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Not much to say about work today. Meetings and I got done the stuff Mike wanted me to have done today, so I feel good about that. I wore my newly hemmed DDR pants to work, actually.
So, the first Monday of every month is Free Bemani Night at Narrows. Each time, one Bemani machine is set on freeplay for the evening, and they take down people's names and take turns that way. This month, Gaffect was picking the free game, so it was DrumMania. But, Bill, the arcade owner, out of the goodness of his heart, also made the DDR MAX2 machine with memcard slots on free play for the evening as well. Wheeee!
Kiefer and Keiichi showed up in the international district around 5:30 to pick me up, and we drove down to Tacoma. Exciting! Kiefer's car is full of fluffy bunnies. No joke, he has five big stuffed bunny rabbits in the front and back dashboard like areas. They're way cute, and I hugged a bunny for all of both drives. The three of us talked about a lot of random crap on the 45-minute drive down there... it's good because Kiefer's like four months older than me and Kei's like... less than a year younger, and we're all computer nerds.
Anyway, we got there, and signed up for our free Bemani. Amber was doing the books, and Rayna was doing the Para Para, and some other people were there, like Gaffect and Arsenic Aaron, and Dylan the Villain, and some random people I don't know, and some annoying guy named Rick, and... anyway, so I think I got like 4 free games of DDR, and a few of DM after most people had left. Rather than real freeplay, Bill just puts 99 credits on the machine, and lets it go, but from 6-9pm they actually keep the book line so people get equal chances for the free credits. After 9pm people beat each other up for it.
I managed to play every Bemani game in the arcade at least once except Guitar Freaks. For those counting, that means I played a game of PIU, and a few of DMX, and many PPP, and a ton of DDR 5th mix because it's on Joint Premium now, and I played a lot of Beatmania CM2 (and even got a high score on Hard twice! yay for putting up "DR4B"), and a lot of KBM (I passed a whole lot of new songs on Light+, and with Kiefer passed a whole lot of harder Light+ stuff like Q's sonata or whatever), and some DrumMania after 9pm. Yay for gratuitous Bemani! Hey, so I totally can pass Make Your Move Maniac Double, which is theoretically a cata, and Petit Love Maniac Double, which is an 8-footer, and some other Maniac Doubles of the 6-7 foot range. I really like Joint Premium. :) As for playing MAX2 normally, I added one new cata to my "passed" status - Paranoia KCET Clean. I also got Kakumei passed on my memcard. Wheee. Oh, and I full-comboed Burnin' the Floor as part of the Naoki Standard course. I know, no big deal, but still, I was pretty happy with it, even though D2R kicks my butt.
Sigh, I really wanted to talk to Gaffect and Aaron more, but I'm retarded and shy. And then they left with Amber and Rayna and all at 9pm, which I didn't expect. :( On the other hand, Max showed up! Max is a really fun guy, and he had brought some wacky-ass edits, and he's just goofy and cool. On the other hand, the annoying guy Rick wouldn't shut the fuck up, like standing next to the machine and making loud comments about people and songs while they were playing. Then it turns out he totally sucks at DDR, too. And he was ahead of me in line and asked if I'd want to play with him and I was like "uh no... I'm uh playing with Allan..." and under my breath was like "...and in reality I'd sooner punch you in the nose than play DDR with you..." and ended up playing with Max anyway :)
There was this little kid playing DrumMania who wasn't having such a good time at it... like he'd fail on really easy songs. So I played a set after he failed once. In the middle of my second song, like My Sweet Darlin' or something, when I had like a 200-something combo, the kid came back to the machine like "hey did you fail yet?" And I finish off the song with a full combo and go "No... I did not FAIL." It was silly. I almost elbowed him many times while doing Call My Name as my third song, since he was practically breathing down my neck. It's not that I don't want to encourage new people to play, but daaaamn, that was annoying.
Eventually around 11pm a bunch of us were like "geez, we are HUNGRY" and we managed to get Kei off the Initial D machine at long last (he finally won some race... said he put like 15 bucks into the machine to do it!) and so Kiefer, Kei, Farren, Max, and me went to a Denny's down the road from Narrows. There was much talk of videogames, some of which I totally zoned out for, and some of which I didn't, and so on. It was a fun group. Although everyone seemed really impatient with the waiter guy and I couldn't figure out why, and it sort of makes me uncomfortable when people are rude to waitstaff that don't *really* deserve it. I dunno. After that we came home. More fluffy bunnies in the car and tons of Bemani music.
