In the first 43 seconds you say that and i quote "as long as you are having fun, then it's not a waste of time". By this logic, my crippling alcoholism and abuse of substances is fun, therefore, based on the principles in your argument, it is not a waste of time, and you, and I say you, are encouraging me to drink one more beer. Thankyou Saow. Give me my keys.
Same here (until the arcade threw it out), but the con is pretty much understandable: who the hell would still play on a rundown Taiko no Tatsujin 5 machine?!
This is how I feel with Sound Voltex at my local arcades-everyone just plays Konaste, but my setup sucks because I have a desk where there's a shelf directly above my monitors so I can't rotate them, and the specific shape of the desk means i can't just install monitor arms.
I felt you bro but in my case, I don't really mind much (or sometimes) about 1-2 or no one's playing. What I'm really mind is how often the drum's sensor broken thanks to the children and people who hit the drum aggressively
Truly a fantastic way to put it, especially a the end. There are so many ways to spend "free" time, choose what brings you the most joy. But remember, all is well in moderation.
So, I'm a British maimai player who plays on Finale since April 2023. Over the past year and half, it's been a joy to see me improve from nothing to now regularly S-ing 12s and see a community build up from the machine though I've made a few closer friendships in that community. I remember back in May 2024 when one of those closer friends went on holiday to Asia for a month and over that month, the game didn't feel the same. It made me realise that while progress was a catalyst for me to play, the glue was really the friends that I made along the way.
6:36 it gets extremely real beyond this point... GOD, THIS ENTIRE SEQUENCE MADE ME ACTUALLY THINK OF MY PAST AGAIN WHYYYYY I have been playing video games, way off as a kid, and I have played a lot of obscure games like, God of War and that one game where you just shoot at people, but never the popular ones like Pokemon or something... My devices did change as I grew up: it started with a PlayStation Portable when I was still a kid in Manila, then it turned to a tablet when we started our life in the province, and when I reached 6th grade, I got my first ever phone, which is a Sony phone, and as the quarantine started, I now got this Huawei phone I am typing this TH-cam comment on... I have played a lot of games, yes, but I never saw the point of playing them or something... Maybe it's just the learning process, the countless challenges and adventures, and making memories parts that make gaming exceptional, but oh boy... I am ADDICTED TO GAMING, wayyyyy before I even discovered the Rhythm game genre... I played at least one game IN EVERY MAIN GENRE. I swear, I spent more time gaming than anything else in my life... This is one of the most educational videos I've ever watched today... I wish I could actually justify my entire journey in this digital world... Nice video! Nice shock value midway, too-
Thank you very much for this video. I really liked the bittersweet ending. I only discovered maimai a few months ago because I'm in China and people aren't very social here. In the end even with my little experience I tell myself the same thing: what's the point? I only grind and have no friends. but i'm having fun like I've never had so much fun on a game. So in the end i think that's the most important thing for me.
Honestly this i is like my view of the game now and its kinda crazy that most of us are on the same boat, anyways see you out and about man its time to let this game go partially
relatable video. how meaningful maimai is, well, is what you make of it. personally, i go in with the mindset of constantly improving myself (along with other aspects of life), improving my social skills and confidence at the same time by talking to my friends about the game, also getting to know more about them while taking breaks before and after maimai sessions.
wow. this video spoke to me so much 😭 ive been playing maimai competitively since 2017, and i've hit some lows in my life recently that gave me a reality check of how addicted i was at the game. Along with the frustration of being stuck at my current skill level, I slowly lost interest. I resonate so much with this video, especially since letting go of grinding tf out of the game was such a bittersweet feeling for me. Slowly came into terms w it though. I'm happy with how much I achieved, and I can still play casually and hang out w the friends I made, maybe help them get FDX plates and such. Thank you for this video ❤, made me tear up a bit. The game is such a huge part of my life and I'll never forget the years I grinded it
I love AC rhythm games IIDX and SDVX are my favs fr the vibe you get while playing with crowds behind you with friends beside you will always feel different than any other game in my opinion I’m actually going to my local arcade today
Im happy that I have a friend group community at my local arcade. Its to the point id rather queue with them around than hogging a cab alone. Even though the wait time is 30~45 minutes, its fun hanging around them in a secluded rhyhtm game isle. We have chairs to sit around or if it gets too crowded, we just sit on the floor cheering our friends playing on the cabs. Some of us brings stuff like toys and fumos to show to each other and talk about other hobbies during wait time. Some of us (mostly me) even do assignments on our laptops or tablets. Or we doomscroll and share brainrot memes. Even though the actual queue time is long, but no one is on a rush to play. It feels like we have our own cabs for ourselves. Most of us isnt even highskilled player, so its pretty humbling. Even though theres some gap in skill level between us, we still supports and help everyone through their journey. Even though I got stuck and choke on scores that I want to achieve, it doesnt really matter when I am around my friends. The down side is that, other people get really intimidated to play lul.
reminds me of when i played osu quite often w my friends. we used to play like mad, and i still have the beatmaps from those years ago. but all of us have moved on now. heck, some of us just drifted away... you'll never know when "see you next time" won't be true. its 5am i probably should sleep.
