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After I had found a consistent strategy playing Wii Sports Resort Basketball 3 point contest, I was at the point where I finally believed this would be the night where superstar would be mine!... oh how very... very... very wrong I was.

Right off the bat, I couldn't score. Had I already lost my mojo? Well that or I was just rusty. You can't always be perfect when you're rusty. I'd surely get back into it quickly! And by quickly, I mean 55 minutes in before I fully finish a game. Oh boy... that is what we call... not very good. I mean yeah over time I was slowly getting back into it. But I was still having a lot of just shitty games where I couldn't make a fucking basket. And even when I did finish a game, it wasn't fucking worth it! I thought maybe 25 could've been good. It wasn't. I lost 6 experience points. Good. So my first finished game and I'm going down. That's just fucking lovely ain't it? Hopefully I will now be able to finish a game in less than an hour this time. Unfortunately my performance is... subpar at best. Sometimes good. Sometimes bad. Mostly bad. But hey, in only about 20 minutes I finally get a 26 point game! HUZZAH! And it's worth 21 experience. Bringing me to a total of +15 experience! Now we're getting somewhere! I was starting to get a tad bit more consistent... on like... the first section. Hey if you ever need a guy that can get you the first 6 points, I am your guy! The other sections? Uh... find another guy. I don't think I quite remembered what my strategy was from the last time I did this. As much as I tried to remember it. Also I seemed to be just... cursed? When it came to the 4th ball set. Like my first ball would veer just way too right and not go in. I needed the ball to... not veer right. Nearly 2 hours into the stream, I have a chance for another 26 pointer game. And of course I just fail to sink the fucking money ball and I have to restart again because it was only 24 points and that would be big experience loss. My happiness also took a loss at that moment there.

And then at a chance for a potential 27 point game having 21 points going to the final set. How many balls do I sink? If you guessed 1, you get a cookie! At this point I think I was just like... throw and hope the ball goes in. 2 hours and 22 minutes in, another chance at a 27 point game. And how many balls from the final set do I get this time? ZERO! Then again I did just chuck away the money ball since I was so fucking pissed off that I just choked once again. I could get so close... yet so far. Because at this late stage into the super star journey, Nintendo DEMANDS perfection from you. It doesn't matter even if you get something like 24 or 30. You need to start getting 27, 28, and maybe even 29 and 30 of 30. I don't know if I'm ready for that yet. Sometimes I do miss the days where I could get like... 15 and gain experience. At this point, as frustrated and pissed off that I was about my lackluster performance, I was just so... so... so determined to just have one good game. Hell I even kept playing well past my 4:45 AM teeth brushing time. And that says a lot right there. And yes I do brush my teeth at 4:45 in the morning. Sue me. Oh yeah another pissed away opportunity at greatness at the 2 hour 52 minute mark. But finally... FINALLY... FINAL...FUCKING...LY... just 4 minutes later... I score... twenty... seven... points... yes... I did it. I actually had a good... REALLY GOOD fucking game. Worth 48 experience points bringing me up to 1815 total experience. Just 185 away from super star. I really REALLY think it's possible. Could I have had stopped there? Yes. Did I? No. Of course though after that 27 point game, I went back to being Mr. Sucky McGee. Sure I was making buckets. I was also missing buckets.

I only stopped playing and remembered I had a life around the 3 hour and 36 minute mark of the stream because my Wiimote batteries kicked the bucket. Of course naturally I had spares. But also of course I had teeth to brush. So I did that, and then went back to the game. Where for some reason the game didn't have me recalibrate my wiimote after it was reconnected. Which is honestly really really really odd. Did the new batteries help? Uh... no not really. At the 3 hour and 57 minute mark I threw a missile ball to the rim that somehow bounced up and into the basket. Don't ask me how that happened. Not like it mattered, that was a restarted game anyway. 4 hours in now and I had like what... 2 finished games?... with positive experience? 6:30 in the morning now. My body was very unhappy with me. Oh yeah it ain't a Wii Sports Resort Basketball: 3 Point Contest stream without accidentally hitting quit and then accidentally selecting Power Cruising. Sometimes it's moments like this where I forget this game has other sports. Especially when you play one for so long. Finally, 4 hours and 44 minutes in, at 7:08 in the morning, I FINALLY get a 26 point game worth... 12 experience... hey you know what? A positive gain is a positive gain. But holy fuck was I tired as shit. I wanted to just turn the Wii U off and plop right down to bed. And that's exactly what I did. I am amazed I leveled up at all this stream. And now I am 133 experience away from super star. Is it possible? Hell yes. And I really hope to get there. I made it this far. I can't give up now. Otherwise, my body probably won't let me hear the end of it until I am under my own damn grave.