What do people do while playing DDR that really angers you?

eflatmajor · Basic Member Joined: 24 Oct 2008

So I went over to the machine and took my reserve coiny thing off the machine and this random guy who was with a bunch of other people (who by the looks of it shouldve been in school) got up on the pad and asked me if i had a dollar, and i said that the one i was using was my last one. Anyway I pu the dolalr in and he was just standing there on the pad. I stared at him for abit and when it was in the select game menu, he pushed the green button! I just assumed he was abit ignorant and asked him to get off the machine, to which he stepped on to the second player pad, and i thought whatever, and started to play. Now I know there are already a bunch of posts about people who just mock you while your playing and pretend to play but Ive never known how annoying people could actually be. At first i didnt mind because I wasnt looking at him anyway but he was flailing around knocking me abit which was quite a distraction. After that they left but on the final song they came back and started to do it again.

I had no idea people could be such...(I dont know the swear limits of this forum but im sure you can use your imaginations.)

PureBlue · Posted: Tue Dec 09, 2008 8:32 am Post subject:

I've had people coming up to me when I finish songs saying stuff like "Wow, you must have no life". A couple days ago I finished playing LoM on Heavy/Expert and got an A. After that some random guys who looked like they were about 16 or 17 years old came up to me saying that I have no life. Yeah, everyone who is good at something obviously has no life (apparently). By that logic, Tiger Woods has no life, Tony Hawk has no life, Michael Jordan has no life, Michael Phelps has no life, Stephen Hawking has no life, Albert Einstein had no life, Wayne Gretzky has no life, Herman Li has no life etc. It's ironic that these kids said I have no life when they probably spend more time playing Guitar Hero and Halo than I do playing DDR.

pleasedon'thurtme · Trick Member Joined: 29 Jul 2008 Location: Earth

I take it those dudes saying that you have no life must bother you at least a bit if you posted it here without other specifications, PureBlue. Not to suggest you did not make valid points, but my friend actually said that about people I said can step every arrow perfectly (he probably thinks I am not bad to type the least). I suppose it makes sense such a thought is natural to people who are not able to perform at such a level. Perhaps, it is a psychological defense mechanism people use for self-consolation or something. Sadly, I probably have less of a life than most of you, yet you all can outperform me on this game by lightyears (In The Groove and Dance Dance Revolution take up quite a bit of my time, especially every other day because that is when I exercise). To people who are not as interested in baseball, science, or whatever subject corresponds to each person you mentioned, those people may appear to have no life. So, either, people with different interests see no point in devoting as much time and effort to the activity we enjoy, or they make up excuses to make themselves feel better because there is something you can do that they cannot, or perhaps even a combination of the two. At least those guys did not inconsiderately attempt to interrupt any of your games -- people like that are actually guilty of stealing since we have to pay to play arcade games. Fortunately, that has never happened to me, but if it did and reasoning with the bums did not work, I would have to notify someone in order to get them kicked out of the arcade, fined, or whatever would act as an adequate solution. Of course, there is no reason to assume people would be that inconsiderate -- always be prepared for wrongdoing/people to mess up, but never expect it, eh? I really can not think of anything at the arcades that has ever upset me (I get upset when I disimprove on songs at home). I would not mind meeting anyone on this site even if I would look like a total fool in comparison when playing the game.
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PureBlue · Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2008 4:51 pm Post subject:

It does bother me, but not to the point where I would be screaming in anger at those people. My basic point was that all of the people I named do have lives outside of what they do (or in the case of Einstein, he had a life outside of what he did). And I commend those kids for not trying to interrupt my game through excessive shouting, ape stomping on the other pad, jumping in front of the screen with the intention of blocking it so I can't see it etc. I actually got a bunch of skater kids who probably spend just as much time hanging out in Zumiez as I do playing DDR banned from the mall for disrupting my game in rather extreme ways, such as pulling their pants down to moon me through the large window next to the machine and shouting obscenities. If they were doing more mild things like making snide comments or ape stomping I wouldn't care, but they crossed the line. It just isn't right to publicly moon someone and shout obscenities loud enough for most of the people in the food court to hear.

