This game was just a battering. My opponent outplayed me certainly and would have beaten "good Joellercoaster" I think. But I gave him way, way more help than he needed...
I've gone over this game for myself and picked out some particularly terrible things to not do again (I feel like it actually encapsulates all of the things I don't like about the way I play in a single game), but I would be very grateful for some concrete advice as well.
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This feels like taking a vacation in the middle of a battle.
shape. You're ready to give up your 2 C12 stones ?
confused. Split W, otherwise 
has no meaning.
Locally, you end up with a heavy group,
.)
Locally, very big, important shared vital point.
Again, the local result here shows a very big (mis-)understanding of 
expecting B to connect at D6 -- bad feeling, bad habit, bad shape.
148 - 
149 Same as 
"This is a good move to consider, because it prevents black from connecting under with the K2 attachment." had not even occurred to me, and I had to think hard about why that would be a thing. A light has gone on.
to 
shows just how badly I had misread that whole situation - fundamental things about liberty counts (and shapes) and life and what can and can't be killed.