Tuesday, Part 2
Hey, that wasn't so bad. I wandered down to the corner of Fifth and Craig and met up with Rebecca, Becky, Bayani, Mike, and (guy whose name I have forgotten). We drove to Mike's place in Shadyside and got out two huge bags of gratuitous music gaming stuff (damn, Rebecca's collection is about as big as mine). Set up DDR Extra Mix and played a bunch of songs. Angel showed up and he and Bayani did a bunch of maniac songs (and I and Rebecca had been doing maniac songs as well). After about an hour, the downstairs neighbors came up and complained, so we had to stop playing it.
Apparently usually they've been much better about it. I hypothesize that it was the playing of lots of MANIAC songs, because you could practically feel the place shaking. I wonder if it's any better or worse here when I play...
Anyway, this was ok, as Rebecca had brought along Samba De Amigo and her two new third-party controllers acquired from toysnjoys.com. Now let me say something - I think toysnjoys are usually pretty cool. I've ordered a lot of stuff from them and never been disappointed (although lately my PSX2 has been a little weird from time to time and I have to wonder about it - but it should still be under warranty, so maybe I'll call and bug them sometime). However, these Samba controllers had ISSUES. It wasn't that she had a burned copy of Samba2K, because we put in the normal american Samba disc and the controllers were still having issues. After many people failed to get them to work, me, who has never really played the game before except in the arcade, decided to step up and try to play. I managed to do three songs before failing! Woo! And the controllers never crapped out at all!
We have no idea, but after a while of trying to play and continually having the controllers accidentally reset the thing, eventually gave up.
For the last hour, we played things like Jammer Lammy and Bust-a-Groove, which are other music games that you can be good at if you have the skill of "knowing where the buttons are on your PSX controller and knowing how to count the beat". They are cute and somewhat worth playing if you can't play DDR due to your downstairs neighbors, but, I think I enjoy bemani games quite a bit more. At least now I know who all of the characters are that I keep seeing people dress up as (Carolee - is your name taken from the BAM character "Kitty-N"?), and I've tried new games. They were kinda entertaining and I'd probably get them if I saw them cheap or on ebay or something, but I wouldn't go out of my way.
Same for Samba actually. If it was cheap and easy to acquire I might pick it up, it'd certainly help my arm muscles much more than Para Para, but... shrug. I already find myself pretty well occupied with my deluge of dancing simulation games.
So, I'm home, and thinking about either inviting these guys over to play DDR here next week, or throwing a bemani party sometime, or both. Hmmm...
Wow, Erin (![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
blistex) defriended me. That's the first person I actually know in real life who defriended me. I wonder if I need to be more entertaining. Oh well. That's ok. LJ is so weird that way in that plenty of people read all of the details of the lives of people they barely know across the world, yet sometimes they don't want to read about the people who live half a mile away. It's a weird notion of "friend". Anyway... heh, it is kind of funny because I always see people welcoming people to their friends list, but not saying goodbye. I guess you figure they're not going to see the goodbye anyway, right?
Anyway, I think it was a relatively good day, and maybe tomorrow I'll even wake up before noon and do some productive stuff like print out copies of my resume. Yeah.
Apparently usually they've been much better about it. I hypothesize that it was the playing of lots of MANIAC songs, because you could practically feel the place shaking. I wonder if it's any better or worse here when I play...
Anyway, this was ok, as Rebecca had brought along Samba De Amigo and her two new third-party controllers acquired from toysnjoys.com. Now let me say something - I think toysnjoys are usually pretty cool. I've ordered a lot of stuff from them and never been disappointed (although lately my PSX2 has been a little weird from time to time and I have to wonder about it - but it should still be under warranty, so maybe I'll call and bug them sometime). However, these Samba controllers had ISSUES. It wasn't that she had a burned copy of Samba2K, because we put in the normal american Samba disc and the controllers were still having issues. After many people failed to get them to work, me, who has never really played the game before except in the arcade, decided to step up and try to play. I managed to do three songs before failing! Woo! And the controllers never crapped out at all!
We have no idea, but after a while of trying to play and continually having the controllers accidentally reset the thing, eventually gave up.
For the last hour, we played things like Jammer Lammy and Bust-a-Groove, which are other music games that you can be good at if you have the skill of "knowing where the buttons are on your PSX controller and knowing how to count the beat". They are cute and somewhat worth playing if you can't play DDR due to your downstairs neighbors, but, I think I enjoy bemani games quite a bit more. At least now I know who all of the characters are that I keep seeing people dress up as (Carolee - is your name taken from the BAM character "Kitty-N"?), and I've tried new games. They were kinda entertaining and I'd probably get them if I saw them cheap or on ebay or something, but I wouldn't go out of my way.
Same for Samba actually. If it was cheap and easy to acquire I might pick it up, it'd certainly help my arm muscles much more than Para Para, but... shrug. I already find myself pretty well occupied with my deluge of dancing simulation games.
So, I'm home, and thinking about either inviting these guys over to play DDR here next week, or throwing a bemani party sometime, or both. Hmmm...
Wow, Erin (
blistex) defriended me. That's the first person I actually know in real life who defriended me. I wonder if I need to be more entertaining. Oh well. That's ok. LJ is so weird that way in that plenty of people read all of the details of the lives of people they barely know across the world, yet sometimes they don't want to read about the people who live half a mile away. It's a weird notion of "friend". Anyway... heh, it is kind of funny because I always see people welcoming people to their friends list, but not saying goodbye. I guess you figure they're not going to see the goodbye anyway, right?Anyway, I think it was a relatively good day, and maybe tomorrow I'll even wake up before noon and do some productive stuff like print out copies of my resume. Yeah.
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I can't speak for her, but personally, I don't want to spend time creating groups and reading group pages. So, I've "defriended" a few people who are really nice people (i.e. still RL friends) but who write a lot. It's nothing personal. It's just that I don't have time to read all that they write.
I figure my journal's for -me-. And yours is for you. If you want to read my stuff, great. If not, no problem. It seems a bit agressive to say "you talk too much. Goodbye." to someone when I'm not the intended audience.
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I'm starting to drift in the direction of groups. I mostly use groups for ACLs, but I've also defined a "closer friends" group and when I'm in a hurry and just want an update on what my friends are doing, and don't have time to wade through communitites and more distant friends, I use that view.
I wish that the "default view" and ACL meanings of "friend" could be separated, though.