Fun fact: the kr community calls 1k play count as 'trash', as in 'I am literal human trash for spending a thousand coins on this game'. 2k play count makes you '2 trash', and so on Hi, so I am 5 trash. In my ted talk I will
As a dance game player and an aging millennial, I got back into DDR hard when I found out that there was a Round1 at the mall where I lived. I had past experience, but years of neglecting cardio and such made it painful at first to get back in. I justified it by saying that, "I do nothing but lift weights. I need cardio to balance it out. It'll be fun and a casual adventure down memory lane and I'll lose some weight too. I always wanted to beat MAX 300." Nope, none of that shit happened, though I could probably beat what used to be the hardest song which now a mid-tier song by year's end, at which point, I'm done. Since the only people who play regularly where I'm at are >16 PFCs and above, I started to get really into it so I wouldn't look like shit next to them. After six months and hundreds of dollars, I just cleared my first 15 and it was one of the really easy ones too. I also didn't lose a single pound and even gained weight since you need calories to stomp on a metal pad. I lost more weight this weekend being sick and eating junk food than I ever did playing the dumb dancing game. My upper body strength has completely stalled (my thighs have visible veins now, but that's probably the high blood pressure that's going to kill me in ten years doing that) and what started as a, "take it easy, enjoy your successes and failures" turned into, "Scream obscenities at Konami if I fail. Belittle myself for only missing one step or getting a AA because everyone else gets AAA on the same stuff. Wow, what a failure! You suck at the boomer metal dance pad game." Also, recovering alcoholic here, so I just supplanted my desire to smash cans of Steel Reserve and verbally abusing my loved ones with smashing a metal pad and verbally abusing Konami, who genuinely deserves it, so it's definitely progress, not PFC's, for me.
I do go to the arcade more often in recent times but I have only grinded a few songs ao far (I'm around 10k) only when I feel like it. I've seen quite a few people grind out songs and I'm happy for them when they reached the desired goal. I know I'll grow out of this eventually but I think living the moment is also important.
Waiting to play an arcade game in 2024 is definitely a degenerate thing to do. Like, there are so many other rhythm games that won't steal your time and money
another banger from my goat. i wanted to type more about life and trying to figure out if maimai is a waste of time or the best thing ever but i couldnt do it without sounding schizophrenic. thank you very much i love the video (as per usual) 🙏
I'm kinda glad that there aren't very many ""hardcore"" arcade rhythm gamers in my area, means that most of the time I don't need to be worried about queues to the rhythm game cabs and can play pretty much til I want to take a break and rest or play something else. Even on days the arcade is full this applies to an extent due to most visitors not being rhythm gamers. They might try any of the rhythm games (especially maimai and Dancerush are the big draws for many people, particularly kids), but even then the cabs are generally available. And besides, I primarily play 3 rhythm games at the arcade, so I have options for when one is occupied. In fact, that arcade has like 9 different rhythm game titles, though only like 6 I actually play, so even on the off-chance all 3 of my main rhythm games would be occupied I still have options. I love seeing kids be absolutely flabbergasted by my playing 🤣
I guess right now I’m still in that stage of progressing in Chunithm, and I haven’t reached a “peak” yet. We do have a local chumai community, and it’s great being in it where we can talk about not only just scores or songs. And so right now, I’m just looking forward to increasing my rating and collecting more things… …as well as looking to meet someone up at the arcade after our exams. Good luck to me.
