January 29, 2004
At the risk of sounding geeky

Laughing yet? Good! That is funny.

I have recently discovered ddr (that's Dance Dance Revolution for those who never heard of it) and it's more fun than jumping on a pad to house pop music ought to be. Good source of exercise for the nasty winter days when running outside is not an option and the treadmill sounds about as appealing as writing CS I projects.

Next time I'm in California (CT Is amazingly arcade-poor) I'll have to visit an arcade and make a fool out of myself in public on a nice, metal pad. (Hi Matt!)

(Stats? I'm getting As and AAs in "light mode" songs but still have problems with "standard mode".. I'll get better!).

Posted January 29, 2004 08:24 PM in Geek Stuff
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Comments
On January 29, 2004 09:18 PM fluffy added:

Wow, you mean there's people out there who *don't* already know what DDR is?

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On January 29, 2004 09:54 PM insin added:

Seeing a DDR expert performing in the flesh is a profoundly scary experience.

So much movement, so little time, I can't see their feet!!!

/me goes for a lie down

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On January 29, 2004 10:13 PM kasia added:

Fluffy, yes, and I think I know most of them.

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On January 29, 2004 10:16 PM Randy added:

Know of the "game" but not the acronym.

I think Milford and Trumbull mall's have them - don't know about places further north.

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On January 30, 2004 08:16 AM Zher0 added:

There is a free PC-based (no Mac from what I can tell) appication called DWI (Dance With Intensity). Check it out:

http://dwi.ddruk.com/about.php

Of course, you have to get a dancepad somewhere if you want to use more than just the keyboard.

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On January 30, 2004 08:31 AM Riz added:

There is a dance pad for the PS2:

http://shop.store.yahoo.com/adux/konamipad.html

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On January 30, 2004 08:31 AM Eddie Williams added:

For the extra geekiness/dorkiness, you have to build your own hard pad. My roommate is currently building one out of oak. It'll be a nice finished, stained piece of furniture by the time he's done.

Of course, being college students, we have little else to do with our time.

Anyway, welcome to the DDR club! We're glad to have you! (ddrfreak.com is a useful source of information: especially with their arcade location database)

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On January 30, 2004 12:05 PM Oktay Altunergil added:

There is a free Python version of DDR. They have been causing geeks to look scary at the Linux Expo the last two years.

http://icculus.org/pyddr/

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On February 6, 2004 09:55 AM Shawn Liu added:

I just started DDR last month and I'm totally hooked. Slowly working my way into Standard mode these days starting with the easier red foot songs. In about 6 months I'm definitely gonna get me one of them newfangled metal pads.

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On February 6, 2004 03:15 PM brandt added:

yeah DDR is the bomb. just watch out for those advanced dances--you can hurt something...

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