In Splatoon 3 when you have enough rank points to go up a rank it makes you play 3 battles to see if you’re prepared for the next rank up. I’m in S rank, which is the lowest of the top ranks. It’s essentially the average rank. I’ve been as high as S10 in Splatoon 2 but I think I’ve only ever been as high as 5 in 3. Mostly because the way they work is they pair you with 3 teammates of lower skill and you are supposed to carry the team. What happens is I hit my skill limit and I get stuck having to do rank up matches over and over while never succeeding. It strikes me as a metaphor for my life. Perpetually stuck at the very edge of success, struggling to get over that hill and achieving security. I’m sure everyone feels that way on some level, at some time, over the course of their life, but it feels like I am cursed to be almost good enough and stuck in a Sisyphean loop.

At the same time I don’t want to get too successful. For every 1000 enjoyers you get at least 1 psycho who takes you on as an object of scorn who they can fill their empty lives with hatred for. I want to keep it a nice ratio of love to hate. I’m not sure where the sweet spot is. As my medical expenses start to increase as I age I’m often reminded that I haven’t quite reached a place where I can be mostly free of worry. The poor economy certainly isn’t helping anything, along with other disasters that were no fault of my own.

I suppose this is just the human condition. At least until the world wakes up and realizes we already have all the tools to lift up every human in to paradise if we could abandon greed. That’s probably asking too much though. greed might be too hard wired into some of our genetic coding. It will ever be at odds with empathy.

In any case I hope the start of this new week treats you well and hope to see you on Wednesday. Until then, WOOMY!

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