Yozuna Niu Tries the Wingman, and Wrestles With Her Aim, in a Long Apex Legends Session

NEO-PORTE — Yozuna Niu, a member of Neo-Porte’s first generation, spent a stream of just over three and a half hours on Thursday playing Apex Legends, trying out the Wingman pistol and repeatedly remarking that her shots were not landing. Partway through she told her squad she had only recently started the game and still did not know much of it.

She picked up a Wingman in the second half of the stream, saying it was her first time with the weapon, and later wondered aloud whether it could stand in for a shotgun. Late in the session she said its shots seemed to come out with a delay and that another weapon would be better. Between matches she also mused that, since only the winning squad is a champion, most Apex matches end in a loss, and she kept playing regardless. Early on she noticed an unfamiliar player in her lobby and said she would play with them.

“I thought I was really going to be caught. I understand how criminals feel now.” — Yozuna Niu, after recounting a dream

Much of the talk was off the game. She said her nose had been bothering her after she trimmed the fur between her dog’s paw pads, and she explained her routine for forcing a sneeze: stare at a fluorescent light, fan air toward her nose by hand, then squint at the dust floating in the room. Other tangents included the differences between types of Japanese pears and sweet potato desserts. Midway through the evening she recounted a dream in which she was part of a criminal gang, fired a sniper rifle from a highway, and fled home by car navigation with the police closing in.

She closed the stream after about three hours and forty minutes, saying she suspected a stye and that her eyes were tired. She added that she felt she had played a little better than usual, crediting the previous night’s full-squad session, and said the next day’s stream would be a *zatsudan*, or chat stream. She also noted that she had sneezed twice on stream, which is rare for her.