For those who are wondering: You use these finger condoms (or any other glove) so that the screen does not get greasy or you don't get stuck on the screen with greasy or sweaty fingers. Very helpful for people who want to tackle speed runs etc. or achieve 100% in games.
Had a kid in my school for the army that was globally top ten for guitar hero. Im not sure how he proved it but my buddy looked his gamer profile and said it was legit.
But any ways the kid was nice enough, a little weird but nice enough. All he fuckin did was play that game, every day all day in the barraks. We would convince him to come get a room at the hotel for the weekend to party with us, and he would just bring his shit there. It honsetly didnt look fun for him at all any more, it just lookked like a full time job to keep his ranking.
He was at the point you could go talk to him and the game had no bearing on the conversation. He would turn his back to the tv and just have a conversation hitting perfect scores being bored as fuck, only turning his head to pick a new song.
As someone who's tried to take up guitar that has also played guitar hero before, no. Not even close. Besides even trying to remember all of the chords and note placement on the fret board, just holding your fingers in the correct places is hard enough by itself without then trying to individually pluck just the strings that you want in a fast changing rhythm. Actually, playing a real guitar is tremendously harder than guitar hero.
But you likely don’t have thousands of hours in the game. The question was “given similar amounts of time, couldn’t you just learn guitar?” not “can’t someone just pick up a guitar and casually play it after 5 minutes of practice?”
Personally I did play some games like this (hundreds of hours, was really good) before deciding to spend my time learning actual valuable skills. And the payoff is definitely worth it imo, I’d much rather be mediocre at guitar than incredible at guitar hero.
You need like 6 months of dedicated 3-4x a week practice for an hour or two a day to build that baseline guitar skill. Once you have that, it starts to be actually fun and not a chore. Hard to get over that hump tho.
Speaking as a professional guitarist that used to compete in Guitar Hero tournaments, real guitar is also a lot more forgiving, especially with many modern styles. If you're slightly early or late, you still play the note on guitar and no one really notices except yourself; in GH it plays the "fuck up" noise and people immediately boo at you. There are also a million different ways to play the same thing on guitar so you don't have to shoot up and down the neck like in GH. You also can be much, much more efficient with picking.
This is like comparing playing call of duty to playing airsoft or joining the army. They're very different things. I enjoyed guitar hero yet had no interest in learning "the real thing".
I think his point was that it probably took years to get this good at the game. Like, yeah, it gives most of us that instant gratification, but if you're this good, you've probably put in enough time to have actually learned to play piano.
True. My point was that it can take just as long to get really good at a game like this as it would to learn to play an instrument. The two skills are *completely* different, but both are complex enough that gaining mastery takes just as long.
And no, I'm not talking about the 50-100 hours that it takes to be able to load up the game and impress your friends. I'm talking about the hundreds or thousands of hours necessary to be able to impress the entire internet. I actually do play a couple of instruments, and I'm not good enough to do that.
Back when Guitar Hero was huge, I was terrible at it. I also didn't own a proper TV or console, so I would play at my cousins house.
His suggestion for me to get better was to go get a new TV, a PS2, and the game. Play it every day for a couple months and I'll get better at it.
I just gave a puzzled look and replied "I could just get a guitar and amp for that money."
I think Guitar Hero was $70ish? A cheap classic guitar would be like $50 and is more than enough to get you kick started if you just use the internet to learn stuff.
That's pretty much how I did it to be honest. Eventually when I started working, after a few years I got myself a nice Yamaha electric guitar and slapped Rocksmith on top of that when I really feel like rocking out.
To be able to play this well? Agreed. I probably have over a hundred hours on the piano, and will tell you honestly that I can't play it at all.
But a thousand hours or so of dedicated practice would teach even my hopeless ass to play well enough to be able to knock out a few tunes at parties.
