Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. It's more about the willingness to take him up than anything else; I think the tools are all there but I just don't have the desire to take up the bayonet myself.

meanwhile I think Potential Boy is getting closer to the right spot. He continues to be just Potential while the rest of the top tier are active menaces to society.

in an objective sense, yeah Andrew is better than Charlotte
in a "I do not get actively bored trying to play this character" sense, however,

yeah in 2023 I struggled to find any, which is sad because someone in the US wanted me to bring one back just to prove to people that yes they really do hand this shit out because the CEO is a lunatic

GOD so true
I hear they have started reversing the Olympics-era policy and started putting the books and pamphlets back in public view because they don't care anymore.

this goes insanely hard

it's good to learn this stuff, though imo I think the starting point to realizing this is Dark Cloud. 2 has so much more Stuff but the mechanics are more wild experiments rather than Level-5 focusing on the mechanics as far as they could push them in 1.

yeah you can guess how I'm doing lmao

Matcherino is up as well: matcherino.com/tournaments/...

I think you gotta take a break. I know that a month feels like an eternity when it comes to a game this new but if you try and force yourself to play tomorrow it's going to start a spiral you don't want to be in.
Respect yourself and your own ability to make it for the next opportunity.