EPTbeat this nice and jumpy map just now. apparently it's really easy though since it's fairly new and i didn't even break top 100 with this score :|
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i'm pretty good at spamming this thread eh? perhaps i should limit myself to one or two pics per page
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wooozy
3813 Posts
beat this nice and jumpy map just now. apparently it's really easy though since it's fairly new and i didn't even break top 100 with this score :| i'm pretty good at spamming this thread eh? perhaps i should limit myself to one or two pics per page | ||
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prototype.
Canada4215 Posts
On October 25 2011 13:17 wooozy wrote: + Show Spoiler + i used half time to beat chipscape 'cause i'm a little sissy girl and didn't want to keep the sub 70% D (what i had without half time) as my top score. other than that though, i've never used a difficulty decrease mod. as for patterns i can't stand, i hate streams that go in circles, or any dumb shapes for that matter, as well as those darn.. how do i describe it.. a bunch of mini sliders+reverse sliders one after another. i hate them especially when it's mixed in with a stream or something. more often than not i feel like i'm just guessing when to click again/let go when dealing with these beat this nice and jumpy map just now. apparently it's really easy though since it's fairly new and i didn't even break top 100 with this score :| i'm pretty good at spamming this thread eh? perhaps i should limit myself to one or two pics per page keep spamming please  not that great, but i beat my old mouse-only score | ||
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Camail
United States1030 Posts
+ Show Spoiler + ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/YScl8.jpg) Second favorite map/song improved score + Show Spoiler + ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/88CSg.jpg) And I am half-decent at jumping now! + Show Spoiler + ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/AIXAj.jpg) I think its important that for me that the song doesn't suck. I've done maps much harder than these, but I always come back to key favorite songs because the maps or song is just fun to play. Also, how do I re-size the image to the dimension you guys have? | ||
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wooozy
3813 Posts
qilliam's too cool for us though so he plays at 1280x960 | ||
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Camail
United States1030 Posts
For the first few months I didn't know you could resize, but I like these dimensions because I got used to them. | ||
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prototype.
Canada4215 Posts
On October 25 2011 18:01 wooozy wrote: hm? your pictures are the same size as mine since we both play at 1024x768. qilliam's too cool for us though so he plays at 1280x960 For a long time I played in 800x600... I think 1280x960 area is too big, gonna play in 1440x900 now It's been awhile since I FC'd something | ||
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Camail
United States1030 Posts
edit: turns out its not a double post, yay. I first started playing this game on the fourth of July, this year. I was terrible, I was absolutely god awful. I have been playing PC game my entire life, and that was the day I realized just how shit my mouse control was. When I first started playing I started with the 3 stars, I didn't even know about the actual rating system back then. There was no way I'd start with the 1 and 2 star maps, those were so slow and I had at least some natural speed. I go back now and watch these replays and cringe. I obviously had no skill in any Osu! specific things like knowing patterns and other such things, but my ability in general was so slow. After a few days of playing maybe 14-ish songs (I can't name them by if I hear them I know) I began to expand. I would play all day every day during the summer. Through shear practice I worked up to 4 stars and was able to pass those with relative ease at about 800-ish plays. It felt so great to know I was improving. I was getting faster, and it felt good. I became obsessed with improvement. Then I started 5 star songs, really they were 4.7 most of the time, and I was so happy just to make it to the end. I had no idea about fcing songs, my only goal was to pass 5 stars. Then I came across a very special song. http://osu.ppy.sh/b/63499&m=0 The first time I played it the circles vanished so quickly it was almost incomprehensible, but I loved the song so much that I had to try it. I never got passed the intro for the first 160 retries in a row, it was infuriating. I had gotten so much better than I was before, but I still couldn't beat this song! Well soon after the 160th try I gave up and continued to play other maps that I could finish. This map kept haunting me though, and every once in awhile I would come back to it as an ultimate comparison of my skill. I thought that once I could pass this song, I would actually be good at this game. So the next time I played it, maybe a few weeks after the first experiences (my oldest record on this song in general is July 12th) I tried again. Ok, I could stumble through first weird pattern, the sliders looked so fast but were manageable, the distended streams killed me every time. So I kept working. I played harder and harder songs, now I could perfect the lower 5 stars after I've warmed up enough. Alright, another time to test my strength, how good am I? As the map starts it feels like everything has become just a little bit slower. I'm still clicking furiously with no real sense of rhythm, but this god might just bleed for me. At this point in time I think my max combo was about 60 on this song, the patterns were still hell and I would usually die right before the verses started. Around 250 plays at this point. I thought I was pretty good when I could S a 5 star, but then I pushed myself even harder. Every time I thought I broke into the 'good at Osu!' category I would look around me and see how bad I was. My jumps were terrible, I still hadn't any idea how to stream. I was still mouse only! Around 290 plays. Over the last 2 months I have played this map maybe ten times. The