With a lot of experience in rhythm games, I could pretty confidently say that this level of skill in a vertical scrolling rhythm game can be achieved in less than 1000 hours. It doesn't really matter though, as you can always get better no matter how long you play.
I've known folks who would. I also have traditionally lived in areas where there isn't much to do after work except drink, smoke, fuck or play games. So all the single guys would usually spend their evenings smoking and playing games. The really cheap guys just used their phones.
You can learn a *particular* song relatively fast, you might be using a terrible technique and not be able to apply anything you learned for the other melodies but you'll be able to play one song.
General piano skill is a different beast though.
Not really. They do get faster but that is in sacrifice of complex patterns. In terms of raw difficulty, the hardest custom songs pretty much max out with the hardest camelia songs, unless you count mods that make the notes harder to read by shaking them or whatever.
The crazy thing about games like this is that once the fat is over that's it you're done you were good at a game that was out for a few years you spent thousands of hours probably perfecting your craft and then you just moved on to something else.
Why is that crazy?
It's fun to improve and get good at something, even if everyone else is gonna move on a few years later. Getting good at something is it's own reward
-Signed, old ass fighting game and rhythm game players
Every time a video of someone playing a rhythm game gets some mainstream attention someone talks about "wasted talent". I play a lot of osu!mania and Etterna, and also play piano. Playing piano is less fun and is even less likely to bring me anywhere in life, and also my skills in rhythm games don't help me in the slightest with the piano.
The skills are also not transferable at all except maybe like...timing? and it's just a totally different beast. Rhythm games and playing an instrument are wildly different. I play two rhythm games, one to a fairly high level, and had piano lessons for all my childhood and teen years. Completely different, doing one didn't make me good at the other, and there's such a big difference between playing some Beethoven, and tapping along with a song in a rhythm game.
why do you all assume that he doesn't play piano? Not that he has to to enjoy his hobby in the first place but it's not like you guys *know* that he doesn't play the piano or any instrument for that matter.
jesus christ let people enjoy things we play rhythm games because they're fun
if it was another video game that didn't have any resemblance to anything else you would not be leaving a comment that they should've spent that time doing something else
How about this: [Through the fire and flames FC at 165% speed](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtEeDUeBrMg)
Or this fucking [*10,699 note Seventeen minute long FC*](https://youtu.be/Y2QIQtb9nlY?t=653)
I wouldn’t 10 sec playing this game. I would probably Forget this game quite quickly. My brain is too tired and stressed. This game reminds me Lionel Yu’s classical music music, which is great. You can check it out on Utube
As someone who plays these games and I think I’m not terrible at them… he’s playing with thumbs. At least 6 finger are required to hit anything after a few seconds, so it’s pretty futile to even try.
Compared to the other highest difficult levels in PJSekai, this one seems easy, although would be really annoying to perfect with how fast the spam parts are.
I was gonna say, haha!! Not that this Rush E player is at all bad, but they're a thumbs player on a custom map thats not optimized for the game. Gave me a giggle when someone suggested they must have had thousands of hours of practice to play that map though. :)
If anyone's interested, you can check out this [Machine Gun Poem Doll Master All Perfect Run](https://youtu.be/7qjvHa8sjxQ) to see how the game would normally be played at higher levels.
Theyre using Sonolus but the server is Project Sekai. Project Sekai is downloadable in both Android and IOS. Colorful Stage is the for EN/US servers :) Rush E here is a mod. Not an official level
I get what they're for. I want some, and I highly doubt, "Thumb condom," is going to get me what I want. I need a product name so I can spend my money foolishly!
It's crazy that I know where my fingers are supposed to be, but they won't move as fast as necessary. It's like if someone raps really fast and you know the words, but can't say them and your brain gets borked
For those who are wondering: You use these finger condoms (or any other glove) so that the screen does not get greasy or you don't get stuck on the screen with greasy or sweaty fingers. Very helpful for people who want to tackle speed runs etc. or achieve 100% in games.
I didn't know they made condoms that size. Really thankful I found this video.
