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  • LoSeH
    FFR Veteran
    • Mar 2007
    • 43
    #1

    This game is not like riding a bike

    I quit around 2009. Back then I got to (using today's difficulty ratings) FC 74's, SDG 70's and AAA 62's. I don't know how good that is by today's standards, but back then I felt pretty good.

    I tried playing again recently, on a new account, and MY GOD, I cant even begin to READ those songs. The rust is real.

    Does anybody have experience coming back to FFR after a long break? How long did it take you do get back to where you were? Am I getting too old for this game??!

    EDIT: 2009, not 2011
    Last edited by LoSeH; 06-15-2016, 06:14 PM. Reason: 2009, not 2011
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    • Snapps
      NO DOUBT GET LOUD
      FFR Simfile Author
      • Sep 2003
      • 5650
      #2
      Re: This game is not like riding a bike

      you still know up down left right automatically as well as jumps so i think your bike riding skill is aok

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        • LoSeH
          FFR Veteran
          • Mar 2007
          • 43
          #3
          Re: This game is not like riding a bike

          Originally posted by Snapps
          you still know up down left right automatically as well as jumps so i think your bike riding skill is aok
          Haha, yeah I guess I still have the fundamentals... jumps are a bit sketchy actually. But none of it feels natural like it used to.

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            • MooMoo_Cowfreak
              Abraxas Hydroplane
              • May 2006
              • 1746
              #4
              Re: This game is not like riding a bike

              Actually, I found this game to be very much like riding a bike. When I got back into it a year ago I was rusty, sure, but I was still miles ahead then as if I had started from square one.
              Originally posted by hi19hi19
              dumps abstractly represent the song with arrows

              post-dumps abstractly represent the existential nihilism that the song invokes in the listener with negative space, evoking the ephemeral nature of the mind - the journey of stepmania begins in hope yet soon becomes corroded into a dialectic of futility, leaving only a sense of dread and the unlikelihood of a new synthesis

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                • Walrusizer
                  D7 Elite Keymasher
                  • Aug 2014
                  • 1080
                  #5
                  Re: This game is not like riding a bike

                  what a surprise, you didnt play for 5 years and now youre worse than you used to be
                  is expressing my inability to create a creative signature an act of creativity in and of itself?

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                    • LoSeH
                      FFR Veteran
                      • Mar 2007
                      • 43
                      #6
                      Re: This game is not like riding a bike

                      Well I thought I'd retain a lot more skill than I did. Of course I was expecting to be rusty, just not to this extent.

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                        • igotrhythm
                          Fractals!
                          • Sep 2004
                          • 6535
                          #7
                          Re: This game is not like riding a bike

                          Originally posted by LoSeH
                          I quit around 2011. Back then I got to (using today's difficulty ratings) FC 74's, SDG 70's and AAA 62's. I don't know how good that is by today's standards, but back then I felt pretty good.

                          I tried playing again recently, on a new account, and MY GOD, I cant even begin to READ those songs. The rust is real.

                          Does anybody have experience coming back to FFR after a long break? How long did it take you do get back to where you were? Am I getting too old for this game??!
                          That'd be somewhere in low to mid D4 at least, with AAAing your first 66+ being considered a landmark achievement and promotion to D5 (and scoring Otaku Speedvibe Oni!)

                          You're good, man. Just work on your PA, D4 is notorious for AAA or die.
                          Originally posted by thesunfan
                          I literally spent 10 minutes in the library looking for the TWG forum on Smogon and couldn't find it what the fuck is this witchcraft IGR

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                            • blindreper1179
                              Vice President Of TGB
                              • Jun 2006
                              • 5900
                              #8
                              Re: This game is not like riding a bike

                              It's like riding a bike, but for reasons that you overlooked. Like riding a bike, you remember how to ride it (play). But you can't bunny hop as well as you used to. (Play as fast)

                              Same situation just different faces.
                              Originally posted by thesunfan
                              absolutely I want to vomit on your face irl
                              Originally posted by choof
                              It was like trying to throw logic at a fuckin brick wall lmao
                              Originally posted by choof
                              whats more dense, a black hole or an icyworld file
                              Originally posted by Celirra
                              I've never been so disappointed by a man from Alabama than I am right now

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                                • LoSeH
                                  FFR Veteran
                                  • Mar 2007
                                  • 43
                                  #9
                                  Re: This game is not like riding a bike

                                  Originally posted by MooMoo_Cowfreak
                                  Actually, I found this game to be very much like riding a bike. When I got back into it a year ago I was rusty, sure, but I was still miles ahead then as if I had started from square one.
                                  Originally posted by blindreper1179
                                  It's like riding a bike, but for reasons that you overlooked. Like riding a bike, you remember how to ride it (play). But you can't bunny hop as well as you used to. (Play as fast)

                                  Same situation just different faces.
                                  Yeah you're probably right.

