Imagine having such a good life that is going the right direction then all of a sudden you come across a video about a circle clicking game and find it interesting, proceeding to download it. Next thing you know, your grades went from to an A+ to a C- in basically all your classes. At least you have 200 A’s on osu! but even better, 1000 S’s. You haven’t touched grass in a year and can’t think about anything getting more pp. You are too busy trying to get the highest score possible. It’s all about the points. The more you get, the better you feel. It’s not even about the game anymore. It’s about the feeling you get when you see that you have gotten so many points that you are at the top of the leaderboard.

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You have been playing for so long that you have forgotten what it’s like to be a normal person. You have forgotten what it’s like to have a life. You have forgotten what it’s like to have friends. You have forgotten what it’s like to have a girlfriend. You have forgotten what it’s like to have a family. You have forgotten what it’s like to have a job. You have forgotten what it’s like to have a life.

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You aren’t thinking about your future anymore. You don’t think about what your friends are doing or how they are doing. You don’t think about how you will be able to get everything you need to be happy. You don’t think about what kind of car you’re going to drive, what kind of house you’re going to have, or how many Pokemon you have caught. Your only concern is to get the highest point score on osu!

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What happens when you get too stressed to think about anything else? What happens when you lose your motivation? I’ll tell you what happens, nobody wins. Nobody.

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With the constant pressure to just get 1,000 more points and get over that one level, something always seems to come up and crush all your dreams. You fail to clear every level in the time allotted. You die within the last ten seconds. The end.

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You feel like your life is over. Your computer is shutting off and you won’t have a way to play anymore. It may seem funny, but what about all the other people on the leaderboard? When something like this happens, you try to pull yourself together and get back into the game. You try to stay as positive as you can. You want to try to forget all the bad things that have happened to you. You want to make it to the top of the leaderboard once more. You want to be on top.

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This is the stuff that happens in osu! world. You start out as an innocent player and it slowly turns you into the kind of person that wouldn’t say no to some online gambling. You start to say yes to everything. You start to believe that you need to have a million credits in your bank account or to move out of your parents’ house in order to be happy. After a while, you have no clue what you want anymore. All you know is that what you have is something that you have to hold on to, just to keep from being crushed. You may not want it, but you know that it will take you a long time to get rid of it.

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It takes a lot of courage to admit that something isn’t right. It takes a lot of strength to give it up. If you are in a situation like this, I want you to know that there is hope. There is someone out there who is there to listen and to help. I’m going to hold this event so that no one else will have to go through what you have. I know how you feel. I also want you to know that there are other people in the world who have gone through the same thing that you have. We are going to put on this event for all of them.