same in chunithm,, I've spent like 500 USD, most achivements and scores are won by luck in my experience. basically it's literally gambling game, and I'm still learning that when i should quit while I'm ahead
Damm, this got me rethinking my life. I’m a broke uni student who should really be focusing on my studies and also saving money. The game is fun but I’m in the grindset stage and after S-SSS+’ing all the hard charts, where do I go from there? It also gets really lonely (and money consuming) whenever I’m just playing on my own and it makes me feel like an addicted degen. Parra timezone used to have more people at the maimai but it’s been feeling pretty empty these past few months (they should add a chuni there go i can still get addicted but spend less lol)
"If you wanna play maimai, just buy your own DX cabinet" Where you pay only $40K, AND YOU CAN KEEP IT BY THE WAY (seriously though this video was amazing, that ending is so real and relatable)
5:37 hmm the arcade i go to has 1 maimai cab, buutt a relativaley small communtiy of maimai players in the area. So when I arrive right as timezone opens no one is playing and i could play for at least 2-3 hours before someone arrives, but then i can just to multiplayer, unti like a group arrive. loose-win? (one cab, but no wait)
I enjoy the game and don't really mind the cost it's only 20 philippines pesos for 4 games, but I have to go to a 30-minute walk from my school during launch time that only last 1 hour lol to go to the place.
Me when i was still fresh on osu, but i dont have PC back then, i always go to internet cafe install osu there and play, basically i was burning money too but i am having my fun playing the game. There's also a time i asked the operator to keep osu so i dont need to install it over and over again everytime im there want to play. The time comes I have my own PC, but it's too late, I don't have the same feelings as before when i was still new and fresh on the game but it doesn't mean i stopped playing, i still play few maps here and there
For me it different, the community here in my place are mostly are endgame player who mostly rating 14000 to 15000 plus meanwhile me who is a new player feel so out of place to join their circle.Sometime i really felt that i want someone to improve at the game with but at my place mai mai is not that popular i guess
Apply this to any IRL thing that you would do with your leisure time with the same amount of the time you pour onto maimai or games in general, you will be stuck with all these thought as well, that's when you have think about if THAT thing (be it IRL or non-IRL stuff) is making you had fun or not.
Hey there, I notice that you punched the cab at 3:15. Please do not do this, it is expensive to replace a maimai monitor, and no one else will be able to play on it if it's broken. Don't be a bogan, cheers mate.
there's sub communities in other smaller arcades around sydney, that provide a more social experience. although the more expensive part still applies lol
@SaowAngel I could go to any busy arcade around me and no one will dare to touch maimai, probably because everytime I walk in someone is playing re:master
ok I'm trying to figure out what time is peak hour (I'm guessing weekends), as every time i go into koko town hall, i don't wait at all (and i really wanna pair up to save money and get recommended new songs)
Very good video. I can really related to the struggle of felling like friendships are meaningless. I constantly ask myself, what do I have to do to reach a point where I could have a friend I could talk about anything with, and them with me. It weighs heavily on my mind.
I saw the thumbnail with "-$727" and you know exactly what I was thinking 727!!! WYSI!! WYFSI!! I can't fluffing take it. I see an image of a random score posted and then I see it, I fluffing see it. "Oh that looks kinda like the Blue Zenith 727 score" it started as. That's funny, that's a cool reference. But I kept going, I'd see a clock with time that showed 7:27, I'd see that I'm on the 7/27 page on my school homework, my last notice to pay my electricity bill is 727$ , I'd notice that it's been 727 days since the last time I touched a woman. And every time I'd burst into an insane, breath deprived laugh staring at the image as the number 727 ran through my head. I'm scared to look at the time when someone asks me what time is it. It's torment, psychological torture, I am being conditioned to laugh maniacally any time I see a 3-digit number which is anywhere close to 727. I can't fluffing live like this... I can't I can't I can't I can't I can't! And don't get me fluffing started on the words! I'll never hear the phrase "when you see it" again without thinking of 727. Someone does pretty cool and respectable score and I can't say anything other than "WYSI." I could watch a man FC hard underweighted map I love and all I would be able to say is "WYSI" and laugh like a fluffing insane person. And the phrase "when you see it" is ruined. I can't live anymore. 727 has destroyed my fluffing life. I want to eject myself from this plane of existence.
1:00 Nah, I'm sure it's cus modern gaming sucks. Not all of them, but that fact is rather apparent: micro transactions, trend-chasing, killing off creativity to meet social quotas... As someone nearing his mid 20s, working 9-5 like your average person, I would still dump tons of hours into rhythm games and older, classic boomer games like CS or AoE. And if u prefer more solid evidence, Back 4 Blood - the game that was supposed to be a L4D2 successor - has around 3000+ active players at all times, while good ol' L4D2 itself stands at 20.000+. What's more, if u go to a cyber cafe in Vietnam, you'll often see big groups of friends just playing 1v1s or 5v5s on CS 1.6's Dust2 or Italy. I wanna mention them cus they're the minority that plays these games but wouldn't realistically show up in any kind of data, similar to many rhythm gamers I've seen who prefer to play solo and enjoy their time without socialising.
