Obnoxious and rude DDR players

Noobus Kahn · Trick Member Joined: 04 Apr 2004 Location: CA

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001 MadStepz · Posted: Mon Aug 02, 2004 7:55 pm Post subject:

TEEX · Posted: Tue Aug 03, 2004 9:08 am Post subject:

Slowpoke · Trick Member Joined: 28 Oct 2003

skillz187 · Posted: Tue Aug 03, 2004 11:52 am Post subject:

001 MadStepz · Posted: Tue Aug 03, 2004 12:07 pm Post subject:

Slowpoke · Trick Member Joined: 28 Oct 2003

Osiris X · Trick Member Joined: 04 May 2004

I dont know what i would do if somebody started using racial terms with me. I feel sorry for those of you that have to deal with it everytime you goto the mall. I havent had any rude people at my arcades. Alot of people aplaud me even if i fail a song.

Healing08Vision89 · Basic Member Joined: 04 Jul 2004 Location: Omaha, NE

I was at Six Flags in Denver Colorado, and me and my little brother were playing DDR 3rd Mix... I think, but these people looked like they were around 16 or 17, kept on taunting my little brother like sayin OMFG that little kid sucks! and wow, look, it looks like he is a sped. he was just doing bad, come on everyone has a bad day once in a while. So I walked up to one of them gave him and asked why he was being an a** hole. I think that made him kinda mad, because I saw his fist clench and his muscles tighten, then I said, "are you gunna hit me or what"... then he let his gaurd down, sorta. I told him that he could make fun of my little brother all he wanted if he could beat him. The first song, Afronova, on Trick, my little brother killed him, he got a "B". I looked at the 16 or 17 yr old, and said look, theres one round down. Then I jumped in for my little brother for the second round, End Of The Century, on Maniac, I gotta A, the other guy gotta C on Trick, so I told him to f*** off... (probably wasnt the best thing to do) the last song was Dam Daram, my little bro did that, lol, he gotta D on it, I felt kinda bad, and the other guy gotta C. (but my little brother is 10)

dont you think that those teens were a little harsh on my brother? compair the ages 10 and 16 or 17...

I felt really bad...

n2oxide · Trick Member Joined: 15 Oct 2003 Location: Vancouver, B.C.

Have you guys got it bad. I live in Canada. Probably the worst abuse I've gotten is someone accidentaly knocking my coin off the line.

Anyways, come visit Canada, the land of people who don't treat each other like total trash! (And if you see someone in Vancouver who ALWAYS plays AM-3P and Spin The Disc on heavy, that's yours truly.

Creamy Goodness · Trick Member Joined: 23 May 2003 Location: Syracuse, NY

Yea, I know what you mean! I've only been to Canada a few times, but one of them was in 5th grade when I went to the Hockey Hall of Fame. There was this one game where you put on goalie pads and you stand in front of this camera and save shots against you which you see on the TV screen that's there. Well, these local kids that were there kept letting me play although they were there playing when I showed up. Everyone seems to be really patient and stuff, too.
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gamerdude1212 · Trick Member Joined: 28 Dec 2002 Location: PA/AZ

where i play i've got some of the stupidest players ever...last week i had surgery and my doctor said "dont do anything physically strenuous" and so i thought to myself...heavy is strenuous...for three days after surgery on my hip...so i played on light...doubles...and this one kid...no older than like 7 climbed on one of the bars and blocked the down arrow on the left pad...i didnt say anything but it was so annoying...and the kid was the child of one of the employees

Another time i was playing and sum @$$hole decided to jump up and shadow me for no reason at all...and then he left in the middle of the song...i kept my kool and didnt say anything cuz i found out l8r on hes a good friend of a friend of mine...otherwise i wuda chewed him out after the song wuz over
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Healing08Vision89 · Basic Member Joined: 04 Jul 2004 Location: Omaha, NE

Yesterday I was playing the song Ecstacey on heavy, and on the part where the song stops for 5 seconds, I turned around, and this little kid like jumped all over the pad, and I didnt wanna be mean and push him off and his mom was standing there, so what do I do.... I am not racist either because I am white and he is black so if I ignored him, what would his mom do??? so I just told the kid he could play when I am done.

lol....
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dlm · Trick Member Joined: 16 Jan 2004 Location: Columbus, OH

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DeathCabForCutie... · Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2004 1:56 pm Post subject:

skillz187, that really sucks. i hate when people do stuff like that to me, and i dont like that they do it to you either.

it really sucks trying to play at the mall with people always doing stuff like that.
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Incognito *Seattle* · Basic Member Joined: 05 Aug 2004 Location: Seattle, Wa

i say damit when i screw up my 200+ comba on drop out.... or my 300+on r&p.... the rudist ive seen so far is shadowing....i do remeber once that i was playing on i think it was kick the can at a laser quest and this like 12-13 yr old and his little sis and dad or something come to watch me.. halfway through the song the 12-13yr old started to step on my down arrow....i didnt see i heard it.... wheneever i had the chance to turn around i saw the three just smiling and whatnot.. i just agot a quick "stop" out...then it continued....at the end i turned around and said "can you stop that...." they just left... not that bad but it made me madddddd....

rber · Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2004 7:51 pm Post subject:

I've had friends step on my arrows just to see me fail

. I've also had them lift me off of the DDR pad (I'm only 98-ish) so I fail. Of course, when they lifted me off we were late for a movie, so I guess that was understandable...

