Merk vs. IndyDDR: Waiting for a Merk-acle

[Merk]

It said I had about 16 active minutes which I suppose is reasonable since racquetball is very stop-and-go. I've notice in DDR that when I play for 90 minutes I get about 30 minutes of very active minutes which, to me, feels a little off. If every song is about 90 seconds long and I play about 30 songs per session then I would expect at least 40-45 minutes of very active minutes.

I'm not sure really sure what constitutes an "active minute" with the Fitbit -- I think it's just any minute where your step count is past a certain threshold.

I have no idea how the doubles chart for Living in America goes so now I'm a bit worried! The singles chart isn't too bad and the only attribute of the chart that I can recall is the little step-step-jump pattern during the chorus. The God damn South is going to rise again.

[Ho]

It has a bunch of drills at the end. They're only 3 steps each, but I cursed at every single one of them.

[Merk]

Welp I ended up not playing DDR this week and yes I do hate myself for it. I fell asleep at my desk at home at like 7pm so I decided to take a nap. My friend then asked me to play some Heroes of The Storm and that was my day.

[Ho]

"There's always a tomorrow!"

(And still a today, for that matter.)

[Merk]

Yeah, I hope next week goes better for me in the DDR department. Really the only thing that's stopping me from playing is me.

[Merk]

Well, sir, what is the song for this week?

[Ho]

How about BURNIN' THE FLOOR (MOMO MIX)?

[Merk]

I like it.

BURN BURN BURN THE WOOD BURN

[Merk]

Do you have any silly thread titles or OP image you'd like for me to use for this song?

[Ho]

KILL IT WITH FIRE

[Merk]

Played yesterday! Yes, my Fitbit steps are legit.

Even though I played a bit, I did pretty awful the whole time and my scores were shitty and my stamina was just not there. I was able to get 13 greats and 1 good on My Sweet Darling for a score of 487 which wins by one (1) point.

Twilight Zone is an awesome chart ruined by an awful ending. I had a hard time with it on my first attempt but once I figured out the turns my opinion of the chart improved significantly.
Living in America is hard and I don't know how to step it.
Burning the Floor is not too bad but by the time I played it I was out of stamina so I did awful on it.
Retried Sana Mollete Ne Ente and I'm still pretty bad at this song on doubles!


I may try to play again tonight and focus on one of the many doubles charts I am behind on.

[Ho]

Ooo...a challenge! I'll have go back and try My Sweet Darlin' again.

I also played last night. I think it was a happy accident that we hadn't picked an unlock song up to this point. I found the other two versions of Burnin' the Floor and then realized that I was going to have to enter the unlock code to play Momo Mix. I got 31 greats and dropped 1 freeze. I blame my stage for that freeze drop, but I'll still score it that way because I think I can beat the 31 at some point, too. DP is 669.

I didn't play this week's song that much or much of anything else. I was trying to work like 2-3 other projects while I was playing. I basically got everything started and nothing finished...and then I went out for karaoke.

You hate those drills on Twilight Zone, too?
I want to try Living In America again. I do remember it taking me a few tries to get into it and figure it out. I really feel like I can probably do better.
For Sana Mollete, you just need to enter a Sana-tative state.

I'd like to play again this week, but I was already feeling a little bit off last night and today I seem to have some minor sniffles. It might have to wait a couple days.

[Merk]

I think I got food poisoning from Steak 'n' Shake on Saturday because I was shitting myself senseless on Sunday.

Even though I slept like shit yesterday I feel pretty good right now after taking some Advil, we'll see if I am up to play some shit tonight. What song would you like to do? Is it my turn to pick?

[Ho]

I got sick at the end of last week and it completely nuked my competitiveness in our Fitbit challenge. I immediately went to bed on Thursday night when I got home from work and spent probably 80% of Friday there as well. It was not a fun time.

But I'm happy to report that I'm feeling much better after the weekend and I was hoping to get some DDR in tonight as well. I believe it is your turn to pick this week...so go ahead and do that.

I'm going to go ahead and send you a Fitbit daily challenge for today to try and hold us both accountable for actually playing tonight.

[Ho]

Whoops. My Fitbit app got a case of the stupid and I think I sent you the challenge 3 times. I guess that will make us either really big winners or really big losers.