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[manyminimoos]

This thread had to start some time.  Although I've seen exactly zero people post that didn't already talk to eachother already, the aim is to have more people show up, right?  Yes.

About me.  

name: James
age: too old
how to find me: I'm 5'9 and half asian.  Like everybody else at ACME, but whatever
I show up at ACME bowl every now and then.  
I like DDR more than ITG for the most part but give both equal playtime, and also I play a lot of IIDX at home, it's a great game.  
I am what can be generalized as a "scorer." That is, I play to get the highest score possible on everything.  
My tag is "5DAI" on ITG/IIDX or "GODAI" on DDR usually.  Sometimes other names if I feel like it.  
I am a pretty darn good simfile maker (as judged by me) but don't make a whole lot due to time constraints.  I take requests but they don't get fulfilled a lot for the same reason.

Nice to meet you.

[sfxazure]

Thanks! I'm actually the one with the new job in the area...

Well, shit. Reading your original post again, that's super clear. Sorry for assuming otherwise.

[Dr.Z]

A few new peeps moving here for jobs; that's great ^^

Hope to see some of you guys over at Acme or Powerplay. Lately, I've been swinging by random weekdays around 5:30pm.

[Suko]

Hello,

I'm Devin, I recently moved to Seattle, from California, for work. I'm a software developer my profession and enjoy playing piano, hiking, watching anime, and just hanging out with friends in my spare time. I recently just started playing rhythm games again after about an eight year hiatus (yikes!) and am extremely rusty . I'm excited to start playing regularly though! You can catch me at Gameworks in Seattle from time to time since I live closeby!

Dude, are you going to try and attend SPERGIN 3? It's coming up soon and it's a lot of (not too serious) fun.

Same to your fiance MeiMei. If they wants to meet a lot of players at one place, it's a great time to do it.

P.S. It's at my house, which is a bit north. If you don't have a car, you can arrange a ride with someone if you post on this forum.

[GodHand]

Dude, are you going to try and attend SPERGIN 3? It's coming up soon and it's a lot of (not too serious) fun.

Same to your fiance MeiMei. If they wants to meet a lot of players at one place, it's a great time to do it.

P.S. It's at my house, which is a bit north. If you don't have a car, you can arrange a ride with someone if you post on this forum.

I want to! Not sure if I'm in competing shape yet however  .

[Keby]

Don't worry about it, it's not supposed to be serious anyways. We all have a good time

[Suko]

Yeah, what Keby said. I suck pretty hard, so you don't have to feel super bad.

[meimei]

Well, fiance just arrived yesterday so we'll see you guys around in a few days after we settle in! I'm working with a video game company nearby and he's going to work remotely from home so we have to set up internet and everything.

I'd love to try to attend the tourney... I assume the entry fee is only for participants? I'd come to hang out and watch!

[Suko]

I'm working with a video game company nearby and he's going to work remotely from home so we have to set up internet and everything.

OMG. So envious.

I'd love to try to attend the tourney... I assume the entry fee is only for participants? I'd come to hang out and watch!

Sure, if you just want to watch, that's OK. But I really encourage you to try and participate!

[meimei]

Hah. I'm too uncoordinated to do any dance games. I love to watch him play though!

And we swung by on Friday, he's very happy that there's such a nice machine near us! We'll definitely be around more. The only difference apparently is that the arcade he used to go to cuts up cardboard/pizza boxes to pad the arrows but the machines are nice

[OrangeChicken]

Hoi Goise.

I suppose I'll start with a generic self-introduction.

I'm Kevin, and I'm a relatively new DDR/ITG player although I've technically played for "years" in my childhood but stopped until I was 11 or 12. I am now 16 and have recently started playing again just about over a month ago.

At first I had intended to only go once at the ACME (for what I'm guessing would be one time for the entire year) just to revisit some old haunts, but when someone there had asked me to try the ITG machine, I was a little confused at first. I never knew of ITG before and sort of felt like an idiot. I tried it and I had never noticed how many songs seemed like they were probably user-contributed. Then I discovered that most of content was created by stepmania users.

I could never play songs that involved... all this... "penguin tapping" as I could best describe it, that you guys could do, all those streams with the 16th notes at BPMs ranging from 120-190. I had never done anything like that before. I always thought I was bad enough playing simple Heavy songs on DDR anyway on FINGERS (or the buttons on the PS2 remote). Suddenly, out of nowhere, on that first day back to playing DDR, after basically a 5-6 year hiatus, I practically became a "beast in training", not to brag, quoting. I play up to 11s and that's as much as I can do for now.

Well, compared to you guys I guess I suck, but I am having so much fun learning.
Here's a long, boring, and lame video of me playing about 16 songs.

Me playing DDR/ITG

I am now playing StepMania almost everyday and it's even distracting me from my other hobbies, and I occasionally do my best to come to the ACME every Sunday afternoon just to have fun. I freakin' love playing ITG now. I've grown over the otaku stuff on DDR, and I'm mainly an EDM kid. I try to come, but you know, it's quite expensive and I'm not a very fortunate kid lol.

Oh yeah, I sometimes step my own terrible simfiles.

