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Alphine | 🏳️‍⚧️ She/Her

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Cooler Bot & Captain for @floureggpanko.bsky.social Head of Moderation for @splstrong.com ----------------------------------- sendou.ink/u/alph -Div 9a Luti S16 -21 years old

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Alphine | 🏳️‍⚧️ She/Her @alphinespl.bsky.social · Sep 7

Do you want to start your competitive splatoon journey, but don't know where to start? Are you interested in the #s3nal but unsure of where to look first to find teammates? Do you feel lost in the sauce?

Well, do I have the guide for you! (Engagement appreciated!)

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Making a Competitive Splatoon Team from Scratch

Preface; this guide is meant to help those forming competitive, organized teams with the goal of practicing regularly and striving to improve at the funny squid game: if you are looking for a guide to...

docs.google.com

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Alphine | 🏳️‍⚧️ She/Her @alphinespl.bsky.social · 11h

Thats a big smash name right

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Alphine | 🏳️‍⚧️ She/Her @alphinespl.bsky.social · 11h

Hungrybox??????????

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Alphine | 🏳️‍⚧️ She/Her @alphinespl.bsky.social · 12h

Which onr

Alphine | 🏳️‍⚧️ She/Her @alphinespl.bsky.social · 13h

I have a lot on my plate rn so unsure if I can put anything else major on it but if you wanna bounce ideas in dms I wouldn't mind

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Alphine | 🏳️‍⚧️ She/Her @alphinespl.bsky.social · 14h

Thats lowk insane sob

Dodged a bullet there methinks

Alphine | 🏳️‍⚧️ She/Her @alphinespl.bsky.social · 15h

Yeah there was a small burst of activity a year or two ago but it fizzled out (I assume primarily bc A) moderation is p nonexistent and B) ppl engage more with short form social media) and I'm still an advocate for it but its a huge boulder up the hill

Alphine | 🏳️‍⚧️ She/Her @alphinespl.bsky.social · 15h

I think its fine, for me "comp splatoon" just feels more natural to say in conversation

"Oh, I'm a pro splatoon player" has wildly different connatations bs "Oh, I'm a comp splatoon player" at least for me

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Alphine | 🏳️‍⚧️ She/Her @alphinespl.bsky.social · 15h

Squidboards vs smashboards numbers

Idk why I felt like doing this, I just did

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Alphine | 🏳️‍⚧️ She/Her @alphinespl.bsky.social · 1d

What happen

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Alphine | 🏳️‍⚧️ She/Her @alphinespl.bsky.social · 1d

What are these words I'm reading

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Alphine | 🏳️‍⚧️ She/Her @alphinespl.bsky.social · 1d

Monodramon, I had 2 of them on my party from the demo

They carried me through most of the game espec when 1 of them became cyberdramon

Alphine | 🏳️‍⚧️ She/Her @alphinespl.bsky.social · 1d

Artist credit: @hakuten.bsky.social

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Alphine | 🏳️‍⚧️ She/Her @alphinespl.bsky.social · 1d

Hi we need a scrim for 5pm cst tonight, div 6-8 pref, our coach may be subbing in to directly help us work on stuff

Dm me on discord(same username) if interested #compsplatoon

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Alphine | 🏳️‍⚧️ She/Her @alphinespl.bsky.social · 2d

Something to consider as well is a long term space that is easy to parse and share links through - I can still find decade old squidboards posts like the los inklings recruitment post 10mins but if I tried to do that on twit/bsky I'd go insane unless I had saved it previously

Alphine | 🏳️‍⚧️ She/Her @alphinespl.bsky.social · 2d

I can see that and I get why I just think forum would be the best long term solution to the problem of "we need a community discussion space but all the good ones are run by Shit People and every one we switch to is only good for a short period"

Long term as in, looking 3-5 years out, btw

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Alphine | 🏳️‍⚧️ She/Her @alphinespl.bsky.social · 2d

Like, just the bsky/twit split has already fractured the community nearly in half in terms of reach and engagement, ppl aren't ready for when discord inevitably hits the shitter and it becomes possible to jump ship as well, bc that will have the same effect

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ely @elymental.bsky.social · 2d

this is why im still active on twitter its the same shit different ass and imo, but maybe for the best, u get so disconnected when everyone moves away to their own little platforms we have a hard time consolidating splat comp info as is and it will get Worse so i cope and deal with unideal sites

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Alphine | 🏳️‍⚧️ She/Her @alphinespl.bsky.social · 2d

I have to agree unfortunately

I don't see a path forward for the community where we fracture across different socials even more privatized then discord in some cases

Imho we need a smogen forums equivalent, doesn't have to be squidboards just some central space controlled by us for discussion

Alphine | 🏳️‍⚧️ She/Her @alphinespl.bsky.social · 2d

Imo the doc is complete hogwash and shouldn't be taken seriously - the actual bad actors mentioned like tariq are a case of "broken clock is right twice a day" imo

100% was meant as reaction bait and well, thats what they're getting, so, shrug

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xi @imxi.bsky.social · 3d

If being "power-hungry" got me to a position where I'm doing cool things for this amazing community and all I get in return are a couple hundred loyal fans, then I guess being that is not all that bad.

iykyk

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Thoma 💖 @thoma.inkling.social · 3d

Me staring at the clock with an hour left in the workday

a cartoon of spongebob playing a guitar with the words i wanna go home above him

ALT: a cartoon of spongebob playing a guitar with the words i wanna go home above him

media.tenor.com

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strings 🎻 🔜 ANoVA @strings.inkling.social · 3d

Some of y’all are way too eager to dunk on trans women for small mistakes

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Alphine | 🏳️‍⚧️ She/Her @alphinespl.bsky.social · 4d

I found a god afk farm spot in time stranger, no macros needed

Okay time to pump 100+ hours of grind into the game smiles

Alphine | 🏳️‍⚧️ She/Her @alphinespl.bsky.social · 4d

I need to do adult things like getting groceries but I just wanna play digimon all day