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    Actually my self esteem increased this past few years but I won’t pass up an ADHD infodump opportunity. DDR is, IMO, the most efficient path for videogamer enthusiasts to transition to healthy exercise.

    DanceDanceRevolution (DDR) is an arcade rhythm game that is certainly not dead, much to your surprise perhaps. The Japanese arcade scene is a whole, far more in depth iceberg to chip at, but trust me when I say Konami focusing on machines did not (only) mean pachinko machines, it also meant their multiple arcade rhythm games under the Bemani brand.

    I am not kidding when I say there was a DDR setup in my middle school in southern USA. I started a bit there, but I never got real dedicated gameplay until there was a new DDR cabinet installed at both Dave and Busters and a local arcade joint. Having access to a machine can be substituted by a home pad. Please, buy the L-TEK pad without the bar. Cheapest exercise equipment out there at 250 + shipping from Poland.

    You start off just browsing the songs in the roster until you find ones you like. There’s some token English licensed songs, but the bulk come from Konami original songs and a selection from the massive library that is the Rhythm Game Song Genre™. Most weebs get their beginnings from anime OPs and TouHou and Vocaloid, so if you have early YouTube nostalgia jump right into Bad Apple and Night of Nights. Later on you get addicted to the super high BPM (400+) techno mixes of the “Boss” songs (more on that later).

    So how is gameplay? Visually, four lanes of arrows travel from the bottom to the top, indicating when you have to step and in what direction on the four directional pads at your feet. You should learn quickly that keeping your feet on the arrows and never stepping in the center is the key to actual gameplay. The song’s patterns are designed to lead one into another. It’s far from dancing, but you transition from paying attention to each arrow to just stepping to the beat. You internalize patterns and you get better, right?

    But then, there’s a hurdle. Some songs demand you turn your hips and move your right foot on the left pad and vice versa. Difficulty is based on number 1 to 19, so you keep track that you can pass 11s, but not 12s. Each new song introduces new patterns in ordering and timing. Your old highest level becomes your warmups as you get better and better. You start to take a liking to faster, more complex rhythms like triplets, syncopated notes, and more sounds that a drummer doing prog rock would grok. One particular song has you galloping like a horse to Japanese festival music. If you know, you know.

    But there’s a catch, a limitation: your own body. Nearing difficulty 12 and 13, you’re doing the equivalent of a decent jog for around two minutes, right? You might start needing some time between songs to take a break and drink some water. At 14 and 15, you’re going for something called High Intensity Interval Training. That is, you go at your MAXIMUM SPEED for as long as the song demands you go. You don’t give up because that means losing and you paid for this arcade game, right? You push and push and sometimes fall over, but eventually you’re running ragged at 600 steps per minute begging that your life bar doesn’t sink anymore. You need more training. The next song is 440 BPM with 880 steps per minute.

    You want it. You want to play the harder songs in the difficulty ranking. You start to jog outside of the game on treadmills and otherwise. You put on the same heartrending songs and you find yourself sprinting desperately for 2 minute bursts because it’s impossible to stop while the song is playing. I’m running for almost an hour straight, and I get a head start at running progress because of my DDR experience! It pays off and you can play up to 15s, but there’s still 4 more levels until you get to 19. Over 4 years (at college, see?) I bike to the arcade, I play my heart out, I bike back. My blood pressure decreases, I breathe slower and deeper, and my snacking habits are at least counteracted. Best videogame of my life.

    Only downside? I can’t convince anyone outside of the rhythm gamers at the arcade that the music is good. The rhythms of those “Boss” songs are etched into your soul by the end. I can namedrop MAX 300 and everyone in the scene can practically play the song out in their heads. It’s literally a lifestyle hobby, and a rather healthy one at that.

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      You got me in the first half, not gonna lie.

      I first thought you were going to talk about DDR in terms of RAM.

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      I used to play ddr when I was younger. Now I play MoonRider in VR(you may have heard of beat saber). I think it’s even more fun and harder exercise if that’s what you want. It’s also cheaper, you can get a quest 2 for $150 which can also do everything a stand-alone VR headset can do. There are actually a ton of exercise apps/games, though I’ve never tried any.

