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Pfft...AAA it or die.

UnLiMiTeDmAxX wrote:Pfft...AAA it or die.

True that.

That'd be a kickass 1st AAA.

Yeah, but, unfortunately, with the pad misses on the right side, and (for some reason unbeknownst to me) my horrible PA on the left side, along with no other GOOD 8th mix machine in town, I doubt that I'll be AAAing anything anytime soon.

Tyler (TnT employee) told me last week that he cleaned them and they were very responsive. I still didnt bother to play the night he told me but are you sure it just isnt you? To be honest with you, I have never ever had a problem with TnT's pads and I've been going there ever since they got the machine.

Well, for the most part, they WERE very responsive, it was the weirdest thing...after it happened a few times, just to make sure it WASN'T me, when there was like a clear 4th note, I would look down to make sure I was hitting right on the arrow, stomped as hard as I could, and tried to get as perfect timing as possible; many times, I ended up getting misses...not greats, not goods, not boos, MISSES. This also happened when I tried the same thing without stomping very hard and just pressing normally...it probably happened like 1/15 to 1/20 times I hit the right arrow, other than the random misses, the timing and responsiveness seemed fine. Other arrows worked fine, too.

Okay, I went to Putt-Putt today, and I had a really good night, until now, when I come home and find that for some reason, although it was in every time, my USB card doesn't seem to have remembered more than half of all the scores (in the stats.xml and stats.sml.sig file) and more than half of all the screenshots I took with it...it's really pissing me off. So, you're gonna have to take my word on it for some of these like with DDR scores.

Here's the stuff I did have a screenshot for:

(one of my first songs, I haven't/very rarely played it, and if it hadn't been for the pad miss on a jump in the last few notes I would've had a pretty good score)

(Glad I finally got this up to a **, my MA is horrible on this, though)

(this is like a 10+% improvement for this song for me, this is a really tough one for me)

(Meh, I messed up in the end, otherwise I would've **d)

(One of my most impressive scores of the day, I went into this pretty-tough-10 not sure if I was going to pass it, as it was on one of my last rounds and I was tired, and I ended up FCing it with a pretty good score!)

Stuff my card decided not to record
Got my first ***!, Bubble Dancer Hard, 99.xx, Machine Record #3
Got my second ***!...somehow I can't remember what it was...either Bumble Bee Hard, Da Roots Expert, or Mellow Hard
Got a bunch of near ***, like Da Roots Expert, Bumble Bee Expert, and a bunch of other stuff

GODDAMIT I'M MAD AT MY CARD.

EDIT: Okay, I remembered some more of my scores, for the ones that I don't remember the exact percentages for but I remember the grade, I'll put the lowest possible percentage for that grade (i.e., 96% for a *)
* on D-Code Expert
* on I Think I Like That Sound Expert (first time ever playing!)
98.5% on Bumble Bee Expert
98.71% on Da Roots Expert
High * on We Know What To Do Expert (around 97.
I'm pretty sure my Bubble Dancer score was around 99.2%, and my other *** was Bumble Bee Hard, with a 99.09%.

I also somehow ended up exactly tieing my Anubis Expert score at 93.01%, I remember that.

Meh, had an okay night I guess at Putt-Putt...I'm starting to think I'm more of a have-good-timing-on-easy-shit-like-9s-and-below-and-some-10s type of guy instead of a OMGZ-12s-and-13s type of guy. Maybe I just need to start playing tiring songs again to get my stamina back, I dunno, but for some reason since my vacation this summer, I have trouble passing 11s and even some 10s. Well, anyways, at least my USB card worked this time, here's the new shit:

(This one was tight, my best score on this had stood for a long time, it felt good to finally break it.)

(First SDE! Well, now I have definite proof of this ***.)

(Meh, warm-up song, first time ever playing, I guess it's okay, I messed up on a gallop stream.)

(Yay, 3rd ***.)

(I'll *** next time.)

(Not bad, considering it was supposed to "open up my butthole and go all prison on me" IIRC.)

(First time ever playing, 10, meh.)

(I hadn't played this in forever, I'll try to *** next time.)

(First time ever playing.)

(First time ever playing, I love this song.)

(Lol, I nailed the first quick-jump segment, but missed the second one; barely a *.)

I also got a 98.52 on D-Code Expert, which was pretty tight, but I had someone else's USB card in at the time because I wanted to play Take Me Back (I love that song...R21 FTW!).

Well, I played SuperNOVA for the first time last night! It took me quite a few rounds to get used to the timing (I wouldn't call it off...just different), and after that I got some decent scores. I was pretty pissed to find out that they changed the AA cut-off from 93% to 95%, it makes it almost ridiculously hard to AA any 10s for someone of my skill level.

