So at the moment I'm feeling kinda sad. I broke up with my girlfriend recently, which I don't care about and is not why I'm feeling down.

I'm feeling down because it seems like people deny that I exist at all. At school, a lot of people hated me because I made a public blog post about someone who I hate with a passion and this person happened to be a dumb popular preppy jerk. He was friends with most of the girls at my school, which pretty much destroyed any of my chances of talking to a lot of the girls at my school. People don't want to let it go, and if I tried to add someone as a friend on MySpace they do any or all of the following:

a. Completely ignore my friend request

b. Send me hateful messages

c. Just be a d-bag in general.

Thanks to this d-bag, I have little to no chances of getting a girlfriend until people lighten up and just let it go. And even if they aren't friends with this kid they still seem to completely ignore me. Is there something about me that just utterly offends & disgusts you? Do I point fingers at you and laugh at how much of an idiot you can be? Maybe I should just deal with the fact that I'm worthless.

O RLY?

So I'm Virginia until tomorrow. Yay? General wrap-up of what has happened so far:

- Busch Gardens is still the best theme park I've ever been to.

- Busch Gardens has really good ITG2 dedicabs. Pad screw ups galore!

- On the other hand, the Extreme machines are decent despite them all being lolcensorcabs.

- Me and some kid whose name is Thomas screamed a bunch of random crap while on the Alpengeist roller coaster

- Virginia Beach is pretty cool, minus the part where someone tried to sell me and my friend some dope.

- I found a Supernova 2 machine while in Virginia Beach. It's a dedicab, but it was actually somewhat decent despite that most SN2 dedicabs suffer from epic phail.

- The beach is fun, especially when there are a lot of lol hueg waves.

- Salt water tastes horrible when it gets in your mouth.

- Then again, so does pool water.

- I played on a decent Extreme machine at a mall in Newport News.

- I passed The Legend of Max.

- I gots me some new DDR shoes to replace my Etnies. Adidas Campus ST's FTW!

- I played Supernova 2 again at a mini golf place in Newport News.

- Hotel internets is really slow.

- There are trains going by my hotel every hour.

- Hardee's has good bacon cheddar fries.

- I'm going to go on the Griffon roller coaster. Who wouldn't like a 75 mph roller coaster with a 90 degree drop followed by an 87 degree drop and then getting splashed at the end?

- There is a McDonald's right in plain view on the main road but it isn't listed on any of the highway signs, at all.

- I'm leaving late tomorrow, and might possibly being stopping in Rehoboth Beach in Delaware.

The only other one I can really think of at the moment is 8 on the break. I'm half asleep lol.

http://www.myspace.com/ableedingdream 

This is just funny. It's a little kid trying to imitate every screamo band ever, but there's no instruments or anything. It's epic failure.

That's what I get for living in Albany, New York lol.

My worst DDR day ever didn't have to do with doing bad on songs, it actually had to do with what other people were doing.

A couple months ago at a now closed arcade in a local mall, these dumb skater kids who were all wearing tight pants with the exception of a really fat one thought it would be funny to bang on the window, yell "f4gg0t", and the really fat one thought it would be hilarious to moon me while I was playing DDR. And after that when I was at a friend's birthday at a place where a DDR machine was, these dumb wiggers pushed me off the pad. I asked "Would you mind paying for my next game since you just made me waste part of my game card?" Of course, they just laughed at me and ran off.

Man that was a terrible day.

Yeah, I did kind of notice that. Places like TGA seem to be doing well. But arcades that aren't just Bemani and other music games are doing poorly.

I like the color blue. That's the only reasoning behind my name haha.

