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Video Games in Gym Class - DDR 101?
Saige writes: "When I was in school, gym class was basketball, running laps, and icky locker rooms. Today, kids get to play video games - and get credit for them! No, it is not as bad as it seems. Apparently, someone has become clued in that Dance Dance Revolution promotes physical activity, and a school in California is making use of that. Can I go back and retake gym?"
Sign me up!!
Nice thought on a Monday morning...
"Insanity is doing the same thing over again expecting a different result."
In gym class in elementary school, we learned how to square dance. Every year. We also learned some other dances.
Playing Dance Dance Revolution for a significant length time seriously kicked my butt before I got used to it. Good for your lungs!
Since Q3, my backflip hasn't been equaled in ANY gym class.
Have you ever seen someone jump around like a rabbit for 45 minutes and ending with a tripple backflip into a canyon, while shooting a 3pointer upwards, carrying 150pounds of armour ?
Ha, I can't wait till this shit gets approved for the olympics !
When will I end this grieving ? When will my future begin ?
Personally I find competitive sports much more enjoyable than mindless exercise on a treadmill or danceing jukebox machine!
The problem with slashdot is that most of its users were bullied and stuffed into lockers as kids!
Personally, I like this idea a lot better. Not that I like or dislike punk music, but it just seems so right.
DDR type games are one of those inventions that seem lame, but when you think about, are actually killer apps. For example. I hate dancing, it makes you look like a right prat. I don't see where the enjoyment comes from. But DDR is fun. I know this could be taken even further, with rows and rows of machines in clubs/discos etc. and with different variations on the theme. For example, virtual-DDR, where you use a vr-helmet to shut you out from the fact that people are staring at your bad dancing. The helmet shows you a crowed of people cheering you and if one of them boos or laughs at you, the game will allow you to either draw a virtual pistol out and shoot them in the head, or simply kick them across the room matrix style :) The _real_ crowd watching your virtual view on a monitor, will be to scared to mock you on PH34R of death.
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Women don't like to be referred to as 'broads'.
:one of the few I have seen girls playing in
:arcades. We need more games that have a broad
: appeal like that.
I will be impressed when someone develops a "Running Laps" game that kids are fighting to play.
"Never call chicks broads." =P
Bah, nobody remembers UHF anyway...
...further efforts by the same school to trick children into getting their education include a recent announcement that the films they show in their Sex Education classes will be produced exclusively by Vivid Video. Additionally, Asia Carrera has been hired by the school to teach a few computer classes.
~Philly
Ah yes, playing the track game, stepping off for 10 seconds, and being given a jump distabce of 100 feet.
... :)
Those were the days
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Get RDRAM! After all, it runs faster on Pentium 4 (or at least until dual channel DDR and DDR-II comes out)...