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Toler Webb
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Toler Webb
@Dimsunlight
Physics grad student researching soft matter models in curved space. Competitive Pokémon player (and game-player in general). he/him/his
North Carolina
Joined March 2012
- For esp. men who don't understand: try putting yourself in the player's shoes here. You've just gone 4-0, you're on stream. You worked very hard on your team. When you finish stream, the comments you see are not "he played so well" or "i loved his team," they're...
- My girlfriend left this Easter egg for me today... They're reading
- Why, at this point, do we not have the ability to black-box save game states for very important (elimination) games? Like, why can we not flash-save the game state every turn, and then (maybe) load it back up if there's a disconnection/someone knocks a switch out of a dock/w/e?
- crazy how justin tang is 55 and still beating us all at competitive pokemon33 years young 👴🎉
- Last weekend was crazy. I still can't quite believe that I ended up winning the regional. I want to make a brief thread sharing the team that @45mice and I worked on and spreading some gratitude. First, a rental:
- Replying to @Dimsunlight"wow, he's so hot," "I have a crush on him," or even worse "how do I get in bed with him!??!". You go to a tournament to be a player, and the comments online turn you into a Thing to be Enjoyed. I guess some people might like that sort of thing, but suffice to say many don't.
- Replying to @DimsunlightAnd what's worse, those comments are all made by people who don't even *know* you! There are contexts where expressing this sort of thing is reasonable (and ofc people are going to find others attractive), but a pokemon tournament isn't a bar. People there are players first.
- For some reason, I have an urge to do a 3 hour long run on the gym treadmillThe Worlds Video is over 1 Terabyte... Releasing in 24 hours
- A few people have been asking about my Baltimore team, so! First: it's @___yotam___ 's team, not mine. I just put Flamigo on it. Second: here's the rental and paste: pokebin.com/3077e9fb41ac71… If you try the team, experiment a bit with the amoonguss item!
- I qualified for worlds! *whispers* Wait, what? *whispers more* Oh...
- It's so frustrating because like... what am I working toward? Being called the greatest of all time? Wolfe's too good, it's impossible!
- Tier list after the first day of the limitless tour today! Pretty much every pokemon is defined by their interactions with Gholdengo & Dondozo, but the Gholdengo strategies seem clearly better.
- Let's be honest: the amount of work a player puts in to worlds will almost never be equal to the amount of success they experience. So many hours and you can just go 0-3. I'm flying today. The key is to enjoy the *process*. Then you never really lose that time.