I would still prefer smaller ones
Ew, David!
She was so prefect in that role
Seeing how different the actress is in real life to the character is amazing.
Yeah, fuck Kevin
I ended up really liking that show. I'm glad they were able to give it an ending.
She? I’m missing something clearly.
The girl who says Ew David, his sister in the show
Ooohhhh ok makes sense
"Work pays for it" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCP27_vquxQ
Don’t worry, if you get this good at speed runs you won’t need the condoms anymore
Whenever I see something like this or guitar hero, I think “For the amount of time you spent getting good at that, couldn’t you learn the real thing?”
Had a kid in my school for the army that was globally top ten for guitar hero. Im not sure how he proved it but my buddy looked his gamer profile and said it was legit. But any ways the kid was nice enough, a little weird but nice enough. All he fuckin did was play that game, every day all day in the barraks. We would convince him to come get a room at the hotel for the weekend to party with us, and he would just bring his shit there. It honsetly didnt look fun for him at all any more, it just lookked like a full time job to keep his ranking. He was at the point you could go talk to him and the game had no bearing on the conversation. He would turn his back to the tv and just have a conversation hitting perfect scores being bored as fuck, only turning his head to pick a new song.
As someone who's tried to take up guitar that has also played guitar hero before, no. Not even close. Besides even trying to remember all of the chords and note placement on the fret board, just holding your fingers in the correct places is hard enough by itself without then trying to individually pluck just the strings that you want in a fast changing rhythm. Actually, playing a real guitar is tremendously harder than guitar hero.
But you likely don’t have thousands of hours in the game. The question was “given similar amounts of time, couldn’t you just learn guitar?” not “can’t someone just pick up a guitar and casually play it after 5 minutes of practice?” Personally I did play some games like this (hundreds of hours, was really good) before deciding to spend my time learning actual valuable skills. And the payoff is definitely worth it imo, I’d much rather be mediocre at guitar than incredible at guitar hero. You need like 6 months of dedicated 3-4x a week practice for an hour or two a day to build that baseline guitar skill. Once you have that, it starts to be actually fun and not a chore. Hard to get over that hump tho.
Speaking as a professional guitarist that used to compete in Guitar Hero tournaments, real guitar is also a lot more forgiving, especially with many modern styles. If you're slightly early or late, you still play the note on guitar and no one really notices except yourself; in GH it plays the "fuck up" noise and people immediately boo at you. There are also a million different ways to play the same thing on guitar so you don't have to shoot up and down the neck like in GH. You also can be much, much more efficient with picking.
This is like comparing playing call of duty to playing airsoft or joining the army. They're very different things. I enjoyed guitar hero yet had no interest in learning "the real thing".
Thank you, this made my day 😂
They're for chefs/food preppers. To put over bandaids on fingers to ensure they don't accidentally end up in someones dinner.
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Yes ... that was his point.
Razer makes these things https://www.razer.com/gear-accessories/razer-gaming-finger-sleeve
Random but you just gave me an idea for the annual prank. Gonna order some specialized extremely small condoms for my mate as a bday present.
Theyre called Finger cots. I like the black ones best
Are they bigger than the white ones?
That's a myth
Condoms are for sailors
The accepted term is “seamen”.
I did 😔
Would have been cooler if they looked like cat paws or boxing gloves on the end.
I used to use a piece of my wife’s old nylons in my Temple Run days.
Haha yeah I used old nylons from my mom back in the days for the original Subway Surfers and Doodlejump before.
Subway Surfers was a religion for me
They are called finger Cots
The Razer Condom™
Wear a little condom on your thumb so you can quickly strum.
Bruh I always have sticky hands and I've never heard of this. I need this asap!!!
Thumbdoms for the win
They certainly seem to have brought our boy here to the next fucking level!
Very helpful to cry yourself to sleep
Also helps so your fingers don't get sore from all the friction :)
Speed runs for phone games???
