yuzuangel

Hello all, Sorry for the downtime last night! Apparently it might have been because our database is getting pretty big (it's now >65% of our available disk space) so when I tried to query from it it crashed the DB. We need to do some forum upgrades so we might have some few minutes of downtime in the next few days, depending on the upgrades we need to do -- but I'll post something if we do as long as it's something expected. None of those upgrades will be to get more disk space/faster server though, it'll be more micro-optimizations, because moving the site to another server would be too time-consuming for now. Also, we paid for 2 years of hosting with our current plan, and that expires in June 2020, so I'm not sure if there's a way to move before then. We'll revisit all of this and do some more research during the off season probably! Thank you for your support!~ yuzuangel

thank you for your supports, it's been a stressful morning

Yup, bad translation.

yes... bad joke lol

Hi everyone, I need to do a forum upgrade. hope that's ok will be done for a few minutes eta: we're back

Yeah let's be respectful to Nathan and not call him names or anything. We will edit anything not calling skaters by their real names or neutral nicknames. Also, personally I'd prefer if we kept quoting the Yuzu antis to a minimum. It's obviously different if we post about scoring discourse tagging ISU on twitter. But I think there are many people here who prefer to not see or read antis, and responding to the antis on PH is not super productive either. Thanks

same, this must be the first time i feel i need some eye bleach lol

Unpopular opinion but it's probably a lot more work to be a full time student at, say, a top public state school than at Yale. At least with most state schools there isn't rampant grade inflation and you actually have to work for the same GPA. My public state school friends work a lot harder than my Yale/equivalent friends. So I'd be truly equally impressed (or more) if someone could balance an education AND athletics at a state university for sure.

Hi everyone! We have a thread to talk about US skaters, so please talk about Nathan here (unless it has to do with Yuzu)

Yeah I'm from the US and there's a ridiculous amount of ... how do i say it? inability to accept anything that doesn't confine to limited gender expression norms here. you'd think with social issues being a big thing here and in many places we're very outwardly liberal but even compared to Japan where social issues aren't as "advanced" there's way more...internalized bias here that people just believe to be or frame as a preference. It's sad.

@makebelieveup also uploaded one:

underscored

look at the way he kisses the ice, and then he guards over his love protectively with murderface on

Chopin 4.0

I feel like JSF puts such unhealthy pressure on their skaters. They really treat them like show ponies. I think the same thing happened to Satoko when she was injured before 2017 worlds. they were like "i know you're extremely injured but pls skate so 3 spots" lol

Uhh I feel a bit worried for Shoma. Injured and could barely walk yet doing SOI and then WTT right after?

Sigh, the media certainly seems to wish Yuzu is 100% thinking about Beijing. As do I but sigh...