My favorite bit on DDR: the one which has the two graphs, one showing my stamina going up and up, and the other one showing my weight going down and down.
I've always been amazingly good at sight reading DDR (I was able to pass Max300 on my first try, I predicted every single tempo change in both versions of Healing Vision, and so on), probably because I've had so much experience with Beatmania and because the style of music is just second nature to me anyway.
Anyway. Right now I don't have a specific beef against Eric, not after our long email conversation. So far as I can tell, he really didn't realize how much damage his actions were causing, and he does actually feel sorry for it. That doesn't make his bad attempts at trolling any less annoying, of course, and it doesn't change the fact that his actions were more or less directly responsible for me needing to leave the site (in order to protect my own privacy and sanity), but for me to continue to be mad at him would be extremely petty and rather misplaced.
Oh, and I passed that particular 7* song (Peace-Out, hard level) the very first time I tried it on that level.
I prefer the songs which I can just dance to based on the screen, rather than having to memorize everything. The thing I hate about hard level is that most of the songs need memorization because of all of the mandatory freeze turns with complex lookahead. (Normally I don't turn, I just step in a circle, but with freeze turns you have no choice...)
I should practice turns and confidence in my lookahead more. I don't have a problem with looking ahead (also thanks to way too much Beatmania time) but I do lack confidence in my reflex-driven short-term memory. :)
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Hurrah!
Personally, I practise on the joypad or keyboard first. I can sight-read almost all the songs on any machine now, except the ones over 200bpm :)
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I've always been amazingly good at sight reading DDR (I was able to pass Max300 on my first try, I predicted every single tempo change in both versions of Healing Vision, and so on), probably because I've had so much experience with Beatmania and because the style of music is just second nature to me anyway.
Anyway. Right now I don't have a specific beef against Eric, not after our long email conversation. So far as I can tell, he really didn't realize how much damage his actions were causing, and he does actually feel sorry for it. That doesn't make his bad attempts at trolling any less annoying, of course, and it doesn't change the fact that his actions were more or less directly responsible for me needing to leave the site (in order to protect my own privacy and sanity), but for me to continue to be mad at him would be extremely petty and rather misplaced.
Oh, and I passed that particular 7* song (Peace-Out, hard level) the very first time I tried it on that level.
I prefer the songs which I can just dance to based on the screen, rather than having to memorize everything. The thing I hate about hard level is that most of the songs need memorization because of all of the mandatory freeze turns with complex lookahead. (Normally I don't turn, I just step in a circle, but with freeze turns you have no choice...)
I should practice turns and confidence in my lookahead more. I don't have a problem with looking ahead (also thanks to way too much Beatmania time) but I do lack confidence in my reflex-driven short-term memory. :)