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Hey guys, I've been recently feeling like my danmaku is being shackled by some kind of disability.

Like, I know this guy who has cleared every single Extra Stage from just a year and a half of playing, whereas it's been two years since I've been playing and only recently have I managed to clear the game on Normal.

My advancement rate has been of one difficulty level per year: I started from less than scratch around February 2010, spending my first continue against easy Cirno (and it was Cirno because I was one more chump who thought it would be best to play the games in chronological order), on February 2011 I nailed my first 1CC on Easy, and this year on February I did my first 1CC on Normal.

Yet I feel like my progress is just way too slow. I don't know if it's because I really suck that hard at videogames, which is possible because before Touhou I would play everything on Easy because I didn't like losing (and to this day I hate losing at something that isn't Touhou, I feel like you really have to be a cripple to lose at something like a modern FPS). Or it could also be because I'm busy as absolute hell with college and as a result I just have no time to play Touhou.

Whatever it is, I feel like my danmaku has been growing way too slowly and I seriously hate it that I have to be disciplined with my danmaku, grinding difficult spellcards on Imperishable's Spell Practice and keeping track of how many attempts I have to do before capturing a spellcard 10 times, whereas I see other people who apparently have started right off the bat on Normal and it only took them like a couple of months of half-assed gameplay whereas for me it was like 4 months of hard work and perseverance.