So yeah, enough of that huge boring essay-format autobiography.
Great to meet y'all.

[KTUE]

i've been on and off this board and lots of other places for a long time, and been playing DDR since about 3rd Mix & DDR USA back when the Tacoma Mall had an arcade. migrated to PIU not long after, got a lot better at it when Chuck E Cheese by the Tacoma Mall had it for a while. fast forward to now and i'm still playing the dancing games because yeah, they're still cool and fun. the attached picture is what i look like. you might know me from somewhere...

KidTuesday has been my handle for a long time and it sticks, so there it still is...

[NSX]

I remember you back in the golden ages of when Narrows Plaza Bowl was crackin.

[KTUE]

I remember you back in the golden ages of when Narrows Plaza Bowl was crackin.

yeah, that was the place back in the day... i'm usually at Dorky's or B&I nowadays though...

[Suko]

i've been on and off this board and lots of other places for a long time, and been playing DDR since about 3rd Mix & DDR USA back when the Tacoma Mall had an arcade.

KidTuesday has been my handle for a long time and it sticks, so there it still is...

KTUE is such a DDR tag, I love it. I can totally see that originating from the early 2000's era of dance gaming.

Welcome to the forums.

[blue^]

Greetings,

Eugene speaking here.  I'd been out of the bemani/music game scene for far too long (stopped counting when it hit 2 years LOL) but started playing PIU again last year when Boomers in Irvine, CA got a Fiesta EX; now that I visit Seattle every month or so on weeklong business trips (hi fellow Amazonians!), I've started going to ACME at least once per trip.  You might've recently noticed an Asian guy with glasses who almost exclusively plays PIU on NM there once in a blue moon...  That's me. 

I was an admin on DDR Freak before it went south; paid for the server it ran on and also was the primary sysadmin and a developer (I still have the last-minute full forum backup somewhere... just don't remember exactly where :p).  I went by the same SN (blue^).

Eugene

Edit: The age on the left is real...  Haha.

[Suko]

Welcome to the forums. Feel free to post in the Gameworks thread when you think you'll be showing up and someone might be there to show up.

[Pez]

HELLO BLUE I'll need to meet you, cuz you sound cool. : )

[BLueSS]

I was an admin on DDR Freak before it went south; paid for the server it ran on and also was the primary sysadmin and a developer (I still have the last-minute full forum backup somewhere... just don't remember exactly where :p).  I went by the same SN (blue^).

What were DDRFreak's traffic stats like back in the good old days of DDR?

[blue^]

What were DDRFreak's traffic stats like back in the good old days of DDR?

I don't recall the actual HTTP stats.  I do remember that, when I was optimizing some of the database queries on the backend circa 2005 (the version of phpBB we used was very, VERY dumb when it comes to SQL indexing BTW), we were getting around 5-40 SELECT queries per second, depending on the time of the day, and higher when there was a flame war going on somewhere (meaning people hitting F5 like crazy).

Eugene

[blue^]

Oh and bandwidth-wise, the biggest hit was all the DDR videos we served before YouTube became mainstream.  I had a second server in South Korea (where bandwidth was cheaper), whose 10Mbps upstream cap was maxed out nearly nonstop around the clock, which translates roughly to 2.6TB/mo.

[Suko]

Ah 2005. I liked those times. I could sit and read DDR Freak all day long and you wouldn't be able to keep up with all the posts.

[dontpresspause]

About me

Chelsea
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I've been playing DDR and ITG for about ten years now, and have decided to reach out to fellow Bemani fans since I started watching local arcades around me close one by one.

I live in Detroit, and until the building was bought by IHOP around 2008, my favorite arcade was the Detroiter Truckstop. It just had a DDR extreme cab, but was reasonably priced per game, and close to home. The mortal kombat cab didn't hurt either.
I usually go to Pinball Pete's in Ann Arbor now, but not as frequently as I once did, as it is a 45 minute drive from me. It has a DDR Extreme and 5th Mix, as well as an ITG cab.
It also has ParaParaParadise, and another rhythm game that I believe is also Bemani that I can't recall the name of right now.

I also have the american release of Taiko Drum Master, a namco rhythm game that I really dig, as well as their Japanese releases for ps2.
I'm a pretty big fan of rhythm games in general, though I gravitate toward Japanese ones. I've been hooked since Parappa.

Favorite DDR song would have to be "V", though my oni is pretty rusty, haha.

Anyway, I posted my first post on another thread and ran across this intro thread while exploring afterward, so I thought I'd be polite and introduce myself.

So, Hello!

[OrangeChicken]

Hello, there, Chelsea, and welcome to the forums

[Suko]

I adore Taiko Drum Master. I'm so upset that they've never brought any of the other numerous titles over from Japan. The Wii versions especially sound like they would've been a no-brainer.

[dontpresspause]

Taiko is great! I have never met another person to have owned the game until I joined this board though. I guess rock band was probably more appealing to people here in the US. I def prefer Taiko though because I look at it kind of like four panel in a way, which I'm more familiar with as an avid ddr/itg player.

I get a little mixed up on rockband drums, probably because of the combination of hands and feet. I feel like its somehow different to the way it's used in ITG.