STAMP ON THE GROUND

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VW9wlPtDc50

>>717580883 (OP)
Fuck you, now I have to stop what I'm doing and play this like every other time I see it.

4chan has the resources to make another one of these. Nominate one character to throw on the DDR machine.

>>717580883 (OP)
I miss being young on the old internet so much.

>>717581995
There's something so scary about how the world didn't just move this phase, but cracked off of it and fell into the abyss like it was severed. It feels like we haven't so much progressed from this time period as we have melted off of it.

>>717582201
Feels like nothing has changed since the early/mid 2010s and yet at the same time everything is so much worse than it was back then.

>>717583080
the net stagnated.
corporations tried to stabilize the internet so it could create monetary value, but in doing so they stopped ALL creation, because what if it harmed the advertisers? so now everyone is stuck copying each other to avoid being ignored by 'the algorithm' and end up lost like all the old internet culture.

>>717583080
>>717583313

>>717583080
Just look at wojakposting

>>717580883 (OP)
blue guy gay

>>717583080
>>717583313
>>717583972

>>717584090
>took less than a year for the mass enshittification of the internet
>took 4 years and a negro president for the cancer killing /b/ to kill 4chan

>>717583313
>because what if it harmed the advertisers
This is the most bizarre thing to me because I basically never spend money as a result of seeing an advert but it's some mega-huge industry with the whole goddamn internet caught in its vice-like grip, I just do not fucking get it.

>>717584243
In the United States, shareholders can sue companies that fail to make a profit. When someone who isn't a blue-haired college student is complaining about capitalism, they are complaining about how people with capital can use their capital to force others to give them more capital, by using their tremendous capital to control laws that govern the management of capital.

Never forget that the IRS ran out of money trying to sue Microsoft for billions of USD in back taxes between 2004 and 2013.

>>717584243
a lot of the 'value' isn't in direct clicks, its in building name recognition, which leads to increases in sales in general.
if you see shimano bike componants advertised on the side of a webpage, then need to go buy a bike seat for your kid, and you see a shimano seat, you're more likely to assign a higher value to that brand you've seen before.
its why you see lots of ads not advertising the product, but just getting the name out there.
e.g. i've never gone looking for jackoff tools, or anime, or anime jackoff tools, but i know about j-list, because i've seen hundreds of memes about the old banner ads, so i subconsciously trust them more than an unknown brand.
now imagine how much more effective it is to just repeat a brand name in a social media situation, and build up that same trust for cheap by just getting a bot to copy a previous post, add the brand to it, and shit it into forums, and social media sites 24/7

>>717580883 (OP)
how was this art style called? because it was repulsive back then and it's still repulsive today

>>717580883 (OP)
i miss when the internet wasn't srs bsns

>>717581867
I could animate something like that over the weekend, but it seems kinda pointless, to be honest.

That old Newgrounds video has millions views, sure, but stuff like that doesn't blow up anymore. Certainly not on Youtube. Nowadays you need something very quirky, fast and short. And I don't even care about all that TikTok shit.

>>717584745
>how was this art style called?
Brown detected, opinion disregarded.

>>717584635
also, a lot of people aren't as poor discerning about buying shit online.
i have a co-worker who buys literally hundreds of dollars in collagen drink powder, and hair supplements, and fucking sugar crystal treats, all because they saw a pretty lady on instagram selling it.
every week theres a different new thing, which THEY try to sell, because thats what they've seen online.
then they find out what drinking 8 collagen drinks a day does to your guts, and they stop that one, and start another one.

>>717584745
'how to draw manga'

>>717580883 (OP)
>Kyle Ward hasn't licensed this for StepmaniaX
Actually shocked with his 2000s nostalgia.
>>717583080
Consolidation on a handful of social media sites with algorithms that segment people into interests rather than communities with unique cultures. Most nerd communities are quarantined on Discords, and any site with a tiny bit of anonymity is flooded by bots and jeets.

DDR died with the release of 5thMIX, then its corpse was briefly reanimated for a few more games before it died again with EXTREME. Even if there's an argument to be made that SuperNova, 2013 and A were all decent reboots, they both had almost none of the identity of core Bemani games and just got progressively more soulless. It's tragic because beatmania and pop'n music are still doing fine outside of becoming a bit more weeb-centric.

>>717581867
>4CHAN MAKE SOMETHING FOR MEEE!!!
>posts homestuck
>holds up spork
Kill yourself

>>717586162
Go back.

>>717586339
You first, tranny
>>>/discord/

>>717584552
See Dodge vs. Ford.

take me back

>>717584745
Sovlverload

>my online friend claim he’s really good at ddr
>he’s obese
Have you seen fat nigga stylin in ddr?

>>717592216
maybe he means stepmania on a keyboard lol

>>717586037
It feels like SDVX is the focus now for Bemani. DDR is getting fucked by PIU and SMX in NA because Konami's business model is restrictive as shit, and every really good NA player is just on a home ITG setup by now anyway. I miss DDR since I'm not near a Round 1, I'm not as good at PIU and too much of SMX' track list is too normie to put on a ridiculous show for onlookers.

