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  • Rapta
    🡸Index🡻Is🡹Fun!🡺
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    • Dec 2010
    • 1948

    #1

    The story of Rapta

    I played rhythm games for a long time. I played because I lived to improve myself. Improvement made me happy. I found FFR after about 5 years of playing Whirled Beat (a different rhythm game that isn't a thing anymore). I became the best Whirled Beat player a little after I found out about FFR. For a few years I played on FFR, improving on the daily (although it was little by little) Around this time I was probably low D5.

    One day I decided I wanted to become one of the best, and devoted even more time and concentration to improving my FFR skills. Then I began improving very quickly (since I am pretty smart I knew what I needed to do to improve quickly), focusing on improving my stam and jacks, while everything else (like acc, speed) came naturally. Once I became mid D7, I realized, to improve any more, I would need to do something INCREDIBLY difficult.

    I had to sever my bodily reactions from my brain.
    In other words, I needed to be able to see the notes coming, and hit them, all without mentally understanding what I was doing. It was basically reacting without my brain verifying if the reaction was the thing I wanted to do. That was the final plateau I needed to overcome to enter ~High D7~.

    One heck of a thing to have to pull off, huh? I ended up deciding that I couldn't achieve it, and that being around the time when I was dealing with strong depression, I ended up quitting rhythm gaming entirely.

    One year later (now) I felt like putting that out there.

    some people will be interested in reading this, some wont care, some might dislike me for making an entire thread just to talk about that, but whatever you think, please dont diss me,
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    Originally posted by IwasAsquidOnce
    Note the left hand pinky. It stretches out into attack mode to make etienne's hand appear larger, an intimidation technique for the arrows.
    Originally posted by Mourningfall
    [3:51 PM] Mourningfall: i spent the second half of that song getting face fucked by a fly
    Originally posted by Xiz
    Hi I see rapta come play TWG next game
    Originally posted by xXOpkillerXx
    Rapta thinks alot about memes and fonts. I'd be inclined to think he's town because wolves wouldn't have time to meme would they ?
    Originally posted by Prawnskunk
    if we keep releasing engines that work on 1/4 of people's computers, we'll get there
    Originally posted by gold stinger
    do u even agrabah
    Originally posted by gold stinger
    Today at 12:53 AM
    I have no fucking idea how you were able to identify that specific line from meme show so you are basically an elder god of memes
    Originally posted by Psychotik
    When I think Mother’s Day, I think Venetian Snares.
    Originally posted by Haku
    have you heard someone mention eating pancakes to negate friday 13th?




    Originally posted by Prawnskunk at 10:53:56pm on 10/26/11
    OMFG VC! I want your programming fingers in or around my mouth OnO
    Originally posted by Storn at 3:03 PM
    We have so many batches open. Its like a backlog clearance sale. ALL FILES MUST GO!!
    Originally posted by ToonE156 at 11:07 PM
    You've never felt intimacy until you've practiced Jiu Jitsu ground techniques with the only girl in class
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    • Apr 2012
    • 1907

    #2
    Re: The story of Rapta

    i always called that going into a trance or autopilot

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    • Rapta
      🡸Index🡻Is🡹Fun!🡺
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      • Dec 2010
      • 1948

      #3
      Re: The story of Rapta

      It's different from what you're thinking of, a more concentrated version.
      Old Quotes
      Originally posted by IwasAsquidOnce
      Note the left hand pinky. It stretches out into attack mode to make etienne's hand appear larger, an intimidation technique for the arrows.
      Originally posted by Mourningfall
      [3:51 PM] Mourningfall: i spent the second half of that song getting face fucked by a fly
      Originally posted by Xiz
      Hi I see rapta come play TWG next game
      Originally posted by xXOpkillerXx
      Rapta thinks alot about memes and fonts. I'd be inclined to think he's town because wolves wouldn't have time to meme would they ?
      Originally posted by Prawnskunk
      if we keep releasing engines that work on 1/4 of people's computers, we'll get there
      Originally posted by gold stinger
      do u even agrabah
      Originally posted by gold stinger
      Today at 12:53 AM
      I have no fucking idea how you were able to identify that specific line from meme show so you are basically an elder god of memes
      Originally posted by Psychotik
      When I think Mother’s Day, I think Venetian Snares.
      Originally posted by Haku
      have you heard someone mention eating pancakes to negate friday 13th?




      Originally posted by Prawnskunk at 10:53:56pm on 10/26/11
      OMFG VC! I want your programming fingers in or around my mouth OnO
      Originally posted by Storn at 3:03 PM
      We have so many batches open. Its like a backlog clearance sale. ALL FILES MUST GO!!
      Originally posted by ToonE156 at 11:07 PM
      You've never felt intimacy until you've practiced Jiu Jitsu ground techniques with the only girl in class

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      • MinaciousGrace
        FFR Player
        • Dec 2007
        • 4278

        #4
        Re: The story of Rapta

        Originally posted by Rapta
        I had to sever my bodily reactions from my brain.
        there's a word for this

        it's called

        paralysis

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        • Spenner
          Forum User
          • Nov 2006
          • 2403

          #5
          Re: The story of Rapta

          It's actually sounding a lot like hypomania in a state that lies somewhere in the dissociative affect spectrum. Not necessarily a bad thing, it can be highly functional-- I draw my artwork when I'm in this state as well. Hyperfocused apparently, yet your mind is completely empty like a blackbody.

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          • Wayward Vagabond
            Confirmed Heartbreaker
            FFR Simfile Author
            • Jul 2012
            • 5866

            #6
            Re: The story of Rapta

            I left out the part where I take you under my wing to become the greatest step artist of all time

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            • Soundwave-
              Carry your failures proud
              • Sep 2015
              • 644

              #7
              Re: The story of Rapta

              Originally posted by Rapta
              some people will be interested in reading this, some wont care, some might dislike me for making an entire thread just to talk about that, but whatever you think, please dont diss me,
              More interested by this than whatever shit arch has to say.
              Originally posted by [11:38 PM] Hakulyte
              only person who can legit tilt me is like YoshL
              Originally posted by スンファンさん
              右に3回回らない限り間違います。

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              • evanescence_death4ever
                where'sTHEdrain?!
                • Jun 2007
                • 612

                #8
                Re: The story of Rapta

                Originally posted by Soundwave-
                More interested by this than whatever shit arch has to say.
                Seconded.
                #charu4president2016

                "Life is always downhill, everyone is heading towards death every day. It's up to you to look for the hills you can climb up instead
                Or something
                I just made that up but it sounds good" ~alloyus~

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                • mrpreggers
                  D7 Elite Keymasher
                  • Feb 2011
                  • 3393

                  #9
                  Re: The story of Rapta

                  you used to be pretty good shaking my damn head

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                  • awein999
                    (ಠ⌣ಠ)
                    • Oct 2007
                    • 4647

                    #10
                    Re: The story of Rapta

                    Happy for you rhythm gaming was some kind of coping mechanism for you and additionally happy to see that it looks like you are on the road to recovery!
                    Originally posted by Staiain
                    i am super purple hippo

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                    • klimtkiller
                      D4
                      FFR Simfile Author
                      • Jun 2011
                      • 308

                      #11
                      Re: The story of Rapta

                      lol you make ffr sound like a kind of martial arts.
                      Originally posted by IwasAsquidOnce
                      Fantasticone I love your name. The name i hate the most is Klimtkiller, cuz I read it as like, climpt - killer, and climpt is just a gross sound, like an STD or something. Klimt

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