{"id":258,"date":"2007-12-27T20:31:35","date_gmt":"2007-12-28T03:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.princessnybor.com\/?p=258"},"modified":"2010-05-05T01:02:22","modified_gmt":"2010-05-05T08:02:22","slug":"rock-band","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.princessnybor.com\/?p=258","title":{"rendered":"Rock Band"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have the coolest parents ever. I am 29 years old, and they still gave  me Rock Band for Christmas. It is so much fun!<\/p>\n<p>Now, first of  all, I would like to dispel the myth that everyone who plays games like  Guitar Hero  and Rock Band thinks they are &#8220;real&#8221; musicians. Just like  most people who play Dance Dance Revolution don&#8217;t think they are &#8220;real&#8221;  dancers, either. When I play Halo, I do not actually believe I am a real  Spartan shooting real aliens. In other words, most people are not&#8230;  you know&#8230; insane.<\/p>\n<p>The idea is completely preposterous, and if  you think you are an awesome guitar player because you beat Guitar Hero 3  on &#8220;freakin&#8217; impossible&#8221; or whatever, then I have a news flash for you.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A somewhat guitar-shaped plastic controller is not real a  guitar. You are ruining this for the rest of us. Just stop.<\/strong> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/redvsblue.com\/assets\/images\/emoticons\/smiley5.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>That  said, Rock Band is an awesome game, and this is a really cool gaming  genre. I recently got pwn&#8217;d at Guitar Hero 3 by a bunch of teenagers at  the cast party for the play I directed this fall, so I started out in  Guitar Solo Tour mode. I beat Easy pretty readily, and I am about  halfway through Medium.<\/p>\n<p>Here presents a problem, though. I now  want to try Guitar Hero again, but the really cool guitar controller  that Rock Band comes with, the Fender Stratocaster, isn&#8217;t compatible  with any version of Guitar Hero! This is in spite of the fact that  Guitar Hero controllers are compatible with Rock Band. It makes no  sense.<\/p>\n<p>So, my only choice is to purchase Guitar Hero 3 with the  wireless guitar controller. But I am not allowing myself to do that  until I beat Rock Band Guitar Solo Tour mode on Hard, which will  probably never happen.  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/redvsblue.com\/assets\/images\/emoticons\/smiley8.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have the coolest parents ever. I am 29 years old, and they still gave me Rock Band for Christmas. It is so much fun! Now, first of all, I would like to dispel the myth that everyone who plays games like Guitar Hero and Rock Band thinks they are &#8220;real&#8221; musicians. Just like most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.princessnybor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.princessnybor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.princessnybor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.princessnybor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.princessnybor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=258"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.princessnybor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":259,"href":"http:\/\/www.princessnybor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions\/259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.princessnybor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.princessnybor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.princessnybor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}