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      Once upon a time I used DDR to lose 30-40 pounds. I really enjoyed playing the game—even if I was never really great at it—and the side benefit is that I got into better shape.

      But, that was a long time ago, in the PS1 era. Now—other than your L-TEK recommendation, which looks doable—I’m not even sure how I’d get back into it. Maybe worth my digging into again, seeing as how age has been putting on the pounds…

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      I can actually attest to this and chime in with my own experience! When I was a senior in high school I was morbidly obese and had zero physical activity. My days consisted of binging junk food, getting high, and gaming. Buddy that I gamed with always played rhythm games with me, but on the controller. One day he got a dance pad. I enjoyed it so much I ended up losing 30lbs without even trying before I graduated. Just 30 minutes to an hour of DDR everyday. Started feeling good about myself again and went to the gym. Long story short here we are almost 20 years later and I’m the healthiest I’ve ever been and an active athlete in Strongman, Powerlifting, and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. So yeah DDR kinda saved my life lol

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      Sweet I’m pretty inexperienced with radio stuff but I’ve been meaning to look into that for a while. Time to hop down the rabbit hole!

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        This is the first time I’ve heard about this; seems so cool! Any ideas which radios I should be looking at?

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          Get on the notification list for a RAK starter kit. I have heltec and RAK, and the NRF chip outperforms the ESP32 based ones by leaps. Barely uses any battery. Just check which frequency you need for your country. I’m in NA so we use 915 MHz

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      How did you learn to not fuck up? I heard if you interfere with important radio frequencies (airplanes I think) you’ll get punished by the law.

      Edit: I looked into transceivers at one point and saw that mentioned.

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      I placed my order for some radios to play with 3 days ago. Im unreasonably excited for them to arrive.

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          It doesn’t help that i orderd it on the 2nd day of Chinese new year, so i wont see any action for at least a week.

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        I’m not much of an expert but it’s basically low power UHF radios that use a particular waveform and FFT process to decode signals that are well below background noise. My radio regularly picks up messages with an SNR -10. I like it to the GPS system’s algorithms.

        The main drawback is that, because they’re low power, you have to have LOS between antennas.

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      Lmaoooo, was going to say the same thing. Fantastic project that has me hooked.

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    I really like how far third party nerf blasters have come (worker, monkey mods XYL etc.) and really want to get into it, but I’m too old to play with kids and there’s no adult community here that would pick it up (as opposed to airsoft or paintball).

    So I’m left with a nice ass blaster I spent $130 assembling, and can only plink around a small apartment with it

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    Birds. I guess it doesn’t feel that niche because I know lots of people are into bird watching, but it’s my thing.

    There’s this app called Merlin that I swear to god is magic. You can just open your mic and it’ll listen to and identify all of the birds you’re hearing.

    And it really works! For the longest time, it kept identifying a Carolina Wren in my yard, and I thought it was just wrong. I’ll be damned if I didn’t eventually see that wren, and now it frequents the bird feeder I set up on my deck. It’s just my shyest bird. But the app knew it was out there.

    I’ve learned so much about birds and identifying them from using the app. And I’ve gotten really into how, when, and what to feed birds because I want to find more different kinds, and I just love watching them on the deck interacting. I call it my cat TV haha

    I’m also learning a ton about owls specifically over on the superbowl@lemmy.world community. Did you know there are owls in the desert and owls in Jamaica? Come over to the community where @anon6789@lemmy.world makes the most amazing educational posts. It’s a lot of fun.

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      I’m glad I’m still considered educational and not just a weirdo! 😜

      Owls have been around for millions of years and are very adaptable, so there are many cool variations and unique behaviors and more. There are over 250 species of owls alive today, and since they are reclusive and nocturnal, they’ve historically been hard to study, so we’re still learning new things about them all the time.

      I’m still thinking about that BirdPi that data maps the bird calls automatically. I wonder if it can pinpoint habits of my rare visitors like the Northern Flicker to increase my chances of seeing it.

