Saturday, November 3, 2007

GH [chat]

All is for rockin' or chattin'. The option is yours.

41 comments:

_J_ said...

Unlocked Through the Fire and the Flames. I tried to play it on expert. My first two tries I completed 0% and my third try I completed 1%.

Progress.

Mike Lewis said...

preordered my pc/mac copy at the local game story - they don't have the best prices in the world, but i am going to support them over Wal-Mart.

i got a fall on tusday from the manager telling him that they were going to credit my card because they don't take pre-orders on pc games.

i am going to be heading to the place with best buy later in the week

poop on local game story
poop on comps

_J_ said...

Gott weiss ich will kein Engel sein

MA17 said...

Wait, does that mean Rammstein is in GH3?!?!?!

Or are you just, you know, sayin'.

_J_ said...

I'm just sayin'.

Man, that would be damn awesome if Rammstein was in GH3.

_J_ said...

I just checked the scoreboards on guitarhero.com.

The high score for Through the Fire and the Flames on Expert is 712,272.

HOW?

MA17 said...

Dang.

That beats the hell out of my 50.

Kylebrown said...

Wowza, so how are one and cities on flame?

_J_ said...

Delightfully painful.

GH3 kicks the pants off GH2 in terms of soundtrack.

_J_ said...

So my list of "Things that still hurt two weeks after the operation" has grown.

1) Yawning
2) Singing along to the radio
3) Eating Animal Crackers
4) Talking for extended periods of time

_J_ said...

A scientastic explanation of why people believe in supernatural whatnot.

_J_ said...

CALLED IT!

Caleb said...

'tastic!

_J_ said...

I agree. Dark matter doesn't make a damn bit of sense at least when the argument for its existence is "We can't prove it, but it totally has to be there."

Like ether, and a creator being, and unicorns.

Roscoe said...

Unicorns totally exist.

I mean.. RHINOS exist. Who in their right mind thought those up?

Or Wetas?

or Camel Spiders?

If those exist, then Unicorns have to. Also, Giger-esque Xenomorphs.

Kylebrown said...

Astronomers and Physicists defined the THEORY of dark matter because at the time, given the current technological state this was the simplest solution. Now that technology has advanced we know more and can adjust the theories to an even simpler solution.

This is the way of science, if something can't currently be explained we must create a theory that explains a phenomena as simply as possible, until we can investigate further.

The same things happened and continue to happen with the genome, atomic physics, and even meteorology.

Message simplified, don't hold theories against the scientific community, as they are designed to be placeholders until more information becomes available.

Caleb said...

That's fine, well and good.

But when people are preparing press releases stating that they've not been convinced, they seem to be missing point of their careers as scientists.

And who the hell names a mysterious, cosmologically foundational substance dark matter?

Kylebrown said...

They are not convinced because more evidence has surfaced due to technological advances. A lot has changed since the thirties. It is their job as scientists to be skeptical.

Also given the context, the name dark matter makes complete sense. A form of matter that does not reflect light.

_J_ said...

"As far as we're concerned, [Moffat] hasn't done anything that makes us retract our earlier statement that the Bullet Cluster shows us that we have to have dark matter," Clowe said. "We're still open to modifying gravity to reduce the amount of dark matter, but we're pretty sure that you have to have most of the mass of the universe still in some form of dark matter."

Doesn't sound very skeptical to me.

_J_ said...

OMG

MA17 said...

That is awesome and crazy.

Translated into Youtube comments:

Fake

you can't play it on real guitar

MA17 said...

Man, Game Rankings is showing GH3 as rated lower than GH2, which apparently was the best thing since sliced Jesus. How can this be?

I hit up Gamespot to see what they said, and they were cranky about the higher difficulty (which they also said was a good thing), the in-game advertising, the boss battles and battle modes, and that there is no online play. GH3 has only a bit more advertising than GH2, and I'd say it's exactly as offensive (not fucking very). It's not like they're flashing "YOU JUST SCORED THE COCA-COLA BRAND SOFT DRINK STAR POWER. TILT YOUR GUITAR TO UNLEASH A REFRESHING TWO LITERS OF HIGHER SCORE!" The game has sponsors, and that's ok.

Boss battles and battle mode I enjoy. Battle mode's not the greatest thing ever, but I like how they're doing something to make it fun and all. Boss battles, however, are almost an absolute good. With or without the battle aspect, just riffing with a famous guitarist is a good idea that must not be abandoned.

And online play is just a fad. Please.

MA17 said...

Oh, and in case I was wondering (I was), such as Sabotage is unlocked in career co-op.

Kylebrown said...

Sounds completely skeptical to me. He is skeptical of the modified gravity theory, and the proponents of modified gravity are skeptical of dark matter as they should be.

Both sides want more evidence, and will remain skeptical until more evidence is granted.

Roscoe said...

Career Co-op? a good thing.

Career Co-op tiers being a little different? Also good.

Being the only way to unlock those songs? Jaw droppingly dumb.

_J_ said...

"Boss battles and battle mode I enjoy."

You are a clod who likes stupid things and that makes you stupid. This isn't Mario Brothers. It's Guitar Hero.

I have to meet with boss, but I shall continue this later.

Caleb said...

Maybe I am reading pointless squabble from Ker Than's stylish, journalistic opposition rather than from the things these quoted scientists are saying.

I certainly read it as a disappointing who's the awesome astrophysicist contest to begin with.

Don't you think "Dark Matter" sounds at least a little goofy?

_J_ said...

Would people be offended if we had a GH3 post and a Dark Matter Post so the discussions could occur in there? [chat] all is be confusing.

Kylebrown said...

goofy in what manner? It (almost) perfectly describes the object in question. By the same standard salt water, hard candy, and white board should all be considered goofy.

The only way the name could possibly be more descriptive were it to be called dark, dense matter. Which, admittedly, would sound goofy due to multiple descriptors.

I would much rather it be called Dark Matter than a Fritz Matter, or a Zwicky Substance (both after the man who theorized its existence).

Caleb said...

A GH3/Dark Matter post is a great idea. That will surely be less confusing than [chat].

_J_ said...

Keen. Had no idea that these topics would spur discussion. But it's awesome that they did.

We need to just set up a forum...

_J_ said...

If people want to copy their GH3 or dark matter posts to the new threads feel free.

Also, I'm trying to explain part of our online store to someone and a while ago I wrote two .pdf documents which explained everything. He asked me which he should read first. I said, "Neither of them will make sense until you've read both, so...either."

I like situations like that.

Roscoe said...

Teevanicus Prime! I summon Thee!

the MRPP is approaching Blooms! She is Renatta Two-Point-OhEmGee!

Prepare yourself!

MA17 said...

What's all this now?

_J_ said...

I know what Roscoe is talking about.

And fuck if I know how the words in that message relate to what he's talking about.

Also, I now hate Mattocks, because before I thought they were just tools frequently used for path work in hill areas such as the Scottish Highlands. But this was before "we" discovered them and started using the word in the catalog.

Because instead of being treated as a noun, "we" use the word in the way normal people would use a word such as "blue".

Blue is not a thing, it is a characteristic things have.

"Mattock," it seems, can go both ways.

Roscoe said...

Mattock is AC/DC. So is Mattlock.

so.. I'm going to be in Blooms this weekend for a comic thing. Guiding this comic thing is a Latin Prof. Who is eerily like Renatta.

Kyle says you may be in Indy this weekend, though.. so..

either way, I need advice on Blooms Eatin's.

_J_ said...

I like it when people in the office talk about me but I'm not involved. This morning two people were talking about a product that they want to put on the store and one of them said, "I know that Jay is working on this, but I don't know where it lies in his priorities." Then the other guy said that Jay may need to move this particular task up in his priorities.

And they're less than 15 feet away from me having this conversation. But apparently I have a bubble around my desk that protects me from being confronted.

Except when something breaks.

_J_ said...

In a description of a new shovel I left the 'l' out of "public".

It greatly changed the utility of the shovel.

_J_ said...

Pirates.

Apparently it is a legitimate career again.

Who wants to join me?

Caleb said...

"The U.S. efforts came despite its hostile relations with the communist country over its nuclear program."

Doesn't that defy decades of US foreign policy?

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