the next chart over to beat, and to proclaim victory on.
...You desire the endless grind, to feast upon whatever is delectable without caring for anything else. You care not about how the sausage is made or where it came from, but only the fact that it's in your plate. And if you desire so... then let me help accelerate that process.
And that's why I feel like I should stop for now. I feel like a lot of this is just me talking very selfishly - and I probably am - but when I look at how this community was compared to how it was now... I can't say I like what I see anymore. To put it in a weird analogy, it's like putting white text on a white background. Nobody would see it, and nobody would bat an eye. And nobody will, if I've been observing you all for long enough. Not like you'd care about the worth of art or one man's plight when the new thing is just around the corner.With that, I think I've just about said my word. Because he will not be saying anything, any longer.
...nothing about this feels right to you, does it?It's not like him to just suddenly pull a 180 after devoting so much time into this. Especially with how much he's been shown to care about Cytoid and its community en masse.I suspect that the person you've been talking to isn't real. It's more like a skinwalker pretending to be him; someone or something who's attempting to sabotage what he's built in order to further the goal of leaving this place buried into the ground.
I refuse to allow that to happen. Not while I'm alive, at least.He'll be announcing the end of the special tournament in a week from now. After that, I suspect that this faker will leave it at that - as he's kept Tony locked up somewhere, where ever that may be.However, if I can find where he's been imprisoned, and send it to you in a way that they cannot detect... then he may be able to live to see another day.I don't have much time left to maintain contact before he notices that something is up, so I'll leave you with this:Thank you for continuing to participate in the tournaments and to Cytoid as a whole. I've been watching from the sidelines from a while now, and I've seen him be a much happier person than he was before, making things in order to keep this community alive and breathing even after such a bad hand has been dealt to you all.
He's done a lot for you, now's your turn to give him a hand.I'll return when the time is right.Good luck.And do not speak of me. If he finds out... I fear I may no longer have a chance.
I must thank you for keeping silent about my existence.
I now know that what I have been thinking hasn't been entirely based on illogical foundations, as what I've seen has proven to be true - someone wishes for this place to die, and I'm glad that you wish for it to be otherwise.
I have a feeling however, that I cannot stay here for long - as much as you have all tried to keep me secret, I'm afraid they might start suspecting that something may have gone wrong with their plans. Intercepting them was easy, but deleting any trace that they even were will not be.
If you feel like you're stuck in what I have given you thus far, I unfortunately apologize. Hiding information between the cracks is difficult when you're dealing with someone who can convincingly fake an identity... and when I myself am not aware of humanity's ways all too well.
But that doesn't mean that assistance isn't an impossible task. I can still help you... it will just take one more push.
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I'm traveling somewhere else again!
TL;DR, Watch the video below.So, this is a little unannounced and impromptu, but I'm basically going on another trip to somewhere else, and I have zero clue when I'll be back for special tournament. I'll still mostly be around, but I probably will not have the resources to do anything insane or impressive, since a lot of other stuff currently has my eye right now.I'm also really lazy, so I don't have any sort of video to prepare to tell peeps that I'm going away, so for now you can have this video that I recorded a little while back when I first went onto another continent.As for where I'm going, I'll leave that for you to figure out. You can have fun figuring that out while I'm on air....Although, there is one more thing. I have received a weird message from my airline that I was very confused by, and I was wondering if any of you could figure out what it means. I'll attach it to the bottom of the video as well, since I have zero fucking clue what it means.Have a good July!