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        Oh interesting! I had never heard of BirdNet or Bird Pi. It looks like Cornell Lab integrated that machine learning project into the Merlin app:

        https://pg.allaboutbirds.org/

        Merlin also sound identifies a Northern Flicker in the woods behind my house that I’ve yet to see.

        And yes educational! It was your long form posts from a couple months ago that really drew me into the community. I was just really impressed with the level of detail and really appreciated it. I like learning new things that I wouldn’t necessarily take the time to seek out myself. I was reading those even though I didn’t comment much at the time.

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          Found the post. It looks like it’s onigiri@lemm.ee that has it. Here’s one of the regular commenters, and he gives a link in his comment here:

          Post Link

          I’ve only seen the Flicker twice in about 15 years of living here so I get very excited when I catch him.

          That’s why I tell people to comment even if it’s just like “oh that’s really cool. I learned something.” The talon post was huge and took a week to write and was huge, so I wrote one or 2 more and people were all quiet, so all I’m left with to think is I guess nobody was interested or it was too long, etc. If I can do a funny pic with a 2 sentence caption that gets the same or better reaction than me writing a paper after spending a day reading a research paper and collecting citations, guess which posts you’re gonna get! 😆

          I’m reading the stuff regardless, but I don’t wanna be the person all day talking to themselves! I want to interact with the people of the group. We got almost 3k subs now, but there’s maybe a dozen of you that talk to me, which I appreciate! But I wish it was a bigger chunk of the people.

          Like I said in my SuperbOwl wrap up, I may be the one posting every day, but you guys are equally important to the community because you guys interacting is what keeps me motivated to make the posts. Even my quickest posts probably take 15-30 minutes of scrolling to find a story, writing a summary, and uploading pics. The benefit to me is zero, cuz I’ve already seen it. I do it to get you guys excited, and I want to see that excitement or I don’t know it’s there.

          Ok, rambling on now so I’m donnnnnne.

          I got a fun Barred Owl pic, a fun Hawk Owl pic, and some new quick owl research in my drafts folder. Which one do you want to see tomorrow?

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            Yeah my life doesn’t leave me a lot of room for creating posts. I know how much work that takes.

            But I’m good at running my mouth, so I try to comment these days because I know that engagement drives engagement. (I have no idea what drives post visibility on Lemmy though. Is there an algorithm here?)

            I’m not working tomorrow, so I’ll have time to read some research! But I’ll never argue with funny adorable owl pics of any sort either haha

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              For real, I never gave much thought to the time content creation takes before I feel into this. My work has good chunks of downtime while I’m waiting for equipment to be ready or me being on standby so it works out. I probably spend as much time on this as actual work most days.

              Lemmy 0.19 or whatever it is sorta does an algorithm where there is a weighted active sort or something along those lines. I’m guessing like a post on a comm with 5000 subs with 50 comments is ranked about the same as a post in a comm with 50 subs and 5 comments. So I hear anyway, World hasn’t rolled it out yet due to smaller instances having issues when it first came out and they didn’t wanna trash the biggest instance for not super significant upgrades until more bugs were worked out.

              I couldn’t tell you exactly how the regular active sort works, I just default to New on all comms and occasionally glance at Top 6 Hours on All.

              This research is more just an observation, it’s like 3 paragraphs. I’ll post the one pic in the morning and the research one at lunch. The other pic I think is a little better so I’ll hold onto that a bit. I got a quick Owl-natomy in reserve too for a day where I can’t find anything to post. Switching to an app with drafts has been such a huge help so I can prepare things in advance.

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      I moved a little over a year ago and have faced the transition from crows, bluejays, doves, and a charming married cardinal couple to lots of stray cats and zero birds.

      I did not expect how much of a bummer this would be.

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    There’s this really small niche game called Warhammer 40k that I’m in to… but no one else had heard of it… :(

    Also, small objects that are over-designed that have purpose or function that go largely unnoticed. Japanese style toothpicks immediately spring to mind.

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    Qwerty fucking sucks. This guy Sholes who invented the typewriter put no thought into the actual letter arrangement and doomed us to this disaster.

