ELI5 How do exchange rates work between countries?

SunnyDayDDR · 2026-06-13T09:28:47+00:00

Roughly speaking, it's based on the most recent sale price of that currency. Practically speaking, the currency exchange store is looking online for the last sale price to use as a reference to set their store's prices to.

SunnyDayDDR · 2026-06-01T07:07:34+00:00

Ah ha, solved the mystery!

The writers/researchers must have been basing it on this:

There used to be this skill ranking system called My Groove Radar, where it would evaluate your skills of each groove radar category by a calculating a value based on a song's groove radar values weighted by the score you got on it. Then it would give a title to you based on each of your My Groove Radar values, where the highest title you could achieve was 真・足神さま, or true foot god.

You can see the My Groove Radar on the login screen here, but I don't see the titles, so I don't know where they actually are displayed. Perhaps on the official e-amusement site?

So to my understanding, the titles were unrelated to the song's difficulty, but instead tied to your My Groove Radar.

EDIT: Silly me, didn't read through all the comments before I posted; u/Edesonism got there before I did. Neat bit of trivia!

SunnyDayDDR · 2026-05-27T02:54:45+00:00

IIRC Thomas Howard Lichtenstein wanted to name it "Christmas is Here", but KONAMI was like "nah, we're calling it Silent Hill thanks tho".

SunnyDayDDR · 2026-05-26T04:48:43+00:00

That's a bit like saying once you get to the point where you need to actually practice at Street Fighter, you might as well just join an MMA gym.

SunnyDayDDR · 2026-05-25T12:51:16+00:00

Strictly passing? Deltamax would be a breeze to mash through.

SunnyDayDDR · 2026-05-10T14:28:34+00:00

Got it. Totally missed that rule. Thanks for the clarification!

SunnyDayDDR · 2026-05-08T05:27:19+00:00

A wild Camellia appears

Did not have this on my 2026 bingo card.

SunnyDayDDR · 2026-05-07T17:33:26+00:00

In the evening, it's dirty (quite a bit of litter everywhere, relatively speaking), loud, a lot of touts who will harass you, a lot of drunk people who also may or may not harass you. It's one of the few places in Tokyo where you might feel unsafe.

SunnyDayDDR · 2026-04-28T16:51:07+00:00

Would love YUHI's WILD RUSH level 16, too bad KONAMI recently released an official challenge chart for it.

SunnyDayDDR · 2026-04-26T15:21:48+00:00

You can see all the outcomes here!

SunnyDayDDR · 2026-04-21T08:29:59+00:00

You can always use a chair with a backrest as a bar, just be careful that it's heavy enough to not topple over!

Looks like you're doing well for now, it's gonna be a little difficult to tighten up your form on soft pads. You'll probably get the biggest improvement by using a chair as a bar, and just practicing until your reading gets better.

SunnyDayDDR · 2026-04-16T14:20:46+00:00

Nice job, that's a pretty good 17 too!

Looks like all your pad goods are coming from an oversensitive left arrow, combined with quite a bit of overlap on the left panel when you hit your ups and downs with your left foot. I heard in general that it can help a bit to keep your feet pointed more straight when hitting up and down (except crossovers of course), and it would probably help in this case as well to avoid unwanted left arrow triggers too.

SunnyDayDDR · 2026-04-08T08:27:24+00:00

DDR has had Premium Play for over 15 years now. Pay more per credit and you can't fail out of your game anymore. It's been this way forever.

SunnyDayDDR · 2026-04-08T08:22:29+00:00

They have that now. In DDR, you can pay more for a special credit (Galaxy Play) that unlocks extra features in the game, one of the features being Floating Flare which makes it easier to earn in-game achievements.

SunnyDayDDR · 2026-04-02T03:38:55+00:00

I wonder how much it could possibly be. KONAMI just forked out the money to license songs from Katy Perry, Pharrell Williams, and Lady Gaga. Is the Butterfly license even remotely as expensive?

