few more 9s now that i can Finally use unawakened Eto to get a ton of fragments: Life is PIANO (FTR-9, MAX-35 -> MAX-13) and Turbocharger (FTR-9, MAX-20) as FTR PM #146 and #147!! how the hell was Turbocharger ever considered an 8 back then???

bad arcaea scores bcuz of work today sory (i just wanna get rid of my stamina...)

but then after work, i saw my mutual was hopping onto EZ2ON to play for a bit . tempted to grind out after a Long Days o' Work, i asked if he wanted to play some EZ2ON multi for funsies, and he said yes!!!! so i cleaned out my keyboard beforehand, plugged in my external SSD, booted up the game, and absolutely GAMED!!!! stole some of the scores i got during this session from this post, but Shoutouts to @inksserafim for some BANGER matches and scores!!! had fun and got to witness the Sheer Power of this beast, go go check him out !!!

snow's out, moon's out, and the new year is almost here... a day like this is one to celebrate for sure, but those are personal matters i don't see fit nor entertaining to discuss here, so i'll instead talk about the last-minute grinding i did across my last few rhythm games of the year... namely in vivid/stasis!! it's mostly just trying to boost my rating little by little with how the new rating system values completion% of the game, and i decided to catch up on all the content that's released so far by getting MAX (VS) scores on all the lower difficulty charts, including Stellar Sky [FINALE 12], Prismatic Vortex [FINALE 11+], and Stellaria [FINALE 12]!

also got a MAX-4 sightread AC on :D (vivid/stasis edit) [FINALE 13] thanks to those damn gimmicks, finally, closed out the V-rank on STARGAZERS [FINALE 17] (huge rating boost), and clutched out a 2-great FC on hotline_ophiucus [FINALE 12+] to cap off the year with 100% completion across everything in Betweenspace!!! (for now)

ohyeah, and the true final score of the operation: a sightread SS on the very funny and silly Angelstar [SHATTER 0] after figuring out how to unlock it at long last

with all that out of the way, i was off to celebrate and ring in the new year with my family over at another house! you'd think this mean no rhythm gaming at all during that time, but i still got my fix in by playing in the new Arcaea event and exhausting my world mode stamina in the process... though with admittedly poor scores . still, i guess i got a PM upscore on Ikazuchi (FTR-10, MAX-39 -> MAX-36), so not a terribly bad way to end off the year! but alas... let's hope to do better and give it our all in the next . Until Then...

At long last... after a full year of not continuing the holiday party series of posts and being too locked in on frivolous things like """homework"""... I'm finally finishing off what I started, in hopes that this gets me to finally catch up on all the scores I've gotten since I stopped posting to this account. Heavily overdue, yes, but hey!! It should be smooth sailing from here on out... hopefully. So let's get through this last batch of scores... together!!!

...huh. that was it? that's all i had to include to finish off the thread? just five extra chunithm scores and me throwing on arcaea a few times without audio? hmph.... well in fairness, the SS on Jingle bells [ULTIMA 14+] was pretty solid i guess... and maybe so was the S+ on parvorbital [MASTER 15]...? definitely could do better if i put in the effort to learn the chart though... which i definitely should do sometime .

oughhhh i have no idea what i'm doing right now . upscores on Dreamin' Attraction!! (FTR-9, MAX-28 -> MAX-24) and Rays of Remnant (FTR-9+, MAX-20 -> MAX-18) i guess

did absolutely NOTHING yesterday in terms of rhythm gaming, because i actually went out with my family to see some christmas lights and shop some outlets!!! hooray!!! ...at the cost of missing out on a big funky maimai meetup with friends :(( ehhh it's whatever, nice to get away and take a break sometimes, but we're back now! here's me upscoring SATISFACTION (FTR-8, MAX-8 -> MAX-5) from earlier ig

i haven't shared this on the account with y'all, but i recently got some news and word about a flash flood threat in my area . rain has been heavy and rivers have been rising more than ever before, and the worst news broke when a levee in a neighboring city broke, causing an alert to evacuate everyone in the area immediately . my parents were stressed as hell by this and started telling me to check up on the situation and pack up stuff as we would likely need to evacuate ourselves should the waters persist . this took a toll on me for pretty much the entire week, stressing me out again like my school finals did the week before, and i was struggling to focus or behave knowing that a flood could break through here at any point and potentially destroy my setup . Also doesn't help that i had to spend pretty much all day writing for the Full Combo account, so i was super torn and super stressed and Agh this week just sucked, i didn't know what to dooooo . Fuck!!! here's me playing v/s with bonbon again (i won!!)

