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>>17465369
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>>17465412
I apologize for being so daft and for going about things the wrong way. It just hurts me whenever I hit a wall because I can't get past a stage with proper resource retainment. I feel like it's been the cause of everything I gave up on, like trying to beat DDC with Sakuya-B (I couldn't get a single run for Stage 5 or 6 where I lost 5 lives or left without bombing due to Sakuya-B's horrible DPS) or trying to beat Mamizou (I could get to the last spellcard but by that point I lost so much power that Youmu couldn't even touch Mamizou with her sword slash meaning I had to try the whole thing unfocused with horrible DPS), and though I haven't given up on PCB I'm having DPS trouble there as well because of my insistence on using Reimu. It really hurts me inside whenever I decide to give up on something and I feel giving up on those multiple things mentioned above have made me quicker to lose willpower, so I've been trying to make up for it by just practicing a ton past the point of frustration. I felt I was progressing really well in 2016, managed to get two 1ccs with two different shottypes on every game but DDC and LoLK, and since then I've had basically no progress. I got a couple Extra clears and one Hard clear but they all took me much longer than I felt was reasonable, and I don't think I'm ever going to become actually good at the rate I'm going. And I WANT to be skilled at Touhou, I don't want to be the kind of scrub who only plays for survival that talentposters shitpost about. I always feel like I'm wasting my time by not doing anything productive, and while playing video games isn't "productive" on a grand scale if I'm getting better than I feel like I'm at least using my entertainment time for something better than shitposting on an Indonesian opera message board. Lately I haven't even been doing that. I'll try doing just one or two practice runs at a time per day but it doesn't feel like pacing things out like that has helped me either. I'm just stuck, and I'm starting to feel like the talentposters are right and I'll never have a LNB or break two billion points in UFO or any other "tough achievement" in the series.

I really want to upload a replay of Ran to get advice but I can't get one that lets me capture Tenko, and I'm not uploading a replay where I can't capture Tenko. Why the hell can't I capture Tenko? I know exactly how to do it, I've done it before, but ever since anon told me I shouldn't play Extra if I can't capture Tenko I have not done it once since. I keep fucking up Ran's first spellcard now too, something I used to not do, it's like Ran is getting close to me and shooting off the cloud of bullets so close that it ruins the rhythm.

>>16234536
And then I had to reset the run with that screenshot because I died seven times to the Stage 2 boss. I apologize for bragging, it made me too prideful and I played poorly as a result. I'm not going to get a 1cc for at least three months.

>>15919867
I'm very sorry to hear that.