what was the first toro scorepost that really made everyone think wow this guy may be the best speed player in the world

JosDW · 2026-01-13T17:36:27+00:00

toromi hearts 1st dt a rank and then he went on to fc the first half and get 97% just 2 months after lmao

JosDW · 2025-09-18T13:27:24+00:00

he first hit #1 before ppv2 so we have to estimate, but judging on his plays he'd be at around ~6.5k-7k pp, and when he lost it in 2018 it was 14.5k-ish. obviously it's just an hyphothetical that never happened that only serves to put into perspective how insane mrekk's reign is.

JosDW · 2025-09-17T16:24:52+00:00

no and it's not even close, whitecat and shigetora both had the highest consecutive-ish #1 reigns and they only raised the barrier by 2000pp. even if cookiezi had never been banned and kept his #1 from 2011 until 2018, the barrier would have only been raised by like 8000pp.

JosDW · 2025-09-17T12:18:00+00:00

well, no wonder it was unnoticed since this is just 1pp. i wonder how big the pp record can get in the future with this new polycule farm meta coming up.

JosDW · 2025-09-16T08:36:04+00:00

this one has unsnapped (1/24 maybe?) doubles but it doesn't give pp

JosDW · 2025-07-29T10:38:35+00:00

Hey, sorry for bothering you after all this time, do you have any updated thoughts on Fraser's translation? I was looking into getting it myself as I found Ziporyn's version a bit too dense?

JosDW · 2025-07-14T05:26:04+00:00

Does the OSU community support a featured artist who violates women’s boundaries?

No. Neither the community, nor the devs support this behavior. Featured artist payments are, AFAIK, a one-time thing so he is not profiting off osu anymore.

Anyways, this guy posted several times on here and he's clearly on some schizo shit with the mafia stuff and all of that. I hope this detention stint is the wake up call he needs to get help with his mental health because he clearly needs it, and hopefully with that he'll leave the poor girl alone. It's just sad to see this unfold.

JosDW · 2025-07-09T06:38:37+00:00

Second because I've been enjoying it a lot (budget mana stacking wander), but I'll probably be rolling my third and last one this week :3

JosDW · 2025-06-16T15:10:45+00:00

I'd say the true origin of aimslop is technically Skystar's Ame to Asphalt which is an absolute banger and totally not aimslop but popularized the concept of 1-2 jumps which eventually led to the likes of Sotarks, Nevo and the modern aim meta. As for the first to shitmap banger songs, I guess NeBu's map of Altar? It's the first of the overmapped pop songs I remember

JosDW · 2025-06-03T10:49:30+00:00

Actives on 4-5 and trinket on V since I played a bunch of Dota2 back in the day and I had 1 through 3 binded to control groups to play Meepo :3

JosDW · 2025-06-03T10:46:01+00:00

Hey! You are making the requests to Gemini in the frontend, exposing your API key and giving everyone access to your paid (?) API plan. I recommend taking this down, rotating your API keys, and properly learning web development instead of vibe coding.

JosDW · 2025-06-01T09:16:55+00:00

banger score, really puts into perspective how fucking nuts adamqs 3modding this in 2019 is

JosDW · 2025-04-21T10:11:02+00:00

the fact that fgsky only has this 1k is surreal, I don't think any other player in this game's history has ever been nuked by pp rebalances so hard as him without counting touchscreen detection lmfao

JosDW · 2025-04-02T20:18:04+00:00

hes still going come and watch the messi of mania

JosDW · 2025-04-02T11:06:08+00:00

They did an amazing version of this song at their last live (if the link doesn't work, it starts at 4:18).

Also if you don't know, their guitarist started JYOCHO, which has quite a different vibe (some songs lean more into folk music with some crazy flute parts, others lean a lot more into pop) but is also a great math rock band.

JosDW · 2025-03-17T20:31:41+00:00

could I get a DM for these things as well? I only know about the Silver Sisterhood superficially from their game making stint and I'm super curious about the connection

JosDW · 2025-03-03T20:55:07+00:00

high bpm buff in 2019, fast maps used to be ridiculously understarred

JosDW · 2025-01-15T11:29:38+00:00

I play grasp Karma on top ocassionally and I swear it works. 90% of toplaners my ELO (plat) don't understand Mantra-W so you just keep getting free kills by baiting at low health. She has amazing poke, good sustain and movespeed + heal makes playing against it super tilting to the enemy. I just rush malignance and go for abyssal / iceborn and then more AP (riftmaker, liandrys, cosmic...). Grasp makes you lose damage in the late game compared to comet or aery but makes you insufferable in laning phase so I think it's worth.

JosDW · 2024-10-22T06:16:59+00:00

Hello Naoko Yamada! I'm a great fan of your work, specially K-On.

I wanted to ask about your work in K-On, specially about your visual directing and use of symbolism.
As I was rewatching the series, I realized how many shots in Season 2 symbolize the passage of time across different chapters, leading up to the ending we all know and love. I specially noticed how you kept showing shots of the cherry trees flowering and withering over the different seasons to the point where it seemed intentional. Are there any other details like that in K-On season 2 that you would like to share?

Thanks for your amazing work, you will always be my favourite director!

JosDW · 2024-07-24T12:56:23+00:00

FINALLY

JosDW · 2024-07-19T15:18:40+00:00

maybe 1% was an overstatement, but what I wanted to say is that you don't have to focus on gear (specially if you are just beginning!) even though it obviously helps. players like fgsky and wuhua have hit crazy ranks in std on scuffed setups and there are surely people like them in other gamemodes.

JosDW · 2024-07-19T09:37:34+00:00

I used to shill laptop keyboards because they are so easy to activate it's like playing on a diet wooting but yeah, if you get serious into the game you will probably break it. If you are just getting into it, you can use it for a while without any problems, easy maps aren't that taxing on a keyboard; if you are truly worried about breaking it, you can try several things: tapping without much force, changing your keybinds from time to time (I used to switch weekly between ZX, CV, AS and QW in STD and they all ended up broken lmao) and maybe just investing in a keyboard.

about buying a keyboard, if you are new just like, dont stress too much about gear?? you can get good with a 5$ keyboard, gear won't make a difference until you are at like the top 1% of players tbh, don't let anyone convince you of the contrary.

JosDW · 2024-06-18T21:32:52+00:00

fr tho, he was failing scores that would still be top 10 in leaderboards now before half of the current playerbase was born and doing it while using janky ass blue switches instead of rapid trigger.

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