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The local Fry's Electronics has far too many (soft) DDR pads in stock; it's kind of worrying, for no reason I can immediately put my finger on. However, they're about ten dollars each, so recently I decided to replace my existing, well-worn soft pad with two such of similar manufacture.

Furthermore, although a number of the Fry's employees I asked had no idea whether it was the case, it turns out that they do also sell Duck Tape, if you know where to look.

Thus, for the princely sum of roughly twenty-five dollars, I am now the proud owner of this affront to the eyes:


Surprisingly it performs rather well. While dancing there "feels" like there's an inch-high barrier between the two pads: there isn't, really, it's just a byproduct of the way they're taped together (there is a slight peak of less than 1cm where the black trims of the two pads meet, due to their natural upwards curvature), combined with my natural lack of grace and thus my propensity for letting my feet hit that peak.

I should note that I have considered getting a hard pad, or a even pair thereof; but it doesn't really seem like a worthwhile option — by the time I go through enough soft pads that a hard pad would have been worthwhile, the game consoles I dance with will have changed, and the connectors (or wireless protocols) built into the hard pad will no longer be usable!