aaand here's me grinding the qualifiers on my own again!! bomber was busy and i had only just finished writing my cards for Full Combo, but it seems like my family was stalling on the whole evacuation plan... i was sure they'd be out of there, and was worried they could leave at any point, so i got in as much practice as i could anyways given the qualifiers were closing tomorrow . double upscored QUASAR [FINALE 15+, MAX-13 -> MAX-11 -> MAX-9, unc still got it!!], tried desperately to refresh myself on Synthesis. [ENCORE 16] (got two really damn good FCs actually!!!), and finally learned Images [FINALE 15] by getting a solid MAX-18 AC!!!!

alright, i was ready . i called up bomber and we joined for some runs again, leading to another set where... i kinda choked tbh . didn't match the insane PBs i was getting solo, which is Understandable... Synthesis. REALLY tired me out, and bomber was Somewhat pulling through with higher scores than usual, but still consistently placing lower... nevertheless we raised our Qualifier score, but only by a measly 4.7 points, which still wasn't nearly enough for a Top 12 placement into the final bracket . ah well, maybe we'll have more luck if we come back tomorrow...

"another arcade day??" yesyes, but this is for a mildly understandable reason!! yesterday finally marked the day that i finished the last of my finals and was officially FREE from university for the year!!! ...well, with one minor asterisk -- that being today was the last day to pick up the lock i still had on my rented locker back there, before it would be REPOSSESSED and kept locked away FOREVER!!!! i couldn't let that happen... i bought that lock with my own money!!! and it just looked cool damnit!!!

determined to keep it but also feeling lazy now that my classes were over, i opted to grab the 11 AM train to campus to commence what would become a special sesh that would last the whole day... buuuut getting to the arcade is gonna take a while, so here's some arcaea i played on the train in the meantime... somehow i did this??? qualia -ideaesthesia- (BYD-9+, MAX-18 -> MAX-5)??? literally How

some time later i got through everything, which i'll skip because it's kinda boring... but i eventually did get to the arcade and all, though not before seeing a friend play arcaea and . i guess wanting to join instead of actually going into the arcade and playing??? idk either, though i think i was finishing a drink that i didn't want to bring into the arcade... as one might expect though, it kinda sucked #tbh and i only got one score out of it, though it was quite a funny occasion :]

but after all was said and done, i stepped into the arcade and ran straight to the arcade to play me some mai!! mai!! deluxe!!!!!! (prism plus) . didn't really know anyone around when i got there, but i met some other solo players and we just gamed miscellaneous for the time being... turns out this solo player had some rather good picks, because i got a real good amount of rating out of this session, sightread FC'ing Expert 12s like Mare Maris and Drivessover, then i took to 12+s with SSS ranks on MYTH Re : LEASE, Atlas Rush, and conflict, mixing in a sightread SS on Mikazuki Step 2023 [Master Lv.13] and a big one on AMAZING MIGHTYYYY!!!! [Expert Lv.13+]!!!

rating-wise this was an incredible session, i jumped from 13341 to 13503 near-instantly!!! but alas, i already got my maimai fix earlier this week, and there was something else i needed to grind... so before i actually get to that, here's some iidx!!! why? no reason other than training my timing ability, but it was fun and cool an awesome... that Tsuki to milk [SPA-11] AA was pretty damn cool, plus i'm inching closer to the MAX- on OOO [SPA-10] (though i mostly only played it to unlock OOO LEGGENDARIA!!!! yippee!!!!)

alright NOW it's time for the moment you've all been waiting for... the game i Actually came here to play was none other than... DDR!!! if you saw my last post, you probably saw how the session was basically cut short by the ride my friend gave me back home + my exhaustion from the previous maimai and sdvx sets... but today was the day i'd redeem myself and get on that DDR grind for the rest of the night... for me... for my Solstice Around The World team... for my fans (that's you reading this, thank you!!)...!

...and already we're starting off strong with a 2nd-stage PFC on Urban Life (ESP-15, 36p) as 15 PFC #45!!! that's a toughie too wtf, jumped and fist pumped as soon as i got it... and yet the session continues!!! beat a DDR semi-rival by 1p on O JIYA [ESP-13] (funny), finally Flare EX'd Programmed Universe [CSP-16]...

