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A friend of mine got really into OSU! and got me to try it. When I complained about the difficulty, he reassured me "Everyone has a hard time when they start out, let me see you play." When I showed him, he said "Oh, man, I was never this bad. Maybe this game isn't for you."
I was a huge fan of Elite Beat Agents, but I don’t know how you can play that style of game on other devices. Nintendo’s old styluses were perfect for reflexive pointer interactions.
You can get a convertible laptop or tablet that has an active digitizer. They're much more precise than the DS stylus.
usually by the time people play osu! they have already had years of experience playing computer games and clicking on things, which helps, but some people really do seem to just struggle more. same with typing on a keyboard, some people just naturally have a much higher or much lower wpm for no (to me) discernable reason.
i feel like all that is down to practice, but some people also get better from practice faster. i chalk that up mostly to interest, but definitely also some kind of magical way to extract more useful feedback from whatever you're doing. part of paying attention to feedback is interest, part can be explained by autism, but maybe there really is such a thing as innate intelligence and it's what happens when you can understand and infer very good from zero. who knows. from personal experience i think depression severely hampered my intelligence, so maybe mania or adhd helps? i don't know
Well, I built my first gaming computer maybe 5-6 years before this incident, so I had some experience. I just don't have great hand-eye coordination and have to compensate with strategy in most games, and OSU! limits the degree to which you can do that pretty heavily.
As somebody who lives in a state that starts with an O near the state university the name of this game always trips me up.
As someone who does not know this game, and can only think of the state university with the same initials, I'll take a wild guess instead of looking it up!
Optically Stabilized Unstablizers
oooh, so close! it's actually Orangically Stabilized Unstabilizers
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