>>717580883 (OP)
Jumpstyle was so peak

>>717592216
You'd be surprised

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iw14BYBj8Jo

>>717584243
It's always been weird to me that people subject themselves to superliminal ads in the first place. Sure you can't really escape the way that society is structured around ads, but you can install an adblock.

>>717595662
there are entities that think you're insane for blocking ads. I wouldn't call them people. You can find them watching commercials on TV instead of doing anything else.

>>717586037
DDR was fine until World came out and completely skullfucked the UI

>>717592216
Like 19 fucking years ago man. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yk-ESYl7Bc

>>717596086
I remember reading somewhere that apparently this kid broke his ankle

>>717580883 (OP)
Star Control 2 sucks

Well if we are gonna sit here and remember stupid shit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvRuueFJm5w

>>717586037
>>717595846
retards judging off the vibe of the game instead of the mountain of high quality charts there are to play

>>717596880
I'd rather play them in Stepmania on by B2L replica pad. The World UI is absolute fucking dogshit.

https://youtu.be/IJjOEenWBiE?list=RDIJjOEenWBiE

>>717596880
its actually insane how many good charts are coming out every week now, but for some reason so many western players are being full retards about world

>>717598291
It should not take me 20-30 seconds to select a difficulty folder. Back in A/A20/A3 all I had to do was hit left and right and select by difficulty. Now if I want to browse the 16 folder I have to do all this stupid bullshit with the filters. It's not intuitive at all.

And besides that, this iteration of DDR is the most greedy iteration in terms of unlocks. You're telling me I have to pay 12 credits for 4 plays just so I can unlock a single song? And I don't even get the challenge chart so I have to pay ANOTHER three credits just for one chart? Not to mention the horseshit they were pulling with requiring purchasing DDR Grand Prix song packs to get access to new challenge charts in the arcade.

World killed my motivation to play DDR in the arcade. And it's a shame, because you're right. They've been releasing some fucking amazing charts lately. I'd just prefer to play them at home where I'm not Jew'd out of my fucking money constantly.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=7O_XU9SsTww

>>717584745
It's from the Newgrounds days when people were drawing straight from the Flash editor with a tablet

Surprised at the rise in popularity of DDR/rhythm game threads in the past few days. I honestly thought the genre was too niche even for /v/, especially stuff like SDVX and IIDX

>>717580883 (OP)
https://files.catbox.moe/bodjyo.webm

>>717596948
>>717598770
taking a break out of calling you a retard to ask how is the B2L pad? buying an ltek was a huge mistake, even after modding the thing is a huge piece of shit. I don't think I have room for B2L but maybe if my next place has a garage I can turn it into a gamer cave

>>717580883 (OP)
It's insane how much better the internet used to be. Especially pre-Covid.

>>717599115
It's honestly fucking fantastic. It's not 100% accurate to the arcade pad, as it seems to use slightly thinner metal (I know for a fact the L brackets are thinner than the official parts). It's definitely lighter. And comparing it to an official arcade pad, you can feel the difference. It can probably be attributed to the fact that I only have a single pad, but the B2L doesn't feel as rock solid and sturdy as the arcade pads. However, it's not an issue in the slightest.

The thing is fucking amazing. Despite what I've said before about the differences, it feels just as good, if not maybe even better than arcade. And the best part is I can diagnose any problems like sticky panels or misfires on the spot. I don't have to let a tech know and hope that they come over to look at the pad.

The only thing I'd say about it is that it definitely needs some modding to get it to play how you want. I played it the second I set it up without any modding, and it played exactly like a stock arcade pad. Too recessed, not sensitive enough, but still playable. Once I spent a few weeks tape modding and tweaking the sensitivity, I got it in a spot that feels absolutely perfect.

I've had it for about a year, and I'm a high level player (I had the 14-16 PFC lamps before World hit, and I regularly play 17s and 18s). Despite the absolute fucking beating it's taken, it still plays like an absolute dream.

100000% worth the money if you've got the spare cash to blow.

>>717584243
No one buys shit they see in ads. Ads set the zeitgeist. The idea that content can "hurt" an advertiser is just what they claim to get rid of you.

>>717598989
Rhythm games in general have proven enduringly popular even not too far from the mainstream, Beat Saber is pretty big and Guitar Hero never really died, it just went underground. And then there's Friday Night Funkin' and Fortnite's I-Can't-Believe-It's-Not-Guitar-Hero mode that both proved mega-hits with kids.

>>717596781
I forgot i saw this shit over a decade ago, and i hated it back then too.

>>717599697
I'm only surprised because every time I've tried to start a thread about rhythm games it dies on the spot with maybe two or three posts.

>>717599771
on modern /v/? you have to make a shitty bait thread with a twitter screencap.
>>717599697
beat saber is so fun even if I look like a retard playing it.

>>717599161
Even pre covid was already shit, before the consolidation of big social media sites, when communities where scattered in multiple websites and forums was the time of great creativity and cringe. A thousand Alexandrias worth of content have been erased since then.

>>717600398
It was shit, yes, but TikTok didn't exist yet, and zoomers weren't the brunt of every online community up until Covid happened. Now everything is just fucking miserable. The internet homogenized way too much.