This Valorant Life

In this week's episode, Adam and myself get into the lifestyle that valorant can help create and how competition effects people mentally

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In this week's episode, Adam and myself get into

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⌚ Timestamps:

0:00 Introduction and criteria
2:20 Controller analysis
4:41 Initiator and controller focus
8:08 Sentinels and initiator deep dive
10:26 Deadlock and initiator roles
14:10 Duelists and initiators
16:52 Killjoy and Neon analysis
20:51 Raze, Reyna, and Viper
25:36 High skill ceiling agents
31:37 Map-specific meta and closing

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In this week's episode, Adam and myself get into how the new breeze, addition of the Bandit and other changes recently effect the meta and how best to approach these new concepts.

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⌚ Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:35 Breeze
10:22 Rage-Bait gun (bandit)
14:53 The crosshair situation is crazy
22:09 The Ski boots principle
23:42 insta-flick spray meta
28:52 Winners game and losers game
31:47 Outro

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 In this week's episode, Adam and myself get into how to reflect on the last year and why it's important to hold space for growth

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⌚ Timestamps: 
0:00 The yearly review process 
3:07 Defining personal success 
5:33 Applying reviews to Valorant 
11:25 Goal setting and flexibility 
19:00 Mental models for growth 
27:15 Implementing weekly reviews 
37:59 Valorant-specific weekly habits 

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 In this week's episode, Adam and myself get into how Ion2x plays and what makes him so unique even among the best of the best. 
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⌚ Timestamps: 
0:00 Analyzing pro playstyles 
11:48 The psychology of presence 
24:50 Decision-making and bias 

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 In this week's episode, Adam and Tim discuss the mental health consequences that can occur when someone is overwhelmed and overly focused on success in competitive video games. 
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⌚ Timestamps: 
0:00 intro 
0:23 Doom spiraling 
1:39 Why are you drinking? 
3:58 Adam speaks on his experience 
7:22 Human connection 
8:39 The still face experiment 
9:33 The inability to be alone 
11:44 Trying to take action 
13:28 Emotional numbness 
16:45 Catching yourself when you fall 
23:50 Choosing your own hope 
27:26 Self identity 
34:50 Being present 
37:37 Felix says "have you drank water in the last hour?" 
38:00 Running out of things to be appreciative for 
39:53 Intention 
42:00 How do you feel after? 
43:32 Are you really enjoying the game? 
45:00 The doorway effect 
45:33 Outro 

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 In this week's episode, Adam and myself talk about the TVL Scholarship that we've set up through your generous support as a community on out Kofi. 

Scholarship Form: https://forms.gle/4BHoiiNne56hDKUD6 TVL Tent Link: https://ko-fi.com/thisvalorantlife 
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⌚Timestamps: 
0:00 intro 
0:52 How this will work 
2:16 The application form 
4:45 The process 
7:15 Why we decided to do this 
8:37 Reversing entropy 
9:42 Outro 

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 In this week's episode, Adam and myself get into the reasons behind competition. What are you grinding towards and what for? Why do we have such strong drives to obtain literal png files. 

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 In this week's episode, Adam and myself get into all the changes made to Valorant post Patch 11.08 and how they influence the meta. Full Patch notes: https://playvalorant.com/en-us/news/game-updates/valorant-patch-notes-11-08/ 

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Edited by Sajai: https://linktr.ee/SajaiAU 

⌚ Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 0:39 Initiators 4:22 Duelists 8:02 Controllers 9:37 Sentinels 12:12 Veto 14:06 Pearl Map Changes 17:39 Abyss Map Changes 21:38 Map Macro based on the changes 23:46 Gunplay update & Weapon changes 27:42 Smurfing & Botting 2FA 29:05 CS Skin Market 30:06 Final thoughts (Outro) 

 In this week's episode, Adam and myself get into what the NUTS method is and how to apply it in your journey to become a better and more holistic Valorant player 

TVL Tent Link: https://ko-fi.com/thisvalorantlife 

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🎮 Dopai's Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/Dopai 

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🤙 Tim's Website: www.timyeung.me 

  Edited by Sajai: https://linktr.ee/SajaiAU  

⌚ Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 

0:13 What is NUTS? 

0:55 How does NUTS apply to Valorant?

 3:39 Tunnel visioning and identifying new patterns 

11:10 Corrode 

14:24 Unpredictability 

25:48 Threat to the ego 

37:48 Sense of control 

45:49 Final thoughts (outro)