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all
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right how's it going guys this is a
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first off I'm sure very abnormal type of
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video because I haven't done this form
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of content in God knows how long
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especially for Pump It Up uh for a
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channel like this uh you guys are used
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to just seeing you know the regular uh
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Pump It Up highlight videos and all that
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kind of stuff um but I have thought
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about making this type of content for a
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while now so if you end up liking this
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please let me know in the comments down
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below uh it'll really help me decipher
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whether or not I should keep making
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stuff like this um this is going to be a
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pure rant video uh and hopefully
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educational uh I get a little heated
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admittedly during these kind of uh these
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topics because I'm super passionate
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about it uh and I time and time again I
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always get hit up by people on on social
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media all over the place it could be
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Twitter it could be Discord Facebook be
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Instagram it could be anything and
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people are always asking me "How do I
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get better at this game?" Um now this
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kind of ties in with it u there's a few
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it's going to branch out to a few
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different uh topics as to why I think
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personally that the skill titles in Pump
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It Up have ruined the game now it's not
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Andro's fault per se i think they're
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fine on paper uh it's more of a player
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issue uh so if you're one of those
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players please heed my warning when I am
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talking about all this stuff because it
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will help you if you actually take this
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advice i promise you at the end of the
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day it is just my opinion but I have a
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lot of credentials to back up what I'm
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saying obviously right so please heed my
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warning when I say what I'm about to say
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about all this stuff so how did the
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skill titles and pump it up ruin the
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game well first off what are skill
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titles we're talking about intermediate
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one through 10 advanced one through 10
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expert one through 10 and master okay so
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there's three is that three intermediate
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advanced expert no four I guess if you
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want to count master as separate so
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three or four different tiers depending
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on how you look at it and these titles
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uh again on paper are fine uh they help
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you progress through passing X levels in
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the game uh singles and or doubles it
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doesn't matter uh but the problem comes
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in uh where players will tunnel vision
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just to purely get these titles that is
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their end- all beall goal all they care
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about is getting these titles when they
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go play they just focus on that oh I
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want to get expert one i want to get
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expert eight i want to get advanced four
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i want to get intermediate six it
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doesn't matter where you're at if you're
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that player stop doing that it's not
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good for your progression to get better
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now I will make a a quick disclaimer i
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should have said this in the beginning
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of the video but whatever if you're
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casual it doesn't matter you don't have
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to listen to what I say it literally
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means nothing if you're a player that's
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trying to get better and you really
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really want to be like top tier as best
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as you can possibly be and you're like
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on that grind then this will apply to
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you otherwise click off the video don't
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listen to me because you're probably
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going to get offended
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uh well I don't even know where to begin
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with this um so let's assume that you're
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we're we're you're one of those players
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that are tunnel visioning on this kind
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of
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thing the reason it's bad is because you
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are essentially skipping a all the
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fundamentals that the game has to offer
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assuming you're that player that is
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going only to play only to get those
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said titles you're skipping over your
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form you're skipping over improving
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accuracy you're skipping over every
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little fundamental brackets twists uh
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foot speed uh drills etc etc etc because
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all you're trying to do is pass you
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don't care how you do it you just want
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to do it it's a terrible mentality to
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have in this game and that is why these
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titles are really bad for player
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progression
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um I can't another thing that really
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just gets on my nerves man is when
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people they like make it uh what's the
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phrase for that i don't I want to say
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they make it their like identity like
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that's their identity but it's like
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that's not what I'm thinking of uh it it
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like it it
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defines like I can't think of the the
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phrase man uh it just makes them like
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feel better for lack of a better phrase
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I'm just we'll use that it makes them
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feel like better and like some people
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try to fit in to certain clicks in the
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community of like oh you know it's like
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it's like high school man like
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oh there's the table with all the expert
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fours there's the other table with the
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intermediate eights you know and it's
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like you're trying to like fit in and
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it's kind of up because there are
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some players that that treat it like
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that where it's like they kind of just
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ignore you if you're posting scores in a
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Discord or sharing scores on any social
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media platform and if you're one of
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those people that are like lower on the
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skill title grind it feels like you're g
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you're being ignored like you're you're
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the outcast you're the loser you're the
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nerd in the school right that gets
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bullied all the time that's kind that's
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how a lot of players will feel and I'm
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here to tell you those people all
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right if you ever experienced that don't
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listen to them your your skill title
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does not define you as a person all
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right i I I can't believe I have to say
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this but like it's just a game
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right like don't get me wrong right
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right i of all people get it i I take it
