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Dancing With Myself - On DDR Culture

Posted by simoniker on from the no-half-step dept.

Thanks to Waxy.org for pointing to an overlooked March 2004 Pitch.com story discussing scenes from America's Dance Dance Revolution arcade culture, as the article starts: "In the strange world of Kansas City's Dance Dance Revolutionaries, Wayne Giles didn't step so lightly." It goes on to describe Giles' transition "from social outcast to high roller in a crowd funded by allowances and minimum-wage paychecks", and his eventual "skimming... [of] more than a thousand dollars' worth of tokens [as an arcade tech]", before his exposure and return to local tournament play, arguing of DDR: "Lately it's all about speed. Whatever happened to playing for fun?"

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  1. What.. the.. hell. by GigsVT · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why do we care about some teenager who was scamming tokens from an arcade he worked at and playing DDR?

    What's next, "When Valets Attack! (the change in your ashtray)".

    Or maybe "Dressing Myself - On clothing shoplifting culture".

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