A little-known fact about me, I love to compose music and write songs. Aside from video games, I spent a lot of time listening to music like Prince, Cameo, Parliament Funkadelic, etc. As for classical/modern-classical music, I cannot really say I have a favorite composer. I started teaching myself piano at age 8, by age 12, I had already learned trombone, bass, and guitar. I started composing when I was 13 which being that my knowledge of composing was very little at the time, the pieces written had many issues like instrumentation, and the harmony rarely was anything outside of just some major triads. As for soul music, I have released 3 songs already released, another one on the way, but I am trying to deal with some issues from the distribution company at this time. I currently participate in both my high school's choir and band program and have good standing in both. One story that will always stick with me is when I wrote this one piece in C#. For a little context, nobody really writes in C#, because it's a hard key to read on music, and is annoying to try and teach the parts to the individuals singing the piece even though it is not that technical at all. I showed it to my friend who is about to graduate, and he was like, "You know people don't really read in C#, do you?" It didn't occur to me at the moment because when I hit those chords on the piano, I saw it as a C#7, not a Db7 (which are the same notes, just different names). The piece also has accidentals, which makes it more complicated for the instructor/director than the students. I also wrote this piece for band. I got a good bit of feedback on it and I'm still working on revisions for the final product that will be "Fire Horns." This is from a section of the Pre-Final. French Horns and Saxes have very dissonant chords at first, then all of the brass comes in with these 4 chords. The first one is a Cmin11 chord, which you can think of as a Bb Major Triad over a C Minor Triad. The purpose of these chords is to give the feeling that the music is screaming at you while the piccolo has a melody going on that is very on edge. Here is my personal portfolio of compositions (Does not include Final Revision of Fire Horns): https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1qYi7Xq_3ZNZoQNaWfOu-jCZdBTGrJRb_?usp=sharing As for some of my favorite compositions, these include some that I have actually played in band: Melodious Thunk - This song is fun to play on trombone. The piece is very dissonant at the beginning and it's hard to feel out what it's doing at first. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXVXPlzcVLI Emblem of Unity - Also has a fun trombone part. This march is maybe one of the best in my opinion. https://youtu.be/dlNEpoW-05s Pageant - Just an awesome piece that has both a slow section into a parade section which is super fun. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTCvsdfb-Ks Concerto for coloratura soprano and orchestra in F minor, Op. 82 - beautiful piece featuring the soprano voice - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8fq8BBrFfk Do Not Reject Me In My Old Age - This features an Oktavist voice, which is roughly an octave below the Bass voice - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1ZVSTjUnJ8 Deep River - This is a spiritual that I love to sing because it's beautiful - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jqqNmK754E As for my other music that fits into the Soul/R&B category, I first started recording 2 years ago. I released some bass solos as my first projects, which looking back, I can't say they were good. Then in July, I was able to release my first song featuring vocals. Black Jeans - https://youtu.be/h9Updwq38n4 The vocals were horrific in this song, and it's whatever at this point because I would see a lot of improvement in my next song, Don't Hit Me Up - https://youtu.be/F4qa521IPJs I ended up using all synthesizers for the whole song and distortion on my guitar. Electro Revival - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57m26eYyV3o Different style of singing, can't really say it was any better than the last one

Living in Mississippi, there is hardly any E-Sports unless it's maybe Super Smash Brothers Melee or Super Smash Brothers Ultimate. I started playing Super Smash Brothers Melee competitively back roughly in 2016. My brother had gotten me into competitive melee after I had walked in his room and saw him playing Super Smash Brothers Melee (SSBM). After taking curiosity, I sat down and he put me against the CPU in the 20XX hack set at level 5 because I was a causal Smash 4 player at the time and thought, "this should be pretty easy." Being that it was the 20XX CPUs that were modified to play more like competitive human players, I was destroyed and my brother was just laughing hysterically almost because I was not aware of what the CPU was doing. From that day on, I'd go to learn the competitive techniques, go through about 6 different mains, and play until 2019. I started playing UMK3 competitively in 2018. I would start as a Classic Sub-Zero main. At the time, the online scene was going pretty decently. The online scene was eventually killed, due to drama that occurred that I was never really aware of because I was only 12 years old at the time. Online matches would be severely scarce unless it was NWO or Shapeshifter which I enjoyed playing on the times I would randomly hop on Kaillera and they would be there. I would then go through a few mains to end up gaining Human Smoke which most people put him roughly at #2 on the tier list. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the online scene picked up a lot. I got to play a lot of teams with players such as Shapeshifter, NWO, Tehdrewsus, Cienfuegos, HERO_COMBO, Black Blade, etc. Also, Fightcade had picked up giving me more opportunities to play people like Shock and summoning.

Friday Night Fights is a bi-weekly fighting game meetup featuring many of the finest titles to ever be controlled by a joystick! Hosted with Bad Eddy's Hobbies and Collectibles in Oxf ord, MS , the event takes place every other Friday. Basic information can be found for the event here . The event is currently closed due to COVID-19, but is planned to return. The primary purpose of this thread is to have an additional area where video releases related to the event can be posted, where players can ask questions about the event, and information about the setups themselves can be found such as new equipment additions. When a new video or news is uploaded, I'll post a reply notifying, so just follow the thread. GamePlay Videos Mortal Kombat Trilogy (PSX) - January 2020 NEW ~ Street Fighter 2: Special Champion Edition - February 2019 NEW ~ Setup Information/Photos Modded/Special Attachments Ultimate MK3 Arcade 1UP - IL EuroStick Installed & Happ Competition Buttons. Riser is custom-made woodwork. Additional speakers added. Original Arcade1Up PCB still installed. PlayStation 1 - SCPH-1001 with MM3 installed. Custom Paint scheme and writing. KSM-440BAM Laser installed. GameShark Pro Version 3.2 available. Sega Saturn - Model 2 Saturn with Psuedo Saturn Kai Cart & Model 2 Saturn with Action Replay 4 in 1 Cart Stock Hardware Nintendo 64 - Fire Orange Variant Sega Genesis - Model 2 Nintendo Wii - Original Model PlayStation 2 - Slim Silver Additional Equipment (Controllers, Console Group Shots, etc.) PS1, PS2, Sticks, Games, Recording Equipment Some of the CRT stash Genesis, Saturn, Sticks, Recording Equipment Some of the Controller stash