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Real Men Don't Use the Bar

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I was chatting with a guy who (bless his soul) has been confined to work a 16+ hour shift two days in a row at the video arcade I go to. Street Fighter IV...'tis a harsh mistress.

He's a pretty darned good player of In The Groove (a game so similar to DDR, Konami successfully sued them), and he and I always exchange stories of our accomplishments, our frustrations, and of course, the idiots we commonly see coming in and out.

Oh, believe it ye' ITG players. If he and I are looking at you while you play, 90% chance we're laughing at you. No, not because you're inexperienced, have to play on medium, fail on 5-level difficulty songs...no. We appreciate and care a lot about our newbies. We're laughing at the people who bring their friends, bring their high scores on a USB Flash Drive, and amidst their pompous showmanship only score a 97% on a 9-level song WHILE HOLDING THE BAR.

Showmanship? Fine. High scorer? No problem. Doing both while holding the bar? We laugh at you. We laugh at your inability to play the game right, we laugh at how you bastardize the game with your high scores using an implement that, if removed, would leave you wielding and begging for mercy on lesser difficulty levels. We know if we took out that bar and put you to the test, gave you the opportunity to show-up us elitist "purists" in front of all your friends, we'd give you a lesson on Vertex that you'd never expected coming.

Real men don't use the bar.

Note: This image is not intended to be sexist and suggest that women aren't capable of playing DDR or ITG without the bar. Of course, women who can play Utopia on expert without the bar also have the mental fortitude to pee standing up, so I'd not expect any backlash from them anyway.

There's an arcade called Howie's down in Irvine. NOTORIOUS for bar huggers. If anybody in the Irvine area prints this off, posts it on that machine in the Kaleidescope mall, and takes a photo of it, I will personally transfer $20 via PayPal to you. If you get lip for it, tell them their (finger quotes) "friends" at FFA sent you.
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Mach68's avatar
Placing one hand on the bar is fine if you're free-styling. Both hands on the bar? That's not dancing. That's kick-stomping (and cheating). ;-)

I'm a newbie at both DDR and ITG, but I never grasp the bar.