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P.S. about the con --

My table was directly across from the DDR machine and now I no longer fear Hell. MY GOD I AM GOING TO BE HEARING THAT IN MY SLEEP.

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Stepmania is also really annoying. Ultra fast clickity clicks when you're trying to concentrate on anything else... x_X

Oh... er, I'm reading my friends of friends page. So I'm not a completely random stranger. Just a sort of random stranger.

They had three different competing DDR machines in the arcade area they set up in front of the A-Kon Komik Market. I think DDR Max was the one directly in front of me, but the beats all collided. There was another one that had sensors where you waved hands as well, but I wasn't close enough to see what game it was, and after the total sensory overload at my table, I wasn't about to venture closer.

*waves* Well, have fun with the friendsfriends. I do that, too, when my friends aren't updating fast enough to keep me entertained. :)

Oh my, that's amusing. Yes, I can imagine one would be ready to slit their wrists with a sewing needle by the end. :D

I had to ask people to repeat themselves many, many times, and I'm actually a little bit hoarse from screaming at people all the time.

you do realize that the Cepheid hangout at A&M for "lunch and several hours of random time a day" is ten feet from a DDR machine, don't you? (you do now, at least)

i have an immunity to DDR annoyance, as long as people *glare* don't STOMPSTOMPSTOMP the machine...

*wince* I really got out of CS just at the right time, didn't I? :)

mmm... delicious.

I imagine your nostrils must have loved being right next to the ddr machine, considering the lovely stench that tends to emenate from hours of otaku dance activities.

No, we were about 25 feet away from the machine, so it was all NOISE.

...did you at least get a traffic boost from it?

Can't say for sure - the spot we ended up in was actually on the main way of getting from point A to point B, so I don't know how much of it was DDR-related.

Oh, yay that you were on the main drag after all. Did you do well?

Better than last year. Won't know for sure until I do my final count, and I was so tired yesterday that I didn't trust myself to count money. :)

Cool. Can't blame you for wanting to be rested for the final count!

Not entirely rested, but I did the final count a few times until it came out to match when counted in two dirrefent ways twice. :) (Yes, I know what the level of my money-counting skills is, which isn't high.) I was off by $5 the first time, which is a nice round number and makes me confident I just miscounted the fives the first time. And after taking out

pzb's cut for the prints she sent me to put on the table, I still had more than I made last year.

Which means that I sold more than last year, because I dropped my prices this year. Whee!

That's wonderful!

What is DDR? Dungeons, Dragons, and Ranting?

Drunk duck racing! It's a traditional convention event in the distant land of Texas, or so I hear.

It's a video game. A dance video game. Dance Dance Revolution (http://aaroninjapan.com/ddr7.html). Loud techno beat going on ALL THE TIME. And there were FOUR different types of DDR and DDR-like machines there.

(I'm the person who bought the Itachi print from you Saturday and the Jiraiya + Tsunade print from you Friday.)

You could HEAR the DDR machines through all that...noise of human fire hazard?! o.o

Oh, God, yes. That relentless beat and the pounding of feet on the pads undercut all the other noise on a cellular level. :)

I'm so sorry. Perhaps we'll be unscathed by Hell; I myself am vaguely traumatized by some of the Sailor Moon cross-dressing cosplay.;;;;;;;;;;;

I think I've managed to become inured to crossplay after 7 years of attending A-Kon. My brain just shuts itself off. I'm still not inured to cheap fabric from the sale table used for costumes or to those who think that a stretchy, clingy fabric is a good option if they're not wearing adequate support garments, though. :/

I'm jealous you still have the ability to hear :(

It's still kind of dull. I had to ask the man at the counter to repeat himself like three times when I was getting

pzb's money order today, and the same at the post office.

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