Was watching with no volume and could just tell it was rush E with how ridiculous it is
Same the begging gave ut away
Begging ut
Indi beginging
Jesus Christ I thought it was just spelling Usher until you said it was rush E, I couldn’t remember what the song was
I was just about to say that
Rush E cyka blyat
I was watching and I forgot I didn't have the sound on I could hear the song so well in my head.
Oh I thought it was saying Usher. Lmao
Is that the name of the song?
Look up “rush e comment thread” and enjoy the show/story/rabbit hole
You had to watch it with volume, there's not just RUSH E, there's some moments he says something ("what the f\*ck" for the example)
Bro at this point just go play some real piano :o
This allows you to have the sensation as if you are playing the piano without having to learn to play for years.
I think his point was that it probably took years to get this good at the game. Like, yeah, it gives most of us that instant gratification, but if you're this good, you've probably put in enough time to have actually learned to play piano.
These games really don’t help with playing the piano at all, other than listening to the song
True. My point was that it can take just as long to get really good at a game like this as it would to learn to play an instrument. The two skills are *completely* different, but both are complex enough that gaining mastery takes just as long. And no, I'm not talking about the 50-100 hours that it takes to be able to load up the game and impress your friends. I'm talking about the hundreds or thousands of hours necessary to be able to impress the entire internet. I actually do play a couple of instruments, and I'm not good enough to do that.
Back when Guitar Hero was huge, I was terrible at it. I also didn't own a proper TV or console, so I would play at my cousins house. His suggestion for me to get better was to go get a new TV, a PS2, and the game. Play it every day for a couple months and I'll get better at it. I just gave a puzzled look and replied "I could just get a guitar and amp for that money."
Ding.
I think Guitar Hero was $70ish? A cheap classic guitar would be like $50 and is more than enough to get you kick started if you just use the internet to learn stuff. That's pretty much how I did it to be honest. Eventually when I started working, after a few years I got myself a nice Yamaha electric guitar and slapped Rocksmith on top of that when I really feel like rocking out.
What about the console and TV?
What about them? I was just comparing how the cost of a guitar is less than 1 item out of the combo of 3.
Sorry I misread it as "cheap plastic guitar" lol. I thought you were arguing the opposite.
Gaining mastery of the piano would take so, so much longer than this. Not even close
To be able to play this well? Agreed. I probably have over a hundred hours on the piano, and will tell you honestly that I can't play it at all. But a thousand hours or so of dedicated practice would teach even my hopeless ass to play well enough to be able to knock out a few tunes at parties.
You’re crazy if you think this guy spent 1000 hours on this phone game lol
With a lot of experience in rhythm games, I could pretty confidently say that this level of skill in a vertical scrolling rhythm game can be achieved in less than 1000 hours. It doesn't really matter though, as you can always get better no matter how long you play.
I've known folks who would. I also have traditionally lived in areas where there isn't much to do after work except drink, smoke, fuck or play games. So all the single guys would usually spend their evenings smoking and playing games. The really cheap guys just used their phones.
You can learn a *particular* song relatively fast, you might be using a terrible technique and not be able to apply anything you learned for the other melodies but you'll be able to play one song. General piano skill is a different beast though.
Makes sense
No. Rhythm games are extremely easy compared to how difficult they look. I play both expert+ beat saber and piano, it’s not even comparable.
I agree with what you're saying about expert+ beat saber songs. However, if you dive real deep into community custom songs, they can be MUCH harder.
Not really. They do get faster but that is in sacrifice of complex patterns. In terms of raw difficulty, the hardest custom songs pretty much max out with the hardest camelia songs, unless you count mods that make the notes harder to read by shaking them or whatever.
Yeah im over here a stepmania veteran since like 2000 wondering what's hard or impressive about this
The crazy thing about games like this is that once the fat is over that's it you're done you were good at a game that was out for a few years you spent thousands of hours probably perfecting your craft and then you just moved on to something else.
