Hello ladies and gentlemen and welcome to the official Frid/a/y Osu! thread. Join us as we touch circles to the music, talk shit about each other's waifu's and make new friends.
Search for "Sup Forums" in multiplayer filter, password is always rage.
>How do I play?
osu.ppy.sh
How do I stop sucking at this game?
you git gud
eat shit
not anime
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legit question, why would you bother dedicating time towards learning how to get good at this game when you can dedicate the exact same amount of time towards learning an actual instrument like guitar and not only acquire an actual creative skill but also still be playing an actual rhythm game?
legit question, why would you bother dedicating time towards watching hundreds of anime when you can dedicate the exact same amount of time towards learning how to approach females and not only acquire an actual relationship but also provide some worth to society?
You are just weighting "usefulness", and usefulness is subjective. Do what you find to be fun. In the end, osu! is a video game, and it actually offers ways of directly competing with others. Additionally, you can see yourself improve through numbers and score, which also makes setting goals and achieving them more apparent and (perhaps) more satisfying.
If you find it to be a waste of time compared to learning an actual instrument, that's your choice. Do what you think is right.
Never mentioned the word "useful". Seems to me like you're getting defensive about a value you subconsciously see in learning an instrument yourself. I was more alluding to versatility and creative potential that can enhance the aspects of what you normally would enjoy in a rhythm game.
>Do what you think is right
Seriously sick of retards tossing away any attempt at engaging discussion with this shit. This isn't about me. I'm not here to get you to help me to decide. I'm here to understand different viewpoints and start up discussion. That's generally the entire purpose of open conversation. That final line in your post is the most dismissive, pointless non-statement you could have possibly made using every tool disposable within the English language.
Maybe I read too far into it, but I thought I picked up a hint of a passive aggressive tone in your post. Most who write like that aren't looking for a discussion, they're just trying to berate people for not living their life correctly. Anyway, to your points
>creative potential that can enhance the aspects of what you normally would enjoy in a rhythm game
Merely proves that you don't even know what people enjoy about rhythm games to begin with. What the fuck are you talking about with "creative potential"? Rhythm games are skill based competitive video games, where you press buttons to cool music and try to improve your skill further and further. The people you are addressing with this frankly don't exist. There's nothing that an actual instrument improves on in this regard other than giving you the feeling that you're actually making the music yourself, which obviously you are.
Press buttons in rhythm to music. The main appeal of a rhythm game over any other game being the interactivity with music which, again, is much better done trying to play along to a song on an actual instrument at various difficulty levels (simple strumming, various strumming patters, individual notes and licks, etc.)
>The people you are addressing with this frankly don't exist
>what are mapping communities the entire game literally wouldn't exist without
>The main appeal of a rhythm game over any other game being the interactivity with music which, again, is much better done trying to play along to a song on an actual instrument at various difficulty levels
Fucking hell, how can anyone so narrow-minded and smug at the same time. Rhythm games are VIDEO GAMES. There's a score, flashy affects, crazy EDM music and means of competing with others or simply playing with them for fun. Yet here is this assclown trying to claim that playing instruments is somehow a direct upgrade to all of that. If that were the case, people wouldn't be playing rhythm games, would they?
>>what are mapping communities the entire game literally wouldn't exist without
The mapping/charting communities try to gain an understanding of how to translate rhythm and beats to their respective video game. However you just go on to assume that this is directly inferior to making actual music, which you've provide no factual and objective evidence for.
>literally the only defining feature of a game is flashing lights and numbers
Fuck me, I guess there's literally no reason why anyone would choose to play one video game over another. This just in, Osu! and Planescape: Torment are pretty much the exact same thing. There's really no other base concept that might influence one's decision to pick one over the other. Because score, flashy lights and crazy EDM music are the only aspects that might draw someone to a video game.
>The mapping/charting communities try to gain an understanding of how to translate rhythm and beats to their respective video game
Why? I thought literally the only reason to care about a video game is flashing lights and numbers.
See how far your reductionist bullshit and obnoxious defensiveness gets us?
Ok, I'm tired. How about you stop talking to me, go to the /jp/ rhythm game thread, or any of the big rhythm game forums like FFR, and tell them that you have successfully cracked the code, that we have actually been wasting our lives and that the fun we've had wasn't real, or at best, inferior to the fun we could have had playing instruments. Maybe they'll all kill themselves on the spot.
>how DARE you try to discuss why one form of game can be better than another
This is a very staple form of discussion. If shit like this throws you into such a hissy fit, why not just leave it for the people who are open to being civil about it? Is your insecurity so crippling you force yourself into discussions of things you don't want to talk about?
bumping with a cute to lighten the mood
There's no civil discussion to be had with ideas and comparisons that are entirely nonsensical and that will convince no one. I simply don't know what argument to make or what else to bring up to have a proper discussion with you. You are arguing with your own logic and understanding of the entire medium, and you're being condescending, too. I've told you what I like about rhythm games, and if that doesn't convince you, there's nothing else I can say.
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Cookezi here
AMA
how are you today?
What are your views of the military industrial complex and the overtaking of government by corporations and special interest groups through lobbying? Do you think modern cultural tensions and clashing such as the alt-right/right wing movements and leftism/antifa are a natural result of a shift in the cultural equilibrium, or a smokescreen manipulated by previously mentioned groups to divide and conquer the general population.
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