You can call me Yoshikage Kira. I’m currently 33 years old. Not that you’d care, but I reside in northeast Morioh’s villa district. Also, I’ve yet to marry. In order to make a living, I work for Kame Yu department stores. After a long day’s work, I return home no later than 8 PM. I don’t like smoking, but do enjoy the occasional drink. I’m always in bed by 11 PM, and I make it a point to get no less than 8 hours of sleep each night. Before bed, I drink a warm glass of milk. It’s always coupled with 20 minutes of stretching to decompress from the long workday. Sweet dreams are the usual result of this.
I then awake as refreshed and recharged as a newborn child, ready to take on the day’s challenges. And after my last checkup, I was given a clean bill of health. For as long as I could remember, I’ve done everything in my power to live a productive life that allows me to pursue a lasting inner peace. This may be a foreign concept, but I choose not to concern myself with winning or losing, life’s troubles, or enemies who bring sleepless nights. That is how I cope with this backwards life we find ourselves living. It’s what brings me happiness in a world fraught with hardship and misery. Of course, if I were ever to engage in combat, I would win the battle without question.
My name is Walter Hartwell White. I live at 308 Negra Arroyo Lane, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 87104. This is my confession. If you're watching this tape, I'm probably dead, murdered by my brother-in-law Hank Schrader. Hank has been building a meth empire for over a year now and using me as his chemist. Shortly after my 50th birthday, Hank came to me with a rather, shocking proposition. He asked that I use my chemistry knowledge to cook methamphetamine, which he would then sell using his connections in the drug world. Connections that he made through his career with the DEA. I was... astounded, I... I always thought that Hank was a very moral man and I was... thrown, confused, but I was also particularly vulnerable at the time, something he knew and took advantage of. I was reeling from a cancer diagnosis that was poised to bankrupt my family. Hank took me on a ride along, and showed me just how much money even a small meth operation could make. And I was weak. I didn't want my family to go into financial ruin so I agreed. Every day, I think back at that moment with regret. I quickly realized that I was in way over my head, and Hank had a partner, a man named Gustavo Fring, a businessman. Hank essentially sold me into servitude to this man, and when I tried to quit, Fring threatened my family. I didn't know where to turn. Eventually, Hank and Fring had a falling out. From what I can gather, Hank was always pushing for a greater share of the business, to which Fring flatly refused to give him, and things escalated. Fring was able to arrange, uh I guess I guess you call it a "hit" on my brother-in-law, and failed, but Hank was seriously injured, and I wound up paying his medical bills which amounted to a little over $177,000. Upon recovery, Hank was bent on revenge, working with a man named Hector Salamanca, he plotted to kill Fring, and did so. In fact, the bomb that he used was built by me, and he gave me no option in it. I have often contemplated suicide, but I'm a coward. I wanted to go to the police, but I was frightened. Hank had risen in the ranks to become the head of the Albuquerque DEA, and about that time, to keep me in line, he took my children from me. For 3 months he kept them. My wife, who up until that point, had no idea of my criminal activities, was horrified to learn what I had done, why Hank had taken our children. We were scared. I was in Hell, I hated myself for what I had brought upon my family. Recently, I tried once again to quit, to end this nightmare, and in response, he gave me this. I can't take this anymore. I live in fear every day that Hank will kill me, or worse, hurt my family. I... All I could think to do was to make this video in hope that the world will finally see this man, for what he really is.
genre: classical -> video game
or add classical and video game to tags if u wanna keep classical as genre
The hitnormal hitsound that you are using makes these maps sound completely wrong most of the time, because it's a sound with a pitch that doesn't fit into every harmony that's used by the song. Also it feels super weird to hear the same note played over and over on every beat, that'd be weird even if the chords would share a common note and you'd use that.
The difficulty naming on this makes literally no sense. The highest diff is barely as difficult as an average Normal (I'd argue it's somewhere between Easy and Normal) so why does this spread include "Normal", "Hard", "Insane", "Extra" and "Extreme" difficulties?
the difficulty naming here makes sense. they are comparing to other difficulties in the map, for example the "hard" is easier than the "insane" yet its harder than "normal" diff, which makes perfect sense. this also looks way more interesting than just calling everything a beginner with adjectives (like: super beginner -> beginner -> very easy -> easy etc.) this looks even more ridiculous than what im using imo
edit : also the reason this set starts at normal diff is because it has a stack pattern and i think thats not allowed in typical "easy" difficulty
of course a stack pattern is fine in a difficulty that's like 30 BPM xD the problem is that these names are really misleading for the players and give no information about the actual difficulty of the maps. sure, a spread can be on the upper or lower side regarding difficulty, so what's a Hard in one set can be an Insane in an other set etc, but if your "Hard" is actually on the level of most "Easy" maps it just gets confusing.
o well xd changed diff names (i still want it to be more interesting that just plain beginner,easy tho so i did something relatable)
now every diff can be happy
inbefore its not allowed im gonna be so sad lmao
edit: also took the opportunity to name it like this, which is a play on hxppy thxughts.png file in doki doki lit club
(it is now lowercase and has an extension at the end)
Another really questionable decision is the usage of slider ticks. The lower difficulties (up to Insane) use a higher slider tick rate than the higher difficulties, even though their density is significantly lower. Due to extremely low SV, the first and last (or in some cases, more than that) ticks aren't visible ingame because they overlap with the sliderhead or -tail, but they still give auditory feedback which is counterintuitive and should be avoided, especially if it happens throughout the whole map.
Adding on to that, the lowest difficulties ATLEAST until Insane (although I'd include Extra as well) have nothing to do with the song anymore due to extremely low density. There is almost no recognizable connection between those maps and the song, so they shouldn't be used as maps in a rhythm game. There also exists no target audience at all for these, which is why they are completely pointless and not suitable for ranking.
I can't really tell if this mapset is intended as a joke or not, but in any case this should have never been nominated in its current state. Remove the difficulties up to Extra and change the names of the other maps to "Easy" and "Hxppy Thxoughts" or something similar seems like the best solution to improve this mapset's quality.