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yfizz_hx2 · Trick Member Joined: 22 Dec 2008 Location: oak forest, IL

sorry to barge in, i'm new to the whole ddrfreak thing, but I play at hwp, crestwood, il, and we aaaaaaalways ALWAYS get little kids who crowd the dedicab...its so frustrating! i stepped on some little girls finger once, almost got banned,but kids shouldn't be allowed upstairs where the ddrsupernova is
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InfiniteSpawn · Basic Member Joined: 14 Dec 2008 Location: Norcross, GA

I hate when I'm playing against someone and they choose a really hard song that they won't even come close to passing (and won't try to), just so they can quit after about 8 seconds or so and make me play it.

There's a guy who plays with me who always chooses hard buttocks songs first that we haven't beat yet (like Pluto Relinquish)...it's like...why even waste money like that? Especially when your not even going to try to beat it yourself?

pleasedon'thurtme · Trick Member Joined: 29 Jul 2008 Location: Earth

I suppose children should be better monitored whether by parents, employees, or signs stating not to stick fingers on pad or get to close during others's games. I often end up stealing other people's games because they walk away before finishing all their songs. Yesterday, I was at Acres of Fun in Wooster, Ohio. A girl was playing (she did not seem to know what to do because she was just jumping around the pad and the results displayed one great and everything else less than good I think) and she and her family walked off after only one song. After I stole their second (this machine plays only two songs per game) song, I saw the machine was displaying one credit, so I went to find them to inform them they had another game -- they let me have it. That machine takes two tokens per game, but they had apparently inserted five. The machine actually cheated me one token, but that is actually not a big deal considering the five dollars for 24 tokens (one dollar free of tokens for every five dollars) deal and the fact I got three free songs because of those people. I guess I have yet to experience anything that actually angers me much at the arcades -- I suppose losing that one token came close...

edit: Oops, I forgot the topic is about what others do to anger me. Well, I do not know if not doing a good job on keeping the machine honest about taking tokens counts, so I suppose I have yet to experience anything someone else does to anger me at arcades. I was upset about failing a seven-footer on those less-than-perfect pads (it could just be me, but those pads do not seem extremely sensitive to me).
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pleasedon'thurtme · Trick Member Joined: 29 Jul 2008 Location: Earth

I thought I was flatfooting. My failures were probably not entirely the pads's fault (at least not in terms of sensitivity), though, as I am really terrible at the game. The depressed arrows on metal pads often hinder me -- I have been known to get my feet caught on my TX-1000 home pad. I probably just screwed up the song on my own for the most part. I played Senorita Speedy Mix a couple times -- made a C the first time and made an A the next attempt because I stomped a little harder (both times were without the bar). But I do appreciate your advice

Hm, I suppose this topic would ideally consist of posts about what people used to do that angered players -- is that the goal/purpose of this thread?
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gothic05 · Basic Member Joined: 10 Sep 2007 Location: Here

People who tell you you're not playing right just because you don't hold on to the bar.

sheeep · Basic Member Joined: 28 Dec 2008

People who tell you you're not playing right just because you do hold on to the bar.

HeavyD2 · Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2009 10:18 pm Post subject:

Seriously, there's still anti-bar sentiment? What with the advent of 14+ foot ITG charts that CANNOT be done without the bar?

PureBlue · Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2009 4:45 am Post subject:

Those kinds of songs ARE possible without the bar, it just takes a buttload of practice and most of the time you have to rape the brackets to the point to where it could be considered bracketophilia. There probably always will be the whole anti-bar sentiment. Most of the time it's unjustified AKA some Average Joe just being jealous of someone else but some people are actually good no bar and just don't agree with the use of the bar. The difference is that the jealous Average Joe probably plays 7 footers and is jealous that people are better than him at DDR, while the good no bar player would be able to do 10's consistently no bar.

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PureBlue · Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2009 5:17 pm Post subject:

Kobayan is a ridiculously good toe player. Watch this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGrpGuDD0_Y

He did that on toes. On doubles. No bar. And got 94.5%. That takes a lot of skill. He could have taken the easy road (flat footing) but getting a 94.5% on FaxX doubles no bar is considerably more difficult on toes than it would be flat footing.

Basically, what I'm saying in this post is that it's not impossible to get good scores on toes, it's just takes a lot more practice then just flat footing.

pleasedon'thurtme · Trick Member Joined: 29 Jul 2008 Location: Earth

But is toe-playing bad for one's body?

To stay on topic, what do we do about the things that might bother us?
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That guy with the afro... · Trick Member Joined: 08 Oct 2006