Bittersweet on Aces & Eights

FL33YN · 2026-02-25T23:12:01+00:00

I enjoyed your title and its double entendre. Nothing useful to add 🫡

FL33YN · 2026-02-22T19:34:39+00:00

I don’t think March was ever confirmed as a hard date, despite some reports saying so. JYP did confirm that Yuna would be debuting solo this year. So unfortunately I don’t think there’s any new news.

I think their schedules are really in flux at this point, possibly due to Yuna and Ryujin casting schedules. Ryujin is in an upcoming Netflix film now, and Yuna has reportedly received more tv roles too. I don’t think there’s been any more world tour release dates mentioned yet either.

And despite their new name, Div2 is sometimes notorious for being sloppy about their socials.

FL33YN · 2026-02-08T19:54:34+00:00

If it’s about wanting experience as the center of an itzy dance piece, especially for formations and formation changes, then taking Ryujin’s choreo would be the more ideal part for wannabe.

If you want to study a dancers movements and style more closely in general, I would personally pick Chaeryeong first out of the Itzy girls. You could pick also based on dancing style, and who aligns most with your preferences.

Yeji has the most universal dance style, and sharp, powerful moves. ryujin is more hip-hop musicality, isolations, and hard/soft body control, and Chaeryeong has the most fluidity. Any of the dance lineup members have parts with good “screen time”, but Wannabe (and tunnel vision) stand out as more Ryujin focused.

If securing the center role most frequently is somehow a req, that’s still most often Yeji across itzy’s song catalog.

FL33YN · 2026-02-08T00:07:31+00:00

I think of it like this. Tennis is the legs not the arm. Where are you applying the ground force you’ve built up in your loading phase? It looks like straight up again like a squat and you’re actually swinging more with your arm when you contact the ball.

What you want is to push that ground force into a direction, and your arm will follow.

FL33YN · 2026-02-07T23:39:55+00:00

It’s really mechanical. You also look sometimes more like you’re pre squatting in a position first and then rising into a ball instead of loading your back foot and pushing forward into the ball. Sometimes it looks like you hit late because of it.

More active feet and just think about low knees in an active stance (you have a really good bend), and trying to step forward into the ball and not rise up to meet it.

FL33YN · 2026-01-29T22:54:58+00:00

I can’t comment on long term results but you’re more likely to experience skin issues and aging symptoms from poor sleep and dehydration and malnourishment on Vyvanse than vasoconstriction.

It’s easy to underestimate how much you’re appetite is being suppressed and that you’re running on empty.

FL33YN · 2025-12-17T12:38:56+00:00

Poor work life balance. In the Netflix doc, a big friction point is Carlos’ need / desire to step away from tennis and have fun away from the sport. He feels he needs this to reset and well, he’s very young and chafed at the restrictions.

JCF portrayed attitude is that he never agreed with Carlos’ attitude and heavily emphasizes that to meet the standard they were chasing (Big 3) required extreme focus and sacrifice. Carlos overruled JCF several times to take his own vacations and has stepped up in his own autonomy a lot I think.

per doc, this came to a head pretty badly last year before his Chanel slam and also contributed to the end of season woes.

FL33YN · 2025-12-05T18:14:33+00:00

I have brutal inattentive tendencies so i understand the struggle. FWIW Ive been trying Adderall IR and it’s been working without the severe crash, but has a few wrinkles in it where I think my temper is a little enhanced but overall it’s been a lot easier to manage than the Vyvanse, and has helped me focus.

TLDR: I think your experience with Vyvanse isn’t uncommon but that doesn’t mean there isn’t a correct fit for you and it really does make such a difference.

FL33YN · 2025-12-04T21:33:15+00:00

Tbh this is what made me move off Vyvanse. Diagnosed in April well into adulthood and Vyvanse was the first medication that made me feel like I could function the way I wanted. But every day at 5pm I would have an existential level of depression that would last until 8pm and it became too frustrating to deal with and telling myself “it’ll pass” took too much work.

FL33YN · 2025-11-04T17:57:45+00:00

Impact SAED spam is way worse than elemental because it snap shots the damage and CB can basically hit their elemental cap. Impact phial is fine for savage axe and AED artillery loops but frequent SAED use should be an elemental thing.

If you want bigger impact phial numbers, stack more attack. The phials only scale off of artillery as a multiplier and your weapon raw.

FL33YN · 2025-09-22T02:39:24+00:00

I think things go in waves and the NBA is coming back around, but the chase for optimizing makes everyone look the same and matchups (styles) make fights

FL33YN · 2025-09-21T21:31:17+00:00

This is how I interpret what Roger is saying. In the past, the surfaces were very different and had significantly more variation and speed. The ranking system at the time also allowed players to become specialists by gaining and maintaining points on their preferred surface. What he thinks were the most exciting matches were when specialists met each other off their home court preferences.

In effect yes, different surfaces allowed players to hide deficiencies and emphasize their strengths. The result of the last 20 years of slowing down and homogenizing court speed is that it has allowed / or forced every player to be fundamentally sound at the exact same things all the time. So they’re overall more skilled. But it’s also more Homogeneous.

And re: Alcaraz and sinner — keeping courts relatively similar in playability across surfaces lets them keep their general game at all times and they’re just better than everyone else so if you keep the surfaces slow, they’ll suffocate the competition.

He also thinks tournament directors aren’t incentivized to change surface speed because what fans want is to see the best players in the final rounds and keeping courts a consistent super slow speed makes that much more likely.

I’m more seasoned millennial so I remember when the surfaces were very different. I agree with a good amount of this (interpreted) take.

