Today I accomplished something that seemed nearly impossible when I first stepped on the Dance Dance Revolution stage back in January. After 6 months of intense training (and probably hundreds of dollars spent at the game center near Suidobashi), I have finally beaten Xepher on Expert. 
BEHOLD:
I was recently playing Final Fantasy 2 (the real #2) for Game Boy Advanced. The skill system in the game is horrible. The more you use a particular skill, the better you get at that skill. This sounds reasonable, but in practice it is not fun and too repetitive, partly due to the random nature of the skill increase.
I basically avoided this by creating a setup shown below. I set the abilities/spells that I wanted my characters to use, then I found an enemy (usually something of the Flan variety), and did something productive for 20 minutes or so. The weight of the stereo speaker was enough to hold the button down, so my characters executed the same moves every turn. This yielded large skill increases without taking any of my time. Yay for productivity.