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serious to some extent of course right
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but there's like passion and
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determination and then there's this
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whole other tier of obsession where
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people will cherrypick who they interact
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with in social circles based off the
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skill titles you have that's
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insanity what the is that dude
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that's crazy i don't understand it i've
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seen it so many times i've seen people
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post scores and they just get completely
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ignored and then some other you know
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expert whatever have you post a score
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and then they get glazed like
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crazy uh don't get me wrong right it's
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not to say that everybody has to glaze
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every single score that's posted right i
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mean it's social media uh in my opinion
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too like this is a very big piece of
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advice this is kind of a side topic kind
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of but never play this game to satisfy
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other people especially people on the
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internet that you most likely don't even
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know i've tried doing that when I was
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younger and it will drive you insane if
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you're constantly trying to chase after
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that high that dopamine hit of just oh I
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got to get this title i got to get that
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title man if I get expert two this group
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will accept me if I get expert four if I
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get advanced eight if I get advanced
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four the these people will like me these
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people I'll feel validated like don't do
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that you're gonna drive yourself crazy
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you're going to drive yourself crazy you
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could be the master you could be the
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master and people will
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still not be satisfied by anything you
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post you could perfect a song people
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will just gloss right glance right over
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it even let's just let's just give you
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benefit of the doubt right let's just
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say that you get some good score and
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people glaze you right how long is that
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going to
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last one day tops if that right couple
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days max like I'm being generous then
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you're going to want that high again and
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you're going to keep going for it and
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like I'm talk I'm going a little bit a
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little bit off topic kind of admittedly
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but just hear me out it matters a lot uh
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because it comes down to your mental and
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one thing that I always point out to
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people with like getting better uh is
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taking care of your mental and that
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applies to what I'm talking about now if
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you're always trying to chase to satisfy
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like other people that are like it could
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be personal friends you know IRL friends
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online acquaintances random people on
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the internet when you're sharing scores
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and you're trying to get that validation
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like it will drive you nuts again I'm
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speaking from experience from in the
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past when I used to uh go for that i
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would always chase that high and it took
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me a while sadly to learn that it
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started to affect my mental and I was
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like just constantly wondering like
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when's it enough it's never enough it'll
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never be enough so please please take my
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advice on that and I promise you you
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will feel a lot better it's not instant
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you know magically going to make you all
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better but over time when you start to
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just stop giving a what people
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think about you on the internet uh
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you're going to feel a lot better and in
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return uh you'll see it in your uh
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performance i mean there's other things
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uh that I can make in another video to
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you know go deeper into how to get
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better with like the mental and phys
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physical and like your lifestyle and
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that kind of stuff i'll I'll probably do
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that later if you guys like this type of
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content uh again please let me know in
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the comments down below if you are
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enjoying this type of content uh but
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anyway uh back to the skill titles so
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what do we what do we cover so far the
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mental side of it when you're constantly
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chasing that high and validation from
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people if you're doing that which it's
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very common in this type of scene um
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you're skipping over a ton of
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fundamentals all of them except just
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mashing and even that I would argue
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you're not even getting better at it
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like you're just people that are just
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purely playing to get those titles
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they're just mindlessly mashing anything
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like they don't even think about it they
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just like "Oh I see the I'm going to
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just quad jump over here and just hope
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for the best." And it it doesn't get you
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better like sure I could see maybe
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someone arguing like "Well they're
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getting better technically because
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they're passing higher stuff." It's like
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"Okay I'll grant you that right?" But
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sooner or later if you keep playing that
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way you're going to hit a wall that's
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going to slap you so hard you
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won't even know what the hit you
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and if you haven't hit that wall yet you
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will hit it sooner or later uh and trust
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me it sucks when you hit that wall it's
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not fun uh and what happens when you hit
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that wall when you're just tunnel
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visioning on the skill titles for the
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the clearing you're going to get you
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know listen people go at different paces
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people have different skill sets people
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people are going to be naturally better
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than you know X Y and Z player so you'll
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you'll have some people where they'll
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skyrocket and you'll have those outliers
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where like they go from advance and it's
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like oh my god he went from advance four
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to like expert five in like two months
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or one month is it's crazy and it's like
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yeah that that's cool but sooner or
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later again you're going to hit a wall
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and the players that do this hit a wall
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that's so bad that they can't pass any
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more things and now they're just stuck
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and then they get frustrated because
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they I mean essentially just did a
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speedrun any percent on pump and they've
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skipped all the fundamentals and now
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they don't know what to do and I can't
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tell you how many times they come to me
