Article exposes the "dark side" of DDR

Aoi-chan · Vivid Member Joined: 17 Apr 2003 Location: Wisconsin

I'm not going to comment on the Pitch Article or KC DDR players. I commend the KC DDR players for handling this issue well and feel sorry they have to listen to all the stupid posts this thread has created...but on a side note:

Reporters are vultures, beware. It's the nature of the beast, you have to be aggressive in that line of work to survive. Knowing that, be very selective what you tell any reporter "on" or "off" the record. I could go on for a while on this subject, but I'll just end it with saying: Study up on ways to handle interviews and the public media via books, school, and from other people. Watch and learn how others handle the media, you have examples everyday. I would recommend paying close attention to Professional Athletes and their comments before/during/after their sport (since DDR fits well under Sports Media). You'll see how the best handle themselves by keeping their comments short, positive, non-descriptive and when a difficult question arises, "No Comment" is your best response

Lastly, if anyone here does fall victim to a news story similar to the Pitch column, use the KC DDR examples. Write the newspaper with your comments, complaints and corrections. Seek legal console if necessary, but only as a last resort. And one method I would have recommended, have a rival newspaper or TV station do a full story about your sitation/problem. A lot of local news stations and papers do investigation reporting and this Pitch article would have been a perfect opportunity to have the media working in your favor. In the end, you could have discredited the Pitch and used a larger public media entity to do the work for you on changing the Public Opinion in the area. Remember, public media is nothing more than popular opinion; it either works for you, or against. And if you're really famous, it's usually changing by the hour

Ninja-Pirate · Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2004 7:27 am Post subject:

We DDR players are some badass mo'fo's
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Commander A9 · Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2004 7:32 am Post subject:

Verified · Trick Member Joined: 01 Jun 2004 Location: Behind You!

I read through the article, and to me it seems more about Giles than DDR bashing... The title completely didn't fit the article. I would follow the lible thing... I think its stupid to obsess that much. But its alright to obsess over it a little bit. And i think thats probably all that happened. ~Bad newsreporter+blown-up story=Giles looking bad~
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shoutanenjeru · Basic Member Joined: 15 Sep 2003

Heh, I think I've seen this before. The guy who wrote this is also a person who probably thinks all of anime is pornographic. Is it just me, or was the day that this was published a very slow news day??

Commander A9 · Posted: Mon Jun 07, 2004 7:19 pm Post subject:

yeah, i wouldnt be surprised. the media needs to just leave us alone. if videogames were so freakin bad, why do our military personnel use them for training?
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Paper_jojo · Basic Member Joined: 19 Jun 2004 Location: OregON

That's a helluva story.

shampine77 · Basic Member Joined: 23 Jun 2004 Location: sault MI

i would not worry about it this site that posted this i have never heard of it before till i went on here it just looks like mindless ranting if you ask me. lol who knows maybe who worte it played the game and sucked at it and is frustrated with it and out of anger goes and writes this crap. yes it is plain crap you can see the flies buzzing aorund it. lol

Commander A9 · Posted: Tue Jun 29, 2004 6:45 pm Post subject:

the media can burn in hell for all i care
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ConspiracyMan · Posted: Wed Jun 30, 2004 3:22 pm Post subject: Where are my pants?

About the whole girl thing: Who Would''nt be impressed by a good player? In fact, on friday at Sam's Town in Henderson, NV, I saw someone do PSMO doubles. I tell ya if I were a woman.

Commander A9 · Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2004 10:14 am Post subject:

oh yeah
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got2loveit · Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2004 5:23 pm Post subject:

hahaha this is so old....i remember when the article first came out...me and abuncha peeps were hangin out at cool crest (arcade) and sum one brought in the article...we all read it and thought it was total bs after that we all hopped in a little honda pos and drove around to all the places we could find and took all the pitchs we could find.....i still have a lot of them in my basement.. we took prolly over 100, ah the good ol days..

lxv · Trick Member Joined: 08 Jan 2004

This was pretty retarded. It's so melodramatic. hmm still don't know why they said he's a goth but oh well because we all hang outside of Barns and Noble smoking cigarettes and listening to manson. tch oh please. There's a lot of stereotyping going on in this article. Besides I don't think anyone could truly be this retarded. . . could they?

The Game II · Posted: Sun Jul 11, 2004 5:52 pm Post subject:

got2loveit · Posted: Sun Jul 11, 2004 10:16 pm Post subject:

OMG the goths hang in front of barnes and noble smoking and listening to manson too?? wow what are the chances of that??? is there a theatre across the street as well??? that would be freaky

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