Things in the AC that just piss you off

broken pannels also pissed me off.

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When you slice your feet on a hazardous screw, don't come crying to us.

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Well, I've done it before..
Just try to play smoothly..
Is it a fault?

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You can get sprains and cuts from playing barefoot. If you're a Butterfly girl who plays 5 footer standards it's alright to go without shoes, but if you're trying to clear Survivor 290 you're gonna bloody something beautiful. Also, the hard surfaces can cool your feet to where your muscles become weak and tearable. Cold is the enemy to all athletic activity.

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I think not. I wasn't barefoot, but not in shoes either. It's quite feasible to do that kind of thing in socks or barefoot if you're careful to lift your feet high enough to clear the screws.
As for that bit about cold surfaces, I doubt there's an arcade that's that cold.

R&P heavy barefoot.

Forgot to mention this one. That's exactly what I expected you to mean and do.

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A lot of the other arcades I go to are in malls, and my home areas always open early in the morning. Sunnyvale Golfland, in particular, opens its doors on Saturdays. They've got hard tiled floors and no apparent source of internal heat.

lol, for a second I thought your tv was that Indian dance game they were talking about in another thread.

Oooh, that's another thing I hate. When people open and close doors for no reason. If the staff close the door, someone goes up to it and props it open again. If they open it, a little while later a bunch of people who aren't even playing in the arcade are gonna shut it for some inexplicable reason. It almost always happens at least 2-3 times a day.

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I think playing barefoot is just ok as long as you don't overdo it, i never cleared any boss songs with shoes on, i really need to feel the pad to calculate the rhythm and stomp timing when facing such songs. And some of my friends are experienced barefooter, they never had any problems clearing any songs without their shoes. Well, each player seems to have different preference in terms of shoes wearing. I love wearing heavy shoes, the strong tap sounds really good, and i put em off when i choose boss song, my feet become so featherweight :-).

Try playing in Converse All Stars. They have quite thin soles and you can really feel where you're stepping. They make an audiable sound when they hit the pad too.

Barefoot is OK for me, but from now I prefer using shoes because playing barefoot hurt my feet

Btw, I know someone from my country who can AA max 300 (super max me mix) with barefoot (arcade)

visit Indonesia, and you'll find DDR heroes who barefoot (yay)

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Hope you guys know good doctors...I don't know what idiots dare play DDR in the arcade barefoot...talk about bad foot odor, which can be solved with "Tough Actin' Tinactin" damn you John Madden

Since you've decided to descend to insults, I'll just say this.
Wimp. You're too weak to be able to play barefoot.
Also, it's wearing shoes constantly which traps sweat around the foot and concentrates it. That's what causes foot odor, Mr Smelly Feet.

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But barefoot is the easiest and the first way to play DDR for newbies I think...

I started from barefoot and not flat-foot...

I just enjoyed it

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That's what I use...Too bad I go thru 3 pairs in a year from playing...//

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I know what causes foot odor. And, no I'm not weak to be able to play barefoot. I play barefoot in the privacy of my own home. It's because of the noise I make that I hardly play at home.

Hey, saying you don't do it because of the noise is an actual reason. We've moved past using those and on to exchanging pointless insults. Get with it.

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et tu, Kyzentun?

I tried playing barefoot once at the arcade when I first started playing. At the time, the bottom of my feet were as soft as a baby's bottom so I wound up stepping on a screw and it hurt. And you wanna know where it landed? Right in the middle! Ugh!!! I was in pain for an hour or two until I walked it off.

No way in hell would I play barefoot. It's either socks or shoes.

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I wouldn't say socks are that recommended either, because one time after playing at an AC with just socks, I got real bad blisters, and the pain lasted for days.

Shoes might also give some blisters, but the pain doesn't last that long, from my experience.

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Shit, thanks for pointing that out. I only play with shoes at the arcade. I forgot this thread is for AC only.

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how do you manage that? i've got a few pairs of chucks i've had for going on 5 years now, and yes i wear and play DDR in them often. the only ones i tend to blow through are the plain black ones, because i wear them a lot more since they go with more of my clothing(yeah, i'm as bad as a chick when it comes to my shoes matching my outfit).

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Honey please, you're not as bad as a chick. If you have more than 50 pairs then yeah.Black matches with everything.

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