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and say "How do I get better?" And I I
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just I ask them like "How do you play
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the game?" And they always 99% of the
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time like that little thing you
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see on the the little uh uh hand
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sanitizer is like 99.9% bacteria kill
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yeah
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99.999999% of the time they tell me "Oh
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I was I'm grinding for expert i passed
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this." Like it's it god dude it annoys
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me so much when I ask someone like you
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know what are you passing or like not
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not what are you passing sorry cuz
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that's fair if I just say like you know
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where you at in pump and they're like
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tell me like I'm expert five it's
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like that doesn't tell me much man like
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okay you you can pass whatever the
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that level is I don't even know what
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that is uh one two is that 25s I think
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expert five let's just use expert five
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assuming it's 25s okay you you you can
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pass 25s at best Hey what do your what
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do your scores look like like usually
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they're getting like double A's A's or
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double A plus on on these kind of things
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typically when you're only trying to
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pass stuff which again that's a huge
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issue um if that's all you're doing uh
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but that's usually what they'll tell me
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when I ask about like their skills
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that's the that's the biggest red flag
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that is the 100% confirmation that all
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they're doing is just grinding the
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titles and they don't care about
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anything else and it's like you should
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uh again only applying to people that
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are trying to get better like they
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really want to take this serious and
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like you know they're really serious
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about getting better again if you're
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casual none of this applies to you right
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if you don't give a I don't care
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you can do whatever you want um but
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that's what they'll tell me and I just I
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just face them every time man it's like
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that that doesn't tell me much that
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tells me one thing and even then like
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how consistent are you at passing 25s
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what kind of scores are you getting what
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type of 25s are you passing brackets
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foot speed like elaborate a little bit
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more here right um but again that ties
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I'm bringing that example up because
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it's it happens all the time and it's
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being brought up because it goes back to
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what I was saying before where people
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are just so focused on these titles and
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it's all they care about it's the end
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all beall and it's like stop doing that
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stop doing that and you'll get better
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right it's okay to poke at the titles
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right they're there for a reason right
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so don't get me wrong if you want to
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dabble in like oh you know today I'm
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going to try to get a couple of this or
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that and work towards this or I'm three
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away so let me knock that out that's
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different okay um I think that's fine
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it's totally fine uh if you want to get
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better at this game there's a lot of
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things to cover like I said probably a
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separate video um but this whole title
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thing I think I've covered everything
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that I needed to say um aside from Oh I
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just remembered one thing um this is
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kind of uh it's it's not off topic but
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it's like it's I don't know i'm so mad
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right now i I guess I I'm so passionate
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about this stuff man it drives me nuts
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um that's why I'm making a video because
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I I I know it's not going to get a ton
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of views because it's a niche game and
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it's a secondary channel i don't promote
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it all that much but hopefully this gets
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a little bit of awareness so that enough
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players can see it and hopefully change
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their perspective of how to approach the
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game when they're trying to get better
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and they actually want to improve and
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they don't just go in and be like "All
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right let's go for 19s only got to pass
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got to pass got to pass let's go for 23s
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got to pass got to pass got to pass."
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Because so many people hit that wall
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eventually and then they don't know what
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to do and when I give them the answer I
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forgot to say that when I give them the
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answer when someone comes to me and says
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"How do I get better?" My answer is
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always the same i mean I try to figure
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out where they're at and when it's
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usually the same result of oh I'm this
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title that title it's like okay send me
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a score let's just say the 25s are being
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passed right i say send me a score of
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20s let me see your 20 scores and not
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trying to be rude but it's not that
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great right for someone that can pass a
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25 their 20 scores are very lackluster
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and I say "Okay uh you know sometimes
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too I'll say "Send me a video." Uh so I
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can see their form i'll try to critique
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it and give them some advice uh but
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that's the biggest thing I tell them is
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which is again they don't want to hear
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it go down lower levels right if you're
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one of those title grinders and you're
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only passing the stuff go down you're
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passing 25s cool you should be able to
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UG or PG20s not all of them there's some
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up ones but majority of them you
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should be able to PG them not every
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single time no one's a robot
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everyone's human but you get what I'm
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trying to say right passing 25s all
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right maybe try working on 20s and 21s
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and try cleaning up your form form's a
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little bit sloppy try doing all twists
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right that's another thing people try to
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cheat everything working their way up to
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get those titles and they don't they
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skip over h learning how to be uh
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optimal with their form and accurate and
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doing all twists and learning those kind
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of things that you should be learning
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along the way it's so funny to me when I
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see someone that's passed like a bunch
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of 25s right and they have expert five
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or six and then I give them a BA 20 and
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they almost fail it i can't tell you how
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many times I've seen that and it's like
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"Holy man you got to go back down."
