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Negative feedback loop

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underground2691
I've played this awesome game for about 2 and a half years now, and it was great! (mostly) However, about 2 months ago, one day I was just much worse than usual. I know some days are good and some aren't, but every day after that I slowly got worse progressively :( Obviously, I wouldn't be making this post if I wasn't playing regularly, as I was playing almost every day (the reason my play count was much less this year was because I wasn't retry spamming as hard, my play sessions were roughly the same duration). Before anyone tells me to take breaks, I wanna say that I have taken a few week long breaks, although that didn't really help. I played other skillsets, harder, easier maps, what have you, but I was still getting worse DD: Even worse, I feel absolutely addicted to this goofy little game, and want to bash my skull whenever I can't hit anything that I used to be able to since like a year ago!! I feel stuck in a negative feedback loop, cause I can't get better without enjoying the game, can't really enjoy the game because I can't play anything, and can't NOT play the game because I'm pretty much addicted to it!! I feel like I'm going to go mad, and there's definitely people reading this post that could prolly help, so I wanna post this before I devolve into madness :(

I don't have any other activity or game or whatever so I've pretty much spent most of my free time on this game and don't have anything else to do when I'm not playing it
Snapy
Well I'd say to grind aim and speed maps emotionlessly with a pinch of fun
Colder
I know your feeling. I have been through this too. Now I have looked at your profile, stats, etc. and I believe I have an idea as to what is the cause of your issue.

Now I am making an assumption, but based on your starts you like to retry harder maps a lot than to play maps within your limit. Don't worry I did this too.

The cruelty of this type of situation is that I couldn't find myself an easy way out. Only the hard way. Now it's not the hard way because it's something that is hard to do. It's hard because you have to accept the fact that you have reached this height without any issues and now you have issues.

The solution I found was to simply relearn the game. I started from the lowest star rating map and tried to SS that without mods so that I would learn the basics again. And I have been going through all of my maps from the least difficult to the hardest. Right now I am at 1.68*.

Why do I think that you should try my method? Because with this I have found a positive loophole of being able to most of the time first try SS maps while also raising the upper limit of mine. And I have started from 1*.
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