So I was at a party tonight, where everyone was playing Rock Band (obviously an advanced incarnation of Guitar Hero) on the 360. I'll admit, I played it too, more out of curiosity and also to prove that I'm not a total fucking idiot. But you know what? Only fucking idiots play that game. I'll excuse musicians who can play it (although why they'd waste their time on that when they know how to actually play, I don't know) but it very nearly sickens me how many average-joe dumbasses play this game. Why the fuck would you mash four buttons in sequence in front of a screen with a limited number of songs when you could actually pick up a real guitar, learn to play, and do something constructive with your time? I'm a musician and it pisses me off to no end how I can't play a goddamn thing on Guitar Hero, but I can play that exact song, specifically, perfectly in real life. Look, I love video games too. But I prefer to spend my time playing games of stuff that I can't possibly (or plausibly) do in real life - like blowing shit up*, shooting aliens in their faces, jumping around magical worlds collecting coins and killing the enemy just by jumping on his head, stealing people's cars and then running them over with them. The other thing that boggles the mind is how much this shit costs. For not much more, you could get an actual guitar (albeit kind of a shitty one) to start yourself out, so you can't argue costs on this either. Sweet merciful crap, people are stupid.*Okay, so I have done that in real life. But in my defense, it's been a long time since I've needed to dispose of an air conditioning unit.
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