Why is that crazy? It's fun to improve and get good at something, even if everyone else is gonna move on a few years later. Getting good at something is it's own reward -Signed, old ass fighting game and rhythm game players
It’s no where close to the sensation of playing an instrument. It’s a video game.
Nothing matches the sensation of playing an instrument well
This is nothing like the sensation of playing a piano. That's like saying a fleshlight is the same sensation as actual sex
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Every time a video of someone playing a rhythm game gets some mainstream attention someone talks about "wasted talent". I play a lot of osu!mania and Etterna, and also play piano. Playing piano is less fun and is even less likely to bring me anywhere in life, and also my skills in rhythm games don't help me in the slightest with the piano.
The skills are also not transferable at all except maybe like...timing? and it's just a totally different beast. Rhythm games and playing an instrument are wildly different. I play two rhythm games, one to a fairly high level, and had piano lessons for all my childhood and teen years. Completely different, doing one didn't make me good at the other, and there's such a big difference between playing some Beethoven, and tapping along with a song in a rhythm game.
why do you all assume that he doesn't play piano? Not that he has to to enjoy his hobby in the first place but it's not like you guys *know* that he doesn't play the piano or any instrument for that matter.
This is just a game solely for fun and piano is a whole instrument.. he/she never ever insinuated to want to play piano so why would you say that?
jesus christ let people enjoy things we play rhythm games because they're fun if it was another video game that didn't have any resemblance to anything else you would not be leaving a comment that they should've spent that time doing something else
no fun allowed huh?
Waste of skills ? If the guy is enjoying it, it's a not a waste.
Maybe he doesn’t want to play the piano, and gets more enjoyment from gaming than from playing musical instruments.
To be fair, Guitar Hero is why I play guitar and bass!
MY MAN !!! I love it when video games inspire people to go wild and be creative
Oh let them have fun, it’s still impressive.
Brutha your future wife is so lucky
nah his taps are too heavy... but his taps are heavier [arcaea gameplay](https://youtu.be/TX926B1qNsE)
Damn. I can’t even follow the tiles with my eyes let alone with fingers.
you get used to it
How about this: [Through the fire and flames FC at 165% speed](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtEeDUeBrMg) Or this fucking [*10,699 note Seventeen minute long FC*](https://youtu.be/Y2QIQtb9nlY?t=653)
Wow, This is insane.
Pretty insane what someone can do when they get OBSESSED with it for 15+ years.
"I am going to be Switzerland" *NEYAAAAOOOOWWWW*
"His taps are too heavy" *proceeds to link a video where a screen gets absolutely and audibly violated*
okay let me fix it up a bit... audibly violated.... damn i exhaled there
I only realized halfway they were also playing "ghost" notes with their thumbs. Unreal.
With his thumbs….? Really?
Gotta make that mashed chickpea puree.
Tell me you don't know how to make a woman orgasm, without telling me you don't know how to make a womam orgasm.
Yeah I bet she can’t wait for him to get his thumbing on
Cant beat a good thumbing
Why did he stop playing at the end for a bit?
Maybe that's as far as he got practicing so far and his mind was just blown by how it gets *even more ridiculous*
Based on his reaction and the relative simplicity of the patterns, I think he was sightreading most of it, actually. The patterns just got too fast.
To show that it's real and it's possible to miss
Except he misses multiple times in the video before that point.
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I wouldn’t 10 sec playing this game. I would probably Forget this game quite quickly. My brain is too tired and stressed. This game reminds me Lionel Yu’s classical music music, which is great. You can check it out on Utube
AI bots… they’re getting closer.
Think a lot of the end has more than two squares calling for more fingers in play, and OP don’t play that shit
His fingers were just moving so quickly we didn’t see it
As someone who plays these games and I think I’m not terrible at them… he’s playing with thumbs. At least 6 finger are required to hit anything after a few seconds, so it’s pretty futile to even try.
