Engineers and programmers are the often-anonymous architects of society, and what you do now could make a huge difference to the lives of millions, even billions, of people in decades to come.
-Charlie Stross Shaping the Future
Monday, December 03, 2007
Rock Band can't handle the Heroes.
After 14 hours of playing Rock Band on the same day I bought it, the strum bar on the guitar broke. The next morning I performed surgery on the guitar and fixed the problem, maybe even making the guitar better. Here's a picture of what I did:
The next day after many hours of playing the drums on medium (because you can't learn if you don't challenge yourself) the bass drum pedal broke. Luckily for me I'm a DIY kind of guy and I had some iron bars, a drill, some zip ties, and ingenuity in the garage. The damage: The fix:
Those many hours at Mars music definitely paid off. I picked up the drums in no time. Good times. I've hit a road block in medium-drums though: The Outlaws - Green Grass & High Tides (Cover). It's also the only song I can't beat in guitar-expert. 75% of the song is a guitar solo, the last 30% of the song is an impossibly difficult guitar solo. The drums during the last part is extremely repetitive and my leg just can't handle it for 4 minutes non-stop. I need to go to the gym.
Whoever wants to rock out let me know. Also, I don't sing so don't ask.
c l i f f l o v e's thoughts at 9:24:00 AM
Comments:
duuude, cliff. i love it when people know how to fix things!!! i'll be sure to come over and play sometime while i'm in town this winter, yeah? i know you don't sing...maybe i could give it a try. =P bye!
Brian got Rock Band but says he won't play it until after finals. That is, until I found out HE DID play for an hour when he could have been spending my birthday weekend with me. He has gotten A SHITLOAD OF HELL for that. Maybe he would like to play Rock Band this winter break with you seeing that at this moment I don't want to spend time with him.
