Touhou Accomplishment Thread 21: Time to go FULL SHMUP

[Bang Jan]

Timed out Kobito's Thorny Path

List? I ain't got no list! I don't need no list! I don't need to show you my stinking list!

[ARF]

I timed out Reverse Bow "Decree of the Dream Bow of Heaven & Earth" on Lunatic. But that's not all, I also 1cc'd Spelunky HD! Only took me ~200 attempts this time!

[Zengeku]

Oh god ASL why are you playing DDC. I am very displeased by this information.

Maybe you needn't worry. It's not like he's scoring it, it's just him doing survival.

[Karisa]

I can't seem to find my file that has my accomplishment list from last time, but I didn't include any links or formatting in my previous post, so it's simple enough to copy-paste it here. I'm a bit surprised at how long it's getting.

New accomplishments now colored for your convenience! As if anyone other than me bothers reading these accomplishment lists thoroughly.

1: Bombed through repeatedly. Including 13m Lunatic both routes, 11m Jigoku 10m Makai on all lower difficulties, and speedrunning Jigoku route in 7 minutes 20 seconds.
2: Managed to get the MotK scoring record with my first (and only) Lunatic 1cc since this game is so annoying and therefore unpopular. Oh right, I also figured out how to set up auto-fire for one time when I actually tried scoring in this, which is totally a Touhou accomplishment.
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4: 100 million Hard, 91m Normal, 78m Extra, 56m Easy.
5: 600 extend reached. Current record holder of all Easy/Normal/Hard categories, including Mima scores of 77m Easy, 118m Normal, 141m Hard. 1cc in all categories except Lunatic Marisa/Yuka, reached a letter score in all categories except Easy mode and Normal/Lunatic/Extra Yuka. NDNB Easy 1cc. NDNB Lunatic stage 1, 2, 3.

6: 200m Normal, 300m Extra, 200m Lunatic, 100m Easy. NDNB Extra. NDNB Easy 1cc. 2DNB Normal. NDNB Lunatic stage 1, 2, 3.
7. 1.4b Normal, 1.27b Easy. 1b all difficulties. NDNBNBB Ran battle. 1DNBNBB Normal. Lunatic no-focus 1cc. Phantasm 91fps clear. NDNBNBB Lunatic stage 1, 2, 3, 5. All spells captured.
8: 3.7b Lunatic (Reimu/Yukari), 2.6b Normal (Reimu/Yukari), 2.5b Easy (Youmu solo), 2.3b Easy (Reimu solo). Lunatic no-focus 1cc. Perfect (NDNB all spells captured) Lunatic stage 1, 2, 3. All spells captured except some Last Words that I never bothered with.

10: 1.47b Easy ReimuA, 952m Extra ReimuA. 1.5b Hard ReimuB, 1.7b Lunatic MarisaB. No-death Hard with ReimuA, no-death Lunatic with MarisaB. Lunatic 1 billion 3/6. NDNB Suwako battle. 2DNB Normal. NDNB Lunatic stage 1, 2, 3, 5.
11: 866m Normal, 1.99b Lunatic, 967m Extra, 1b Hard, 500m Easy (all with ReimuA). 3DNB Normal. NDNB Koishi battle. NDNB Lunatic stage 1, 2, 3.
12: 1.2b Normal, 500m Extra. NDNB Extra. 1DNBNUFO Normal. Played for over 320 hours (if that's somehow an accomplishment).
12.8: Nothing really worth noting compared to the rest of my list. A1 Lunatic 1cc and Extra clear, I guess. And gold medals of most Easy spells.
13: 1DNBNT Hard. Reached 8 lives outside of stage practice (20 extend without dying). 700m Easy, 1.3m Normal. Easy NBNTNF 91fps Marisa(fastest character) 1cc. Reached 7.4b with an infinite trance cheat and the PIV cap removed (not as trivial as it may sound). NDNBNT Lunatic stage 1, 2, 3 in a single run. All spells captured.

14: Held Royalflare records for the majority of Easy categories for most (if not all) of the time in the two weeks so far, including having all 6 at once for a few days. I was the first as far as I know to reach both 700m and 800m on Easy with non-SakuyaB characters, and the second to reach 1 billion with SakuyaB. 700m Easy 6/6. Reached the Easy PIV cap with SakuyaB in stage 3. I've also reached 8 lives by Raiko in Extra.

I need to play DDC on more than just Easy and Extra. Or play other games than just one lately, that too. It gets complicated now that college has started again.

