Put shoes on.
Get in car.
Drive to Acme.
Play.

wake up.
eat breakfast.
-Usually a bowl of Lucky charms or fruit loops, about 1/3 full of 2% milk.
Put on appropriate DDR playing clothing.
-usually shorts or pajama pants, and occasianally jeans, and a T-shirt, usually black or dark grey, considering the majority of T-shirts I own are that color, and bear the 'Hurley' logo.
Put on socks.
-Usually champion ankle sock, though I'll settle for whatever other ankle socks we have laying around, assuming there are no champion socks.
Put on shoes.
-Converse Hi tops. Black. white laces. Deal with it.
Collect money.
-Find loose change in my room, beg from parents, and find any tokens I still have if I'm gong to wonder wonder or Bumpers.
Ask parents to drive me to arcade.
-I'm 14, I can't drive. meh.
Post in the 'when and where thread, hoping to not be the only one at the arcade like I usually am.
Put on Deodorant.
-Usually old spice red zone stick, either showtime or glacial falls (since I ran out of aqua reef and am too lazy and pooor to buy more). I occasianally chase it with old spice red zone spray, after hours, or pure sport, If it's later and there are more girls at the mall (gotta counteract the DDR playing right )
Bring gatorade.
-Usually in 24 oz bottles, though occasianally I go with 20s and 12s if I must. I prefer X factor lemonlime/strawberry and orange/tropical punch, though I do sometimes bring fruit punch or orange. I'll often buy some from the m achines whil there when I run out.
Get to mall
-My parents said yes, so here I go.
Put up with crappy music my parents listen to
-or no music if my dad takes me in his old volvo, bearing it's original AM radio in all of it's lameness.
Arrive at mall or arcade.
Walk in the doors.
enter machine area.
non-chalantly (Spell check) put my quarter up on the line, unless it's empty, or people who know me are already there.
wait by playing Dance Freaks or Tekken.
-and ocassianally Soul Calibur 2, since I've probably put $20 in that machine, and I still can't get the survival record I want.
step up to play.
non-chalantly pick heavy, and go to a song of decent difficulty.
wow the noobs.
after playing a bunch of single, passing some tens, and failing at the last second on a doubles set, I leave.
-bye
Go home.
Play SM or ITG2 PC with my tx4000 metal pad
-and a red octane afterburner control box, since that was the only one compatible with my pad, whe the original control box broke. it came with a usb cord though, which is how I hook up my pad to my laptop.
get some acores that I should have got at the arcadem and get angry.
stop playing for the day.
Finish day with normal activities.
sleep.

I could've gone into more details, since that was a very basic summary, but I don't want to bore with lame details about what kind of cereal I eat, and what kind of deodorant I wear, and I don't want to force you to read a superlong post, so I wont.
;P

If I'm going to play seriously:
I do my secret ritual (hella secret, not telling ANYONE) that makes me do good. It makes me hella good, but only when I do it. Trust me, it'll fuck up other people but not me

I make sure I'm wearing a buttoned up over shirt.

I stretch a ton before playing.

If I play DDR, I try to keep an even amount of steps between my right and left feet.

Double step in order to keep rhythm.

Make sure I'm zoned out enough to not have coherent thought other than processing the arrows in front of me.

Play.

Stretch, play.

This is a good process for getting laid as well, so listen closely.

1. Mount the system.
2. Insert valuables.
3. Push buttons.
4. Flail legs.
5. Reflect on my performance thus far.
6. Enter skirt.
7. Remove pants.
8. Insert valuables again.
9. More flailing.
10. Take pictures and possibly videos if my performance is satisfactory.

Then, I bang on that mothafucker all night.

Lots of water.

Running shoes, because they're clean and don't slip.

Curse little kids for having dirty shoes.

Play songs.

Huff and puff, play more songs. [repeat x N]

Wonder why nobody ever seems to play at Wonderland.

Play more.

Wait, I haven't seen anyone apply those steps to dancing games...  

Those tips may be solely for getting laid...

Wait, you guys don't do that? I mean, the extra freedom and the two extra legs really helps on the hard songs.

Patrick, do you eat brekkist naked?  If so, good fuckin' job, man.

I wear a skirt when I play didder; it lets me play harder, and my ass doesn't get sweaty.

I have a special skirt designed for activity, then redesigned to fit men better.  It cost me $90, but it's worth it.

QFE

Replace Acme with Wonderland however.

Oh, I do have a starting set, if that counts.  Queen of Light, Destiny, Bend Your Mind.  That way I get the stream and hands out of my system in the beginning, so I can pay attention to better songs.

Every time you guys talk about Wonderland, I want to correct that with "Wunderland", then I remember you guys live in Spokane, not Portland. :/

I don't think it's as easy in Portland than over here. :/

Eat like 20 bananas while vacuuming a raccoon on stilts.  Also never forget your chair, towels, or stimulants at home.

Well, I guess that's only if you want to do it RIGHT.

Actually, Portland's so full of hippies, you can get laid with very little effort.

P.S.
for the record, I'm a virgin, so none of this is from personal experience.

hippies = easy to get laid?

also, lol at admitting virginity to the internet.

VIRGIN VIRGIN VIRGIN
(I meant me not you even tho you are tofu )

I honestly don't see the point in having asexual relationship with someone before marraige. maybe this just me being a super-christian freak, I dunno. I don't comdemn people for being virgins. or for not being virgins.
there
my two cents (sorry for the OT)
and also hippies=drive Volkswagens=WIN!

Hippies = peace and love and bodily freedom and drugs = sex.

At 16, there's really no shame in virginity.  It does make me uncomfortable when my 14 and 15yo friends talk about all dat sex they be havin', but I really have no reason/means to have sex right now.  Maybe, if I lived in the same country as my gf, I'd be a little loser with my celebacy, but I see no reason to have sex with anyone else, and no means to have sex with her, nor do I see myself getting anything good out of having sex now 5 or 10 years down the line.

The strongest point of my philosophy = pick one, stick to it, and you decrease your changes of getting an STD by around 98%.  Hard logic to argue with.  If you and you mate have both only had sex of any kind with each other, you're eliminating a lot of risk, and it makes the relationships better too.

A point for anti-preparation: Do NOT eat A&W Cheese Curds on the way to the arcade. It is a VERY BAD IDEA.

Seriously, I could only play maybe three sets before I felt I was done.

Also, don't inhale stale albuterol prior to playing.

and never cut of limbs with a chainsaw prior to playing. That can sometime mess up your performance.

IMO at 16 you shouldn't be having sex anyways.  It's a stupid idea and waste of time at that age.  Can't pick the flower till it blossoms right?  Damn everyone is so young on this forum.

i think sex is bad at ne age

Okay zeppy, whatever you say.

Ontopic:
I get all my stuff (backpack with water bottle, granola bars, towel, jacket, USB, pen & paper), walk to the bus stop, get on the bus, get off the bus, get on a different bus, get off the bus, walk a few blocks to acme, play, leave.