Complete Control
Jan. 30th, 2009 09:12 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pasitheaMeh. I've already done a round of pissing people off this week. Why not go for broke and alienate all my friends.
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elfs linked to this article, and honestly, it's one I couldn't agree with more. http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2009/01/complete_contro_1.php Guitar Hero is one of those things that really just totally baffles me. If I'm going to learn to 'play' music, I may as well grab a real guitar and learn to play that. (And in fact, I do practice guitar, flute, and keyboard) Sure, each of these are FAR more complex and difficult to learn than mashing keys in a video game, and certainly I can never look forward to being 'the absolute best' at any of them. In fact, I'm not even at a level where I'm keen to torture my friends with my playing. BUT learning stuff is fun and well... As the article said... For me, it's all about opening possibilities.
Sorry if I'm really down on this whole creator vs consumer thing lately. Perhaps I should spend less time blithering away on LJ and more time creating stuff myself.
elfs linked to this article, and honestly, it's one I couldn't agree with more. http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2009/01/complete_contro_1.php Guitar Hero is one of those things that really just totally baffles me. If I'm going to learn to 'play' music, I may as well grab a real guitar and learn to play that. (And in fact, I do practice guitar, flute, and keyboard) Sure, each of these are FAR more complex and difficult to learn than mashing keys in a video game, and certainly I can never look forward to being 'the absolute best' at any of them. In fact, I'm not even at a level where I'm keen to torture my friends with my playing. BUT learning stuff is fun and well... As the article said... For me, it's all about opening possibilities.Sorry if I'm really down on this whole creator vs consumer thing lately. Perhaps I should spend less time blithering away on LJ and more time creating stuff myself.
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Date: 2009-01-30 07:44 pm (UTC)I've always seen GH as short term grat and ego fluffing. *Insert ego fantasy into script here*
Rinse. Repeat. Yawn.
If your friends would be alienated by you expressing your opinion on your El J that doesn't fluff theirs.... They aren't friends.