After looking for big group for a bit, I decided it would be best to continue exploring and learn where everything was so I could be a human map. As much as I’ve seen the map of the con, I learn by experience and after a short time, knew where every room and such was. I was checking out the third floor which had the arcade machines all spread out, and made mental notes to myself of what was there, how much each game was, and where the change machine was. There was also a table with a water spout and cups (there were many of those all throughout the con I later figured out) and while I went to get some water, someone (I believe an ADV staff member) asked if I wanted to see the premiere of the Super Milk-chan Show. Of course I did, I asked when and where, and it was about ready to start in the room we were right next to. All the VAs of the show were in there and introduced themselves and gave a brief description of the show. (On a sidenote, Hilary Haag is really hot and I hope to get in the industry to eventually meet up with her so we can make many children ^_^;; ) They explained that the disc they were showing did have certain words bleeped since they knew there would be a multi-demographic audience, and assured us there would be no bleeps in the actual DVDs themselves when they start selling next month. They said they had a lot of fun with the series both in and out of production, and that the disc would show a lot of the show as well as the antics going on in the halls of ADV. The disc was an hour long and was awesome. The show is hilarious, I guarantee that anyone watching it will doe of laughter at many points. With such a variety of humor, it’s impossible not to.

After the showing, I was able to find the others and we wandered for a while. We eventually decided to go to the arcade for some DDR action, but the DDR machines were turned off. I don’t remember the exact reason, something about the game not being certified for public play or some BS like that. Disappointed, we decided to go looking for food. We eventually found a pizzeria not far from the hotel and decided to eat there. After much discussion to decide what to get (there was time, there was a group of 10 people from the con there ordering as we got there), we eventually decided to get a 20” pepperoni pizza for us to share and each of us also got a drink. We figured that with such a big pizza, it would fill us all up. Lydia barely ate her first piece, Tiff and Parakisu had either one or two each, how many slices did I have? Four. Yep, half the damn pizza. Looking at me you would never guess, but I can eat. After dinner, we went to the hotel’s pool and jacuzzi, then back to the room to decide what to do next.

Tiff and Parakisu wanted to do karaoke so they got ready for that by getting CDs with songs on them to sing to. I figured I’d join them, didn’t know what else I wanted to do then and didn’t feel like dealing with concert lines by myself. The karaoke room was on the third floor, and when we got there, the DDR machines were back on. So myself and Lydia raided the DDR machines while Tiff and Parakisu went in the karaoke room. I am a good DDR player, I can hold my own and do really decently when playing the game, I can do high level songs (nine footers) without too much problem, I’m just not clean enough to get really high scores and grades. Therefore, I usually have no problem playing the game whenever I feel like it because I’m good enough to draw crowds without having to be an elite player (can AA everything with eyes closed). Unfortunately, there were a lot of people there in the elite level. Before my first turn, not so many so I felt good about stepping up there. Right before my turn though, two guys did the hardest level set in Oni mode. That shot down my confidence. Then it’s my and this other guy’s turn and what does he ask me? If I can AA a lot of songs. -_- Nope, no Oni mode for you, so we did the standard three round game. He wanted me to pick the first song, great, so I picked Can’t Stop Falling in Love Speed Mix because I’ve been getting good at the song, can almost always get a B now. Instead, somehow I barely passed the song while he AAed it. He picked a song and I think I got like a C. He told me to pick any song for the last one, I wanted to do My Summer Love because I CAN AA that song, but he didn’t want to do that. >.< So Twilight Zone it was for my choice, and barely passed. He got a AA meaning extra stage. He actually asked me to not play the stage so he could focus more on actually passing it. I got off since I didn’t really want to play the extra stage (this was on MAX2, so the stage is set to Maxx Unlimited), but it’s kind of rude to just ask someone to step down. I would never and never have talked down to people like that when playing DDR and other games. Hell, I’ve even played with small kids just trying out for the first time, teaching them the basics and putting on mods on my side so I still have a challenge playing. I don’t see why people who are really good have to (generally) be asses. If the guy didn’t want to play with someone “lower” than him on the brackets, then he should’ve given up his turn to someone else when I said I can’t AA songs.

After that round, I decided to visit Tiff and Parakisu in the karaoke room, where they didn’t have a turn yet, though others went up multiple times. I got there in time though as Tiff was definitely up next to sing the PGSM OP song. They had commented to me that the people who had gone weren’t really too good for the most part. The guy called up for whoever put on the PGSM song on the list and Tiff went up to set up the CD, and the guy was like “I love this song! Can I sing along with you?” Tiff gave him a little glare trying to say no but not outright say it to not look bad doing so, but he didn’t get the hint and decided to sing along. Tiff knew what she was doing, that guy didn’t, and even made her mess up a couple times. I thought she was going to explode. I left after she got back to her seat back out to the arcade, going to the Extreme machine this time. There didn’t appear to be any elite players, and if there were, they weren’t dicks, so I stayed there until like 1:30 or 2-ish. One thing I love about DDR is the community, and it showed there just talking with some of the people about the game and such. One thing interesting in the night I want to point out this one girl who was there for a short while. I mention this because I think she may have been trying to hit on me. She put a quarter up there pretty much right after mine, and starting talking to me briefly. She noticed one of her friends and talked to her a bit, so I just looked on to the game and noticed in that song she stopped talking to her friend and was standing close to me watching along, and I mean close. Her right foot couldn’t have been more than an inch away from my left foot, and we were in a pretty open space near the machine so I know it wasn’t the crowd causing the closeness. Couldn’t think of anything to say, and didn’t really want to move away, so I just stayed there. I probably could’ve easily had held her hand, even could’ve put my arm around her back and pull her closer to me that inch and cuddle. She was pretty cute so I wouldn’t have minded doing so actually. However, there are two reasons why I didn’t. First off, she had a friend there and sometimes they’ll put an end to those things. That was the lesser of the two reasons and I didn’t even care much for that, but the other reason why I didn’t make any moves is that she appeared to be jailbait, meaning younger than 18. I easily pass to be younger than I am so if I did do something it might not have seemed like a problem to her at first. She might’ve actually been older and I couldn’t tell, but I didn’t want to ask her outright, so I decided to not to do anything to be safe, and that in the odd case that we started hanging out, to ask how old she was if we started to cross the line. My turn came up and she made some positive comments to me (even though my playing was still off), then she played right after, looking over to me after one or two of the songs (where I just basically smiled and nodded), but didn’t she left not too long after her round. Just my luck, finally a girl appears to take an interest in me but appears to be too young for me to do anything. Oh well, one day I’ll find a girl, nothing to worry about now in the con. I eventually went back to the room with the others around like 2 and we talked as we drifted off to sleep.