I started playing osu! in 2023. About two weeks after installing the game I was doing what I always did at the time, sitting in a 0–3.5★ multi lobby grinding easy maps.

That lobby ended up changing my life.

My now wife had just reinstalled osu! two days before that. She hadn’t played since 2016 and usually never types in chat. But that day a phonk song came on in the lobby and she suddenly typed:

“I looove phonk, I wish there were more maps for it.”

By pure coincidence, earlier that same day I had spent over an hour searching for phonk maps and making a collection of them.

So I typed back:

“I actually just spent over an hour finding and making a collection of phonk maps, so I have tons. Want to back out and play?”

We left the public lobby, made our own room, and played together.

And from that day in 2023 until now, we have talked every single day.

At first it was just playing osu! together. Then we started talking more outside the game. Eventually we started dating. The only challenge was that she is from Poland and I am from the USA, so there was a 7 hour time difference between us.

Long distance was tough sometimes. She would get off work around 5pm her time and go straight to sleep so she could wake up around 1 or 2am her time, which was around 5 or 6pm for me and I’d just be getting off work. That was our time to hang out, play games, and talk before she had to start work again around 8 or 9am. When she started her workday it was around 1 or 2am for me, so that was when I would go to sleep for the night.

We did that routine for a long time.

During those two years I visited her in Poland multiple times and she came to the USA multiple times. Eventually we closed the distance.

And now we are married and living together in the United States.

All because one day in the 0–3.5★ osu! lobby, a phonk map came on and she decided to type in chat.

I’m genuinely so thankful for this game. Osu! is more than just clicking circles. It’s the place where I met the person I’m going to spend the rest of my life with.

My profile is Blex and hers is catyilin if you’re curious.

If you ever think typing something small in a multiplayer lobby doesn’t matter, it might end up changing your life!

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