On the topic of accomplishments that only indirectly relate to playing the games, well, I've learned to stream, expanded on Chirpy's cheat tables (particularly, finding a way to practice GFW stages), helped write the wiki's DDC gameplay article, kept MotK's high scores not-quite-officially updated for 5-7 months now (depending on the particular game), and created a surprisingly active Touhou gameplay IRC channel. I guess I've been pretty active.

[Seppo Hovi]

I guess for community related accomplishments, holding the STG thread challenges for /jp/, advertising STGrillz to partially combine the MotK and /jp/ communities among one site and maintaining the IRC channel for it and general Touhou gameplay (#kusoplay @ irc.rizon.net) would be something.

They don't really feel like achievements, though, considering that they're mostly about being in touch with other people and therefore belong to not only me but all of the guys that took part in watching/streaming/joining the channel. Then again, I guess that's where the community part of it comes in. I don't know, I'm an unsocial jerk.

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Blue color doesn't feel very fitting on a blue background. Doesn't burn my eyes either, so there's that.

[chum]

9:35 in smurfs game boy

[Sakurei]

I have two shitty IN easy scores. go me.

sorry I have no list to speak off.

[Zil]

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[chum]

I got 4 LNB back to back on my stream. I think I reset at the start of MoF stage 1, but otherwise they were all first tries!

EoSD ReimuA: 8 misses
EoSD MarisaB: 8 misses (both captured Meister  )
MoF ReimuB: 7 misses (NMNB stage 3 & Aya! But some very stupid stage portion deaths)
PCB ReimuB: 4 misses, 3 unintentional border breaks (let's count it as 7 misses)

I got pretty close to an UFO LNB after PCB, but game overed to Superhuman like an idiot... still, the other four runs made me happy.

I don't know if I wanna LNB any other games though. Maybe at some point, but I got all the ones I wanted to do (except for UFO) covered.

[Hainiryuun]

Finally got my MoF Hard 1CC. I hate stage 6 so much.

Youtube

[Waahst]

Dude chum why are you so :V

Umm... I have a UFO route I think I can pull off, finally. Not really an achievement until I actually do it though.

Edit: yolorun complete, only 1.6b though;;;

[Hainiryuun]

Lets add an MoF Extra Clear as well.

Youtube

Probably the easiest extra I've done so far, imo.

[Mino ☆]

Touhou 14: Double Dealing Character Lunatic No Bomb 1cc

Hell yeah!

[Zengeku]

'twas a cozy watch my boy. Good job, now join me among the B-type playing master race. 

[Waahst]

With a legit shottype? No waaay. That level of skill is frightening.

[Zarakava]

'twas a cozy watch my boy. Good job, now join me among the B-type playing master race. 

Always B... forever and eternal.

Reimu B Master Race - All Games (Well, except for the few where Reimu B is just Reimu or UFO with Reimu A...)

[chum]

UFO LNB. the random numbers were really out to get me this run, I can't believe I captured such a bullshit Good Omen.

[ARF]

Seems like my spelunky training payed off! 1 billion in DDC extra!

Also congrats on you guyses LNB's! Raising the standard!

[Mino ☆]

Good job guys!

[Zil]

Finally got 400mil in PoFV Lunatic: http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=30112

Congrats everyone on being awesome!

[chum]

Finally got 400mil in PoFV Lunatic: http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=30112

Amazing! Huge congrats.

[Zarakava]

Well, I have 2 mediocre accomplishments today.

First was clearing my first Last Word... "Blind Nightbird" though I feel that's one of the easier ones (well, easiest of the 4 I have)

Second was capping all spells on easy and normal for DDC

Normal "Shining Needle Sword" was a bitch. Got it on my 69th try...

[RNG]

I have two shitty IN easy scores. go me.

sorry I have no list to speak off.

lmao even zengeku decided to stop shitting on himself so much, your turn to stop the pity party

Congrats to Mino on the LNB. I think it'll take me a while to reach that but I'll try my best.
Where would you put it in terms of LNB difficulty? Is it worse than UFO?

[BT]

Do SakuyaB.

Go 1.5bil.

Go 500mil.

lmao even zengeku decided to stop shitting on himself so much, your turn to stop the pity party

qew eff tee

[Sakurei]

lmao even zengeku decided to stop shitting on himself so much, your turn to stop the pity party

"lmao", what I do and how I handle my achievements is none of your goddamn concern.

[Byronyello]

"lmao", what I do and how I handle my achievements is none of your goddamn concern.

To be fair, the amount of self-deprecation dished out over the years by, quite frankly, excellent players has gotten to a ridiculous point. Come back when you can't even get one single lunatic 1cc, yeah? (And even then, the average player can't 1cc normal, so hey, even I'm doing it.)