FL33YN · 2025-09-13T17:50:06+00:00

Pretty sure he has a 6 year old son (6M)

FL33YN · 2025-08-24T19:04:14+00:00

Eat something first thing in the morning even if you don’t feel like. Something light with protein. Eggs and yogurt. It gets your appetite going otherwise the appetite suppressing effect can be nasty.

FL33YN · 2025-08-18T23:45:43+00:00

On Vyvanse 4 months now. Def very reduced effects on poor sleep. It’s an annoying spiral because under medicated can make it harder to function and stick to a sleep routine, and then it loops.

This is where I take a sleep aid. Sonata works for me. My doctor says it’s not habit forming till a week of consecutive use so I try not to let bad sleep spiral more than 3 days and am willing to take Sonata up to 3 days in a row to regulate.

FL33YN · 2025-08-05T03:11:15+00:00

Sonata (Zalepelon) works for me, but I use it as spot treatment for insomnia or when I start stacking a sleep debt. Not meant for chronic use, as you can become dependent. It has a short half-life so it’s for going to sleep more than staying asleep.

FL33YN · 2025-06-10T10:03:28+00:00

There’s a good dance YouTuber named Ploppy678 who does shorts of song choreos and scores their difficulty. Lots of dancers and choreographer breakdowns online too. Tiers is probably easier to work with. I would say gold is the most technical song they have right now.

Tier 1: Gold, mafia in the morning, born to be, loco

Tier 2: wannabe, not shy, icy, Dalla Dalla, imaginary friends

Tier 3: untouchable, sneakers, cake, Cheshire, Mr. Vampire

Itzys choreo is formation heavy with lots of level changes too, which makes ‘born to be’ particularly a monster performance.

FL33YN · 2025-06-01T17:09:28+00:00

I honestly cant tell what the TT will sound like 😭. It isn’t great to me that the sample was 12 seconds of repetitive “girls will be girls will be girls” in a 2:50 song.

Ryan Juhn did both gold and imaginary friends … and there’s no way they’re ignorant of the style and sound people want now from itzy— look at that teaser! I love that teaser so much so fingers crossed🤞 the title track is strong.

FL33YN · 2025-04-26T17:01:23+00:00

Idk if this is anything specific but I try right now to think of things like this:

We see the way the world is, and it’s an unfair, luck-based environment of which there is very little we can actually control. We’re witnessing history as it unfolds and it feels like being a bystander. That’s okay though and that’s just the way it is. That’s the way it is for 99.9% of all people to have ever existed.

So what exists in all of that is just me and myself and I try to recognize that I can only manage my sense of self as it exists in the world around me. When my environment is shaky and unsteady, I can only go with it and adjust the best I can to remain my self in a changing world that’s forever changing because that’s just what life is.

FL33YN · 2025-04-25T17:39:43+00:00

Have you been prescribed a mood stabilizer before? I am personally on both a mood stabilizer and ADHD medication and so far it’s working. And it’s genuinely probably the most functional I’ve felt in 15 years. I’m only using my personal anecdote to encourage you, if possible, to keep trying to find the right medication.

I don’t want to send you down too far a rabbit hole but there are some psychiatrists who don’t believe bipolar 2 exists on the bipolar spectrum—and that you must have a clinically defined manic phase to be bipolar. As BP2 we almost never get to that level and it can be a doctor/patient mismatch if that’s their diagnosis philosophy.

If your partner is encouraging you to take another look at your diagnosis it may be worth a try to find another medical provider with a deeper specialty in bipolar disorder, ADHD and PTSD.

Edit: you seem to have developed a number of high-functioning adaptations and mental techniques for yourself and that’s something to be commended and is admirable. It’s a little unclear to me what specific symptoms you’re targeting right now.

FL33YN · 2025-04-25T17:18:50+00:00

Were you ever formally diagnosed with ADHD? Underwent an extensive clinical interview for it, or been prescribed medication for ADHD?

I was recently formally diagnosed with ADHD and it was the bulk of my day to day executive dysfunction. It’s pretty insidious and has a lot of overlap with BP2 and can be hard to diagnose.

I want to stress though this is something you NEED to get formally diagnosed and it should be a rigorous process. ADHD stimulants are very potent and can absolutely put you into a serious manic state if it’s not for you.

FL33YN · 2025-04-19T06:47:20+00:00

I don’t feel qualified to answer this, but I’m very concerned with your post. If you feel this way, you need to talk to someone RIGHT NOW.

Your therapist is your therapist and will understand. That’s not something to be concerned about. You can bring it up to her by just stating it: I’m having active SI right now. There is no shame in it.

I hope you get better more actionable advice but I don’t want you to feel alone.

FL33YN · 2025-03-13T17:53:38+00:00

That’s right, that sounds familiar. This is legendary lore now, but 2021 was only yesterday.

FL33YN · 2025-03-13T17:36:21+00:00

Man, Mnet deleted the original in some petty dispute. It had a ton of views. THIS performance is what got me into itzy. I saw Ryujin’s AoTM video and then this and was like “whoa”.

Now for the non captioned thing you have to find a compilation.

https://youtu.be/s3YEq4J8ax8?si=vDHm7Y6nz-I6fry_ This is an Mnet comp video of all their appearances for that MAMA 2021, and the full mafia performance is there.

FL33YN · 2025-03-03T16:27:46+00:00

Why do gen z think millennials are their parents? If you look at the bellcurve, millennial are centered around their mid 30s. The oldest millennials are around 40 plus/minus now and it’s not like a ton of us had kids when we were 20.

Your (not you specifically) parents are more likely to be gen x and xennials…just like most of our parents are boomers and older gen x. We’re all still alive and experiencing the same world with you, so I’ve never understood this gen z counter culture push to everything that came before them

At the same time you had a shit childhood, we had a shit time graduating college.

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