                                  I'm seeing a bit of improvement, it just felt very disheartening how bad I was when coming back.


                                  I'll ask again. Does anybody have experience coming back to FFR after a long break? How long did it take you do get back to where you were?

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                                    • MooMoo_Cowfreak
                                      Abraxas Hydroplane
                                      • May 2006
                                      • 1746
                                      #10
                                      Re: This game is not like riding a bike

                                      Originally posted by LoSeH
                                      I'll ask again. Does anybody have experience coming back to FFR after a long break? How long did it take you do get back to where you were?
                                      Came back after what was more or less a 4+ year break, though I would play the game for a day here and there during this break. I'd say before I started again last year though I hadn't played for about two years.

                                      Anyway, I just made sure to play songs that were at my comfort level. I wasn't doing as well as before, so I was okay with playing like 40s-50s, just to get my chops back up. I'd say after about 2-3 months I was as good as I was before, and now I'm better than I ever was!
                                      Last edited by MooMoo_Cowfreak; 05-27-2016, 05:00 PM.
                                      Originally posted by hi19hi19
                                      dumps abstractly represent the song with arrows

                                      post-dumps abstractly represent the existential nihilism that the song invokes in the listener with negative space, evoking the ephemeral nature of the mind - the journey of stepmania begins in hope yet soon becomes corroded into a dialectic of futility, leaving only a sense of dread and the unlikelihood of a new synthesis

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                                        • danny53x
                                          AKA Yotipo
                                          • Jan 2007
                                          • 1008
                                          #11
                                          Re: This game is not like riding a bike

                                          I'll look at scores that I achieved in disbelief. But I know it was done with my fingers. So I just work my way back up the ladder.

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                                            • Frank Munoz
                                              Muein
                                              • Nov 2007
                                              • 2047
                                              #12
                                              Re: This game is not like riding a bike

                                              Originally posted by danny53x
                                              I'll look at scores that I achieved in disbelief. But I know it was done with my fingers. So I just work my way back up the ladder.
                                              amen to that
                                              you did it once, you can do it again.
                                              more or less... after months of practice
                                              Unknown and Unofficial
                                              may the good arrow guide you

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                                                • Walrusizer
                                                  D7 Elite Keymasher
                                                  • Aug 2014
                                                  • 1080
                                                  #13
                                                  Re: This game is not like riding a bike

                                                  as long as you keep playing you should be able to recover to your previous skill level fairly quickly
                                                  Last edited by Walrusizer; 05-27-2016, 07:27 PM.
                                                  is expressing my inability to create a creative signature an act of creativity in and of itself?

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                                                    • blindreper1179
                                                      Vice President Of TGB
                                                      • Jun 2006
                                                      • 5900
                                                      #14
                                                      Re: This game is not like riding a bike

                                                      Originally posted by Walrusizer
                                                      the better you are at the game the longer it will take to regain your skill level, at your skill it shouldnt take too long to recover
                                                      Fucking savage
                                                      Originally posted by thesunfan
                                                      absolutely I want to vomit on your face irl
                                                      Originally posted by choof
                                                      It was like trying to throw logic at a fuckin brick wall lmao
                                                      Originally posted by choof
                                                      whats more dense, a black hole or an icyworld file
                                                      Originally posted by Celirra
                                                      I've never been so disappointed by a man from Alabama than I am right now

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                                                        • Walrusizer
                                                          D7 Elite Keymasher
                                                          • Aug 2014
                                                          • 1080
                                                          #15
                                                          Re: This game is not like riding a bike

                                                          Originally posted by blindreper1179
                                                          Fucking savage
                                                          lmao i didnt even mean it like that, i simply meant that it shouldnt be too hard for him to get back to his previous skill level
                                                          is expressing my inability to create a creative signature an act of creativity in and of itself?

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