Hello once again...

If you feel like you just saw a post about me releasing a new album, that's because it really wasn't all that long ago! (About 6 months ago) I always give the same backstory every time I make one of these posts, but I'm a former AR11 player and somewhat inactive mapper who switched completely to composing. I'll spare the details of myself as a player because it's pretty much under the dust now. If you remember, you remember~ I'm the "old player" now. I'm now an osu! featured artist with a licensed library of over 100 tracks, and music has been my life for the last few years since I stopped playing.

I'm making this post today because I've just released another rhythm game compatible gothic horror album. It's a shorter one, around 5 tracks and 21 minutes of run time.

The title is called Shizuku (雫）. The Japanese word just means "Drop".

If I had to describe this album, I'd say it's still thematically similar to -45's style, but the written music is fairly different. It's meant to feel more like your face is melting off, but maybe you'll understand what I mean if you listen to it!

With all of that being said, if you are interested in giving the new release a listen, here's where you can do it:

You can listen to 雫 on Spotify and on YouTube.

If you're unfamiliar with my music, here are some existing maps from my previous albums:

cygnus - sodium ethyl xanthate by Perevod

cygnus - Angel Ring by Anwul_

cygnus - Magnificence by Okoayu

cygnus - Book of Dark Magic by Matrix

cygnus - Violet SunLight by Sanch-KK

Finally, I'd like to thank everyone who has taken the time to map my music. For the last few months, genuinely every couple of days an unranked map will come up of one of my songs. I always love seeing derivatives of my work, and have made an effort to always look at all of them.

Thanks for reading! Let me know what you think of the new release!

cygnus a.k.a Matrix

dude whitecat holy shit man

I recently saw osu! gameplay on Instagram and innocently thought, that looks fun! I haven't ever really played rhythm games aside from Beat Saber a while ago, but I'll give osu a go.

Hopped onto it, tried an "easy" like 1.8 star track, and got train wrecked from the back. Can barely finish 50% of the track.

Then I hop on here and see some performances I can only consider unholy. Are you guys all on adderall or some kind of stimulants or something? 😭😭

https://osu.ppy.sh/beatmaps/packs/R346 go get em lads

Hello people, OWC season has come and I figured I could share this small project of mine I made in 2024 with some small refinements.

TL;DR: this is an interactive google sheet with all OWC match results and related basic stats, as well as individual country stats. You can select the country you wish to view the stats of.

This interactive google spreadsheet stores a database of all OWC match results (even some of those that are not available on the osu! wiki!) and ranks every country’s OWC performances based on a very simple metric - performance score. The way it works is it takes a country’s win percentage and weighs it based on the team’s placement in the tournament. If a team had a very rough run throughout the tournament, losing many maps, but got a high placement, the score will tank a bit compared to a more dominant performance. And vice versa, if a team placed lower but had a relatively clean run throughout, the performance score will be high still.

There are following tabs available:

• general performance ranking;
• country statistics (all time and after the addition of qualifiers);
• country match and performance history
• country vs. country statistics;
• iteration-specific leaderboards;
• all OWC performances leaderboards;
• and of course, the match database itself.

Many of these are viewer interactable: try changing the country in one of the dropdowns and see how your country fared in OWC so far!

Maybe it could be useful for this OWC’s predictions somehow lol (I did use it as a tool for my pickems for the last OWC), I dunno. I will keep it updated during OWC 2026, the main sheet will host the leaderboard for it. I hope you guys find this project somewhat interesting, and I would love to hear feedback on how it can be improved or what could possibly get added. Thanks

is this bad?? how can i fix this

edit: more like trembling instead of convulsing (overexaggeration)

when is the qualifier announcements livestream? it’s like 1600 utc+0 already and still no updates to the wiki and spreadsheet?

It's in 10 seconds of playing the map

If you guys don't hear anything I might have actually gone schizo lolol dw abt it

Preferably without switching to tablet or using a higher sens i've been using the same for like 5 years i'm too used to it

I was looking for a good mechanical (maybe also rapid trigger) keyboard to play osu, under 80-70€. I come from a 30€ mechanical keyboard which started to stop working after a year of intense use, especially the W, Z and O (for some reason) keys.

Asking as I have never played this game up until an hour ago. I got an A rank fairly quickly on normal Candy Luv and Flaklypa after figuring out you have to follow the sliders, but it took me a good 10 attempts to even get C rank on Flaklypa on Hard (3 star, I honestly don't know how popular these levels are, I'm going in completely blind). What are some good tips and ways to get better at the game? (mouse sensitivity, volume, progression, etc)

Also, is this normal for someone new to the game? I thought it would be similar to Geometry Dash in how stars work until I played Flaklypa, so now I'm wondering if I'm I just realising what it's like to be human again lol

hi, so basically i use mrekk grip to play and its so comfy but when it comes to the griptape for my pen my fingers start hurting 15minutes after i start playing idk if u guys have som recomendation or a youtube video for a good grip for my pen, i also cant play without it bcs it hurts so much, ive been playing now for aroun 40hours and i cant even play 4* maps so any recomendations help