Cool Stuff
AA - 18
A Stupid Barber - 5
Innocence of Silence (my fave new SN song!) - 20
Centerfold - 7
The Shining Polaris - 5
No. 13 - 24
ska ska no. w/e - 5 (I was real proud of this one, I FPC'd the jump streams!)
un deux trois - 7
Brilliant R.E.D. - 16
Honey [male] Punch - 8
True <3 Love - 8 (this is the one Shannon AAAd)
Max 300 Super-max-me-mix - 120 gr, 9 go, 4 al, 21 mi (first time ever trying, got an A)
Feels Just Like It Should - 7
Da Capo - 11
Xepher Challenge - 78 (I'll AA this next time for sure)
Under The Sky - 9 (how in the hell is this a 6?!?!?!)

Congrats on being promoted to heavy!

Okay, so I hadn't played in like 2 1/2 days, and I finally played some ITG and DDR in the past few months, and I played twice in the past few days and I got a few surprising (for not having played in so long) scores. I've found that, like after my break this summer, my timing is just as good as, if not better than, ever, but my stamina has taken a serious hit; I felt tired after playing Mellow for my first song, for god's sake! But here's everything that was good:

ITG
(I can't believe I didn't have a better score on this before!)

(This, too...)

(Best score I got, probably...all these three were first tries)


DDR
14 on Witch Doctor
22 on exotic ethnic
20 on Drivin'
AAd Flash in the Night, but forgot how many greats

So, even though I didn't play Stepmania for like 2 months either, I started playing again over break and now I'm better than I ever was. I got a few good scores today so I decided to make an SM brag.

(I always used to have trouble AAing this)

(Also got one with 3 greats, but worse MA)

(By FAR my most impressive score of the day...good MA for me, too)

(My best LWIV score)

I also passed Illumination of the Sky, Vertex Alpha, and Vertex Beta for the first time recently. I just raised my IotS to an A, and I'm trying to get my Alpha to a AA and my Beta to an A.

So I went to Crazy Pinz again last night, and I found that the pad was making me drop quite a few holds. Other than the hold-dropping, everything was going well (they fixed the pad-surfing but now the pads are a little too close to the screen). So I played I'm In The Mood For Dancing Heavy. On the FIRST TRY (as in sans whoring), I AAAd it except for the pad made me drop a hold. No greats, no anything else, except for the pad made me drop a hold. So, people were there, and I consulted as to what I should do, and I've decided that I'm going to count it. If I had whored to get it I might not've counted it, but it was first try and all. I did some other really good stuff too:

AAA #1 - I'm In The Mood For Dancing
Bye Bye Baby Balloon - 13 (first time ever playing!)
Firefly - 11 (ugh I should've gotten like 3, first time ever playing!)
Flash in the Night - 23
Ghosts - 20
Groove 2001 - 4
Max 300 - 55 greats, 3 misses, and a dropped hold, closer than ever to a AA...if two of the misses had been goods, it would be a AA
Fantasy (Melissa) - 21
Twilight Zone - 11 (this one was surprising)

And I think I'm starting to get my stamina back, because I must've played Max 300 at least 6 times during the 2 hours or so that I played, and that's a lot for me.

Stepmania
I PASSED IZZY'S JUGGERNAUT!! First legit 14 that I've passed...and I still can't pass Salieri Strikes Back (though I got hella close).

Nice job on the AAA that is one hell of a first AAA. Hopefully you AA 300 soon. Good luck.

Alright, I had an AWESOME night at Putt-Putt last night, probably the best day for me ever as far as ITG goes. I've got my stamina back!! And my timing is better than ever!! Here's how it went:

(An old favorite, finally got the ***)

(This song barely even tires me out anymore!)

(#7 11 passed, first time ever playing!)

(Argh, I'll get the ** next time)

(Pretty sure it's the first time I ever played it, fun song)

(Big improvement)

(Argh, had bad footing during one little part where I got the great and decent)

(#6 11 passed! First try, too!)

(Improvement)

(Ugh, why can't I SDE this?)

(Should be higher, I messed up)

(I like this song, but I don't much like the steps...didn't even try for the hands)

(I'll star this next time)

(First time ever playing!, such an easy 10)

(Yay a **)

(Pretty bad score, first time ever playing!)

(Big improvement)

(I'll *** next time)

(Always mess up on those stupid jumps...)

(First time ever playing!, didn't try the expert for some odd reason)

So yeah. Good scores for me, I have now passed more than half of all the 11s.

Went to Crazy Pinz last night with three main goals in mind: AAing Max 300, AAing the machine, and SDGing Witch Doctor. Well, I did all three!!

Max 300 - 46 greats, 1 miss (AA!!)
Witch Doctor - 8
Follow Me - 2
Cowgirl - 6
The Centre of The Heart - 9
Let's Groove - 4
Fantasy - 17
Justify My Love - 20

So now I have all of 6th mix AAd or better.