Hello. I'm sure no one is curious about what's goin on with me, but if there is anyone who's curious... well, I'm back for a little while. I left for a while. Mostly because I am done with forums and people who want to have petty internet arguments. I've been doing some... stuff.

If you are into retrogaming, check it out:

[THE SOLID STATE GAMER]

Im done talking on forums and speaking my opinions as well as the facts that support them. Every time I do so, they all respond with the same old line of complete krap. And afterwards they insult me, as if Im starting something. Thats not kool at all. The internet is apparently no place for people to converse in a respecful, intellegent, and amiable conversation. I guess I have just been wasting my time with forum people...

So, after Guitar Hero III, I tried the drums on Rock Band. Im stupid, so obviousy I started on hard. My friend and I tried that song by the Hive. I got way too into it, but I had no trouble with the drums, and I loved it! When my friend died on the guitar, I brought him back playing drums! I ended up getting 95%. Not bad I guess, but I need to improve if Im going to compete or join one of those fake bands (Im having enough trouble with my friend's band cus we dont have time to practice). But hey, at least I know can at least handle the drums to an extant...

So, I went to the local Best Buy with a couple of me best buds to try out Guitar Hero Three and Rock Band (Ill talk about that later). The was a line in the aisle to play this game, as well as Rock Band. When I got my chance, I got in the game and decided jump right in and play Rock You LikeA Hurricane on Hard. I was thinking I would fail early and show my lack of skill to everyone in line. Well, I was so much better than I thought I would that I started singing the song while playing. I got into the zone, which is something that rarely happens for me. But then again, I am a big fan of the Scorpions so I guess I makes sense. When I punched my name in it was the highest score on the song/difficulty. After that people were like "whoa!" which I thought was at the Rock Band demo, so I looked over to the demo and was saying "yeah I know! This Rock Band Demo looks sick, even running in 30 frames!". I was completely oblivious. I was asked if I had the game or even played it before, and I just told them, "I just like this song, but beyond that I havent played this game before. You wanna try?". everyone just backed away. I felt bad about it, so I just set down the controller and proceeded to -silently- watch the Rock Band Demo...

Im playing on the hard difficulty to start, and Im having a rad time playing it. But, Im having trouble with some of the note sequences. like:

----O

---O-

--O--

-O---

O----

and

---O-

----O

---O-

when they are all smoshed together in sequence.

Im thinking my issue is with the hammer ons and pull offs - I just cant figure those two out. Also I find that I am over strumming When it seems that Im only strumming once for each note.

If anyone could give me some pointers on how to tackle these problems, I would greatly appreciate it...

I love this game. after hours of conditioning, i finally got myself back into real gaming. this is an example of a game worth playing and taking on the challenges of: