Technoblade never dies.
Best sport I remember playing at school was frisbee because the teachers barely paid any attention to us and left us to do our thing as long as we looked like we were being active so we didn’t even bother keeping scores. Just divided into random teams and frequently switched teams around as we played.
Disc golf is a fun way to add an objective to this.
The only number I care about when I play disc golf is the number of discs I bring back home
Gotta love the days you leave with more than you came with!
I was always overly concerned with finding mine in the woods and would regularly search long enough and find other peoples lost ones
I once found one with a phone number on it. Got in touch with them and they told me to keep it! Thing glided like a rock…
Heard of that a few times, could probably play it in the fields by the beach
Ah yes…curse of the #1 Headband.
Is this a motherfucking Afro Samurai reference?
God damn it, you beat me to it.
I mean… it doesn’t have to be, though my experience is only from fflogs and not like a speedrun leaderboard or anything professional.
Getting rank1 means that you were the best in the world, by some metric, for some amount of time, under certain conditions and support factors. You can feel proud of it in a normal way without making it your entire identity.
Also i’m good friends with pretty much everyone who could conceivably compete for the top placements and none of us would be heartbroken to see that a new record had been achieved. I think this is a pretty common dynamic, at least in competitive fields where there is an objective measure of success (rather than something adversarial).
I get the same impression from watching competitive trackmania on youtube. Sure, often someone might grind for a while to retake a record, but they’ll also share in the admiration for someone who managed to do it better
I’m pretty mid at trackmania so I don’t have any personal experience with that lol
Attended a high school graduation where the valedictorian gave the traditional speech. I felt so bad for her… So much sacrificed for a title that will haunt her the rest of her life.
I think her GPA was like a 4.8 or something crazy. Maybe it was worth it for the scholarship? Seemed way more like a burden than an opportunity, and something that set the tone and expectation for her academic and likely professional career.
I was friends with the guy who both was and wasn’t the Valedictorian in high school. During the last semester he had already been accepted into the college he wanted, and the school had already given him the $1000 cash prize the Valedictorian got at my school, so he literally didn’t do any work the final semester. He technically wasn’t the Valedictorian because of this, someone else gave the speech, but at that point he had gotten everything he wanted so he just didn’t care lol.
I could’ve been valedictorian, but math sucked and I really just didn’t give a shit. Sucked at the math and hard science classes, didn’t give a fuck. Aced everything else without trying. Still made deans list
You know what it got me? Unemployed, homeless, hoping I don’t end up in a concentration camp
I was similarly “gifted” and wound up in a similar situation, just not homeless quite yet. Sorry for what you’re going through man, they lied when they said intelligence is rewarded under capitalism.
Same here. I was labeled as gifted in first grade, but my home life was filled with neglect and abuse. A couple decades of that, plus being bullied at school, left me with CPTSD that makes trusting anyone nearly impossible. On the surface, I might look like I built a decent career, but the truth is I have spent my adult life wearing masks that barely fit whatever situation I am in.
Inside, I am constantly fighting the urge to just leave everything, convinced I am useless and only pretending to be a real person. Now that I am in the back half of my life, the weight of it has worn me down and each day gets harder. The only justice in the world that which we make, but we cannot trust justice in a world where worthiness is conflated with wealth.
Tell that to any pro wrestler :)
A wrestler saying this and losing deliberately would probably make a pretty good angle! Or a wrestler insisting on fighting the champ in a non-title match. “I don’t care about no title, all I want is to prove I can kick your ass. You can keep the gold, and youll always know it doesn’t make you the best”
I doubt any promotion would go for that, it’d be devaluing their title, undercutting the whole conceit. Maybe when a title’s being retired, though. Hmm…
I think it could maybe be used once… or possibly once every 20 years. The character would have to be just right though
Respect for Zezima
‘Temporary? Hold my asgarnian ale.’