Alright, lately I've been thinking about my local DDR scene and the community as a whole. I started playing DDR in April 2003 when my brother bought DDRMAX and a soft pad with money from his 11th birthday (he's 16 now). I would play it every day, struggling to pass harder songs until I eventually got to Heavy mode. One day I went to a local mall (Clifton Park Center) to find that the an arcade called Tilt had a DDRMAX2 machine. I went there many days until the arcade closed at the end of 2003 and was replaced by a Zumiez. My next DDR destination was another local mall, Crossgates Mall. When I first started playing there, there was a really good Extreme and a crappy MAX2 in an arcade in the food court called Cyberstation, and in the downstairs movie theater lobby there was an Extreme that was just as good as the one in Cyberstation. I would spend pretty much every Saturday at the mall playing on both Extreme machines, and during the summer of 2004 Cyberstation bought a bunch of other machines and at one point had 5 DDR machines all lined up against the wall. I would spend countless hours pumping tokens into all 5 of the machines and I always seemed to have a good time, mainly because many people played at Cyberstation at the time. There were even tournaments where people like JSB showed up. It was great. There were other great machines in the area that were all worth playing.

However, around April 2005, I quit playing for a pretty long time. I decided it was time to move on, despite the fact the scene was still thriving. When I came back to the community in December 2006, things seemed to take a turn for the worse. A lot of the arcades in my area stopped caring about their machines and just let them go to hell. However, Crossgates Cyberstation was still open, but it was starting to die. Nobody really played DDR anywhere in my area anymore. And plus, people seem to think DDR is a joke and make fun of it all the time. 

Crossgates Cyberstation eventually closed in May 2008. At first I was like "eh, whatever". But now I'm starting to think about the times when the place was thriving, and now I really do miss the place. I made a bunch of good friends (sup SoFreshSoDarryl and tofu), and I really enjoyed the Saturdays I spent there. Everything just seemed to crumble after Cyberstation closed. Two bowling alleys in my area recently sent their Extreme machines out for repairs, and the one good close Extreme machine has a really tempermental coin slot. Sure, I could travel 3 hours to TGA or 8 on the Break, but I'm only 14 AKA no car and no real transportation. Sure, places like the Midwest still have a decent scene, but here in Upstate New York there is no scene. None.

Also, it seems like people are too focused on getting AAA's on every song ever, and not trying just to have fun. Correct me if I'm wrong, but video games are supposed to be played for fun? Sure, it's good to have competition, but still, I think some people are too focused on score.

tl;dr: The scene sucks, and it seems like there's no real point in playing DDR anymore.

I never said that the lights are completely useless, they do tend to attract more spectators. I actually agree with most of what you are saying. I sure wouldn't notice a DDR cabinet if it weren't for the lights.

It's usually the person playing who gets the most attention, not the flashy lights.

"ac lights don't matter to the extent you guys are thinking"

This.

Post any funny stuff you find on YouTube here.

Here are some I found:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65I0HNvTDH4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ONPrDF9ncg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11NilNNrlR4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuAVgWJ28Hw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agAABAcTTGM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJsDfLndlKU

My current setup is an Ignition 3.0 pad, a PS2, and an old Apex TV from like 5 years ago, lulz.. I couldn't get any decent angles for the pictures, so these will have to do for now:

Pad.

TV, and you can see my PS2 in the corner. You can also see my PS3, a bottle of Vitamin Water, my garbage can, and my digital cable box at the top. My game room is crowded.

In my area:

- Latham Greens Family Fun Center, in Latham, New York

- Zero Gravity Laser Tag in Albany, New York

- Old Chicago in Colonie, New York

I pretty much refuse to play anywhere else other than the 3 I listed, because a lot of places around here have crappy pads.

In other areas:

- Tokyo Game Action in Winchendon, Massachusetts

- Catskill Laser Tag at the Palisades Center in West Nyack, New York

- Krazy City at the Palisades Center in West Nyack, New York

Dude, if you think that is bad, earlier today some dumb kid came up to me and called me and the friend I was with "noobs", talking about how much we suck, and then the kid proceded to fail Cow Girl on Standard. I then played Dam Dariram on Heavy and got a crappy A with 4 misses due to bad pads, but still, this kid was such a d0uche.

http://www.youtube.com/astupidbean

Here are most recent notable arcade scores. Bad photo quality because of my camera phone (LG Chocolate), but you get the idea.

Sexy Planet Oni. I've SDG'ed this before, but this was my first time playing the song in a few months.

Not a bad score, seeing as I've only played the song 2 or 3 times before. The boo was me.

Current best on one of my favorite DDR songs. Great song, great stepchart.