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All songs are Double play charts, using Random key modifier, and have a rating of at least 12. Songs in the courses are selected at random. For most songs which have multiple 12 ratings, I modify it so that the highest type of chart (Black or Another) is the only 12; that way I play the hardest version of the song and ensure I don't play it twice in the same course.

Courses are played with the 100% Gauge. Yes, this is glorified practice.

Scores are given as: EX; J Great, Great, Good, Bad, Poor, Max Combo, Letter Rating

8:14 PM 9/24/2011

Back. Let's go.

10619; 3818 2983 1201 365 1151 Combo 236 A -1346

moonscape, dripping blood, tricks, light in the box, 感情の摩天楼 ~ cosmic mind

The first thing that throws me about playing after a break is the entire sensation of what the game is. I see notes come down and my hands fly all over the place in seemingly reckless abandon, and after a few brief moments I see myself missing things that I know I should hit and making hand formations which I'm not familiar with making. Slowly things become more acclimated and the pleasure of getting a few hundred notes comboed engages my senses. I probably couldn't have had a more fortunate opening course. Moonscape I haven't played in a while, and Light In The Box is something I haven't mentioned playing here yet, and both songs are welcome. Cosmic Mind didn't even go too terribly. Sloppy? Sure, but it felt good to come back to. Every time.

8:31 PM 9/24/2011

8453; 3084 2285 797 165 537 Combo 204 A -369

go beyond!!, icarus, moonscape, starmine, brainstorm

Having Go Beyond!! show up in the courses is deceptive - I usually don't have a high quantity of misses from the chart but it's a 12* because of the gigantic clusterfuck that comes right after the middle break. There's enough cake given after it that it makes a normal clear possible but a hard clear is fundamentally out of most anyone's reach. Save Dolce, of course. Still nice to play it and it melded perfectly into icarus. OK since I didn't talk about it last time, what makes moonscape neat is that it has a good intro and build up for reprise and is both tough without it being a total note masturbation session. My version of starmine has some bad mixing and it sounds so weak. I don't know why. Shitty scratching with brainstorm. Another decent play overall.

8:45 PM 9/24/2011

9277; 3319 2639 803 222 839 Combo 189 A -639

four pieces of heaven, bahram attack, nemesis, rislim remix, battle train

4POH is such a stupid song - I just hate the way it sounds. Had a good roll with it though so at least that much was ok. Hung with an A through most of bahram but couldn't sustain it. Nemesis was yet another pile of shit. Haven't had rislim come up in a while and at least I had the fortune of a feasible chord to mash at the end phrase. Battle Train seems to come up frequently now which is OK for building chops and all but man that song just wears you down. Feels good to sweat from something other than profuse external heat.

8:59 PM 9/24/2011

9081; 3241 2599 933 289 951 Combo 154 A -1100

dxy!, shock waltz, starmine, avalon, erasemotor phantom

Had some surprising combos (meaning, 40/50s, considering the chart) for the first half of dxy!. Nothing interesting with shock waltz or starmine. Avalon has potential to be a good song but it doesn't end well - it gets complicated by spitting a bunch of 16th trills at the near end which I can't tell what they're keysounded with, while a harp up and down scale plays in the background. Natrually, that part is what you play to conclude things. However, at the very last end there's a single note to be played which is some offkey computer "beep" noise which doesn't fit in with the rest of the song at all. It also comes with a BPM shift which fucks the next song in the set. There's probably about 100 bad/poors that I have from erasemotor which came because the timing was fucked. Oh well.

9:15 PM 9/24/2011

8219; 2971 2277 1194 360 1092 Combo 152 A -1613

blsmcs - t4d, marine snow, rislim remix, ALL MY TURN-このターンに、オレの全てを賭ける-, アズール リミックス

BLSMCS still sucks and always will suck. Average with marine snow. Better scratching with rislim remix. Surprised All My Turn hasn't come up until now. It's a bitch of a chart but I get energized when playing it, even if half of it tends to be nothing but unabashed mashing. Azure Remix is still annoying. Lucky to hold onto a B.

Well, all things considered, I could have done a lot worse. I'm pretty OK with today's run.