I'm afraid playing much more than I do will be hard in some ways.
I can probably double (maybe even triple? who knows) my plays per day average by just playing Osu every day instead of every so often. That's a given.
But the whole "I can do 900 plays in a single day, get on my level" malarkey is just completely infeasible for health reasons.
If I play this game for more than 5 hours a day, it almost certainly WILL do damage to my hand/wrist. Continuing to play when you're getting those oh-so-familiar twinges just feels like a very bad idea. That's why I stop.
Anyway, I always make a full recovery after I take a break, and I get very, very slightly better each time. The time investment to make meaningful progress is a bit annoying though. Is it like this for everyone else?
It's strange actually. I feel like a lot of my spare time goes in to playing this game - but apparently, it's not quite enough yet.
Now to address some points made.
nofail should be your best friend by now
Nofail is... I don't know... it feels evil...
My main fear with No-Fail is that I'll end up developing weird habits and lackluster accuracy from just spamming on hit circles on high BPM maps instead of making calculated but slower moves on lower BPM maps that get me better scores.
Plus, that one time I did use No-Fail (to pass a Normal actually, it was a long time back) it gave me literally the worst score anyone's ever gotten for the map. Like, I looked at the highscore list, and my score was the VERY LOWEST score in the entire 9000 long list. Ouch.
Sal32 wrote:
-Rinku- wrote:
The best way to get better is to stop asking for help and just play.
Yes, I realise that I need to practice more.
I probably just needed validation because A: My progress seems damningly slow from my own perspective and B: My RL friend is already 4x better at this and he hasn't played as long. I know, that's a pretty shallow reason to post this thread. I know that.
I'm a human being though, and I can't help but be irked at how he smirks at me while he thinks "Still having trouble, are you?". Grrr.
The fact that you're trying to insult me on something other than the topic is that you lack evidence to prove me otherwise.
You made the excuse by simply blaming the map rather than taking the fault. Just try to reread what you said and tell yourself that you don't sound like a whiny brat.
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Clearly you make up for your lack of social skills and superior holier-than-thou attitude with your amazing osu prowess.
Lol. Who's putting words in whose mouth, now? This is a stop-bitching-because-youre-shit attitude.
Bam. Right there. I'm afraid that you were the first to make personal insults, *sir*. I'm not trying to prove otherwise that I'm a bad player because I can't. I never did try. I've acknowledged from the beginning that I'm a bad player. Understand?
I did re-read my own post. I'll admit there are things I could have phrased better. Have you re-read your own? It's also unnecessarily harsh, if you haven't noticed.
I NEVER, EVER, EVER blamed the map for the fact that *I* failed. I simply stated my OWN inability to deal with the flashy, artsy sections that mappers throw into their Hards. That's not the mappers' fault - they can do whatever they want, it's their map - it's my fault for not being able to pass it.
I never put words back in your mouth. I made a character judgement, based on your achievements in Osu and what you've said to me.
And really, "stop-bitching-because-you're-shit attitude"? What do you think holier-than-thou actually means? It means you're holding yourself above me because you're very very good at Osu and I'm very very bad. Aren't you just telling me I shouldn't have an opinion, one way or the other, because I'm not as skilled as you? I don't like that idea. Even if I WAS bitching about Hards being too flashy or overmapped (which I wasn't, btw), my opinion wouldn't be automatically disqualified just because I'm not amazing at the game.
I'd even forgive all the negativity if you had something worthwhile to say. But you didn't. You didn't have anything worthwhile to say. Perhaps you too, needed to think before opening their mouth? You didn't help. You didn't contribute. You didn't even just say "Practice more!". You did none of these things. The sum total of everything you have said to me is "You're shit". And that's it.
Why did you even bother posting? Why did you? Because you wanted to try and ruin somebody elses day, lol. That's all you came here for.
This "conversation" has been pretty reassuring though. Because you've revealed to me in your own little way, that you're just a human being like everyone else. That you don't need to be a robot to play Osu - because you're not a robot. You're just a bit of a jerk over the Internet, that happens to be good at getting very high scores on Hards and Insanes.
So in your own way I guess, you were very helpful to me. Congratulations - you've actually made my day.
Thank you. <3