I see tons of people what grow in a community that are very good at the game and pretty much if you aren't good you can't really talk to them, it's like a social gap? Idk. I play this game twice a week and tbh I'm not even sure if trying to get better at it would help me (cause I was super try hard at osu for a while and that didn't really feel the greatest) If the hobby is such say 'a hobby' you should try to find the fun in it, as trying harder to get better at it just kills the fun, like education and stuff is the same as well. To anyone who stumbles upon this I mean no hate or harm, just writing down how I feel and hope to make someone's day better
i think i am a bit too much of an adict for rhythm games, you can tell because I am one of the 3 people to recreate the 4 gamemodes of osu on scratch, i said 3 because there is no fucking way someones gonna make CTB... right? wait, what? peppy what are you doing? NO PEPPY, NO! GET OUT OF MY HEAD TAIKO TOOK 3 FUCKING YEARS I AM NOT READY FOR THIS.
Queue times were why I never got into maimai, and why I have three mains-if one's busy I can just swap to another. When you went over how you feel like you have to keep going, I started to think about how the makers of these arcade games like Konami make pachinko machines, and the way I always had this disdain for redemption games, thinking that rhythm games were a lot more worthwhile-I still think that, but I'm now reckoning with how, at the end of the day, all types of arcade games are designed to encourage you to keep putting in that money. It's just that for rhythm games, because it doesn't really matter how well you perform, making the game compelling to play comes from making it fun. Maybe I'm not so different from those kids with balls of tickets... I know that one day I'm gonna stop playing these games and going to arcades. But I haven't hit my ceiling yet in the games I main, and I'm intent on getting as far as I can before that happens-I want to look back on it and think "fuck yeah, I made it to Rainbow in Chuni, or Imperial in SDVX, or ADV 10 in Pump". I have a talent for this, and I need to see how far I can really take it if I wanna truly walk away from it happy.
oh there are 2 things that are recommended for maimai aime card (basically a memory card) gardening gloves (low friction for slides) but to get started you don't even need those two, just try it out and see if you like the tappy game.
In the first 43 seconds you say that and i quote "as long as you are having fun, then it's not a waste of time". By this logic, my crippling alcoholism and abuse of substances is fun, therefore, based on the principles in your argument, it is not a waste of time, and you, and I say you, are encouraging me to drink one more beer. Thankyou Saow. Give me my keys.
i'm not letting you out the basement
@@SaowAngelfree him
@@SaowAngel dont ever let him cook again
Super interesting look at rhythm games, entering a community, the endless grind, and living in the moment. Awesome stuff.
Thanks man ❤
I play Taiko no Tatsujin regularly in my local arcade
Pros: no one is playing the game so queue time is almost zero
Cons: no one plays the game…. 😭
This is true taiko is the best game
Same here (until the arcade threw it out), but the con is pretty much understandable: who the hell would still play on a rundown Taiko no Tatsujin 5 machine?!
This is how I feel with Sound Voltex at my local arcades-everyone just plays Konaste, but my setup sucks because I have a desk where there's a shelf directly above my monitors so I can't rotate them, and the specific shape of the desk means i can't just install monitor arms.
I felt you bro but in my case, I don't really mind much (or sometimes) about 1-2 or no one's playing. What I'm really mind is how often the drum's sensor broken thanks to the children and people who hit the drum aggressively
@ yeah agree haha. They rarely maintain the drum
Truly a fantastic way to put it, especially a the end. There are so many ways to spend "free" time, choose what brings you the most joy. But remember, all is well in moderation.
thanks b1rch, you're the goat. That's also a good summary of my thoughts
@@SaowAngel Your videos are absolutely fantastic, I really love the presentation and the editing that adds so much to it, always waiting for more :P
So, I'm a British maimai player who plays on Finale since April 2023. Over the past year and half, it's been a joy to see me improve from nothing to now regularly S-ing 12s and see a community build up from the machine though I've made a few closer friendships in that community. I remember back in May 2024 when one of those closer friends went on holiday to Asia for a month and over that month, the game didn't feel the same. It made me realise that while progress was a catalyst for me to play, the glue was really the friends that I made along the way.
