September 17, 2010
If there’s one thing I can say about playing games – and this can be applied to learning things or anything else that requires you to memorize a given process – is that if you don’t use it, you lose it. Seriously: one ends up being about as lost as a zombie in a convenience store on Valentine’s Day – all those hearts floating around and not one of them look very edible, and the place is completely devoid of your favorite brains from the Chop Shop or even those fascinating gelatin brain molds...
Forgive me – I’m in major Halloween mode come mid-September.
Anyway, about the loss of gaming ability, I found this out sometime last week. Two weeks into a rather uncertainly-certain breakup I decided to once again take up rocking out on a game we used to play as a team: Rock Band. I was once great going solo, shredding the game track mostly on Hard but with a few of the trickier songs on Medium. Not much of an accomplishment to those able to play on Expert, or able to play for real – kudos to you if you’re one of them, but I claim my current bragging rights on that wrung on the Awesomeness Ladder.
Upon missing at the very least two weeks of practice time (writing and online life/friends have a higher priority) I found that I completely sucked! The total wipe-out on one of my favorite songs utterly stunned me. I had been great at it! I can say the same thing about a lot of songs on the piano I had once learned, and still have yet to re-master. Good thing there isn’t a Piano Hero out yet.
Today, that has changed. After a steady stream of practicing and going so far as to take my top 5 favorite songs from a lumbering 50% slowly up to full speed (I refuse to be satisfied with a practice scoring of anything below 95, and 98s and 99s receive a free mulligan whether I’m sick of the song yet or not) I finally achieved a goal that has taken me nearly a year to complete.........
Vengeance, er, I mean Victory is mine... mine... mine!
Perhaps I’ve been listening to that song just a tad too much lately...
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......Nah!
There’s no real purpose for this little anecdote, but if you all would like a conclusion to it... make sure you stock up on edible brains before winter gets here, or you’ll be out of luck when it comes time to make that little ‘gruesome twosome’* extra special with your undead sweetheart on Valentine’s Day...
I’ll likely be spending mine with my guitar controller and rocking out to Under My Wheels... which will hopefully be “under my belt” instead, as I don’t know how to drive yet.
Happy Very-Early Halloween, everybody!
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* [Gruesome Twosome: the name of the Alice Cooper and Rob Zombie tour in 2009.]
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And now, for your hopefully-furthered entertainment, some “Points To Ponder” ...
I didn’t come up with these on my own – just some funny stuff I had in an email I wanted to share.
1. One tequila, two tequila, three tequila... floor
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2. I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, “Where’s the self-help section?”
... She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.
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3. Is there another word for synonym?
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4. What do you do when you see an endangered animal eating an endangered plant?
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5. If a parsley farmer is sued, can they
garnish his wages?
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6. Would a fly without wings be called a walk?
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7. If a turtle doesn’t have a shell, is he homeless or naked?
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8. If the police arrest a mime, do they tell him he has the right to remain silent?
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9. What was the best thing
before sliced bread?
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10. Does the Little Mermaid wear an ‘algebra’?
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11. How is it possible to have a civil war?
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12. If one synchronized swimmer drowns, do the rest drown, too?
(lol, morbid, I know. Sorry.)
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13. If you ate both pasta and antipasto, would you still be hungry?
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14. If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done?
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15. Why are hemorrhoids called “hemorrhoids” instead of “@$$teroids”?
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16. Why is it called tourist season if we can’t shoot at them?
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17. Why is there an expiration date on sour cream?
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18. The reason why Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live...
(I know... that one was bad...
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