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Um now the counterargument to that is
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usually well you know I play at the
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arcade and you know it costs a lot of
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money um and I just want to focus on
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passing stuff and it's like that's fair
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right i I get it i get it not everyone
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has the luxury of having a private
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cabinet like myself and other people uh
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not everybody has uh the finances to
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just go and play as much as they want
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but at the end of the day this game
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doesn't care about your finances if
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you're trying to get better right you
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got to just do what I'm trying to
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suggest at the end of the day it's just
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very cutthroat it's a brutal reality it
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does suck that's again another topic of
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that the issue with dance games and most
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rhythm games like that as a whole uh
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access is a really big problem but I I
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still don't understand that argument
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people say uh you know money money is an
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issue it's like okay like you're still
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playing the game as of now right it's
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like yeah and it's like well why don't
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you just cut out two rounds two sets
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from where you would be grinding the 25s
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or 24s or whatever to get the title and
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just play those songs it's financially
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not making a difference like right like
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I get it if you are going to if I would
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argue you got to grind it right and go
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and go and go like play the same song
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over and over sure yeah that's going to
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cost a lot of money i understand that uh
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but let's not talk about that let's just
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talk about you purely going to the
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arcade taking off a credit or two from
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what you normally would go play like 24s
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25s 26 whatever level you're at skill
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title wise and uh put that and apply it
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towards uh playing 19s 20s 21s or 22s or
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whatever have you wherever you're
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struggling find that spot where the
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lowest level that you're starting to
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notice like oh I'm I'm struggling here
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um I can make even more drastic examples
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too i've seen it where people are
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passing 24s and they're not struggling
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to pass 18s per se but they're not even
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close to getting a UG or PG on 18 like a
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BA 18 um or like a 19 a single or double
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or like it's just it's mindboggling to
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me um I just don't understand it and
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yeah so I I'm just I'm I'm digressing
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here i need to just wrap up the video at
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this point as far as I can recall I
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don't have a I don't have a script in
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front of me i don't have Again this is
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unedited this is just off the top of my
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head i think I covered most of the
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points I wanted to make with the uh the
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problem I have with skill titles uh it's
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okay that they exist it's okay if you
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want to dabble in them here and there
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but when you make it your end- all beall
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goal and you you make it uh you make it
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feel like it's uh your entire identity
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within this game to feel to get receive
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validation from random people or friends
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or whatever and flex it it's just cringe
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dude it's it's just like don't do that
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don't do that you have more value than
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just a title in a video game
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again there I it's it's crazy I even
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have to say that there is a very very
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common problem in this game in this
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community where people are so obsessed
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not passionate not determined and most
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uh funny enough they usually
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misunderstand those two things with
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obsession they're so obsessed that
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they'll make really bad financial
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decisions they're so obsessed they'll
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make it their entire personality it's
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like you have more value than a
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video game like the skill you have in a
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video game or the title you have in a
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video game again I can't believe I have
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to say that but please heed my warnings
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and I hope that this will uh shed some
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light uh if you're one of those people
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uh shed some light on how this is just a
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it's a reality that you have to face if
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you're trying to get better and uh I'm
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really interested to hear what you guys
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think about again this content and my my
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thoughts on it if you disagree with me
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let me know uh more than happy to
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converse about it in the comment section
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uh I'll be openminded about it uh but
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that's all for this video and again if
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you like it let me know if you want to
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see a different topic let me know and uh
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I'll do my best to make uh more videos
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in the future about it i mean honestly I
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in hindsight now that I'm done here it
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was actually pretty fun i actually like
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making this kind of content um I'll
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probably continue just doing it raw so
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that I don't have to like put more and
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more time into it because it is a side
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thing for me unfortunately guys i
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apologize but anyh who let's wrap it up
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thanks for watching uh put something in
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the comments for me so I know all right
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whether you you like it or hate it all
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right see you guys in the next one take
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care guys bye