Wait till bro hears about SSS+
He already knows 7:46
wtf this went from funny maimai vid to monogatari series level deep monologue to "the friends we made along the way" so fast lmfao, epic vid
i think it's all about balancing things. you could do maimai as long you did ur job or homework or chores or smth. it's like moral licensing, idk
6:36 it gets extremely real beyond this point... GOD, THIS ENTIRE SEQUENCE MADE ME ACTUALLY THINK OF MY PAST AGAIN WHYYYYY
I have been playing video games, way off as a kid, and I have played a lot of obscure games like, God of War and that one game where you just shoot at people, but never the popular ones like Pokemon or something... My devices did change as I grew up: it started with a PlayStation Portable when I was still a kid in Manila, then it turned to a tablet when we started our life in the province, and when I reached 6th grade, I got my first ever phone, which is a Sony phone, and as the quarantine started, I now got this Huawei phone I am typing this TH-cam comment on... I have played a lot of games, yes, but I never saw the point of playing them or something... Maybe it's just the learning process, the countless challenges and adventures, and making memories parts that make gaming exceptional, but oh boy... I am ADDICTED TO GAMING, wayyyyy before I even discovered the Rhythm game genre... I played at least one game IN EVERY MAIN GENRE. I swear, I spent more time gaming than anything else in my life...
This is one of the most educational videos I've ever watched today... I wish I could actually justify my entire journey in this digital world... Nice video! Nice shock value midway, too-
Thank you very much for this video. I really liked the bittersweet ending. I only discovered maimai a few months ago because I'm in China and people aren't very social here. In the end even with my little experience I tell myself the same thing: what's the point? I only grind and have no friends. but i'm having fun like I've never had so much fun on a game. So in the end i think that's the most important thing for me.
Honestly this i is like my view of the game now and its kinda crazy that most of us are on the same boat, anyways see you out and about man its time to let this game go partially
wishing you the best
relatable video. how meaningful maimai is, well, is what you make of it. personally, i go in with the mindset of constantly improving myself (along with other aspects of life), improving my social skills and confidence at the same time by talking to my friends about the game, also getting to know more about them while taking breaks before and after maimai sessions.
Honestly, the best way to approach the game
wow. this video spoke to me so much 😭 ive been playing maimai competitively since 2017, and i've hit some lows in my life recently that gave me a reality check of how addicted i was at the game. Along with the frustration of being stuck at my current skill level, I slowly lost interest.
I resonate so much with this video, especially since letting go of grinding tf out of the game was such a bittersweet feeling for me. Slowly came into terms w it though. I'm happy with how much I achieved, and I can still play casually and hang out w the friends I made, maybe help them get FDX plates and such.
Thank you for this video ❤, made me tear up a bit. The game is such a huge part of my life and I'll never forget the years I grinded it
That was a lovely anecdote to read, I hope you're doing well
I love AC rhythm games IIDX and SDVX are my favs fr the vibe you get while playing with crowds behind you with friends beside you will always feel different than any other game in my opinion I’m actually going to my local arcade today
Im happy that I have a friend group community at my local arcade. Its to the point id rather queue with them around than hogging a cab alone. Even though the wait time is 30~45 minutes, its fun hanging around them in a secluded rhyhtm game isle. We have chairs to sit around or if it gets too crowded, we just sit on the floor cheering our friends playing on the cabs. Some of us brings stuff like toys and fumos to show to each other and talk about other hobbies during wait time. Some of us (mostly me) even do assignments on our laptops or tablets. Or we doomscroll and share brainrot memes. Even though the actual queue time is long, but no one is on a rush to play. It feels like we have our own cabs for ourselves. Most of us isnt even highskilled player, so its pretty humbling. Even though theres some gap in skill level between us, we still supports and help everyone through their journey. Even though I got stuck and choke on scores that I want to achieve, it doesnt really matter when I am around my friends. The down side is that, other people get really intimidated to play lul.
bro got me reality check real quick there
reminds me of when i played osu quite often w my friends.
we used to play like mad, and i still have the beatmaps from those years ago. but all of us have moved on now. heck, some of us just drifted away... you'll never know when "see you next time" won't be true.
its 5am i probably should sleep.
that took an unexpectedly sombre turn
sydney trains sound made my neurons activate
Fun fact: the kr community calls 1k play count as 'trash', as in 'I am literal human trash for spending a thousand coins on this game'. 2k play count makes you '2 trash', and so on
Hi, so I am 5 trash. In my ted talk I will
😭😭😭😭
taking about drugs as the first thing is crazy LMAO
great video btw editing is so peak 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
thanks child, glad you enjoyed it
I don’t think I’ve ever resonated with a TH-cam video as much as this one. Excellent work!
thank for putting my video in your playlist lol
i cant help but notice the AA fc pandora re:mas at 3:00 it hurts me
I'm too good
As a dance game player and an aging millennial, I got back into DDR hard when I found out that there was a Round1 at the mall where I lived. I had past experience, but years of neglecting cardio and such made it painful at first to get back in.
