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Hi, it's RPD. Long time no see. I've seen how the penspinning community has been consistently terrible at remembering past events. Present combos, CVs, and tricks, are deemed great when someone has already done the same years ago. I'd like to be cynical and grumpy and say this is because us spinners are lazy and don't care about what other people are doing. I definitely think it's much easier to try to come up with some gimmick innovation completely on your own or straight up copy someone else than to actually study what other people did and then build upon it, but real progress comes from the latter.  However, I think the real reason the PS community is so bad at remembering past events is the overall lack of information accessibility. No matter how impactful a combo may be, a YouTube video with 200 views, a Tweet with 10 retweets or a blog post in Japanese is, honestly, really hard to find if you don't know it exists. Thus, I think it's reasonable for even...