EvilDave 🤠

It's been 4 long years, but The Big Deal 4 is officially back! We look forward seeing you at Round 1 Grapevine Mills on April 5-7th 2024. To stay up to date on the latest information, join our Discord - discord.gg/2bPyd7VYdc

You know it's kinda based that the very rare Toby Fox posts on this platform now are either self promotion for his projects, or wishing a cute cat a happy 6th birthday.

@PlayHearthstone Are y'all sure you can't at least temp ban Hamuul for a week? Imbue Druid is going to eclipse 50% playrate at Top 1k within the next few days.

Spring has arrived 🌷 And while we love watching things grow, Imbue Druid might be growing a little too well. More updates to come on April 2 🌳🪓

@Sonnnyyyyyy @Mandymewcakes Yeah I'll probably be able to head up GVM tomorrow

@EvilDave219 @Mandymewcakes I’m here til Thursday. What you doing tomorrow

My favorite thing about living across the street from GVM is random friend encounters, always good to see you @Sonnnyyyyyy !

@Mandymewcakes @Sonnnyyyyyy He usually pops up here once or twice a year for work.

@EvilDave219 @Sonnnyyyyyy Me either, I think I said “what are you doing here?!” before I said hi lmao. GVM is the friendship gift that keeps on giving

Amazing what happens to DDR's license budget when Konami starts making top tier Silent Hill games again.

My (other) semi annual Hearthstone post on this app. Played a bunch of new stuff yesterday at expansion launch. Did the serious climb with 2 new card Imbue Druid. I've never had a 90%+ winrate in Standard (let alone 95%) climbing to Legend at an 11x MMR bracket.

@XepherArcade @xDickey This isn't representative of DLSS5 because I prefer DLSS5 on here.

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@GayRobot_ no idea what Red Note is doing. I just know they offered an upgrade with pricing details on white cabs.

@EvilDave219 What’s the truth then? Is red note keeping their white cabinet(s)?

It’s unfortunate that Konami doesn’t allow conversion of already imported cabinets on third party networks to be onboarded to real eAmusement. There’s no conversion option. Arcades now purchasing Konami rhythm games legally are forced to discard their grey market imports.

@andy457 First expansion (Goblins vs Gnomes) but yeah close to it lol.

@EvilDave219 Respect for keeping up with the game for as long as you have. Which is basically since launch iirc?

My semi annual Hearthstone post on this app. If you want easy 6 wins on the prerelease Tavern Brawl of the new set for new packs, play Frost DK. Blackwing is the only optimal new card, can replace it with w/e if you don't have it. Have multiple 6-0 runs. Deck code in comments.

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DDR and Silent Hill boomers will hear this and say "hell yeah". Akira Yamaoka concert was really good btw. He did an encore with him and his entire band coming out dressed as ZZ Top and covered Sharped Dress Man (in Texas!), followed by Snake Eater and You're Not Here.

It turns out Akira Yamaoka is a draw. There's like a half mile line 30 minutes before doors open.

Turns out we might be taking creative liberties with The Big Deal this year.

@radswouse Keep in mind this question is being asked solely for DDR and not other official Bemani games, and consider that every major event is hitting cap within a couple hours regardless of ruleset. Not disregarding your opinion, but whatever is in the ruleset isn't hurting attendance.

@EvilDave219 It rewards whoever grinds the pack most rather than the most skilled player. For TO's its much more work & no matter how "balanced" you think your list is, it will contain bias. Other games with much larger song lists (SDVX, IIDX) don't do this nor do they need to. (2/2)

Having tournament feedback forms gives us a lot more insight on what people's opinions are on this who come to these events versus polling the general online population. I'm curious if anyone has had their opinion (in favor or against curated song lists) change in the past year.

@CHAOTICA_DDR Just to be clear, Southland Showdown used a curated format, and it sounds like you enjoyed that format over other curated formats you experienced for whatever reasons (larger song pool, much easier defined as to what would be included, etc). That's the kind of feedback TOs like.

@EvilDave219 It might also be helpful if TOs put out a poll on registration form or via anonymous survey. It seems like there is quite a mixed bag, with players vehemently preferring one format over the other.

@xDickey I didn't even realize that lmao. Agreed though that if they brought up BPL they could have delved into the competitive scene more, either over in the US or in Japan.

@EvilDave219 The only complaint I could have was when they showed anything about bpl it was showing sdvx bpl players and not like DDR bpl players

Comments from a DDR grandpa with 24+ years exp - Can't hate on the video's positivity. Mentioning AIJ is a DEEP cut that I approve 100%. Since this was west coast focused, I wish there was mention of more prominent members of that scene, or the actual competitive scene.