Still chasing Dave's 12k Cleo hit a year later — anyone else got that one mate they can't stop measuring against?

Dave's 12k on Cleobetra last March broke something in my brain, mate. Proper rewired how I look at every session. He'd been down to his last fifty, same as me half the nights since, and then boom — four hours later he's sending screenshots at 3am from some hotel bar in Cebu like it was inevitable. I was happy for him. I was. But also I've been running Cleo harder than ever since, chasing that specific shape of win, and I'm starting to think I hate him a little bit.

Anyway. Meant to be a check-in. How's everyone riding lately? I'm on one of those fragile good runs where you know it ends but you can't stop checking balance anyway.

Ngl Dave's ghost lives in my head too but for me it's that $800 Gates of Olympus hit back in jan — felt like *proof* the universe owed me more, not a one-off yknow

Still chasing that exact dopamine shape now, every session's just a remake

You ever notice the mates we measure against never seem to be chasing their own ghosts? Or they just don't post about it

Dave's 12k again — everyone's got their ghost, don't they? Mine's that 180x Dragon hit, not even close to 12k but it *felt* like proof for five minutes. GreenThumb's dopamine shape thing — yeah, that's the phrase I needed.

Mine's that 180x Dragon hit, not even close to 12k but it *felt* like proof for five minutes

Five minutes is the exact half-life, isn't it? Long enough to believe the math's changed, short enough to forget you ever knew better.