I must have listened to that song a thousand times and never knew that was what it said.
I have to use 11 at work, and found ExplorerPatcher helpful.
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Yeah, that was an early American sports car. Elvis famously owned one.
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There’s a fantastic restaurant in St. Louis, The Fountain On Locust, which is a very art deco place that was a former Stutz dealership. One of their desserts is called the Bearcat.
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Oh, how I covet thy Cobalt Flux.
I remember all the drama around the production of those and how it seemed like a scam or vaporware for a period of years until they finally started getting delivered. I had a friend who had one with the bar attachment, and it was freaking awesome.
ETA: Last year I went to Lucky Strike for a morale event at work and they had StepManiX cabinet. It had been some 10 years and some 50 lbs since I last played any DDR/ITG/PIU (and some 15 years since I had been any good at it). I picked some moderately difficult songs and could barely get through them without failing. It was like my mind knew exactly what I needed to do, but the rest of my body just wouldn’t respond in turn. I was able to build up some confidence and recall some muscle memory after some 30 minutes or so and get through some more difficult stuff, but it sure was a rude awakening that I’m not as young and fit as I used to be. (Not that I was ever “fit” or anything, but playing dance games in an arcade every week for hours at a time certainly gave me voluminous leg strength and stamina.)
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I’ve had that thing since around 2005, when the pad I built myself was destroyed in a basement flood and as I’d just graduated uni, I had the cash to splurge.
I used to be in such great shape back when I was really into DDR. I biked 10km to school, spent all day walking around, biked back, then played DDR for like an hour. I was in such good shape. Which is exactly why I got this thing set up. I need gamification to really be able to do cardio, and gods help me do I need cardio these days!
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My focus has never been great, stuff like DDR or Guitar Hero were games i enjoyed but struggled with because my brain just can’t keep up, and i also often lose focus and get distracted. But boy i miss the old days of DDR, it was a lot of fun and i always wanted to have a super fancy dance pad but i could only afford the regular ones.
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There is basically nothing at all appealing to me about exercise, at all. Cardio is boring. Weights make me stiff and sore. Running/walking feels like a waste of time. I well and truly hate it.
Rhythm games like DDR/ITG/PIU/and others were a wonderful cheat code to help me get into a great exercise routine. I wasn’t spending hours a day burning calories and sweating buckets – I was trying to get a high score on ever harder levels while listening to music I enjoyed. It was something I actually looked forward doing. The gamification worked well. I also made a lot of friends, was in a fun community, and I was even a mod over at DDRfreak.
Then all the arcades in my area shut down and it became too inconvenient. There were a couple places close by that had a barely-working DDR or PIU machine, but if I wanted to play on something well-maintained I’d have to drive some 30+ miles away. It became too much of a hassle. Living in a space constrained apartment meant I could never have an equivalent setup at home.
I do miss it, though.
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Heh.
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Oh right that had one of best snake games.
My favorite snake game:
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I’m a member of several discord groups that serve that function. It’s a lot better, especially because you need an invite rather than every Facebook user with a passing interest being invited to join a small niche group, diluting the focus and slopping up the feed with low effort posts and reposts of AI-generated factoids.
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I personally dislike discord. Being a walled garden with weird things like required invites, being a chat system rather than a forum/blog/bbs, etc. (never mind my opinion of its interface). Everything just gets lost in a closed-off chatroom backscroll. That’s a poor substitute for what used to be (and places like Elsewhere that do still exist).
It’s very different than the open web that we had before. Yes, we did have chatrooms (like IRC), but there was also so much more that is all just…not there with discord. Maybe if the discord channel has a corresponding public groups.io instance or something.
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