#and then i bought it and played this song until i fc on all difficulties

[killjoy-prince]

Guys please listen to this!! It's soooooo good!!!

[2dkapsddr]

March 8th, 2024 - Arcaea, vivid/stasis, PIU Phoenix, StepManiaX, Music Diver

IT'S THE DAY!!! MASSIVE DAY IN RHYTHM GAMING!!! so much good stuff, so let's start with the first one chronologically: arcaea first thing in the morning!!! played all the free eternal charts (except sayonara hatsukoi and innocence, oops) and they're actually quite fun! not as gimmicky as beyonds, which is either a plus or minus depending on a song (for the songs it was chosen? a plus, i'd say)

this score barrage also includes a new 8+ PM (Suomi ETR-8+), 8+ FC (Clotho ETR-8+), and a 9 PM i've been chasing since forever ago (Anokumene FTR-9)!!! wins all aroundd

i also... *may* have went a little overboard with my spending as you'll see here. i saw a sale was on and i went for it completely, dropping some savings on memories and getting all the story packs i had missed so far (i got black fate and adverse prelude first for whatever reason, so i was completely locked out of the story until i bought the other three LMFAO). also, i got a TON of collab packs because GOD do these have bangers. so excited to play themmmmm

but wait! it gets better!!! cheryl was talking about how huge a day this was gonna be for rhythm games, and she was right as hell because it wasn't just arcaea's 7th anniversary! it was VIVID/STASIS 1ST (full release) ANNIVERSARY AND 3.0 UPDATE!!!!! NOW WITH SO MUCH AMAZING CONTENT!!!!! i didn't want to go too deep into it since i skipped through the last few episodes of chapter 2 for the tournament (needed the boss songs), but i played the free songs offered (spoiler free thankfully, maybe i'll wait until the spoiler period of a week is over until i can play the boss songs).

back on topic though, the first thing i saw in the update was Terabyte Connection ENCORE 15. "insane," i thought. i assumed i wouldn't get it. but then i got a 3 great FC, and then i thought "hoooly shit this might actually be doable." i grinded it for like 20-30 minutes, losing stamina by the minute, until...

it HAPPENED!!! my nerves and heart rate were at their peak, struggling to comprehend how i did that while also still trying to maintain composure for the ending. but as soon as those 4 holds hit... i knew i had it. TERABYTE CONNECTION ENCORE 15: ALLLLL CRITICALLL!!!!! MY FIRST 15 AC!!!!! (i dunno if that means anything since i've observed difficulty inflation to be a growing problem in v/s lately, but i'll take it!!)

also played a few other story songs after skipping through all the story episodes to catch up with them later! sightread AC on UTF and a 2nd attempt flag on Singularity...

and now that that's through, it's ARCADE DAY!!! was slightly delayed due to Kung Fu Panda 4, but it happened!! and i met up with a friend for it!!! sooo here's my barrage of SMX and PIU scores from the rest of the day!!!

took a break from dance gamin' to hang around the mall with said friend, where i played a bit more of my new Arcaea DLC with a sightread and goofy flop ending on INTERNET YAMERO!!!

we returned to the mall promptly and continued playing dance games, though we also stopped to play music diver versus (since i really wanted to play hito mania on it) and got Destroyed by the extreme chart (ouch)

back to dance games! nothing too notable except for an FC on Beautiful Man Wild 21 (not 5-star tho smh), a clear on ESM S20, and an SSS on Follow Me S17 i guess? (but i can still do better...)