i brilliantly played DDR so now three out of four limbs are useless. at least i still got my typin' arm
oh no. the Flu Simulator is in full effect. this incredibly sucks. i did not sleep well
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i brilliantly played DDR so now three out of four limbs are useless. at least i still got my typin' arm
oh no. the Flu Simulator is in full effect. this incredibly sucks. i did not sleep well
Excuse me why is one arm out of use now
EDIT: I got it after the 5th time reading carry on
Now that I've solved that mystery tell me all about your DDR session please
i'm so out of practice. i got about fifteen seconds into cartoon heroes hard before i lost all feeling below my waist so i had to go back to doing some 6s and 7s like a chump
Cartoon heros heavy is a fucking nightmare though. Hard song. EDIT: I don't think I've even tried to pass it. I'll go watch the stepchart again but I think it's right past what I'd call fun for me; legs don't move fast enough to have good form. EDIT 2: holy shit are those footswitches in the later half? Yeah between that and the jumps I lack the legspeed to do that without real ugly form :(
I've been breaking a lot of PBs lately but I'm also horribly out of shape so I don't feel that great about it. Just thinking about how much higher my ceiling would be if I was 30lb lighter.
oh man like ten years ago i did this basically daily and i hit the point where i was kinda grinding score on everything (barring like, 10+s) from a bunch of the original packs
and cartoon heroes was my fucking nemesis. love the song, could complete it reliably, but i hit a wall on the letter grade. can't remember if i got stuck at B or A. (also this is stepmania scoring, i can't remember if real DDR calls it S or something)
i also have this popular but very stiff hard pad from poland or somewhere that tends to not recognize jumps unless you land exactly in the middle of the buttons, so even easy stuff i can't AAA currently. should probably fix that
Stepmania uses something pretty close to the old DDRs, so yeah AA is pretty much gotta be a full (great) combo. It's a great song but that chart is just nuts. Jumps like that are also my weakness, I have trouble with stuff like that on way slower songs.
Precision dance pads? I think that's the polish company. I could never do flat pads, immediately put risers on my cobalt flux and never looked back. I was extremely fortunate to get a full arcade pad about a year ago and really should be using it daily, I love my CF and used it for many years but even it feels like it takes some stomping now.
i had only ever used a thick-foam pad with raised buttons yeah, but for the life of me i could not find anyone who made them any more. i do okay with bare feet since i can tell where the indents are but i can't imagine doing it with shoes on. (how do people play this game in an actual arcade i do not understand)
I could never really wrap my head around the soft pad, like I could but I was having a hell of a time passing 8s and up back in the day. That was the extent of my non shoe playing time. I believe the only company that made the "foam insert" pads was Red Octane, long defunct. Most people started wanting flat pads to fit their bracket-y play style too, so it's hard to get anything with depth unless you dig lots. It sucks, it's hard to recommend anyone get into DDR nowadays because it's just Expensive one way or another. You either tape down a cheap vinyl mat, spend literally hundreds or more on a quality hard pad, or just sink money into the arcade.
Talking about pads is making me think that I should find the time to test out:
A) Whether my hand-made capacitive pad still works ten years later
B) Whether I can use it effectively
C) Whether anyone else would be interested in it
Its main selling point to me is that it has nice stiff pads, but it folds up well (4 thick). (In theory, it could be backed with something other than a cut-up yoga mat...)
Would be interested to hear more about this. I've seen many home made pad designs over the years and it's surprisingly difficult to get right. They tend to not hold up.
Maybe not here though, getting too narrow.
Yes.
https://youtu.be/tV0IqVW8QZA?si=6wpG029q2PxOwxA2&t=94
(more generally using the bar to support your weight can be tough on your arms)
(also i know it's pump it up but sshhh)
((but also the post: 1 arm out of action from vaccine, 2 legs out of action from game))
(yeah i don't have a bar, i don't even know how i'd use a bar really. also definitely would not want to use a bar with vaccine arm)
i only play at the arcades which all have bars and while i try to avoid using the bar too much sometimes i can't keep pace and putting your weight on your arms can help you step fast patterns by effectively making your lighter on your feet
does make some patterns like crossovers harder though
This is how you know lexy is a GOOD BEAN
Only evildoers use the bar
Fuck me for having this tab open on the wrong acct whatever