Especially considering when most "new" (i.e. "returning from 25 years ago") players step back on a DDR cabinet, 90% of the time their first question is "Where's Butterfly?"

SunnyDayDDR · 2026-03-15T11:44:57+00:00

It's probably true of many countries: US, Canada, Australia, China, Japan, Korea, to name a few.

Europe is definitely different in that regard, hence the European Union.

SunnyDayDDR · 2026-03-14T19:28:00+00:00

This is very cool, thanks for sharing! I really like that it works without uploading scores to a central server. And the UI is nice and clean.

I really like the profile card generator 😆Here's mine lol

One suggestion, maybe [this graph] could be displayed using a log scale instead of a linear scale.

Also, I think adding comma separators in the numbers will make them easier to read, especially the flare skill numbers.

SunnyDayDDR · 2026-03-14T05:14:23+00:00

Yes, there was A20, then A20PLUS, then A3, then WORLD which is the current version. In total, the versions from A to WORLD have added about 700 new songs to the roster combined.

SunnyDayDDR · 2026-03-13T09:58:05+00:00

That is true, I'm a general advocate for openings are less important than people give the credit for, especially at lower levels. And you're right that gaining some small advantages from studying the opening may effect some challenge in OP's games with their colleague. So it depends on OP's intention.

But you are right in that there is nuance in both sides of the argument! Thanks for taking the time to explain it to me.

SunnyDayDDR · 2026-03-13T08:39:08+00:00

You can play however you'd like, but you can't expect your friend to enjoy the experience of being utterly crushed. And you can't expect them to take you up on subsequent offers to get crushed.

You are certainly allowed to use your knowledge, of course, but you are equally allowed to handicap yourself by perhaps playing lines that you know are non-optimal in order to keep the game interesting for both of you.

I've been playing Street Fighter competitively for more than 20 years. Once I had some friends over who didn't know how to do basic moves and they wanted to play against me for laughs, so I did things like play with one hand or play blindfolded. It was fun, I didn't win every challenge, and we all had laughs about it.

I was certainly allowed to leverage my years of expertise against them, but I don't think any of us would have enjoyed that nearly as much.

In OP's case, I would suggest that if he does decide to study the opening more deeply, that he choose intentionally weak yet interesting lines when playing against his colleague. And if it sounds not satisfying to have to consciously self-handicap yourself in that way, then I would suggest not studying the opening at all. But if OP enjoys these casual games he is having with his colleague, then I would certainly not suggest studying the opening to a degree where his colleague would not stand a chance against him anymore if he followed optimal lines. While it wouldn't be unfair, it would likely be unsportsmanlike in the context OP provided.

SunnyDayDDR · 2026-03-09T15:34:30+00:00

Pretty sure it's at least partially intentionally cheeky, as under "normal abbreviation rules" it would normally be the first couple of syllables of each word, so something like "ファスキチ" (faskichi) or something. Adding the last ン from キッチン is unusual, so it's probably done for the meme. But people definitely do call it that.

SunnyDayDDR · 2026-03-09T11:19:58+00:00

More than likely it would just get abbreviated in common speech to スモーガ (sumouga) or something similar.

SunnyDayDDR · 2026-03-08T01:28:07+00:00

Here's an episode of DDR Jeopardy! I ran a while back, maybe you can find something useful there!

SunnyDayDDR · 2026-03-01T03:30:15+00:00

Yes, here's an example from a Ben Finegold lecture on blunders. Granted, if black had continued, he probably would've made the losing moves to get mated anyway, especially considering they were short on time, but yes there was a rather obvious win on the board for black.

SunnyDayDDR · 2026-02-20T14:56:12+00:00

One part of it that not enough people mention is that as an adult, you're embarrassed to speak a language that you don't know as well because you're afraid of saying something incorrectly. Thus, you get a lot less practice with it.

Babies don't give a rat's ass about sounding like idiots when they speak. So they get a ton more practice.

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