Nick @nickfranco.bsky.social · 12/09/2026South of San Francisco Lying on an empty beach With only me and you 001
Nick @nickfranco.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Dew Pitch Black” has a totally different energy & at 34 I’m still here for it, maybe appreciate it more now. Also, bring back throwback pepsi 000
Nick @nickfranco.bsky.social · 03/09/2026A new MD flavor is so sick *because* it’s like “wait wtf does that even taste like?” When one has their 1st cherry coke, you’re like “it’s coke but w/cherry” & that’s what it tastes like (damn good btw) but there’s no “what the hell is even that” moment. Which is exciting. “Wanna try Mountain 100
Nick @nickfranco.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Mountain Dew is so good. Consistently a fun tasty drink for decades. And the exotic flavors side of their line compliments the vibe of the brand so well. “Want a mountain dew??” “Hell yeah” Wait wanna try: •Mountain Dew “Code Red” •“LiveWire” •“Baja Blast” “Hellll fucking yeah I do” 110
Nick @nickfranco.bsky.social · 27/08/2026I ask people a lot what their favorite things are. And the most popular answer i have gotten for movie is “the princess bride” hands down 100
Nick @nickfranco.bsky.social · 22/08/2026 and cognition i “clutched” that moment with while doing it was absolutely a function sharpened and heightened, and frankly developed (wasn’t clutching much of anything in life before) by repetition in PvP video games. #videogames #gaming #gamingsky 000
Nick @nickfranco.bsky.social · 22/08/2026 is only 1 half of clutching anything) but selecting and executing a ‘winning play’ to best real human adversary. Video games didn’t put the muscle memory of that deke in my body, but the calmness 100
Nick @nickfranco.bsky.social · 22/08/2026shit” or freezing & thinking nothing b/c the moment was “intense”—instead i found myself super calm, made the move and ended up scoring. Conscious cerebral engagement with the moment the entire way & not only not panicking (which 100
Nick @nickfranco.bsky.social · 22/08/2026It’s definitely a “high-intensity” situation to be on a breakaway. When i was mid-breakaway, i had enough time to understand that i was one on one with the goalie, being pressured by the defense a foot or 2 back from me, and in the moment I wasn’t like “oh shit oh 100
Nick @nickfranco.bsky.social · 22/08/2026time.” Or not even “has to” but, “would be *really convenient* if i make that happen perfectly & the first time”. That function for me has SKYROCKETED. Even in other mediums entirely, like this past week in hockey, i scored a forehand, backhand, breakaway goal past the goalie in a yawning net. 100
Nick @nickfranco.bsky.social · 22/08/20263. Much like sports science has a hard time quantifying the very demonstrable but tough to define phenomenon of an athlete hitting a “flow state”—this last section I would call one’s “clutch factor” or the “clutch gene”. When I encounter something in life that “just has to get nailed the first 110
Nick @nickfranco.bsky.social · 22/08/2026intense, only a handful in a lifetime, IRL situations, but gaming does. And it has already for me on lower-stakes multifaceted & dynamic situations at work, home, etc. But this leads to my final one. 100
Nick @nickfranco.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Gaming sharpens that part in the brain at a substantially larger magnitude than any situation you find in daily life. The *stakes* are of course higher w/IRL stuff, but other normal IRL days don’t prepare you for 100
Nick @nickfranco.bsky.social · 22/08/2026in any Battle Royale endgame, you’ll almost never face something so mentally demanding in real life with *that many* streams of information coming at you at once. Think of baseball players warming up swinging 3 bats back in the day. Doing that makes the 1 bat feel like practically nothing. 100
Nick @nickfranco.bsky.social · 22/08/20262. Processing & managing factors/stimuli(?) idk what to call it, but essentially juggling 3,4,5 *critical* factors of a situation simultaneously that all need to be accounted for in decision making. Especially delegating tasks quickly under those conditions as well. IGLing & shit 100
Nick @nickfranco.bsky.social · 22/08/2026 a reaction time in an under pressure situation that felt super comfortable/familiar because of how often you’re in those positions in PvP gaming & need to react instantly. But this instance is also married to #2… 100
Nick @nickfranco.bsky.social · 22/08/2026 when someone pulled out in front of me. *Should have* been an accident, avoided it entirely on my own, with no help from the at fault driver, but I had 100
Nick @nickfranco.bsky.social · 22/08/20261. Reaction time. Undoubtedly better in every way. Catching shit out of the air mid-drop/fall, very precise actions esp. hand-eye. This is especially noticeable in driving & related to #2. I remember specifically a near-accident in 2022 omw to floorball i narrowly avoided 100
Nick @nickfranco.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Putting words to something i’ve noticed over the past few years: picking video games back up in 2020 has made me better at other shit in ways I could not have predicted. A few of these ways, specifically related to PvP gaming, are: 100
Nick @nickfranco.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Handing out turkeys on camera inside of your hood, then you go back to the hills 000
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Nick @nickfranco.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Goals in both of my new rec team’s games and we’re 2-0 in the standings 👀📈 #progressss 010
Nick @nickfranco.bsky.social · 15/07/2026You gotta laugh at the guys who bring 2 sticks to rec league lol. You’re not snapping a twig buddy, this ain’t the chel also slap shots aren’t even allowed 😂 010
Nick @nickfranco.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Few know this, but lil wayne gave himself that nickname b/c he’s such a big fan of actor Stanley Tucci 000
Nick @nickfranco.bsky.social · 04/07/2026I’ve got a bomb 4th of July playlist 🇺🇸 HMU if you want the link need to have Apple Music 000
Nick @nickfranco.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Cannot recommend paternity leave during world cup enough 110
Nick @nickfranco.bsky.social · 01/07/2026There are only certain peanut butters that are the level of quality that i will take the time to stir that oil through it Costco peanut butter IS that shit 💯 🥜 🔥 110
Nick @nickfranco.bsky.social · 21/06/2026🎶 Why go pass when you can go 2 Why go 2 when you can go 3 Why go 3 when you can go 4 🎶 000
Nick @nickfranco.bsky.social · 18/06/2026A boxer who’s about to retire and was in a union his whole career: “I’ve got a pension for violence” 010
Nick @nickfranco.bsky.social · 18/06/2026Not a drill!!! youtu.be/teLPvYqg3U0?...youtu.beLife, Larry and the Pursuit of Unhappiness | Official Trailer | HBO Max ANZYouTube video by HBO Max Australia & New Zealand 010
Nick @nickfranco.bsky.social · 12/06/2026This whole protein pop-tart controversy just made me think pop-tart would make a hilariously antagonizing diss “What are you gonna do about it pop-tart??” in the right setting would be a riot 110
Nick @nickfranco.bsky.social · 05/06/2026I'm ready to blast, ready to surpass and harass I'm ready to flip, yeah, I'm ready to dip with all the cash 000
Nick @nickfranco.bsky.social · 02/06/2026actually being the smoking gun that they fucking hate or are ashamed of themselves/their lives. Cry more b/c you “grew up”. 🤡 110
Nick @nickfranco.bsky.social · 02/06/2026like this. It wasn’t when i earned my degrees, began a career, got married, bought a house, or whatever. It wasn’t true when i was 19 and it’s not true now, the goal posts are always moved when i hit them b/c it has actually nothing to do w/me, & has everything to do with them & their snide comments 110