    Dvorak exists and there’s a new one called Colemak (now on windows) but they both have fundamental mistakes too. There are dozens of us on the other site debating keyboard layout design.

    And for some education qwerty was originally alphabetical with the vowels on top. https://youtu.be/blRn9U9Fapg?t=625s Pause the video. *Jamming was not an issue and was not a design point. That’s common myth.

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      I tried to make the switch to Dvorak some years ago and got reasonably good at typing on it.

      The issue was whenever I needed to input text anywhere that wasn’t my PC at home. It turns out that basically everything uses qwerty and you’ll never be able to escape it. Apparently I’m not wired in a way where I can use both.

      That being said, I think steno keyboards are pretty neat and might pick one up to play with.

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        I solved this issue by getting an ortholinear split keyboard (keebio iris) and flashed it with custom dvorak layout. This way my muscle memory hasn’t suffered much then using a regular keyboard with qwerty, only special characters like paranthesis cause issues.

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        Dvorak is an ISO standard and is in all OS’s. You just have to switch the settings. They’ve apparently all added Colemak as well even though it’s not ISO.

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          I was using a shared workstation at work at the time, which meant that I couldn’t change that setting without making someone else upset.

          Also text input sections in console video games are typically qwerty too

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            In windows when you add it, it’s then in a quick setting down near the clock and volume.

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              Only if the keyboard profile is installed, and you need to be a local admin on the machine to do that.

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      Admittedly I didn’t watch the video but how can a keyboard with a different keyboard layout be considered qwerty, as in your statement “qwerty was originally alphabetical with the vowels on top”. If it was laid out how you said they it wouldn’t have even had the sequence “qwerty” so what makes it qwerty?

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      Typewriters actually sucked. The secretary’s were typing so fast the old hammer looming keys would get all jammed together. Qwerty was invented to slow down and keep the most used keys away from each other. The Typewrites keyboard then became the easiest to hack onto a computer and here we are. I have a lot of utterly useless information in my head.

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        That’s a common myth that’s not actually true. With a spring return (still pre mass production) jamming wasn’t an issue. It was simply arranged alphabetically, see video at 4:45 covers myths.

        Most words (bigrams specifically) go consonant-vowel-consonant-vowel, etc. If it was designed to put sequences apart, the vowels would be on one hand and consonants on the other (which would actually be a good design, jamming or not).

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        Colemak here. It was quite a pain to switch. Made my own called Middlemak that I think solves Colemak’s and Workman’s problems, it’s on the other site.

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            Never used it personally, so theoretical: more changes than Colemak (big selling point was qwerty similarity), the LY same finger bigram, N and L with the vowels is too much consonant frequency on the vowel hand, personally not a fan of the L position (don’t like the bottom row).

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    Rabbits. Rabbits are fuckin’ awesome. Did you know they don’t have paw pads like cats and dogs? There’s just fur there, which means they have less traction on slick surfaces. They can be taught to use a litterbox, too !

    They also have such different personalities from cats and dogs. Netherland dwarf bunnies are twenty pounds of bunny in a 2 pound body. They’re crazy energetic and need plenty of space even though they’re tiny. The bigger a bunny gets the more chill they generally are, but the bigger the bun the more likely there will be issues with their back or other joints as they get older.

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      Do rabbits need a companion, especially if their owners can’t match their energy level? Also, is keeping an indoor rabbit with cats a bad idea?

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        It’s better to have a pair, because rabbits are very very social animals. A lone bunny can get bored, anxious, and very very destructive. The trade off is that the pair may not be as cuddly and attentive to their owner as a lone bunny, but they will be immeasurably happier.

        Cats are predators, and rabbits are prey animals. You can have cats and rabbits together but it’s not recommended - it takes less than a second for Kitty to go from “this is a friend” to “this is dinner”, or for BunBun to literally kick the guts out of its former pal. Same thing with dogs; bunnies can and will end up on the wrong end of the prey instinct and can either get destroyed or end up dead of shock/fright. And people are not fast enough to keep these things from happening in 99% of cases.

