Comments on: I Am a Dancing-with-Arrows Machine! http://emptyeye.com/2008/01/19/i-am-a-dancing-with-arrows-machine/ Music and writing about speedruns, smashing arrows, and life Sun, 05 Feb 2012 18:37:58 -0800 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: emptyeye http://emptyeye.com/2008/01/19/i-am-a-dancing-with-arrows-machine/comment-page-1/#comment-103 emptyeye Sat, 26 Jan 2008 15:55:21 +0000 http://emptyeye.com/2008/01/19/i-am-a-dancing-with-arrows-machine/#comment-103 @ Anonymous!: In all honesty, given the overall state of arrowsmashing games in CT, plus the frequent maintenance I have to do on my <a href="http://cobaltflux.com/" rel="nofollow">Cobalt Flux</a>, I wouldn't be surprised if some element of the second had subconsciously worked its way into my play style by now. But I don't think that's all of it, it's not as though I can just say "This pad sucks here, I'd better compensate by doing this"--which, if you know the anatomy of an arcade dance pad, it apparently <b>is</b> possible to do. But the machine is pretty good. The 2P side seems to be better than the 1P side right now. I got the occasional "WTF?" miss, but I wouldn't go so far as to say the 2P side especially "sucks". As you noted, I pulled 3 legit SDGs and have proof of such, so.. @ Anonymous!: In all honesty, given the overall state of arrowsmashing games in CT, plus the frequent maintenance I have to do on my Cobalt Flux, I wouldn’t be surprised if some element of the second had subconsciously worked its way into my play style by now. But I don’t think that’s all of it, it’s not as though I can just say “This pad sucks here, I’d better compensate by doing this”–which, if you know the anatomy of an arcade dance pad, it apparently is possible to do.

But the machine is pretty good. The 2P side seems to be better than the 1P side right now. I got the occasional “WTF?” miss, but I wouldn’t go so far as to say the 2P side especially “sucks”. As you noted, I pulled 3 legit SDGs and have proof of such, so..

]]> By: Anonymous! http://emptyeye.com/2008/01/19/i-am-a-dancing-with-arrows-machine/comment-page-1/#comment-102 Anonymous! Sat, 26 Jan 2008 09:13:06 +0000 http://emptyeye.com/2008/01/19/i-am-a-dancing-with-arrows-machine/#comment-102 Ahh I was so excited about this machine but my friend said the machine's pads actually suck. I guess you have photographic proof they don't. (Or that you just know how to work it out on crappy pads?) Ahh I was so excited about this machine but my friend said the machine’s pads actually suck. I guess you have photographic proof they don’t. (Or that you just know how to work it out on crappy pads?)

]]> By: Emptyeye.com Week 14/Stuff on the Site! | Emptyeye http://emptyeye.com/2008/01/19/i-am-a-dancing-with-arrows-machine/comment-page-1/#comment-83 Emptyeye.com Week 14/Stuff on the Site! | Emptyeye Mon, 21 Jan 2008 03:57:42 +0000 http://emptyeye.com/2008/01/19/i-am-a-dancing-with-arrows-machine/#comment-83 [...] leaving out the stuff as regards my DDR adventure yesterday, this was a pretty eventful week for me [...] [...] leaving out the stuff as regards my DDR adventure yesterday, this was a pretty eventful week for me [...]

]]> By: emptyeye http://emptyeye.com/2008/01/19/i-am-a-dancing-with-arrows-machine/comment-page-1/#comment-82 emptyeye Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:42:35 +0000 http://emptyeye.com/2008/01/19/i-am-a-dancing-with-arrows-machine/#comment-82 I don't get it either. I mean, in the case of cinemas housed in their own buildings I do--their big profit items are the movies and (Even moreso) concessions, so the odds of someone going in and actually playing enough of the arcade games (exclusively, as opposed to a game or two while waiting for a movie to start) to equal the profit they garner from a movie/concessions is rather small. But in this specific instance of the cinema being in a mall, I would have to think that there are a decent number of people playing a game or two (Or in my case, I think it was eleven throughout the course of the day) <b>who would not otherwise set foot in the cinema area</b> and are thus giving this specific location extra money that they apparently don't want. In short, I get the idea for the overall model, but think this specific location is only screwing itself by not making an exception to it. I don’t get it either. I mean, in the case of cinemas housed in their own buildings I do–their big profit items are the movies and (Even moreso) concessions, so the odds of someone going in and actually playing enough of the arcade games (exclusively, as opposed to a game or two while waiting for a movie to start) to equal the profit they garner from a movie/concessions is rather small. But in this specific instance of the cinema being in a mall, I would have to think that there are a decent number of people playing a game or two (Or in my case, I think it was eleven throughout the course of the day) who would not otherwise set foot in the cinema area and are thus giving this specific location extra money that they apparently don’t want.

In short, I get the idea for the overall model, but think this specific location is only screwing itself by not making an exception to it.

]]> By: cacomistle http://emptyeye.com/2008/01/19/i-am-a-dancing-with-arrows-machine/comment-page-1/#comment-81 cacomistle Sun, 20 Jan 2008 05:06:48 +0000 http://emptyeye.com/2008/01/19/i-am-a-dancing-with-arrows-machine/#comment-81 I DONT LIKE THE ARCADE MACHINCES BEING TREATED LIKE A ARCADE. W T F I DONT LIKE THE ARCADE MACHINCES BEING TREATED LIKE A ARCADE.
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]]> By: emptyeye http://emptyeye.com/2008/01/19/i-am-a-dancing-with-arrows-machine/comment-page-1/#comment-80 emptyeye Sun, 20 Jan 2008 04:12:51 +0000 http://emptyeye.com/2008/01/19/i-am-a-dancing-with-arrows-machine/#comment-80 Also, mwahaha, take that, absolute column sizes! My pictures trample you! Also, mwahaha, take that, absolute column sizes! My pictures trample you!

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