I am using two Intec hard foam pads.. and for non-metal pads, they are pretty damned good (like all hard foam (NOT DENSE FOAM) pads). Been able to survive Burning Heat! (3 Option Mix) and TSUGARU heavy easily. ^_^
Well, that's why they have sources at the end of the article(s). Surely Wikipedia is relable as a library of links.
Sure it may not be good now because of the abuse, but we should hep it grow to the point where it can be good (and my teachers will stop closing their ears at any question about any aspect of wikipedia. \_/)
Keywords: Limited time. I think that the basic concept of copyrights is good the way the founding fathers had it, but 95 - 100+years easily is NOT what any person using common sense would call a limited time.
Whenever someone starts mincing words ("copyright infringement" vs "stealing") it's in a (feeble) attempt to justify their sins.
I hear this, yet I see less of that and more pointless accusations. Please prove this, or forever hold your bullshit. ^_^
File sharing is morally wrong: you know that.
No, I don't "know" that. I know you consider all file-sharing wrong even if there is legal file-sharing does and can occur. I know that file-sharing legal goods is morally sound, I also know that you made a false generalization. File-sharing is only bad if the intentions are not following the laws, that does not make the technology only bad especially since there is legal content that is shared.
I just want to "borrow" your computer for a bit, play around with it, download some questionable material, troll the Wikipedia, nothing serious. I'm sure you see no problem with that, because you have no problem with copyright infringement, so that wouldn't be stealing after all.
Straw man flaimbait. First of all you make a comparison that compares two different bits (stealing a computer and copying data) and make them equal, then you continue by making the false assumption that his denouncing calling illegal file-sharing anything but that as saying it is O.K.
I am through with this post. If anything, you should be modded down not for your belief that it is stealing, but for the fact that you try to prove your point through accusations and unbacked assumptions and bad analogies.
Well, stealing has always been illegal, but we *are* talking about infringement of copyrights here... I think that if you mod me down for saying this point, you also need to mod down the parent post and the post above for making statements that are made in every news story about this topic - it's only fair.
The problem though is that they make no distinction of legal and illegal sharing of copyrights, contridicting logic, and nullifying your point, which should NOT happen.
Whoops, that should read "The sharing of files not in violation of copyright laws is not illegal. The RIAA should take its ill-informed and fire them, then take the propaganda they spew and shove it."
The only other option, odds are it is really craopy, but if doing DDR in a class, do "ghosting" for those not playing the DDR game itself, so they stil can mimic the moves and try getting the exersise the main player(s) are getting (if not using the bar).
So your saying that DDR in schools is only problematic in ass-backwards states and a good idea in places where it is more likely to succeed (more and more states, since DDR is inceasing in popularity here. ^_^) BTW, k-pop and j-pop are NOT the only kinds of music in DDR... 500+ songs spanning nearly (or over) 20 games in more than 5 genres IIRC.
Actually, the pads range in price, the best ones being near arcade quality and costing over $1,000... the games range anywhere from $29.99 to $50+ depending on where you live. I don't know why you'd want to bother with the Xbox ones anyways, they suck compared to the DDRMAX series. (ULTRAMIX 1: Light/standard/Heavy/Training/Challenge VS DDRMAX/MAX2/EXTREME: beginners/light/standard/heavy/Oni Nonstop Challenge/Endless/Training Mode and a larger variety of songs)
Only one person can be on a dancepad at a time. How many will be in each school?
Depends...
On a regular DDR arcade game, 2 people can play (except for the Solo version). On home versions, mostly 2 players as the maximum except for the DDR ULTRAMIX series (DDRMAX series pwns) which can have up to 4 players playing at once.
game1 (gm)
n.
An activity providing entertainment or amusement; a pastime: party games; word games.
A competitive activity or sport in which players contend with each other according to a set of rules: the game of basketball; the game of gin rummy.
A single instance of such an activity: We lost the first game.
games An organized athletic program or contest: track-and-field games; took part in the winter games.
A period of competition or challenge: It was too late in the game to change the schedule of the project.
The total number of points required to win a game: One hundred points is game in bridge.
The score accumulated at any given time in a game: The game is now 14 to 12.
The equipment needed for playing certain games: packed the children's games in the car.
A particular style or manner of playing a game: improved my tennis game with practice.
Informal.
An active interest or pursuit, especially one involving competitive engagement or adherence to rules: "the way the system operates, the access game, the turf game, the image game" (Hedrick Smith).
A business or occupation; a line: the insurance game.
An illegal activity; a racket.
Informal.
