Evarae 🐱

Evarae | He/They | Secretly a Cat.

[Fav ⛧ @Favwontmiss]

one of the worst autistic experiences is finding out someone built a case against you in silence and never gave you one clear chance to understand or fix it.

[Evarae 🐱 @KittySegway]

I have a lot of thoughts about Destiny 2's end of live-service updates, but ultimately sad and thankful I had a lot of fun playing. Many important things came from the series. Probably will write a lot of it down in the near future.

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[shan ⭐️ @enviousirises]

ego death at a tomodachi life party

[Evarae 🐱 @KittySegway]

@galaxyAUS That is exactly my situation too these days hahaha.

[Big Tee @societyhatestee]

hot take: your friends SHOULD call you out on your shitty behavior.

[Libriscent @libriscent]

being autistic is pouring yourself into trying to be thoughtful and kind, then finding out none of your intentions mattered because people decided what you meant without asking.

[Evarae 🐱 @KittySegway]

Chainsaw Man Mamga has ended and I’m full of feelings aaaaa. Will be processing this for weeks.

[Evarae 🐱 @KittySegway]

This starts next week and I am very excited. My fav is finally going on the screen. Also this is a banger. https://t.co/9LGMjicTkm

[Sophia ❣️ @KeruboSk]

Autism: I prepare for every scenario.
ADHD: I’ll figure it out live.
AuDHD: I prepared for every scenario and then winged it anyway

[Evarae 🐱 @KittySegway]

Was weird that that they spoiled an important point of the movie/book with an audible ad right before the movie started, but fuckin amazon being stupid I guess.

[Evarae 🐱 @KittySegway]

Project Hail Mary is a lot of fun. Wish they would have advertised/marketed better in regards to a major plot point, but whatever. Go read the book after if you haven't, it's an amazing read.

[Evarae 🐱 @KittySegway]

@theCoastalCity Sounds like you and I have a lot in common with having games that consume too much time to have fun with anything else. Mind you I also have a prolonged burnout that ain't helping on top of that. Maybe we should find a good coop story game to do at some point 😂

[Charlotte Clymer 🇺🇦 @cmclymer]

It annoys me that so many people are under the impression that this guy, Steven Bradbury, is some subpar goober who lucked his way into gold.

That could not be further from the truth.

This is one of the most satisfying victories in the history of the Olympics if you know the full backstory.

This medal final was during his fourth Olympics, in Salt Lake City in 2002.

Earlier in his career, he was among the best athletes in the world in this specific event, the 1000 meter short-track men's speed skate.

But despite his talent, he just had some of the shittiest luck in the sport. We're talking a decade of shit luck.

In the '94 Winter Olympics, he was considered the odds-on favorite to take gold, but he fell in his heat after getting illegally pushed by an opponent (who was later disqualified). He didn't get a re-do. That was it. He got shoved by some asshole, and his Olympics was over.

Then in the '98 Winter Olympics, he was a favorite to at least medal in the same event but got caught up in a collision that wasn't his fault and failed to advance.

In 1994, he got his thigh sliced open by a competitor's skate during a race, which required 111 stitches and 18 months of recovery time.

In 2000, he broke his neck during training because a skater in front of him fell and tripped him up. That required a bunch of screws and plates being inserted into his skull and back and chest.

And doctors told him that he should stop skating. But he didn't wanna give up. It meant too much to him.

So, there he was in Salt Lake City in 2002, past his prime, a walking erector set, going up against opponents who were faster and younger and in their prime.

He manages to win his heat and advance to the quarterfinal but then has the shit luck (yet again) of having to go up against the best two athletes in the quarterfinal and only the top two advance.

He finishes third and thinks: "Damn, I gave it my best shot." But then, the second place finisher is disqualified, so Bradbury gets to advance to the semifinal.

Now, at this point, he's thinking: Well, shit, I'm not as fast as these younger guys, and I got a bad habit of getting taken out by crashes that aren't my fault.

So, he consults with the Australian national coach, Ann Zhang, and they decide that he should hang back from the pack and hope the pack crashes.

That is a perfectly valid strategy. If you crash, you lose, but speed skaters risk crashing to gain an advantage in order to win.

It may not feel exciting, but it is a valid strategy and just as risky: avoid crashes entirely and hope that pays off.

It paid off in the semifinal: the pack, including the defending Olympic champion, jostled too much and crashed. Bradbury wins and advances.

So, he's improbably in the final and takes the same approach, and it works: the entire pack jostles too much and crashes, and Bradbury's risk of hanging back pays off.

This victory was not some un-athletic schlub lucking his way into gold.

It was a journeyman athlete who never gave up and played smart after a career of shitty luck and finally got his due after it being snatched away from him so many times.

Hands down, one of my favorite Olympics stories.

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One thing about Hayao Miyazaki is that he’s gonna put some little guys in his movie