Merk vs. IndyDDR: Waiting for a Merk-acle

[Merk]

You know, we could play next week but Chad and I would just have Wednesday night to play it assuming Chad doesn't play at his house on Monday/Tuesday.

[Ho]

You could also play in Vegas...

[Merk]

I don't think they have Supernova in Vegas. For the sake of integrity I want to keep this on Supernova and not get involved with Marvelous timing and changed syncing and the like from the later mixes.

I did not want to incur an integrity violation.

[Ho]

GameWorks has it and I'm sure a few other places do, too. Oddly enough, I did come across one machine that had a SuperNOVA marquee on it, but it was actually running MAX. I'm not sure how that even happens.

And LOL Merk worrying about integrity.

[Ho]

Ok. I'm sorry I picked Seduction. I definitely failed my first attempt. Subsequent attempts merited great counts in the 60s with several non-combo steps. Remind me never to pick a song again without actually playing it first. (I picked this one based on watching a chart on YouTube. It looked so much slower when I wasn't having to actually perform it.)

[Merk]

Brian, God dammit, I told you this song was horrible. It's just like every other Supernova song/chart.

[Ho]

I'll agree with the former but not the latter. There are SuperNOVA songs that I do like (both charts and musically...sometimes even both at the same time! ).

[Fluffyumpkins]

I'll agree with the former but not the latter. There are SuperNOVA songs that I do like (both charts and musically...sometimes even both at the same time! ).

Merk is dead set on hating Supernova.

[Merk]

Played Seduction a couple of times and was only able to pull off 27 greats. I can probably do better but I think this might be one of those situations where Chad has the sheer stamina to beat whatever score I eventually throw out. A lot of my greats came from the double-step bullshit at the end.

This is definitely two weeks in a row where the song was rated an 8 but it's definitely harder than some easy 9s. We'll see how I fare tomorrow.

[Merk]

I played a little bit on Friday but was only able to improve to 25 greats. I believe Chad was unable to play for whatever shyster reason he had so I'll extend the deadline until tonight since winning by default is a bit lame. In the meantime though I'll take song suggestions for this week!

Keep in mind that since Chad, Riot, and I are leaving for Vegas this week that we'll really only be for sure able to play on Wednesday. Let's keep it short, sweet, and let's not pick any actually good songs that we both can enjoy playing.

But what did we learn this week?

- Ho is pretty bad at picking songs
- Seduction is the hardest song we've done thus far
- Chad can't be bothered to go in to his living room to play DDR
- Skinny blondes swoon over short, stocky, Oddjob-looking motherfuckers.
- There is nothing redeemable about Supernova (but we already knew that)

[Fluffyumpkins]

I played a little bit on Friday but was only able to improve to 25 greats. I believe Chad was unable to play for whatever shyster reason he had so I'll extend the deadline until tonight since winning by default is a bit lame. In the meantime though I'll take song suggestions for this week!

Keep in mind that since Chad, Riot, and I are leaving for Vegas this week that we'll really only be for sure able to play on Wednesday. Let's keep it short, sweet, and let's not pick any actually good songs that we both can enjoy playing.

But what did we learn this week?

- Ho is pretty bad at picking songs
- Seduction is the hardest song we've done thus far
- Chad can't be bothered to go in to his living room to play DDR
- Skinny blondes swoon over short, stocky, Oddjob-looking motherfuckers.
- There is nothing redeemable about Supernova (but we already knew that)

Not playing tonight. I have to go see about a girl.

Let's do one of the songs fixed in SuperNova (D2R or HyperEurobeat)

[Merk]

Wha-- what? What about a girl? Details?

If it's D2R then I already won since we both saw me get 9 greats on it at your house a little over a week ago. Is Hyper Eurobeat even fixed?

[Ho]

I was trying to think of a themed song selection:

You guys are going to the desert.
It is really hot in the desert.
You will sweat a lot in the heat.
You need...

RED ZONE!

[Merk]

You are soooooo bad at picking songs. You do realize this chart is like half a beat off?

[Ho]

It was about the theme. Judge the theme and pick another song.