Evasive, trifling, or manipulative behavior: wanted a straight answer, not more of their tiresome games.
A calculated strategy or approach; a scheme: I saw through their game from the very beginning.
Mathematics. A model of a competitive situation that identifies interested parties and stipulates rules governing all aspects of the competition, used in game theory to determine the optimal course of action for an interested party.
Wild animals, birds, or fish hunted for food or sport.
The flesh of these animals, eaten as food.
An object of attack, ridicule, or pursuit: The press considered the candidate's indiscretions to be game.
Mockery; sport: The older children teased and made game of the newcomer.
Nowhere does this disqualify DDR from being a real game. ^_^
Health Benefits!? Seriously! Has society dropped that low. Whatever happened to PE class and casual sporting.
Spoken like somebody who has never really played DDR before judging.
I participate actively in P.E in school, but I also play DDR at home... a lot of DDR, not just light mode, but standard, and heavy/standard/heavy on doubles mode (with 2 pads).
DDR involves you using your body. Play it a lot, you will notice changes. Just because you don't see how it is arobic doesn't mean it isn't, it just means you need to update your definition. I have strengthened my legs considerably, and can move them faster too thanks to DDR.
Unless you go to a school like I do where DDR is increasing in popularity... much of the middle school plays it.... I was in a conversation with a large group of 10 or so DDR players and potential players talking about my adventures into the realm.
DDR can be embarassing if you let it get embarassing. Concentrate on AAAing that Light/Standard/Heavy song and you will not have to worry about looking like crap during the gameplay, and actually doing badly, from experience.
You know what professors call "poorly cited" research?
Theft.
..and do you know what I call those who call it that? Fucking Morons... plagiarism is FRAUD. Fraud and plagiarism mean the same thing. Theft is nothing more than a emotion grab at enforcing a vaild concept, and a stretch from realism IMO.
The real idiots in this story are the people who think this is a good idea for a game. Ultra violence is the last resort of the clueless designer.
Nah, I think it is partially those trying to convince people who know how to make smart choices to avoid a game in the name of those who are too stupid to make smart decisions.
I may be slightly biased, but if people want something that someone else went to the trouble of creating, doesn't it seem kinda fair if the creator asks to get paid?
YOu mean if they want to be paid, right? Otherwise it would be contradicting:
There's such a thing as free music: download stuff that bands put online for your enjoyment or make some of your own, already.
Let's establish a rule of conduct: If you make it a point to attack and publicly castigate developers who don't follow the GNU license, you should NOT attack RIAA for protecting their own IP rights, or for publicly discussing options for doing so
Well, If by " protecting their own IP rights, or for publicly discussing options for doing so" you mean distorting the truth, outright lying, or other deceptful methods, then this is why it is not outright hypocritical to attack one and nott the other, since it is all about the method, and so far I have not seen GNU/GPL licenced software developers stoop down to the tactics the **AAs have, making it easier (and more correct, IMO) to be lot more sympathetic to them than the **AAs.
Defiinatly no point to reversing except of course to memorize a whole new pattern. ^_^ I myself am trying to learn Burning Heat (3 Option Mix) in a way wjere I can play it reversed to the screen.
I disagree, having my body up to the speakers while selecting the song (not sexually, I mean), and having the bass from Burning Heat (3 Option Mix) really noticible before selecting the song... I just stand and let the bass flow through, the feeling, the sound... it is amazing. Then I select the song, almost finish it on heavy, fail, and almost pass out on the pad. j/k
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Actually, they use it for copyright infringement. ^_^ The anality was just too tempting.... as it is true.
I am using two Intec hard foam pads.. and for non-metal pads, they are pretty damned good (like all hard foam (NOT DENSE FOAM) pads). Been able to survive Burning Heat! (3 Option Mix) and TSUGARU heavy easily. ^_^
Well, that's why they have sources at the end of the article(s). Surely Wikipedia is relable as a library of links. Sure it may not be good now because of the abuse, but we should hep it grow to the point where it can be good (and my teachers will stop closing their ears at any question about any aspect of wikipedia. \_/)
Keywords: Limited time. I think that the basic concept of copyrights is good the way the founding fathers had it, but 95 - 100+years easily is NOT what any person using common sense would call a limited time.
I hear this, yet I see less of that and more pointless accusations. Please prove this, or forever hold your bullshit. ^_^
No, I don't "know" that. I know you consider all file-sharing wrong even if there is legal file-sharing does and can occur. I know that file-sharing legal goods is morally sound, I also know that you made a false generalization. File-sharing is only bad if the intentions are not following the laws, that does not make the technology only bad especially since there is legal content that is shared.
