My 2026 Pokémon VGC commentary reel!
Broadcasts this year:
Victory Road LAIC, EUIC & NAIC Feature Match stream · GCF & GCFe · Champions Arena I/II· VR to San Francisco · VR World Cup · St. Jude Charity Tour · Japan vs. Spain Exhibition
Looking forward to an even stronger 2027!
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And this, ladies and gentlemen, is exactly the reason why VGC is NOT a safe environment for women yet. Was unsure to publish this and will not translate as this disgusts me just too much
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Pokemon bots are all anyone is talking about in the last week. Fun fact: I studied chess bots as part of my CS PhD program. So in today's video, I explain the details of these bots work and how I expect them to change VGC moving forward. The link is below! Check it out 👇👇
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This past week has been especially hard for me and so many others to be on social media. Hearing the horrific things done to Jane Doe, with no repercussions to her rapists, is disgusting. However, what she is doing is what so many others can’t, and that is to seek justice.
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i think if we’re going to have conversations about SA and rape culture as a community, our call to action has to be stronger and more specific
because YES correct your friends!! but be specific about what that means: challenge victim blaming, rape jokes, reflexively defending your friends, turning accusations into gossip, or expecting survivors to publicly prove every detail before theyre taken seriously
underreporting and institutional failure doesnt happen just because people need to be a little more thoughtful. if we're going to cite stats, we need to explain what they mean and why they matter because people genuinely may not know
YES that can mean taking on emotional/educational labor, and NO ONE owes that labor 24/7, but if we are choosing to educate a community, some of that labor is part of actually moving the conversation forward
i WANT allies to speak about this. i WANT men with platforms to speak about this
but having a platform also gives you the opportunity to go further than 'we should all do better'
the goal here shouldnt just be making spaces more welcoming overall- we are talking about sexual. violence.
the goal is making spaces safer, making survivors less afraid to speak and making harmful behavior harder for communities to excuse or normalize.
i think we’ve made real progress toward that together, but that also means continuing to be specific about what needs to change 🤍
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too many men thinking they’re the “good ones” because they’re not physically harming women but they’re still ample beholders and enforcers of misogyny. the way you speak about them, the way you punch down on their looks, their interests. it is all intertwined
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Men can choose to not do this. Men can choose to treat women the way they would like to be treated (I suspect that most men, when extremely drunk and high on ketamine and having reluctantly consented to some limited sexual activity, would not find it pleasant to have their condition advertised as “free ass” to random men on Snapchat). We can create a culture in which men who treat women this way are considered reprehensible, pathetic, and worthy of scorn, whether or not they have technically committed a crime.
slate.com/life/2026/09/corne…
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Preview of Batch 3 for my Pokemon VGC Vinyl Stickers!
This time its Terrains x Balance!
There's tons of color/design language with this batch themed after team comps, so I hope you like em!
Sneasler is my favorite one out of this batch, but Armarouge came out so good too!
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I'm from DFW and I cannot stress enough that this is not anywhere close to a universal experience
If you’re not from DFW, I don’t think you have an idea how significant the immigration issue is here. I don’t mean the mass of the problem, but rather how personal and widespread the frustration is among the residents regardless of political affiliations.
Even before my post, it’s been the topic at almost every dinner or party. If you’re from here and anything less than the upper class, you have a deep resentment for the companies and politicians ushering in foreigners at the expense of your home. We’ve watched some of the most liberal progressive people we know pull their kids out of public schools because they’re the only Americans left in their class. I don’t know how these people will vote, but they are facing the reality of their progressivism.
A lot of these people are uncomfortable having the discussion in public given it touches a raw part regarding race. I get the sensitivity and there is a sense in which that’s right. But if our politicians want the support of the people of Texas, they’re going to have to recognize that however silent, there is a significant majority that feel disenfranchise, betrayed and a level of despair watching their home be transferred to newcomers.
These are not hateful, mean or racist people. They simply want to give their kids an upbringing that resembles the one they had. They want their kids to go to schools with other English speaking Americans, meet kids at the park they can be friends with and they don’t want their kids to be minorities. This is normal and good.
If Bo’s post was over the line for you then you’ve lost touch with every voter and are in for a rude awakening.
Worlds Vlog below!
Thanks to @Pokemon for #free_access to #PokemonWorlds and #PokemonXP!
Highlight was watching @ragimali's win-and-in with @BattleRoom. Some of my favorite VGC memories are cheering for matches and I haven't seen that experience documented before, take a look!