I justified it by saying that, "I do nothing but lift weights. I need cardio to balance it out. It'll be fun and a casual adventure down memory lane and I'll lose some weight too. I always wanted to beat MAX 300."
Nope, none of that shit happened, though I could probably beat what used to be the hardest song which now a mid-tier song by year's end, at which point, I'm done. Since the only people who play regularly where I'm at are >16 PFCs and above, I started to get really into it so I wouldn't look like shit next to them. After six months and hundreds of dollars, I just cleared my first 15 and it was one of the really easy ones too. I also didn't lose a single pound and even gained weight since you need calories to stomp on a metal pad. I lost more weight this weekend being sick and eating junk food than I ever did playing the dumb dancing game. My upper body strength has completely stalled (my thighs have visible veins now, but that's probably the high blood pressure that's going to kill me in ten years doing that) and what started as a, "take it easy, enjoy your successes and failures" turned into, "Scream obscenities at Konami if I fail. Belittle myself for only missing one step or getting a AA because everyone else gets AAA on the same stuff. Wow, what a failure! You suck at the boomer metal dance pad game."
Also, recovering alcoholic here, so I just supplanted my desire to smash cans of Steel Reserve and verbally abusing my loved ones with smashing a metal pad and verbally abusing Konami, who genuinely deserves it, so it's definitely progress, not PFC's, for me.
I do go to the arcade more often in recent times but I have only grinded a few songs ao far (I'm around 10k) only when I feel like it. I've seen quite a few people grind out songs and I'm happy for them when they reached the desired goal. I know I'll grow out of this eventually but I think living the moment is also important.
4:51 Sound Voltex players who aren't Near/Noah fans:
nice 幸せになれる隠しコマンドがあるらしい reference ww
Best chart in the game
thank god i live on an island nation that doesnt even get thought about by rhythm game company's
"Because the game only goes so far"
last two minutes hits hard
😔
Waiting to play an arcade game in 2024 is definitely a degenerate thing to do. Like, there are so many other rhythm games that won't steal your time and money
another banger from my goat. i wanted to type more about life and trying to figure out if maimai is a waste of time or the best thing ever but i couldnt do it without sounding schizophrenic.
thank you very much i love the video (as per usual) 🙏
appreciate it
I'm kinda glad that there aren't very many ""hardcore"" arcade rhythm gamers in my area, means that most of the time I don't need to be worried about queues to the rhythm game cabs and can play pretty much til I want to take a break and rest or play something else.
Even on days the arcade is full this applies to an extent due to most visitors not being rhythm gamers. They might try any of the rhythm games (especially maimai and Dancerush are the big draws for many people, particularly kids), but even then the cabs are generally available. And besides, I primarily play 3 rhythm games at the arcade, so I have options for when one is occupied. In fact, that arcade has like 9 different rhythm game titles, though only like 6 I actually play, so even on the off-chance all 3 of my main rhythm games would be occupied I still have options.
I love seeing kids be absolutely flabbergasted by my playing 🤣
I guess right now I’m still in that stage of progressing in Chunithm, and I haven’t reached a “peak” yet.
We do have a local chumai community, and it’s great being in it where we can talk about not only just scores or songs.
And so right now, I’m just looking forward to increasing my rating and collecting more things…
…as well as looking to meet someone up at the arcade after our exams. Good luck to me.
Good luck!
I’ve definitely churned out over a thousand during the months I’ve been playing up until 16.29 rating… and I’ll gladly churn out more
same in chunithm,, I've spent like 500 USD, most achivements and scores are won by luck in my experience.
basically it's literally gambling game, and I'm still learning that when i should quit while I'm ahead
3kliksphilip? In my rhythm game video?!