Straw man flaimbait. First of all you make a comparison that compares two different bits (stealing a computer and copying data) and make them equal, then you continue by making the false assumption that his denouncing calling illegal file-sharing anything but that as saying it is O.K.
I am through with this post. If anything, you should be modded down not for your belief that it is stealing, but for the fact that you try to prove your point through accusations and unbacked assumptions and bad analogies.
Well, stealing has always been illegal, but we *are* talking about infringement of copyrights here... I think that if you mod me down for saying this point, you also need to mod down the parent post and the post above for making statements that are made in every news story about this topic - it's only fair.
The problem though is that they make no distinction of legal and illegal sharing of copyrights, contridicting logic, and nullifying your point, which should NOT happen.
Whoops, that should read "The sharing of files not in violation of copyright laws is not illegal. The RIAA should take its ill-informed and fire them, then take the propaganda they spew and shove it."
Well, if the file is not vilating copyright law, then it is not illegal. The RIAA should take its ill informed post and shove it...
Ahhh, old school games... I seee, and agreeeeee maaan. ^_^
The only other option, odds are it is really craopy, but if doing DDR in a class, do "ghosting" for those not playing the DDR game itself, so they stil can mimic the moves and try getting the exersise the main player(s) are getting (if not using the bar).
So your saying that DDR in schools is only problematic in ass-backwards states and a good idea in places where it is more likely to succeed (more and more states, since DDR is inceasing in popularity here. ^_^) BTW, k-pop and j-pop are NOT the only kinds of music in DDR... 500+ songs spanning nearly (or over) 20 games in more than 5 genres IIRC.
Actually, the pads range in price, the best ones being near arcade quality and costing over $1,000... the games range anywhere from $29.99 to $50+ depending on where you live. I don't know why you'd want to bother with the Xbox ones anyways, they suck compared to the DDRMAX series. (ULTRAMIX 1: Light/standard/Heavy/Training/Challenge VS DDRMAX/MAX2/EXTREME: beginners/light/standard/heavy/Oni Nonstop Challenge/Endless/Training Mode and a larger variety of songs)
Hmmm....
Nowhere does this disqualify DDR from being a real game. ^_^Spoken like somebody who has never really played DDR before judging.
I participate actively in P.E in school, but I also play DDR at home... a lot of DDR, not just light mode, but standard, and heavy/standard/heavy on doubles mode (with 2 pads).
DDR involves you using your body. Play it a lot, you will notice changes. Just because you don't see how it is arobic doesn't mean it isn't, it just means you need to update your definition. I have strengthened my legs considerably, and can move them faster too thanks to DDR.
Unless you go to a school like I do where DDR is increasing in popularity... much of the middle school plays it.... I was in a conversation with a large group of 10 or so DDR players and potential players talking about my adventures into the realm.
DDR can be embarassing if you let it get embarassing. Concentrate on AAAing that Light/Standard/Heavy song and you will not have to worry about looking like crap during the gameplay, and actually doing badly, from experience.
..and do you know what I call those who call it that? Fucking Morons ... plagiarism is FRAUD. Fraud and plagiarism mean the same thing. Theft is nothing more than a emotion grab at enforcing a vaild concept, and a stretch from realism IMO.
Nah, I think it is partially those trying to convince people who know how to make smart choices to avoid a game in the name of those who are too stupid to make smart decisions.
So your logical fallacy is allowed but nobody can correct you even if you are in fact wrong?
GROW UP!
YOu mean if they want to be paid, right? Otherwise it would be contradicting:
Since none of them are getting paid. ^_^
Well, If by " protecting their own IP rights, or for publicly discussing options for doing so" you mean distorting the truth, outright lying, or other deceptful methods, then this is why it is not outright hypocritical to attack one and nott the other, since it is all about the method, and so far I have not seen GNU/GPL licenced software developers stoop down to the tactics the **AAs have, making it easier (and more correct, IMO) to be lot more sympathetic to them than the **AAs.
Defiinatly no point to reversing except of course to memorize a whole new pattern. ^_^ I myself am trying to learn Burning Heat (3 Option Mix) in a way wjere I can play it reversed to the screen.
Looks like somebodys sarcasm meter is broken... I can barely pass Sakura on heavy. ^.^
I disagree, having my body up to the speakers while selecting the song (not sexually, I mean), and having the bass from Burning Heat (3 Option Mix) really noticible before selecting the song... I just stand and let the bass flow through, the feeling, the sound... it is amazing. Then I select the song, almost finish it on heavy, fail, and almost pass out on the pad. j/k