Merk vs. IndyDDR: Waiting for a Merk-acle

[Merk]

Yes sir!

I am bruuuuu i'm tinking of youuuuu

[Merk]

9 greats on Colors!

Replayed I Do I Do I Do and got 11 greats

I played Rain of Sorrow once and got 40 greats + 1 good which, oddly enough, is a AA on Extreme! I feel like this isn't THAT bad stamina-wise it's just that those skips into a freeze in the beginning can be kind of tricky. I got my good there because I didn't expect the rhythm to do that!

[Ho]

This is getting exciting!

Are you having fun playing more?

[Merk]

Yeah the last two days have been pretty fulfilling!

I was able to get last Tuesday off of work a few days ago because I had to work until 2:30am on Monday (aka Tuesday morning) doing maintenance and shit. I want to say that last Tuesday was the first day in a really, really long time that I had to myself. I got a real ass amount of sleep, I didn't have to work, didn't have to be in Bloomington, didn't have to be in Fort Wayne, didn't have to actually do anything! It was very refreshing and it sort of invigorated me to get back to doing the things I enjoy doing.

[Merk]

Going to try to get some rounds in tonight, what song would you like to do, sir?

[Ho]

I picked Colors...I think it's your week to pick.

[Merk]

Do you have your 573 with Extreme installed?

[Ho]

Yessir.

But I'd still like to do older 573 mixes whenever you can get around to getting some.

[Merk]

It's really just a matter of getting the images and burning a bunch of CDs, I'll see what I can do about getting the images when I get home today, thankfully Chad has a bunch of blank CDs laying around since he still uses CDs for his little car.

For the song this week, how about uhhhhhhhhhhhhh, Synchronized Love? The like the singles chart - the doubles chart can't be that bad, right?

[Ho]

can't be that bad, right?

Famous last words...


Sure, that's fine. Synchronized Love it is.

[Ho]

I played Colors and did ok, I guess. I got a full combo with 36 greats and then got 31 greats with 1 good. I'll take the better oni score of 629.

Good call on Synchronized Love...IT IS SO MUCH FUN!

There are a few tricky crossovers and it's a bit of a stamina challenge for the likes of my out-of-shape self, but it's pretty much solid streamy goodness all the way through.

I managed to combo it with 43 greats for an oni score of 727. This slaughtered the score I had in Stay On Sync from 2005 where I apparently great attacked the shit out of it and had 200+ greats.

At this point I was pretty well winded, so I decided I'd try and play one of the previous slower songs as a cooldown. I chose Electro Tuned because I was only one point behind you. I was able to improve from 18 to 12 greats for a new oni score of 598.

I updated the OP.

[MonMotha]

You didn't know about Synchronized Love double? I always thought it was one of those "must play" doubles charts like Do You Remember Me and True Sunrise Mix.

[Merk]

I live a sheltered doubles life.

[Ho]

You didn't know about Synchronized Love double? I always thought it was one of those "must play" doubles charts like Do You Remember Me and True Sunrise Mix.

I've apparently played it before since I had a score in Stay On Sync. I must have forgotten about it.

[MonMotha]

I live a sheltered doubles life.

Here's the ones I remember as being really fun in some way, mostly moderately fast streams with semi-complex turns that all work well:

• Do You RememberMe
• True: Trance Sunrise Mix
• Speed Over Beethoven
• Synchronized Love
• Bye Bye Baby Balloon
• Flash In The Night (but your right leg well hate you)
• Moonlight Shadow (if you can figure it out)
• Rose (3rd Ver.Korea2)
• Paranoia Rebirth (but it's hard)

I've probably forgotten some, and there's still plenty from all eras that I haven't played.