The Original Florida Thread

Anybody live in Florida? If so, where? I reside in Hialeah Gardens in the Miami Dade County.

Edit: There are two florida threads now. gg silenttype

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I live in Florida.

I reside in Ocala which is about an hour north of Orlando.

The only arcade I ever go to is Beach Gameland in Clearwater Beach. I only go there about once a month however since it is a 2 1/2 hr. drive for me. XD

I go because that's the closest arcade to me with an IIDX machine.

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Oh crap! I am so sorry for not checking this thread.
I noticed that you don't know the name of my city. And I'm not surprised.
For about a year now, the area where I live has been changing its name, seeing as how the mayor is expanding Hialeah Gardens (below Hialeah). I'll continue this message by sending you a PM.

But to keep this thread alive: Have you ever been to Hialeah or Miami Dade County at the least?

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Miami Dade County sounds really familar...hmm...though I can't put my finger on it...

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Before Miami-Dade County, it used to be called Dade county. I guess they changed for tourism purposes. And if it helps, it's under Broward county.

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Ah yes.

I used to live VERY close to Broward County, but we moved away from there, like, 4 years ago to live up here. I hate it up here, it's so redneck.

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I'm pretty sure it's not THAT redneck-ed like in Gainesville. A good friend of mine was complaining her entire trip when she was up there.

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Well...Gainesville's pretty close, but at least they have some kind of small city. There ain't nothin' for city here, it sucks.
To paint a small picture of how redneck Ocala is, Ocala has the world record for the most horses in one city.

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World record?!
Wow!
In the world?!
Scary.

On another note, I found another Floridian. I sent him a PM to check out this thread. I just hope he does.
And on Beatmania IIDX, the hardest song I've done is Presto on Hyper. Out of the 20 times I played it, I only passed it once.

Yeah, I'm stuck with BMUS; but I love it so much!

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Better than nothin', that's what I started out with. XD

Presto on Hyper took me a while, very nice.

Another Floridian huh, awesome!! 3 so far! XD

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Yep! I found him under the Introductions thread.
You also have BMUS? How hard was it for you to get a copy? I wound up getting the last copy at a Target on Bird Road (near the area of Santa's Enchanted Forest)
I was sad that there wasn't another one.

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Heh, it's kinda funny how I came across it...

I got out of work one night and in the plaza, there's a GameStop. I didn't feel like going home yet, so I walked over there. I saw that they had Beatmania on clearance for 35 bucks new. I thought it looked really cool, but I didn't have enough money to buy it, so the next day on the way to work, I stopped at the bank and bought it that night. Last copy of it I've ever seen in a store.
Little did I know what I got myself into by buying it, I became so addicted. XD

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No need to explain the addiction. I, too, suffer this addiction.
On another subject, what's going on in Ocala? Traffic has been getting really bad down here near Okeechobee Road. And you could easily mistake the pollution clouds for a thunderstorm; that's how bad it gets on weekdays.

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Nothing ever really goes on in Ocala. It's infested with old people so life is pretty slow. XD
We don't really mistake pollution for storm clouds, because it rains so much up here, normally, it IS storm clouds.
And traffic isn't that bad at all up here. It's definitely not as bad as down there, but it can get quite crazy around rush hour.

Say, do you have a MySpace or something close to that?

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Um, no.

I do not like the idea of having a MySpace. I just don't like it. I see my family, particularly my cousins, on the computer all day staring at that website. I see MySpace as a bad addiction, if addictions can be good.

I assume that you have one.

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Had.

I don't use it anymore.

The only good addictions I've had(have) are IIDX and Pepsi. XD

If you play DDR in an arcade, which arcade do you go to down there? I may have been there before...

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The one I usually go to is the one in Main Street located in Miami Lakes. It's inside Cobb Theaters and it's a SuperNova machine. I go every weekend.

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Cobb Theaters...Main Street...sounds extremely familar...
I may have been there before, though, if I have, they didn't have a SuperNOVA, that's for sure. XD

The arcade I went to the most when I lived down there was the arcade in the bowling alley "Jupiter Lanes." I mainly only went there because all my friends were DDR freaks and they loved to go play the machine they had there. While they were doin' that, I was behind them on the Galaga machine. XD

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I also go to ANOTHER Cobb Theaters, which is located in Dolphin Mall and a Muvico in 49th street near my house. The Dolphin Mall also has a SuperNova machine and Muvico has DDR Extreme and a SuperNova machine.

But I hardly ever go to these two places.

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Hmm, I've never heard of that location.

In other news, yeah! I'm now a 7th dan in IIDX! XD

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