December 12th, 2025 - Arcaea, maimai DX PRiSM PLUS, IIDX 33, DDR WORLD, Taiko no Tatsujin
"another arcade day??" yesyes, but this is for a mildly understandable reason!! yesterday finally marked the day that i finished the last of my finals and was officially FREE from university for the year!!! ...well, with one minor asterisk -- that being today was the last day to pick up the lock i still had on my rented locker back there, before it would be REPOSSESSED and kept locked away FOREVER!!!! i couldn't let that happen... i bought that lock with my own money!!! and it just looked cool damnit!!!
determined to keep it but also feeling lazy now that my classes were over, i opted to grab the 11 AM train to campus to commence what would become a special sesh that would last the whole day... buuuut getting to the arcade is gonna take a while, so here's some arcaea i played on the train in the meantime... somehow i did this??? qualia -ideaesthesia- (BYD-9+, MAX-18 -> MAX-5)??? literally How
some time later i got through everything, which i'll skip because it's kinda boring... but i eventually did get to the arcade and all, though not before seeing a friend play arcaea and . i guess wanting to join instead of actually going into the arcade and playing??? idk either, though i think i was finishing a drink that i didn't want to bring into the arcade... as one might expect though, it kinda sucked #tbh and i only got one score out of it, though it was quite a funny occasion :]
but after all was said and done, i stepped into the arcade and ran straight to the arcade to play me some mai!! mai!! deluxe!!!!!! (prism plus) . didn't really know anyone around when i got there, but i met some other solo players and we just gamed miscellaneous for the time being... turns out this solo player had some rather good picks, because i got a real good amount of rating out of this session, sightread FC'ing Expert 12s like Mare Maris and Drivessover, then i took to 12+s with SSS ranks on MYTH Re : LEASE, Atlas Rush, and conflict, mixing in a sightread SS on Mikazuki Step 2023 [Master Lv.13] and a big one on AMAZING MIGHTYYYY!!!! [Expert Lv.13+]!!!
rating-wise this was an incredible session, i jumped from 13341 to 13503 near-instantly!!! but alas, i already got my maimai fix earlier this week, and there was something else i needed to grind... so before i actually get to that, here's some iidx!!! why? no reason other than training my timing ability, but it was fun and cool an awesome... that Tsuki to milk [SPA-11] AA was pretty damn cool, plus i'm inching closer to the MAX- on OOO [SPA-10] (though i mostly only played it to unlock OOO LEGGENDARIA!!!! yippee!!!!)
alright NOW it's time for the moment you've all been waiting for... the game i Actually came here to play was none other than... DDR!!! if you saw my last post, you probably saw how the session was basically cut short by the ride my friend gave me back home + my exhaustion from the previous maimai and sdvx sets... but today was the day i'd redeem myself and get on that DDR grind for the rest of the night... for me... for my Solstice Around The World team... for my fans (that's you reading this, thank you!!)...!
...and already we're starting off strong with a 2nd-stage PFC on Urban Life (ESP-15, 36p) as 15 PFC #45!!! that's a toughie too wtf, jumped and fist pumped as soon as i got it... and yet the session continues!!! beat a DDR semi-rival by 1p on O JIYA [ESP-13] (funny), finally Flare EX'd Programmed Universe [CSP-16]...
...and then began the SATW (solstice around the world) grind . didn't want to repeat the mistake from yester-yesterday's session of playing too much before grinding the songs, so i got to them in only 2 sets this time (yippee!!!), and... worked out pretty swell!! big ups compared to last sesh, but i still felt i could do better... grinding wouldn't help much though (and i didn't wanna bore ddr friends with the same pick over and over), so i played other charts and got other neat scores like this 3g Flare EX on Snow Garland Fairy [ESP-17], a MASSIVE +115k upscore on DeltaMAX [CSP-17] (wtf), and a slight PFC upscore on O JIYA (ESP-13, 25p -> 19p)
all those scores led up to an attempt on the other SATW song i had to play... Wadatsumi!!! wasn't expecting much on this one, just dove right in to test the waters, but i came out of it on my first try with a SOLID 993k score out of nowhere... as 18 AAA #2!!! ...admittedly, i was hoping for under 100 perfects, something like perhaps a Flare EX clear... but even so, this was Solid AF and would be acceptable by the SATW team's standards... though the thought of being able to do better lingered in my head regardless. thus, i left to get a small meal to clear my head and replenish my energy.
came back from the meal and gave it another shot, but again, the same problem . was in the zone, went for a long lunch to get back into the zone, ended up falling out of the zone and feeling super heavy compared to my initial play . i should def know the pattern by now, but i was so sure it was just the final push i needed this time... wellll it worked in a few ways though, because my first (and only) set back allowed me to close out STEP MACHINE (ESP-14, 40p) as 14 PFC #45, and (as anticipated) Sector (ESP-16, 37p) as 16 PFC #9!!! (nice) (3 EX worse than the 998,980 score though, so.... not nice) (also gave wadatsumi another try for extra stage but ate shit)
that about sums it up for scores today... in retrospect, not a bad sesh at all!! records i set were pretty good for my team, and the pressure/averages i needed to singlehandedly bring them up were straight up impossible, plus we still had a few days left so i just needed to wait and see if anyone else would pull through... (kaps from the future here, they did thankfully) . thus, i leave this session off with this funky little IN THE ZONE score i got on taiko in between DDR sets to commemorate the announcement of ACE COMBAT 8 yesterday... god bless