[chum]

"lmao", what I do and how I handle my achievements is none of your goddamn concern.

Making a post saying you have two shitty scores and no list whatsoever to share can... easily be deemed as simply attention seeking for no reason. I'm not saying that's what you meant to do, but it can be interpreted that way. Most other people use the thread either to post about something they did or to congratulate someone else

[Zengeku]

I feel I've already posted things to similar effect but I feel this bears repeating. 700 words, i don't know why I do this so much. Well read up everybody and don't you dare tl;dr me you assholes. If you don't shit on yourself and/or your accomplishments, feel free to skip.

The way I see it now is that if good players or good players in denial go around shitting on their accomplishments, they are achieving nothing but indirectly shitting on anyone who isn't as capable at the activity in question as well as refusing to acknowledge themselves for the skills that they've gained.

I don't see how the fuck it's not super depressing to spend 3-4 years or more of your life's spare time playing STG games if you're not even going to acknowledge that you are getting skilled at them. People like me, I can pretty much fire up a Mountain of Faith Lunatic credit and expect to clear it pretty consistently and that's without bombs. However, if i'm in bad practice i might game over or die more than I'd like to in it. Does this mean I'm suddenly a bad player? Hell no it doesn't. There is nothing in the world that requires skills that you can expect to do well everytime. I've been a part of this horrible habit for about a year now. I took on the mindset in hopes that it would help me avoid letting successes get to my head and such but I've come to realize that it's a hell of a lot better to consider yourself 'fucking awesome' than 'fucking garbage' and I've got NO FUCKING CLUE why that was even something that needed realizing in the first place but that's apparently something people still need to wake up and understand.

If that isn't understandable enough then lets offer up a Self-loathing-English dictionary right here:
I died 3 times in EoSD LNB, i'm so shit = I failed to reach my extremely demanding goals hence I'm terrible and anyone who can't even LNB EoSD is even more terrible and if there are any poor souls out there who can't clear the game on Lunatic they should get themselves fucking euthanized.

Exaggerated to better bring across the point sure but that's really what it is. You might think that it's your own business how you refer to your accomplishments but please consider that every time you shit on your 'bad' performance you indirectly shit even harder on everyone else who can't match you in terms of performance. So try not to do it. It's bad for everyone, including yourself.

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And I've got more. We need to stop considering low-miss LNB's the bloody standard around here alright? And we need to stop using the retarded excuse that 'people who are worse than me just don't play' because first of all, you have no idea how much effort any given person puts into playing shmups nor does it even matter. I've been encountering plenty of japanese (language) students over this week and their japanese is non-existent compared to mine. Sure they haven't been studying it for long but that still doesn't change the fact that I'm a lot better than them at it. The amount of effort you put into it has nothing to say, it's all about how well you speak it. If me and one of those guys were stuck in Japan, I would be the one having the easier time because i can actually say things in the language and read things. They however, can't. Oh but it's just because they haven't even studied it too much. Sure, now you try to explain to me how that is relevant.

It's the same thing with shmups. If a certain unmentionable manages to clear UFO Lunatic in less than 10 hours and I had played it over 100 hours before I actually cleared it, does this mean that the unmentionable is better than me? Hell no, it means that he's perhabs faster at learning than me but until he's actually surpassed my level of skill at the game, he is not better.

Fuck this is becoming a wall. But I feel like I really have to explain elementary things here to maybe hopefully sometime in the future make holders of WR scores, high tier LNB performances and other folks to stop calling themselves bad when the indisputable fact is that they are actually quite skilled and they should be happy about being as skilled as they are.

[chum]

Self-deprecation is good in a way, we don't want the community to turn into a full-time circlejerk. Sincerity is one keyword here. If someone really thinks they're skilled, they are well within their right to think that, same if someone thinks they are shit. The other keyword is tact, despite if you think you are a really awesome player, if you go around bragging too much that leaves a bad impression. Of course, self-deprecation can do the same. I always found it odd when people did that with a seemingly fabricated attitude.

We're all human and temporary self-deprecation is completely natural if you are in the midst of failure. I wouldn't say that necessarily holds any lesser-skilled player in a negative light. Everyone has different standards and levels of play.

[Seppo Hovi]

We all suck at these games, however, it doesn't help to say it over and over again. Once you know that you're bad, you need to look forward and practice to become better instead of whining on forums/IRC about it. I used to do it myself, so I have some first-hand experience in the matter.

End of discussion. Go back to speaking about achievements.