Beautiful
Men of culture, indeed.
bro's cultured
Damm, this got me rethinking my life. I’m a broke uni student who should really be focusing on my studies and also saving money. The game is fun but I’m in the grindset stage and after S-SSS+’ing all the hard charts, where do I go from there? It also gets really lonely (and money consuming) whenever I’m just playing on my own and it makes me feel like an addicted degen. Parra timezone used to have more people at the maimai but it’s been feeling pretty empty these past few months (they should add a chuni there go i can still get addicted but spend less lol)
"If you wanna play maimai, just buy your own DX cabinet"
Where you pay only $40K, AND YOU CAN KEEP IT BY THE WAY
(seriously though this video was amazing, that ending is so real and relatable)
Wait so true. Or even an adx cab for 4k
@@SaowAngel Just get a separate room for the DX cab if so, those can be dang noisy lol
just play ADX, it's free 😅
@@dreepy2461 or dynamix, where 90% of content is free (as long as you grind em)
HK maimai player here and man yall having 1 or 2 machines per arcade is painful compared to and arcade called game zone in hk which has 16 machines!
5:37 hmm the arcade i go to has 1 maimai cab, buutt a relativaley small communtiy of maimai players in the area. So when I arrive right as timezone opens no one is playing and i could play for at least 2-3 hours before someone arrives, but then i can just to multiplayer, unti like a group arrive. loose-win? (one cab, but no wait)
The editing on this video is so good holy.
thanks my goat, spent a lot of time cooking with this one
i found my self in chunithm one day and since then I can't escape
I enjoy the game and don't really mind the cost it's only 20 philippines pesos for 4 games, but I have to go to a 30-minute walk from my school during launch time that only last 1 hour lol to go to the place.
I wish timezone added more machines so theres less wait
Theres no rhythm cabinets in my country so yay me
Me when i was still fresh on osu, but i dont have PC back then, i always go to internet cafe install osu there and play, basically i was burning money too but i am having my fun playing the game. There's also a time i asked the operator to keep osu so i dont need to install it over and over again everytime im there want to play.
The time comes I have my own PC, but it's too late, I don't have the same feelings as before when i was still new and fresh on the game but it doesn't mean i stopped playing, i still play few maps here and there
For me it different, the community here in my place are mostly are endgame player who mostly rating 14000 to 15000 plus meanwhile me who is a new player feel so out of place to join their circle.Sometime i really felt that i want someone to improve at the game with but at my place mai mai is not that popular i guess
sneaky reference is crazy wtf
who?
😂
0:52 is so real
Apply this to any IRL thing that you would do with your leisure time with the same amount of the time you pour onto maimai or games in general, you will be stuck with all these thought as well, that's when you have think about if THAT thing (be it IRL or non-IRL stuff) is making you had fun or not.
Don plush don plush don plush
i read this in the tune of saitama 2000
appreciate the ddlc music :D
sydney train jumpscare
Next stop town hall
KOKO GEORGE STREET MENTIONED!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHAT THE HELL IS A BAD ARCADE
Hey there, I notice that you punched the cab at 3:15. Please do not do this, it is expensive to replace a maimai monitor, and no one else will be able to play on it if it's broken. Don't be a bogan, cheers mate.
Ok
Me (I waste my money in Parramatta, both from Maimai but also collecting old tech from CEX)
Same
@ Me coming home with god knows how long spent on Maimai (and a random Wii U game)
Wait you're telling me maimai in Sydney is, more expensive, more crowded, more anti social and more mentally draining? That sucks
there's sub communities in other smaller arcades around sydney, that provide a more social experience. although the more expensive part still applies lol
@SaowAngel I could go to any busy arcade around me and no one will dare to touch maimai, probably because everytime I walk in someone is playing re:master
ok I'm trying to figure out what time is peak hour (I'm guessing weekends), as every time i go into koko town hall, i don't wait at all (and i really wanna pair up to save money and get recommended new songs)
@@yukko_parra mostly random, like i've seen 1am being super busy to dead
@@SaowAngel what the-
I thought the trains saying goodnight would be enough incentive to play earlier, guess I'm wrong.
Very good video. I can really related to the struggle of felling like friendships are meaningless. I constantly ask myself, what do I have to do to reach a point where I could have a friend I could talk about anything with, and them with me. It weighs heavily on my mind.
I saw the thumbnail with "-$727" and you know exactly what I was thinking
727!!! WYSI!! WYFSI!!