first 9 I got pretty far, but I couldn't read that pattern after that 2nd spinner, and it took so long to get there I couldn't just retry and practice it. Up until the 301st play I never saw what was waiting for me after that pattern, but I kept playing harder and harder songs. Most of what I play is significantly harder than this song by now, but I still couldn't beat it. Lets come back to about 30 minutes ago. No warm-up, going into Osu! to play a few songs and take my mind off life. There was no special preparation, I just decided it was another one of those times. A time to put myself on the examination board and see how I matched up to July-Me. This map is very special to me, every time I play it I remember the struggle. Each pattern, each slider has a history for me. I tried so hard, spent so much time to be able to say that I was actually good at this game. I go through the song, singing with it like an old friend. You could point to any time in the song before that annoying pattern after the 2nd spinner and I could remember ten different tries that had me fail there. This was a fairly bumpy run through because I was out of practice. After the trip down the nostalgia highway I hit the roadblock. That pattern is so hard to see with the normal skin of Osu! for me. I wanted to dominate, but in my head I kept doubting myself, by now I was used to instantly failing there. This time was different though. I completely botched the pattern and missed most of it, but the music didn't slow down, the familiar suggestion to retry didn't blacken the screen with my failure. The tempo kept up and I kept clicking. It was so easy, why was it so easy? I completely lost focus in the confusion. I'm not playing particularly well right now; I'm not warmed up at all, but I'm here and I'm beating this song. This song that would make me a good Osu! player and I could look back at when I couldn't even beat the intro over 4,200 plays ago and laugh. The final piece of the pie-chart started to fill up, the map was easy after that pattern, a nice predictable romp in ecstasy after I realized that this was it. So I finished the song, the score screen came up. It was ok, not too good, but ok. I didn't care though. I had finally beaten this song! It has gotten to the point where it is no longer a fair representative of my skill, but I passed the song! I've had this goal for about a 3.5 months now and everything I've gotten from this game has been through practice. You can't buy a +% pack from a store, or an extra multiplier. It was just me, my mouse/keyboard, and the map. The hours of playing until my hand locked up gave me this precious moment. i pretty much started writing this right after I beat the song, so its as rough as a draft is going to be, but that's fine with me. I just wanted to share this, and if anyone just nonchalantly checks this thread on the top of the first page, just know that this game can tell great stories. ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/J2ywA.jpg) | ||
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wooozy
3813 Posts
anyhow, pics: ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/f4hTu.jpg) ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/7KrkZ.jpg) not satisfied with the latter at all, but my arm gets tired so quickly retrying this map over and over. e_e on the bright side, i've noticed my spins are consistently 390-410ish now on these long spins | ||
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Camail
United States1030 Posts
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prototype.
Canada4215 Posts
Bad accuracy  edit: while we're still on the topic... i could never pass Rapid Ensemble back when i was still a baddie and now, i still suck at that map edit2: lame edit3: FINALLY | ||
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wooozy
3813 Posts
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prototype.
Canada4215 Posts
... I dunno why I can read HRHD so much easier nowI plan on FC'ing this one day | ||
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Xafnia
Canada874 Posts
On October 29 2011 14:46 prototype. wrote: I give up tablet ... I dunno why I can read HRHD so much easier nowQuitter | ||
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Camail
United States1030 Posts
On October 27 2011 14:16 prototype. wrote: edit: while we're still on the topic... i could never pass Rapid Ensemble back when i was still a baddie I haven't passed that song....well its mostly due to the fact that when I'm actually warmed up this map bores me to death. I can't muster up any interest to play it  . Its so booooorrrrrrrriiiiiinnnnngggg. I've re-downloaded it, only to delete it after a single play, at least 5 times now. | ||
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prototype.
Canada4215 Posts
On October 29 2011 15:25 Camail wrote: I haven't passed that song....well its mostly due to the fact that when I'm actually warmed up this map bores me to death. I can't muster up any interest to play it . Its so booooorrrrrrrriiiiiinnnnngggg. I've re-downloaded it, only to delete it after a single play, at least 5 times now.really? i think it's okay... mostly because there aren't any pauses, but the patterns are kinda lame almost there | ||
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Camail
United States1030 Posts
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prototype.
Canada4215 Posts
On October 29 2011 16:01 Camail wrote: I actually like pauses sometimes, as longs as they are <8 seconds I'm fine. I'm more concerned with patterns, and I'm mostly interested in jumps, which that map only has very few, and those are predictable anyway. That's probably why This is my favorite map, circles are nice and big so I can loosen up before trying anything crazy. Usually fail one the weird streams though. I don't mean breaks... i meant there aren't any pauses between notes | ||
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Camail
United States1030 Posts
Secret: I'm not really to concerned, but bumping the thread is worth idle, though relevant, discussion. | ||
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wooozy
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prototype.
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