(I still wanted to finish my song though

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wraith985 · Trick Member Joined: 26 Dec 2002 Location: Saratoga, CA

First, the World Tour issue:

With all due respect, whoever said World Tour is 20 minutes long either has a messed up sense of time or just doesn't pay very much attention to the Oni timer. World Tour is 12 minutes and 41 seconds. The longest Oni is Demon Road at 15 minutes and 13 seconds. (Yes, I looked these up, because 20 minutes for 8 songs seemed very wrong to me). A 3-song + extra game can take anywhere between 5-10 minutes to finish, depending on how indecisive the player is on song selection.

There's nothing wrong with picking World Tour no matter how busy the arcade is. The fact is, the guy wants to play World Tour. Who are you to tell him what he should play? Why should be pay a dollar when his turn arrives, only to play three to five songs that he has absolutely no interest in playing, just so the people waiting can have their turn two minutes faster? More importantly, why should he care if anybody is impressed, or whether YOU'RE impressed? It's his money. If you want to dictate his mode and song choice, pay for his game and dictate away. If you're not willing to do that, then you have no right to tell him what he should do with his own money.

Next, the anger issue:

The people who swear at the machine, flip it off, or show overt anger in other ways (stomping) do so for a reason - they're FRUSTRATED, most likely for not performing up to their own standards. Who are you to judge them? I've done it plenty of times because I'm having a particularly horrible game, and no matter how impressive that A or B looks to the average gamer (or the Light/Standard player), it's absolute poopy to me if I know I can AA it or SDG it. If I can get 5 greats on a song and I get 45, you can be darn well sure that I'll be very upset with myself. The lower the great counts get, the worse it gets too. I draw the line at abusing the DDR machine, though - imo the guy who punched the screen should have his ankles broken so he can't play DDR.

Next, the song-picking issue:

Here's an idea. Before you agree to let someone else play with you, WORK OUT WHO PICKS WHAT SONGS AND HOW IT WORKS. If the terms are unacceptable, tell the other guy to get the hell off of the pad on your turn. How difficult is that? Not asking is like signing a contract you didn't read. If you get screwed, it's 100% your fault for not asking, no matter how rude it is.

Next, the 'showing up' issue:

If I'm a heavy player and I play after a light player, why the heck should I have to change what songs I play and what difficulty I play them on so someone else can feel better about themselves? Honestly, the other guy probably wasn't thinking about showing you up in the first place. I play what I want, on the difficulty that I want, and if some Light/Standard player has a problem with that then perhaps they should just get better. It sounds harsh, but why the hell should I let someone else's skill dictate what I play at any given time? I've played after plenty of Light/Standard players, and if they ask for advice I will give it to them freely. But I play on Heavy, all the time, and if they think I'm trying to show them up then I would tell them that they should stop being so self-important.

Finally, the annoying spectator issue:

Spectators who get on the pad without asking deserve to be shoved off. Kids who run on the pad deserve to get removed by physical force, no matter how young they are, and their parents deserve a hell of a tongue lashing. People who step on an arrow deserve to have their ankles broken to show them the potential consequences of their actions.

The bottom line goes something like this - I will play what I want, when I want, how I want, and I will react to my performance how I want, within reason; anybody who interferes with my game either owes me a buck or deserves a shove and a good tongue lashing. Why? Because it's MY MONEY. You want to tell me how to play the game? If you pay for my game, I will play all the 3 footers you want, one footed, knee dropping, 3x reverse sudden dark, whatever. If you don't, then don't think you can tell me what I should play. The only thing that I really agree with is the annoying spectator/kid thing - all the rest of it is just stuff that you should either have avoided in the first place, or stuff that you just need to suck up. I'm sorry if that sounds harsh, but that's the way it is.

CherryBomb · Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2004 10:06 pm Post subject:

okay so the other night i'm at a machine waiting for a turn. this little boy (no more than 9 or 10) is playing and doing pretty well on light. an older woman goes to these two kids also waiting to play (around my age, 17), she says, "he's really good!"

the two guys turn to eachother, scoffing and snickering, whispering and pointing to the poor kid who's doing just fine.

meanwhile i'm thinking "wow, you guys are sooo cool, thinking you're better and tougher than a freakin ten year old." it's like seriously, get your egos in check. it's a game. it was like two pro baseball players making fun of a t-ball player because he wasn't as good as them. pathetic.

later that night it's my turn, and this girl comes up and puts her quarters in after mine. now, i wouldn't have minded at all had she asked first. then she proceeded to pick the first song. that's never happened to me before. whenever i play with a stranger i either ask them or they ask me beforehand and everything's cool.

but whatever, heh. stuff happens. i'm not as bitter about it all as i sound, but at the time it was like "jeez, what a doggy".

something cool happened that night though. this one kid was playing and some typical random bumhole came up next to the machine and tried kicking his leg and pretending to dance to the music and all that typical random bumhole stuff (i'm sure most of you have been in the presence of one) and this dad who was watching with his family who was freakin' built came up to him and scared him off. heheh, it was pretty cool.