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This is my place for writing about whatever's currently captured my interest. You can contact me on my
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twilight2095
This is my place for writing about whatever's currently captured my interest. You can contact me on my
Neocities profile or by email at
twilight2095
I've been journalling offline a lot lately. A lot of it's been organized into articles I may want to publish, but I've also been thinking about what kinds of ideas I really want to share and why. I think writing is something I really enjoy, and I think it can add value to the world. I thought about being more open with people offline that I'm a writer and quickly got embarrassed about my messy approach to writing, where I would deliberately post unpolished writing and fix it up as I went along. There's value in letting people see my thought process, in sharing things without worrying so much about how good they are, but I feel I've been doing that at the expense of actually "completing" my writing and making it pleasant for other people to read. So, my focus with the site right now will be on making the pages I've already written nicer, then I'll post some of the drafts I've been working on.
I found out that when voting on the Locus competition (see previous post), in order to clear every beatmap in a difficulty, you're allowed to use a difficulty-reducing mod on one of the five songs you were assigned. I'd been practicing in hopes of being able to beat that one 5.08 map, but started to feel like I really wouldn't be able to make it before votes are due. Thankfully, I was able to beat all the other four on Hard with no mods, so as long as I can beat that last one slowed down, I can vote on the Hard difficulty!
Unrelatedly, I wonder how many people have quoted themselves, then attributed the quote to "Anonymous" to make it seem more timeless.
For any osu! players out there, you can vote on your favorite beatmaps from the Locus 2025 competition! Voting is open until Saturday the 16th. It randomly assigns you five of the submitted songs, and you have to pass all five of them on the same difficulty before voting. If you pass them all at a higher difficulty, your votes will be weighted more heavily, which is really making me try to get good at the songs I was assigned lol. Specifically, I've passed some of the songs I was assigned on Hard, but those difficulties range from 3.36 to 5.08, and I have not yet passed a 5-star beatmap.
Free idea: a mashup album called "Original Reseach by Synthesis".