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competitive casting is deeply edifying practice, but it takes its toll. maintaining one's place is a deeply corrosive art, a game of stamina, sacrifice, and spiritual erosion. 

my fingertips are calloused. my wrist hums with a psychosomatic curse. my screen time is down to a modest 22.5 hours a day. my friends have stopped texting. my mom says she barely recognizes me anymore.

still, I endure.
for the leaderboard. for the graph. for the culture.
for the few brave users who look at a crypto social network and think: i can fix it,

and by it i mean the protocol.