okay, i wish i had figured out how much fun this was sooner. dance pad video games are FUN. they make me look even whiter than i am, but i’m as close to shameless as it gets without gaining 100 lbs and becoming a nudist. and lord, are they a workout. i sweat like crazy, i’m sore from my calves to my shoulders, and that’s on the freakin EASY level of MC Dance Groovz. okay. so it’s probably just due to the way i play… nah, better yet, i’ll blame it on my playing conditions rather than my playing form. sort of a toy-and-twit obstacle course. it’s a fisher-price mosh pit, really, given that i have to keep a couple of turds the heck off *my* dance pad (and hey, i’m not saying that bouncing them across the room is the nicest thing to do, but it’s best they learn NOW that i am competitive, before we start playing backyard football in a couple of years.)
i can’t wait for my dance dance revolution mario mix to show up in the mail… if they think dancing along to a silhouette of a raver is fun, just wait til we’re stomping koopas to the heavy beats of jessica simpson and n’sync…
note evilgremlin’s disinterest. the boy is down with the donkey konga… NOT down with the dancing. i asked him to play with me… he sat there and watched me and his brothers for a couple of minutes.
EG: actually, that really doesn’t look like any fun.
Me: dude. it’s just like twister.
EG: only not fun like twister.
Me: it is too fun.
EG: you’re not even smiling.
Me: i’m concentrating. it’s the same face i have when i play donkey konga, and that’s fun.
EG: you look like you’re going to fall down.
Me: i probably am.
EG: falling down is NOT fun.
Me: trying not to fall down might be. you don’t even know!
EG: the brothers are pushing each other.
Me: KNOCK THAT OFF!
EG: *suddenly perking up* wait, is this a fighting game? i like fighting games!
Me: no. it’s a dancing game. STOP PUSHING!
EG: it looks like a fighting game, though.
Me: it’s not a- GET YOUR HANDS OFF HIS NECK!
EG: i think spazmonkey won.
Me: he did NOT win, because he did not DANCE.
EG: how many points for knocking dramaqueen down?
Me: he did not get POINTS for – STOP THAT!
EG: oh, so he doesn’t get points because dramaqueen got back up?
Me: something like that.
EG: so is dramaqueen winning?
Me: *sigh* *I’M* winning, because *I’M* the only one dancing.
EG: actually, you’re just kinda stomping. *watching spazmonkey fly matrix-style across the room, pause to giggle, then slide in to tackle dramaqueen’s feet.* this is kinda like halo. without guns.
Me: yeah. wanna play?
EG: nah. i’ll wait til you turn this off and put in halo. can i use your stomper pad for halo instead of the mote control?
