imagine this: you watch an anime, then you become an anime.
One minute you’re eating tacos on the couch, the next you are legendary swordsmen Kirito from Sword Art Online. This is the power of osu! beatmaps. They transport you into the world of anime rhythm, until you not only feel the rhythm, but become it. To be able to become the ultimate ninja, Naruto, the super saiyan Goku, or the one punch man. The mappers have expertly crafted these beatmaps to immerse you in the world of japanese animation. So much time and effort has gone into each and every object’s placement.
You might scoff at so called 1-2 pp, but I don’t. I’m so immersed I’ve become Kirito SAO. I don’t see 1-2 pp. I only see my 1-2 bb. Love you Asuna. [2]
I think I actually under-rate Ba Do Bleep, if anything. That's bonkers, right? It's been my favourite map for over two decades now - but that right there is exactly the problem. I saw it when I was 15, and it was maybe the fourth or fifth map of any kind I'd ever truly paid attention to front-to-back, and the first that wasn't essentially forced upon me by my parents or general peer pressure at school. It was the first time I'd ever decided it might be worth actually trying out mapping for real, and the very first map I ever landed on just so happened to be the best one? Nah. It's far too convenient. I keep side-eyeing it uneasily when I see it sitting at the top of my favourite map list. Surely the rush of seeing it now can't be the same as it was when I was seeing it as a teenager. Surely at least one of the 3,500 maps I've heard since has surpassed it. Right?!
And yet I've been having this thought repeatedly for well over a decade now, and every time I come back to it I'm absolutely blown away. I think to myself that surely "normal." won't have that power when the shock of the multi-part emphasis structure has worn off. Surely "bo boo geep." won't look as profoundly spacious, distant, and yearning as it did back in those long distant days when it was my favourite map. Surely they won't still send those shivers flying up my spine. Surely they won't be so emotionally overwhelming. Surely it won't still feel so terrifying. Surely at some point the song will stop sounding so damn pretty and feeling so damn desolate. Surely "wafer" won't soar so high. And yet every time I go back and check, I find that all of those things are true and more. It has only grown in my estimation since; "The Spinner" has stopped feeling like one of the weak points here and screamed all the way up to becoming one of my favourite part in the map, and the surprising coldness of "Midwest Emo Edit" has really started to draw me in. It just somehow keeps getting better every time I hear it. So yes: it turns out that by total fluke, my first ever attempt to find a favourite map was the only one I ever needed, and as much as I've loved spending so long trying to find something better, and as much as I will probably continue to do so for as long as I'm alive, it's probably a fruitless endeavour. Ba Do Bleep (olc's Midwest Emo Edit), man. What a fucking map. [4]
@sebas shut up song is good
HAACHAMAAA
i love seeing nerds being unable to appreciate simplicity
what oh my god 😱 it's a stop sign ⛔ finding nemo 🐡 gold fish 🐠 Dory 🐟 NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 🟨 GODDAMN IT
v its short
btw map was pain
wait why is grave adding disabled now
#swag
16 too high im sure but i havent watched this anime either
can we go much higher
yeah this isnt even trying to be ice angel imo, its more like kastellan eiji kuinbii
one thing this website will never understand is that if a map is ranked before 2012 you rank it by swag [2]
so-called free thinkers when stream map
so-called free thinkers when jump map
i drown inside these memories
+1 cuz wolf
awaiting cookiezi 1k [2]
2017 is the year mark my words if not i quit dev
i wish this set had 5 difficullties
imagine this: you watch an anime, then you become an anime.
One minute you’re eating tacos on the couch, the next you are legendary swordsmen Kirito from Sword Art Online. This is the power of osu! beatmaps. They transport you into the world of anime rhythm, until you not only feel the rhythm, but become it. To be able to become the ultimate ninja, Naruto, the super saiyan Goku, or the one punch man. The mappers have expertly crafted these beatmaps to immerse you in the world of japanese animation. So much time and effort has gone into each and every object’s placement.
You might scoff at so called 1-2 pp, but I don’t. I’m so immersed I’ve become Kirito SAO. I don’t see 1-2 pp. I only see my 1-2 bb. Love you Asuna. [2]
hot take blacklisted mappers should be disallowed from rating others' maps
dont... let... me... drown... *cool breakz*
I think I actually under-rate Ba Do Bleep, if anything. That's bonkers, right? It's been my favourite map for over two decades now - but that right there is exactly the problem. I saw it when I was 15, and it was maybe the fourth or fifth map of any kind I'd ever truly paid attention to front-to-back, and the first that wasn't essentially forced upon me by my parents or general peer pressure at school. It was the first time I'd ever decided it might be worth actually trying out mapping for real, and the very first map I ever landed on just so happened to be the best one? Nah. It's far too convenient. I keep side-eyeing it uneasily when I see it sitting at the top of my favourite map list. Surely the rush of seeing it now can't be the same as it was when I was seeing it as a teenager. Surely at least one of the 3,500 maps I've heard since has surpassed it. Right?!
And yet I've been having this thought repeatedly for well over a decade now, and every time I come back to it I'm absolutely blown away. I think to myself that surely "normal." won't have that power when the shock of the multi-part emphasis structure has worn off. Surely "bo boo geep." won't look as profoundly spacious, distant, and yearning as it did back in those long distant days when it was my favourite map. Surely they won't still send those shivers flying up my spine. Surely they won't be so emotionally overwhelming. Surely it won't still feel so terrifying. Surely at some point the song will stop sounding so damn pretty and feeling so damn desolate. Surely "wafer" won't soar so high. And yet every time I go back and check, I find that all of those things are true and more. It has only grown in my estimation since; "The Spinner" has stopped feeling like one of the weak points here and screamed all the way up to becoming one of my favourite part in the map, and the surprising coldness of "Midwest Emo Edit" has really started to draw me in. It just somehow keeps getting better every time I hear it. So yes: it turns out that by total fluke, my first ever attempt to find a favourite map was the only one I ever needed, and as much as I've loved spending so long trying to find something better, and as much as I will probably continue to do so for as long as I'm alive, it's probably a fruitless endeavour. Ba Do Bleep (olc's Midwest Emo Edit), man. What a fucking map. [4]
the fact that metadata is correct is absolutely shocking
konomi baba boynuma dola