Merk vs. IndyDDR: Waiting for a Merk-acle

[Merk]

Yeah reviews say that you need a laptop to set it up properly and that anything else is a complete clusterfuck.

Now when you say dashboard, do you mean the home screen on the phone app? I'd really like a little feature on my phone that tracks my weight and shows me a histogram and all that shit, can it track body fat on the app?

[Ho]

You can get your weight and body fat % both on the web dashboard and in the app.

You can also look at charts to see your progress over time, set goals for each, and earn badges.

[Amp Divorax]

Man, I wish I could play 5th mix.

[Merk]

Had a super productive weekend getting shit done around the house but that meant I couldn't play a whole lot of did until Sunday.

Played for a nice, solid hour and was able to get:

Against All Odds - 6 greats, FC
My Generation - 15greats, 1 miss


My Generation isn't too bad but it's definitely harder than Against All Odds despite the fact that it's a 6 and Against All Odds is a 7. The little gallops at the beginning of My Generation got me the first time I played it ayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy


Playing racquetball tonight so I won't be playing any did, I'll very likely play tomorrow though, is there any song I should focus on?

[Ho]

I didn't play any DDR this weekend. I worked on cleaning out my storage room. I made pretty good headway by consolidating a bunch of boxes and starting a huge trash pile. That room is finally starting to come together and now has space to put things as I start to clean out other rooms of the house (though hopefully those rooms will yield more trash I can simply purge rather than store).

I did end up playing a fair amount of IIDX because I had the machine on to make noise while I worked and stopped to "take breaks."

At any rate, how about we work on Be Together and Dancing All Alone for this week. Since you picked two, I'll pick two...and these happen to be the next two on the 5th Mix exclusives list.

[Merk]

Hell yeah, sounds good.

SHAKE MY SO...

[Ho]

I did play last night...

Against All Odds - 10 greats / 658 DP
My Generation - 14 greats, 1 good / 534 DP
Be Together - 9 greats / 479 DP
Dancing All Alone - 26 greats / 456 DP

The real surprise there was Be Together. I had been getting in the 20s and 30s for greats on several plays and then, out of nowhere, the SDG. The results screen came up and I was like, "Whoa."

[Ho]

Merk,

Don't forget to log scores for Radical Faith and Luv To Me in addition to this week's songs.

[Merk]

Hellllllllll yeah congrats on the SDG.

Gonna play tonight, I'll get Be Together and Dancing All Alone taken care of and I'll give the other two charts I'm missing a try. The latter two charts are pretty damn hard so I'm not going to expect great things.

[Ho]

Radical Faith and Luv To Me are challenging to be sure. Dancing All Alone took me a bit to get the hang of as well. I hope you enjoy playing them all!

[Merk]

Played last night for a solid hour, alternating between singles and doubles each set. Be Together and Dancing All Alone were both kind of tricky! DAA especially has some goofy turning and it took me a few tries to really understand how to position myself.

I'm not happy with the scores I got yesterday though, 5th is hard to time! I'm going to try them again and see if I can get under 20 greats on 'em. The best I was able to do on DAA was like 17 greats and 4 NCs and I didn't even bother taking a picture of my Be Together results since they were all garbo.

Oh well, at the end of the day I sweated a bunch and that's all that matters. Babby steps, Merk, babby steps....

[Merk]

Played a little bit last night and gave the songs of the next another attempt:

Be Together - 18 greats, 1 miss
Dancing All Alone - 17greats, 4 NCs

Radical Faith is still hard as fudge to score on.

Bleh, not my proudest scores but for the sake of completion I'll use these scores of the week. What would you like to play now?

[Ho]

I think it's actually your turn to pick. I would suggest you pick 2-3 off the list of 5th Mix exclusives, but you can do whatever you would like.

Also, don't forget about Luv To Me in addition to Radical Faith.

[Merk]

Then let's go ahead and do:

The Twist
Tribal Dance

[Ho]

Good stuff! This should be a fun week!