It was a good day, all in all. Lots of fun to be had with a good group of people... and these are some pretty nice people to spend a night at the arcade with.
So, the first Monday of every month is Free Bemani Night at Narrows. Each time, one Bemani machine is set on freeplay for the evening, and they take down people's names and take turns that way. This month, Gaffect was picking the free game, so it was DrumMania. But, Bill, the arcade owner, out of the goodness of his heart, also made the DDR MAX2 machine with memcard slots on free play for the evening as well. Wheeee!
Kiefer and Keiichi showed up in the international district around 5:30 to pick me up, and we drove down to Tacoma. Exciting! Kiefer's car is full of fluffy bunnies. No joke, he has five big stuffed bunny rabbits in the front and back dashboard like areas. They're way cute, and I hugged a bunny for all of both drives. The three of us talked about a lot of random crap on the 45-minute drive down there... it's good because Kiefer's like four months older than me and Kei's like... less than a year younger, and we're all computer nerds.
Anyway, we got there, and signed up for our free Bemani. Amber was doing the books, and Rayna was doing the Para Para, and some other people were there, like Gaffect and Arsenic Aaron, and Dylan the Villain, and some random people I don't know, and some annoying guy named Rick, and... anyway, so I think I got like 4 free games of DDR, and a few of DM after most people had left. Rather than real freeplay, Bill just puts 99 credits on the machine, and lets it go, but from 6-9pm they actually keep the book line so people get equal chances for the free credits. After 9pm people beat each other up for it.
I managed to play every Bemani game in the arcade at least once except Guitar Freaks. For those counting, that means I played a game of PIU, and a few of DMX, and many PPP, and a ton of DDR 5th mix because it's on Joint Premium now, and I played a lot of Beatmania CM2 (and even got a high score on Hard twice! yay for putting up "DR4B"), and a lot of KBM (I passed a whole lot of new songs on Light+, and with Kiefer passed a whole lot of harder Light+ stuff like Q's sonata or whatever), and some DrumMania after 9pm. Yay for gratuitous Bemani! Hey, so I totally can pass Make Your Move Maniac Double, which is theoretically a cata, and Petit Love Maniac Double, which is an 8-footer, and some other Maniac Doubles of the 6-7 foot range. I really like Joint Premium. :) As for playing MAX2 normally, I added one new cata to my "passed" status - Paranoia KCET Clean. I also got Kakumei passed on my memcard. Wheee. Oh, and I full-comboed Burnin' the Floor as part of the Naoki Standard course. I know, no big deal, but still, I was pretty happy with it, even though D2R kicks my butt.
Sigh, I really wanted to talk to Gaffect and Aaron more, but I'm retarded and shy. And then they left with Amber and Rayna and all at 9pm, which I didn't expect. :( On the other hand, Max showed up! Max is a really fun guy, and he had brought some wacky-ass edits, and he's just goofy and cool. On the other hand, the annoying guy Rick wouldn't shut the fuck up, like standing next to the machine and making loud comments about people and songs while they were playing. Then it turns out he totally sucks at DDR, too. And he was ahead of me in line and asked if I'd want to play with him and I was like "uh no... I'm uh playing with Allan..." and under my breath was like "...and in reality I'd sooner punch you in the nose than play DDR with you..." and ended up playing with Max anyway :)
There was this little kid playing DrumMania who wasn't having such a good time at it... like he'd fail on really easy songs. So I played a set after he failed once. In the middle of my second song, like My Sweet Darlin' or something, when I had like a 200-something combo, the kid came back to the machine like "hey did you fail yet?" And I finish off the song with a full combo and go "No... I did not FAIL." It was silly. I almost elbowed him many times while doing Call My Name as my third song, since he was practically breathing down my neck. It's not that I don't want to encourage new people to play, but daaaamn, that was annoying.
Eventually around 11pm a bunch of us were like "geez, we are HUNGRY" and we managed to get Kei off the Initial D machine at long last (he finally won some race... said he put like 15 bucks into the machine to do it!) and so Kiefer, Kei, Farren, Max, and me went to a Denny's down the road from Narrows. There was much talk of videogames, some of which I totally zoned out for, and some of which I didn't, and so on. It was a fun group. Although everyone seemed really impatient with the waiter guy and I couldn't figure out why, and it sort of makes me uncomfortable when people are rude to waitstaff that don't *really* deserve it. I dunno. After that we came home. More fluffy bunnies in the car and tons of Bemani music.
It was a good day, all in all. Lots of fun to be had with a good group of people... and these are some pretty nice people to spend a night at the arcade with.