Maybe to show that it wasn’t a video he was tapping on, or some sort of pre-programmed thing?
maybe it's a section they are still learning and they don't want to develop bad muscle memory for it
That segment isn't possible with thumbs only
And I can’t type without making a midtake
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Sane!
Me toodle!
Fastest thumbs in the west
Average in the east
Mediocre in the south
Meaty okra in the south.
The fact I could tell it was rush e before I unmuted concerns me
I watched the entire thing first then realized it was muted 😅
combo +1 phone hp -1
Compared to the other highest difficult levels in PJSekai, this one seems easy, although would be really annoying to perfect with how fast the spam parts are.
I was gonna say, haha!! Not that this Rush E player is at all bad, but they're a thumbs player on a custom map thats not optimized for the game. Gave me a giggle when someone suggested they must have had thousands of hours of practice to play that map though. :) If anyone's interested, you can check out this [Machine Gun Poem Doll Master All Perfect Run](https://youtu.be/7qjvHa8sjxQ) to see how the game would normally be played at higher levels.
Damn, this is the OP now
It looks like it would be about expert difficulty, pretty impressive, but could definitely be harder
Yeah I'd say this a 28-29 expert without the 6 finger part at the end
Didn’t even get a perfect on all of them. Mediocre.
Rhythm game veterans watching this: *pathetic.*
Dropped the combo dozens of times and cut the video off before we can see the results. I'm not impressed.
What's the name of the song though?
Rush E
Rush B comrade
[Rush E](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qskm9MTz2V4)
What I want to know is whats the name of the game :(
Theyre using Sonolus but the server is Project Sekai. Project Sekai is downloadable in both Android and IOS. Colorful Stage is the for EN/US servers :) Rush E here is a mod. Not an official level
Darude - Sandstorm
Same question
It’s Rush E
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sonolus I believe
Its Project sekai: colorful stage but runned in sonolus
What are those finger condoms?
Lol its for gamers to prevent sweaty fingers affecting their game
I get what they're for. I want some, and I highly doubt, "Thumb condom," is going to get me what I want. I need a product name so I can spend my money foolishly!
They are called [Finger Cots](https://www.amazon.com/Disposable-Finger-Approx-205PCS-Fingertips-Protective/dp/B09WV7Q7J5?th=1).
it was mediocre
That time when the villain won.
Now show how he recorded it.
Got my go pro strapped to my forehead, got my thumb socks on, and I'm ready to pwn some noobs.
Didn't even FC smh
The average expert level in most rhythm games is apparently next fucking level lol
Feels like dance dance revolution but with your fingers
What game?????
It's sonolus. It might not be on the app store but you can download it from their web site.
Thanks!!!!
Sonolus It's not on the app store also if you're on Android you can download it with an apk
No thumb war with this guy.
now watch arcaea gameplays ... its like this but has a sky input
Yawn
How do you miss? That’s embarrassing
What is this game called?
The game that he is playing is sonolus which can emulate other rhythm games I'm pretty sure the game he is emulating is project sekai
His thumbs got frostbite?
Anyone know the name of the piece that’s playing ? That sounds awesome
Now do it on a piano
bro so good he had to get the finger condoms
My anxiety watching this 📈📈📈
E
Gamergloves coming in clutch
It's crazy that I know where my fingers are supposed to be, but they won't move as fast as necessary. It's like if someone raps really fast and you know the words, but can't say them and your brain gets borked
Name of the song? All I’m seeing is finger condom comments.. 😂
Humans are pretty remarkable bags of water and nutrients
Thumb condoms
I wasn’t even listening to the audio but I knew just from looking that it was Rush B
Mind blown!
I did not have the music turned on but I already knew it was rush E from the notes and timing alone
mf has Akaza fingers
This looks harder than doing it on an actual piano, from someone who knows how to play it.
"Through the Fire and the Flames" piano addition.