        Side note: some people keep rabbits and guinea pigs together. This is a terrible idea because even though their diets and habits are similar, guinea pigs carry bacteria in their guts that can absolutely fuck up a bunny.

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    I’m a fake white supremacist on Facebook and have befriended thousands of Nazis. I report all their shitty racist posts and get their accounts banned, again and again and again.

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      When you remain as the last Nazi on Facebook, you can finally report yourself and then it will be all over.

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      This is a 21st century superhero story.

      IDK how you can do it though… When I encounter shit like that it makes me like physically ill.

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        I think I’m so amused by the fact that I’ve totally fooled them and how fucking dumb they are that I get over the nausea. But not even kidding, one of the women told me her daughter killed her baby by putting meth in her bottle and I was able to correlate that, and I couldn’t read FB for days after.

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            It was hideous. Apparently the parents and five young kids were all living in one room and somehow sleeping in one bunk bed, and they gave the baby meth in the bottle to stop her from crying. I’ll see if i can find the article.

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      You’re the hero we need. Thank you for your service.

      PS: how much trouble are we in, out here in the non-nazi segment of the population?

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        Less trouble than you’d think. I wouldn’t call them a particularly organized group of people. Also I have convinced many of the American ones that voting for Biden will kick off race war and they’re super into that stupid idea.

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    I am in friggin love with Pathfinder 2e right now. I love how flexible the system is and yet how solid it feels. Problem is I have few people to talk to about it, because it’s basically seen as Dungeons and Dragons for people who hate the company behind Dungeons and Dragons.

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        I played Starfinder once, and my GM called it “The Starfinder Disaster” because people kept joining for only a session or two before quitting. I’m looking forward to the remaster, though.

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      I feel you. I’ve been sitting here with my pathfinder 2e books, hoping desperately to run a Strength of the Thousands game, but since I moved recently I’ve got no one nearby who even knows what DnD is, let alone pathfinder.

      I want to do a game in person, since I enjoy it way more than online but at this point I might start looking at a foundry game or something in desperation.

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    I FUCKING LOVE SPACE STATION 13/14. I LOVE THE LEVEL OF DETAIL AND FREEDOM ACHIEVED WITH JUST 2D PIXELS. I LOVE BEING AN OVERWHELMED DOCTOR ON A CARELESS CAPITALIST SPACESHIP JUST TRYING TO HAVE NO ONE DIE BEFORE HIS SHIFT ENDS.

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    I’ve been teaching myself to make cheesecake.

    I’m generally proficient in the kitchen but never bake or work with sweet things.

    I’ve started with mini cheesecake and after a couple failed attempts, they’ve come out so good as to share with coworkers who tell me to make more.

    One of these days, I’ll graduate to full sized.

    Bonus: I’ve learned to make lemon curd from scratch. Did lime curd as an experiment once I got the lemon down.

    I enjoy kitchen undertakings that are far beyond my capabilities and actually enjoy the initial fuckups because they represent progress toward getting it right.

    I also tend to listen to a mix of eighties alternative and sixties jazz while I’m doing it because why wouldn’t those two genres go together?

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      Nice. My variation is to try food from many different cultures and it’s really helped both my kitchen skills and the breadth of foods my kids enjoy. It goes without saying that I love them all.

      It’s all worked surprisingly well, except my ad hoc “fusion” meals. This past weekend, preparing an Italian food in a French style, with chicken in an African/Portuguese inspired marinade, and a Jamaican Ginger beer. Each worked really well. The combination, not so much, but I’m happy I did it because I had so many meal parts I wanted to try even if I couldn’t put together a coherent combination.

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    I turned my teenage hobby into my career. I see a lot of content against that kind of thing (don’t ruin your hobby), but I love it.

    It has also skyrocketed my upward mobility because I don’t see my work as work, for the most part, and I didn’t enter the job market with only a degree to prove my competence in the field (also experience). After ~10 years working, maybe I will change my mind in another 10 years.

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      11 months ago

      As someone currently pursuing a degree about something I’m heavily interested in personally as well, this gives me hope.