DDR and Social Life

Bolt-Edge · Trick Member Joined: 01 Sep 2004 Location: Mayfield, OH

Ok, this may seem dumb to some but whatever...

How exactly does DDR affect your social life?

For me, all the people I know think I'm a nerd, gay, and have a social disorder for playing DDR. Strangers, on the other hand, just compliment me and feel so impressed that I play so well. I wanted the opposite. It kinda bugs me, because now i'm like isolated from the rest of my peers. I can't even find some good people to talk to about DDR around here.

EDIT: I guess i can add this : did DDR positvely or negatively affect your social life?
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paintballer05 · Trick Member Joined: 19 Feb 2005

my friends say im obsessed but now they all pay too they dont make fun of me cuz they are my friends and stangers just think im good...... of funny....
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DeeEckzWhy! · Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2005 4:21 pm Post subject:

All it's done for my social life is gotten me a girlfriend(ex now) that cheated on me several times and a big huge chunk of DRAMA. That's right. DDR. Drama Drama Revolution. Rawr.
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Dj Sway · Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2005 4:26 pm Post subject:

Honestly, DDR has gotten me a lot of friends, and a lot of girls seem to think it's sexy that I play.

It also got me a really fun and cute girlfriend

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Bolt-Edge · Trick Member Joined: 01 Sep 2004 Location: Mayfield, OH

I must just have bad luck...

CHUCK BASS · Trick Member Joined: 26 Jul 2004

The chicks dig it; the guys call me gay...

Maxx 999 · Trick Member Joined: 09 Jul 2004 Location: Las Vegas, NV

ddr and my social life are 2 different things. unless you include going to the arcade to play when i go out with the guys. i dont date women cuz they like my arrow smash skill, i go out with them because i think theyre fine and maybe their personality. im a book cover judge.
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Footstep · Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2005 5:21 pm Post subject:

My friends dont like me playing,cause Im better than them

My friends at the arcade may not like the way I play,but theyre really cool.
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Ubertreffen · Trick Member Joined: 12 Mar 2005

To be honest, I didn't exactly have a booming social life to begin with, so I didn't have anything to lose with DDR. I did get to know some players from my school better through meeting at the arcade, so that was pretty awesome to me. But my DDR obsession certainly didn't help friendships that were already strained from people changing and things like that-- hey, it happens.
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ICNH · Trick Member Joined: 06 Sep 2004 Location: Mahwah, NJ

I met my girlfriend through DDR, and everyone thinks I'm awesome, so DDR has improved my social class status. Not to mention I madde about 3-5 friends just through DDR.
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Xtina ♥ · Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2005 8:50 pm Post subject:

Everyone knows me at the two places I go

I've made alot of friends and met alot of really hot guys, which is always good in my mind.

if someone doesn't know my name they refer to me as
"the little 14 year old white girl who kicked my @ss that one day"

but it went good for me

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Pandemonium · Trick Member Joined: 20 Nov 2004 Location: Swansea, MA

My friends at school really don't care, but through DDR I've made alot of cool new friends, and met my girlfriend.
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Coolkid27 · Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2005 5:48 am Post subject:

I hang out with one of my best friends, as we go together. we also learned DDR together on seventh mix and ps1 imports (2.5 years ago), so it's cool that we still go. i guess DDR strengthened our relationship and it gets me out of the house. so in that way it affects my social life.

most players are younger than me (i'm 27) so i tend not to socialize too much at the arcade.

Ryudori · Trick Member Joined: 19 Aug 2004 Location: New Jersey

Yeah, I never had much of a social life even before I started playing DDR. Sometimes I'll talk to people at the arcades but not usually...I'm kinda shy.
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Julie QQQ...? · Trick Member Joined: 07 Jun 2002 Location: Boston, MA

My girlfriends I've met in my dorm wonder why I play it a lot and even look down on me for liking a "silly game", and then whine about how they can't find guys that are interested in them as friends or potential relationships. Then they get mad because they don't understand how I can have lunch with 12 males and be constantly surrounded by guy friends all the time, with an amazing boyfriend to boot.

In short, I've made a lot of awesome guy friends, a couple of really great girl friends, and some of the slower ones on my floor can't put two and two together about why my social life is nothing short of spectacular compared to their dismal existence.

Bolt-Edge · Trick Member Joined: 01 Sep 2004 Location: Mayfield, OH

Ok, well I guess i get it now. It depends on your social status before you play ddr to help you get a good start. I guess nobody likes me now cause i never really got along with others in the school (jerks; think theyre so cool....). Now its like im stuck in a pit and cant get back out. Everyone gets so mad when i talk DDR now. "OMG, your so addicted. get a life" "You must have social disorders" "I've heard it already!"(when i only talked about it like twice before when i talked to that person). I think theyre all just self-centered jerks who cant stand when someones better than them at something. *sigh* I really need new friends

I'm open to anyone

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Zhou Yu · Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2005 3:52 pm Post subject: No one knows.

I don't think that anyone knows that I play it that I know (Is that proper grammer?

). There are a few people, but I told them to play it. They think it's really cool. It hasn't really affectd me besides that...

Alezay · Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2005 4:13 pm Post subject:

DDR + Insane Skills = Hot girls adore me, guys that can't do it try and fail and the hot girls laugh, AND I have a great week with the rest of my DDR playing buddies....
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Ryu_Hirakashi · Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2005 9:06 pm Post subject: