"Chart" not "Step"
 

This is a public service announcement to remind people to try to remember to use "chart" and "charting" instead of "step" or "stepping". For example, "I found a really cool song, so I decided to chart it." or "I decided to make a chart for that song I heard on the radio."

This is arguably being pretty anal but we need to start making the transition to break away from the connotation of being some adaptation of a dance game, which we are not. Stepping is an action done with feet, not with fingers. Arrows matter on a pad, which indicate direction of where the button is located, but they don't matter on a keyboard when you're playing spread-style. Our community has been around for many years now, and old habits are hard to break, but I think anything that is outdated (and ultimately detrimental to the game's image) should be fixed, especially if it requires virtually no major effort to do so.

EDIT: "map" also works too, or any other word as long as it sorta makes sense

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but ffr is an adaptation of a dance game?

Re: "Chart" not "Step"
 

i stepped a file
i stepped a song
i stepped a chart
i charted a step
i charted a file
i charted a chart
i charted a song
i sharted a shart

does it matter
ffr is an adaptation of a dance game. "flash flash revolution" vs. "dance dance revolution" there's a couple similarities

also, detrimental to the game's image is a good point if we had a more active userbase i think

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i always say file

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make a psa to remind me to care

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nah still be steppin all day every day

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I use them interchangeably depending on who I'm talking to

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does that make me a chartist

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i'm currently stepping a pretty sick chart how does that make you feel

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Better call it Chartmania

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Now I can't step in front of a bus. =(

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so does anyone call the charter of rights the stepper of rights ??

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very thread much not random thought material wow

Also, I'm simfiling.

Re: "Chart" not "Step"
 

shut up

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^^^^

Re: "Chart" not "Step"
 

bitch please im an artiste

i say what i want about my art



my art is stepfiles u mad



i mean you could still step to them

with your feet

if u were good at it

Re: "Chart" not "Step"
 

So why keep other names like The Running Man.
Jacks to vibrate
Jumps to 2 hand push buttons
Hands.
And awhole bunch of other stuff Im not aware of.

Re: "Chart" not "Step"
 

The game that we are delivering content is usually for people to play is Stepmania. If they're not playing StepMania, they're playing on pad, which well... you know.

basic answer: neither chart nor step is incorrect

Re: "Chart" not "Step"
 

just conform to osu and call everything maps

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No one uses the term stepchart? "That song has a terrible stepchart"