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I summoned the evilI summoned the evil

Look at stupid me. Just look what I did in my discussion of my new toy, Rock Band for the Xbox 360.

If only there weren’t rumbles of less than reliable hardware. The guitars have strummers that seemingly inevitably screw up and the “overdrive” doesn’t kick in consistently. The bass drum pedal snaps in half. The drum heads start not responding. People that can’t sing use the mics. I admit to being a bit worried about the longevity of the hardware, but it certainly hits the right balance to provide a simply astounding level of happy happy.

See that? I summoned the hardware failure! I have no one to blame but myself. So there I am trying to get through the Hard difficulty on guitar and I’ve got a steady stream of 16th notes. No fret movements required, just hold ‘em down and strum. I can do that. Except the guitar wouldn’t let me. I could string together maybe 6 or 7 but I’d inevitably lose my run even though I know I’m strumming consistently and in-time.

I certainly will not be mentioning anything about my recently acquired Mass Effect game, nor will I so much as allude to my bass kick pedal.

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2 Responses to “I summoned the evil”

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    amol Says:
    January 7th, 2008 at 3:30 pm

    I don’t read a lot but you write well. That’s for sure. Of course, nowadays people want their stuff in the form of a weblog. Nothing wrong with fads. But my feeling is that your brain is too logical for this format. If you start a proper website with proper sections on how to handle nofollow or how to take care of referral spam, you’ll feel lot more satisfied with yourself. I’ll be a perpetual visitor for sure.

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    amol Says:
    January 7th, 2008 at 3:50 pm

    This is such a wonderful insight. I want to increase its life through this comment. Maybe I’ll end up webbing it some.

    That commenter’s link, though obviously topical, helpful, and useful to the humans that visit the site, is ignored by search engines due to nofollow and therefore the “Web” part of the web ends at that comment. The overall net result would tend toward “blog isolationism.”

    from: http://www.coldforged.org/archives/2005/03/16/the-nofollow-agenda/

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