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The DDR Workout - It's Official
webster1 writes with a followup to a recent Ask Slashdot question. "An AP news story just released says that Dance Dance Revolution is becoming the weight-loss routine of choice for many young gamers. One quote says '"At first I was playing it for fun, but when you see results you're like, Yeah!" said Matt Keene, a 19-year-old from Charleston, South Carolina, who used to weigh more than 350 pounds and wear pants with a 48-inch waist.' It's for grown-ups too. Even Jason Enos, product manager at Konami Digital Entertainment-America, which distributes the game in the U.S., has lost 30 pounds playing the game. There's even a site for DDR wieght loss fans: www.getupmove.com - My wife and I have been playing for months now with this goal in mind, though we aren't yet seeing these results." (A post from a few months ago talks about getupmove and gives some calorie-burn specifics.)
I just don't get these Japan culture fads. Sure there is some good anime to come out of Japan, but this whole fixation on every pile of steaming crap that comes out of asian pop culture really gets on my nerves. Dance Dance Revolution has to be the lamest thing I've ever seen that did not come out of American pop culture. And there are these people here in the states who rag on Britney Spears but suck up equally mind-numbingly stupid Japanocrap J-Pop and fads like DDR and Pokemon.
Give me a break.
Go find a gym with aerobics & pilates classes.
The DuPont chemical company used to have a marketing slogan, "Better living through Chemistry."
The invention of spandex (when suitably displayed on a hottie) is clearly one of the best inventions in the history of chemistry.
1) It's not "dancing."
2) It doesn't make you lose weight. Laying off the 2 boxes cheezit and 24 cans jolt/day, and running 10 miles makes you lose weight.
3) It doesn't attract women. Remember the 280-function calculator that you used to carry around in middle school and used to think was really cool? This is the same thing, only lamer.
4) If you're gonna be a videogame-playing, lazy fat geek, at least play the part.
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Try eating less, and doing stuff besides sitting infront of a computer. Since 95% of slashdot is OBESE, not just fat but OBESE, and another 4% is overweight maybe you fat bastards should out ediets.com on your list of sites to visit BEFORE slashdot, so you can loss some of those calories. Average American has 10 pounds of rotting meat in the colon. You all probably have a good 50 pounds. No wonder you're all full of it and still use Debian!
Now if only Dr Atkins had one of these in his office, he would still be alive today.
dumbass
you must be new here. "most people" here don't have sex unless you count masturbating to pictures of 8 year old boys covered in their own feces.
Yeah, learn to play basketball. It's better than DDR because it's not a game. Wait it is. No, it's better because when you become a big star you can anally rape the female fans!