...and then began the SATW (solstice around the world) grind . didn't want to repeat the mistake from yester-yesterday's session of playing too much before grinding the songs, so i got to them in only 2 sets this time (yippee!!!), and... worked out pretty swell!! big ups compared to last sesh, but i still felt i could do better... grinding wouldn't help much though (and i didn't wanna bore ddr friends with the same pick over and over), so i played other charts and got other neat scores like this 3g Flare EX on Snow Garland Fairy [ESP-17], a MASSIVE +115k upscore on DeltaMAX [CSP-17] (wtf), and a slight PFC upscore on O JIYA (ESP-13, 25p -> 19p)

all those scores led up to an attempt on the other SATW song i had to play... Wadatsumi!!! wasn't expecting much on this one, just dove right in to test the waters, but i came out of it on my first try with a SOLID 993k score out of nowhere... as 18 AAA #2!!! ...admittedly, i was hoping for under 100 perfects, something like perhaps a Flare EX clear... but even so, this was Solid AF and would be acceptable by the SATW team's standards... though the thought of being able to do better lingered in my head regardless. thus, i left to get a small meal to clear my head and replenish my energy.

came back from the meal and gave it another shot, but again, the same problem . was in the zone, went for a long lunch to get back into the zone, ended up falling out of the zone and feeling super heavy compared to my initial play . i should def know the pattern by now, but i was so sure it was just the final push i needed this time... wellll it worked in a few ways though, because my first (and only) set back allowed me to close out STEP MACHINE (ESP-14, 40p) as 14 PFC #45, and (as anticipated) Sector (ESP-16, 37p) as 16 PFC #9!!! (nice) (3 EX worse than the 998,980 score though, so.... not nice) (also gave wadatsumi another try for extra stage but ate shit)

that about sums it up for scores today... in retrospect, not a bad sesh at all!! records i set were pretty good for my team, and the pressure/averages i needed to singlehandedly bring them up were straight up impossible, plus we still had a few days left so i just needed to wait and see if anyone else would pull through... (kaps from the future here, they did thankfully) . thus, i leave this session off with this funky little IN THE ZONE score i got on taiko in between DDR sets to commemorate the announcement of ACE COMBAT 8 yesterday... god bless

idrk how to start this post tbh LOL, i'm kinda in a state of limbo where i """have""" everything done but still have a few more assignments that i just can't bring myself to do . so instead of getting it over with and finishing the assignments, i decided today would be a perfect day to... visit the arcade!!! but before that, a challenge in The Usual Server requested me to play On And On!! in multiple rhythm games (all playable at home), so i got them out of the way starting with Phigros (where i got a phi on both Spasmodic [HD Lv.13, FINALLYYYY] and On And On!! [IN Lv.15, I did it when it was a 14!!!])... then Arcaea with a solid MAX-29 -> MAX-15 PM upscore on the FTR-9... then Muse Dash where i managed to squeeze out an FC on both the 7* and 9*!!! ...only to find out there was a hidden 11* that's like Insanely hard wtf how do you hit that what are the Levels to this game

eh whatever, i'll think about that later . today is an ARCADE DAY first and foremost, and i'm not gonna feel satisfied until i get my fill!!! concidentally, a few of my friends were also there to get their game on, and we united our SDVX twinsies plushies for group photos!!! (except mr. Grace Owner here wants his plush to decompress so it's stuck in the bag suffocating until further notice)

starting off the sesh right with MAIMAI!!! just a bunch of silly antics, playing through and sightreading certain charts like Help me, ERINNNNNN!! [MASTER Lv.13] and Ref:rain (for 7th Heaven) [EXPERT Lv.12] with no prior warmup straight into Southern Cross [Re:MASTER Lv.13+]??? absolutely no idea why i did that or why i thought it'd be a remotely good idea, but stamina-wise i was Spent by this point and only managed to get two more scores... though one of them was on the one and only, the extremely funny... Xaleid◆scopiX [EXPERT Lv.13+]!!! #WorthIt

my arms' stamina was still extremely spent so (against better judgement) i hopped onto IIDX and played a bunch of random charts (IGNORE THAT MERMAID GIRL IMAGE)... nothing to note about them #tbh

y'know what there IS to note about though??? SDVX!!! played substantially more of it with the maimai friends and got some Sweet Ass Clears if i don't say so myself!!! ...well maybe not Too sweet tbh, but since my friends were around and we had not much better to do, we started playing versus matches together and setting ridiculously funny, ridiculously intense matches!!! i got a decent few bits of VF out of it too~

and while we're at it, why not complete the BEMANI Trifecta with a little bit of DDR? i intended to play this a bit more to practice for the second round of Solstice Around The World, but i didn't realize that maimai and SDVX would leave me so spent and tired LOL... giving Sector my first few shots ended in exhaustion and semi-poor MA, but i did manage to get a Flare EX FC on the chart once i learned its gimmicks!!! didn't get much else after that though, and i actually made arrangements just before to get a ride back home with one of my maimai friends . but outside of Sector, i also managed to bag CUE CUE RESCUE [ESP-15, 27p] and Ai-shi AI sare [ESP-15, 35p] as 15 PFCs #43 and #44 respectively!!! ...already caught back up to the 14s, huh?