I can't fluffing take it. I see an image of a random score posted and then I see it, I fluffing see it. "Oh that looks kinda like the Blue Zenith 727 score" it started as. That's funny, that's a cool reference. But I kept going, I'd see a clock with time that showed 7:27, I'd see that I'm on the 7/27 page on my school homework, my last notice to pay my electricity bill is 727$ , I'd notice that it's been 727 days since the last time I touched a woman. And every time I'd burst into an insane, breath deprived laugh staring at the image as the number 727 ran through my head. I'm scared to look at the time when someone asks me what time is it. It's torment, psychological torture, I am being conditioned to laugh maniacally any time I see a 3-digit number which is anywhere close to 727. I can't fluffing live like this... I can't I can't I can't I can't I can't! And don't get me fluffing started on the words! I'll never hear the phrase "when you see it" again without thinking of 727. Someone does pretty cool and respectable score and I can't say anything other than "WYSI." I could watch a man FC hard underweighted map I love and all I would be able to say is "WYSI" and laugh like a fluffing insane person. And the phrase "when you see it" is ruined. I can't live anymore. 727 has destroyed my fluffing life. I want to eject myself from this plane of existence.
ill
1:00 Nah, I'm sure it's cus modern gaming sucks. Not all of them, but that fact is rather apparent: micro transactions, trend-chasing, killing off creativity to meet social quotas...
As someone nearing his mid 20s, working 9-5 like your average person, I would still dump tons of hours into rhythm games and older, classic boomer games like CS or AoE. And if u prefer more solid evidence, Back 4 Blood - the game that was supposed to be a L4D2 successor - has around 3000+ active players at all times, while good ol' L4D2 itself stands at 20.000+.
What's more, if u go to a cyber cafe in Vietnam, you'll often see big groups of friends just playing 1v1s or 5v5s on CS 1.6's Dust2 or Italy. I wanna mention them cus they're the minority that plays these games but wouldn't realistically show up in any kind of data, similar to many rhythm gamers I've seen who prefer to play solo and enjoy their time without socialising.
we got rhythm game math before gta 6 🔥
I see tons of people what grow in a community that are very good at the game and pretty much if you aren't good you can't really talk to them, it's like a social gap? Idk. I play this game twice a week and tbh I'm not even sure if trying to get better at it would help me (cause I was super try hard at osu for a while and that didn't really feel the greatest)
If the hobby is such say 'a hobby' you should try to find the fun in it, as trying harder to get better at it just kills the fun, like education and stuff is the same as well.
To anyone who stumbles upon this I mean no hate or harm, just writing down how I feel and hope to make someone's day better
least addicted maimai player (they're all equally addicted)
KOKO GEORGE STREET PEAK
how do you have a 90% fc on pandora😭😭
I'm too good that's why
i think i am a bit too much of an adict for rhythm games, you can tell because I am one of the 3 people to recreate the 4 gamemodes of osu on scratch, i said 3 because there is no fucking way someones gonna make CTB... right? wait, what? peppy what are you doing? NO PEPPY, NO! GET OUT OF MY HEAD TAIKO TOOK 3 FUCKING YEARS I AM NOT READY FOR THIS.
rl lore accurate.
300 maimai play counts resulted in 50 lbs of bodyweight loss
Isn't this convincing enough?
❤
Queue times were why I never got into maimai, and why I have three mains-if one's busy I can just swap to another.
When you went over how you feel like you have to keep going, I started to think about how the makers of these arcade games like Konami make pachinko machines, and the way I always had this disdain for redemption games, thinking that rhythm games were a lot more worthwhile-I still think that, but I'm now reckoning with how, at the end of the day, all types of arcade games are designed to encourage you to keep putting in that money. It's just that for rhythm games, because it doesn't really matter how well you perform, making the game compelling to play comes from making it fun. Maybe I'm not so different from those kids with balls of tickets...
I know that one day I'm gonna stop playing these games and going to arcades. But I haven't hit my ceiling yet in the games I main, and I'm intent on getting as far as I can before that happens-I want to look back on it and think "fuck yeah, I made it to Rainbow in Chuni, or Imperial in SDVX, or ADV 10 in Pump". I have a talent for this, and I need to see how far I can really take it if I wanna truly walk away from it happy.
The most i spent is 200eur for a quest 2 (for beatsaber)
That's crazy
Real 😔
But also
It's not that deep bruh 🙏🙏😭😭
But also
Real 😔
real
this was an interesting exurb1a video
Hahahha
as a 14 yr old what do I do if I'm interested
just go play the game and have fun theres not much to it
oh there are 2 things that are recommended for maimai
aime card (basically a memory card)
gardening gloves (low friction for slides)
but to get started you don't even need those two, just try it out and see if you like the tappy game.
Impossible...
lollll i play rhythm games for 10 hours a day and im still not addicted 😹
Hello
hello
Haha, he said osu is a rhythm game
Sorry
Saow can you unban me from your server please, I edge to your videos
cope
Burn
2 views 30 seconds ago, fell off
going to retire now
@@SaowAngeli’m going to miss ur voice
@@pepo8363 flushed