Don't you hate it when...

ViceOfFire · Basic Member Joined: 24 Jan 2009

Don't you hate it when you're playing DDR and there's a guy behind you waiting to play... and when you jump off so he can play he turns out to be a speed-modding showoff playing 6-7 foot songs on 5x? Now I'm not a good player at all (a few 7-8 footers is about it), but I only play for fun and would want someone to tell me if it seemed as if I were showing off. This guy, on the other hand, wasn't anything special but was playing easy songs and showing off while doing it. They were songs he'd whored the poopy out of too, you could tell. I don't know why anyone would play a song on anything more than 2x unless they're learning it or testing themselves. This guy was just blatantly showing off

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Oh and for his last song he tried pluto and failed straight away.

Gah excuse the rant, I just wanted to get that out. I see way too many people showing off on DDR around my local place (there's surprisingly a lot of asians who play on standard and seem to think they're great cos they're asian).

What about you guys? Share your "don't you hate it when" stories.
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That guy with the afro... · Trick Member Joined: 08 Oct 2006

I really hate to rain on your thread, but this sounds a lot like...

http://www.ddrfreak.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=98406
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Although he probably had memorized the songs, 5x isn't the speed I would do if I had a song memorized.

5x is perfectly readable... even on shuffle. I've played songs on 5x shuffle up to 160 bpm. Granted I'll probably get a C, but it's funny to do.

Haoie · Trick Member Joined: 02 Mar 2007 Location: New Zealand

Well, some people like to show off.

So good for them, if they can get any viewers.
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ViceOfFire · Basic Member Joined: 24 Jan 2009

That guy with the afro: Sorry dude, should have looked harder before posting this.

Ninja N8: yeah I know what you mean about x5, the reason I could tell is because he was already moving into position before the arrows scrolled up (he kinda needed the time, not the skinniest fella).

Haoie: While on average I hate showoffs who do it just because they can (see: this guy), isn't being good a prerequisite for showing off? I mean, I've seen some guys who are much better than this guy and a lot more humble, and they draw my attention more than chubs over here.

Unrelated, I saw him again at the arcade today, playing with heavy mods again.
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That guy with the afro... · Trick Member Joined: 08 Oct 2006

It's okay, I almost made this mistake when I started. Then I disconnected from the internet.

Though if you've seen the showoffs I've seen, you would have gone mad. Actually dancing while getting their AAs on 6s and 7s (just barely, though). I understand where you're coming from.
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DahrkDaiz · Trick Member Joined: 07 Mar 2004

So what exactly does it mean to "show off"? Does that mean playing good at DDR at all? So playing a 6/7 footer on 5x is showing off, how is playing Fascination Maxx on Reverse at 1.5x not showing off? (SN extra stage anyone?) It seems to me that many people who hate people that "show off" are really just envious, unless someone can give me some standard definition of what showing off means.

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DahrkDaiz · Trick Member Joined: 07 Mar 2004

But I don't see how playing in a certain manner is considered showing off, but rather, what you say and how you act before/after you play the song is what constitutes showing off.

Example: Someone's trying Holic for the first time and fails it. You jump on the pad and play Holic as your first song and do considerably better, THAT'S showing off.

Example 2: Someone has a crowd of people and plays R3 Stealth, Mirror, but doesn't say a word before or after the song and doesn't react to any of the comments made, good or bad, this, to me, is not showing off.

ViceOfFire · Basic Member Joined: 24 Jan 2009

Sorry, when I said "isn't being good a prerequisite", I meant to say for successful showing off (people who know anything about DDR actually paying attention).

That being said, I think that while what is said before and after can definitely signal showing off, so can the demeanor while they play (the PIU example someone gave). And for me there is definitely a difference between a showoff and someone who puts on a good show, like a good freestyler.
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DahrkDaiz · Trick Member Joined: 07 Mar 2004

I get what you're saying now pleasedon'thurtme. I often notice that those who show off have other attributes about their behavior (they look back to make sur ethey're being watched before a song), their words (they scream if they do bad, they make some show of attention (hitting the machine) or song choice (they hover over a song to get crowd reaction before choosing it). There are other actions, sure, but I wanted to clarify because where I play, I AA a lot of songs and take pictures to keep score tracking and a few people claim that I show boat when I play this way whether there are people watching or not.

Nathan. · Trick Member Joined: 10 Jun 2008 Location: RI

Don't you hate it when people make threads like this

tats · Trick Member Joined: 10 Nov 2008 Location: Pennsylvania

How could you do that to the food there??

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Da-Risin-Smoke · Posted: Sat Feb 07, 2009 4:09 pm Post subject:

I've been here about 4 years, I've seen too many of these threads.

Yeah, I get it all the time about the speed mod thing.

Then I play can't stop falling in love speed mix with no speed mods.

NOW WHAT?

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