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Originally Posted by ilikexd
i have been stepping/charting for a while now and i can't remember having ever looked at the word 'step' and pictured feet moving.
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I still have this connotation, and it is the reason why I was turned off from taking the game seriously when I first started playing, and is the core reason for my lack of motivation from playing competitively.[/quote]
It is also the reason I couldn't get a lot of my friends to join me over the years, because they didn't view it as its own game, but rather "trying to be DDR" or a "rip-off of DDR" or "why play that when you can play DDR". (These are some but not all of the excuses my friends have given me, true story.)
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Originally Posted by ilikexd
arbitrarily regressing and looking at where the word came from instead of what it currently means as a reason to not use it anymore is a pretty weird thing to do
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And this is why I'm not "arbitrarily regressing". I'm not saying that the word doesn't mean what it means now, that's ridiculous, and even I occasionally forget and use "step" out of habit. I've actually given a reason NOT to use the word, and that is that it gives the wrong impression for people about what our game is. Anyone that plays our game and hears "step" for the first time will not understand necessarily understand what it means, but is more likely to understand what it means using a more sensible term. If anything, sticking to habits for no reason (while there are positive reasons or negative ones for the converse) other than comfort is what I would call "arbitrary", and I certainly wouldn't call it "regressing". More like "progressing".
Whether or not one believes there is still such a group of people (because I'm sure there are going to be those who use this excuse) doesn't change the fact that I think the benefits outweigh the costs, and that is the sole reason for making almost any decision.