Does anyone agree with me that...

Komatos05 · Trick Member Joined: 24 Dec 2003 Location: LI, NY

This is a cult and we are all CULT members. We basically all do the same things, listen to the same minute-and-a-half to two minute songs, go to the same places and gather in large and small numbers for one reason;
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My friend brought this up to me that DDR is a cult and it really seemed true. I know friends who play DDR have stepmania and good home pads so they aren't forced to pay to play the same songs if they played at home, but they still go to TCF or FZ and spend money. and why is that? Its because we are all cult members who gather for one reason and sometimes make long 45 minute trips just to play for a few hours and waste more money on gas than on gameplay.
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AFAD · Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2004 12:48 pm Post subject:

Wtf? I never thought of this place as a cult. It's more like a huge community of people with the same interest which is DDR.
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What's Rain? · Trick Member Joined: 25 Nov 2002

NO.
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Nikorasu · Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2004 6:21 pm Post subject:

I understand where you're coming from, but a cult does what they're told without thinking for themselves, and they separate themselves from other people. DDR players usually enjoy being around other people, especially to show off their skills. And they think for themselves, they only pick the songs they want to do.
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Komatos05 · Trick Member Joined: 24 Dec 2003 Location: LI, NY

Flarone · Trick Member Joined: 13 Feb 2004

Isn't that like saying that, say, sports teams, are a cult because they share the same interests and get together and play a lot and go on long trips to compete?
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Slowpoke · Trick Member Joined: 28 Oct 2003

Well, according to Webster, a cult is defined as "Obsessive, especially faddish, devotion to or veneration for a person, principle, or thing"

Sure sounds like they're talking about us

zanarkandsky · Trick Member Joined: 30 Jul 2003 Location: North Carolina

Um..no.

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randompassingGerudo · Trick Member Joined: 03 Feb 2004

Never thought about it that way. If this was a cult, wouldn't we have to die?

No, this is something you do when you want to have fun and make friends.
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Bioclown · Trick Member Joined: 13 Jan 2004 Location: So Deep

This doesn't seem like a cult cult, but it is definitely a cult. Again, not Jim Jones Cult of Sodoomy, more like "cult" film, or Star Trek (Okay, now that is a death-cult, but that's not the point.) DDR is many things beyond just a cult sensation. It's a community, a way to keep the Demon Fatticus off your buttocks, and most importantly, if you go over to Norway, it's a sport. So, refer to it ,if you will, as culture.
(With your logic of "cult," per se, all major sports are cults. Hmm!)
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rampage · Administrator Joined: 24 Jan 2002 Location: Redmond, WA

cult ( P ) Pronunciation Key (klt)
n.

1.
1. A religion or religious sect generally considered to be extremist or false, with its followers often living in an unconventional manner under the guidance of an authoritarian, charismatic leader.
2. The followers of such a religion or sect.
2. A system or community of religious worship and ritual.
3. The formal means of expressing religious reverence; religious ceremony and ritual.
4. A usually nonscientific method or regimen claimed by its originator to have exclusive or exceptional power in curing a particular disease.
5.
1. Obsessive, especially faddish, devotion to or veneration for a person, principle, or thing.
2. The object of such devotion.
6. An exclusive group of persons sharing an esoteric, usually artistic or intellectual interest.