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   From: wog-NotThisBit-george@amd-p.com   
      
   "vic arpeggio"  wrote in message   
   news:1194986670.296351.300450@d55g2000hsg.googlegroups.com...   
   > On Nov 13, 5:50 am, "Wog George"    
   > wrote:   
   >> "Eric Perlin"  wrote in message   
   >>   
   >> news:h2mgj3l8mls8909n8lu4hjna2q3hlclr28@4ax.com...   
   >>   
   >> > vic arpeggio wrote:   
   >>   
   >> > } I completely agree with SP's opinion of Guitar Hero.   
   >> > } Anyone who would rather waste their time with that   
   >> > } instead of putting in the work necessary to play a   
   >> > } real instrument probably prefers sex with blow up   
   >> > } dolls to the real thing.   
   >>   
   >> > I didn't know until I'd read your post that "Guitar Hero" was a real   
   >> > game!   
   >> > I   
   >> > thought it was a fictional game made up for the show.   
   >>   
   >> I'd heard of the game a while ago because Deep Purple was featured in it.   
   >>   
   >> > Maybe being out of touch with current video games is what kept me from   
   >> > fully   
   >> > appreciating the episode, but I found it weak and unfunny compared to   
   >> > South   
   >> > Park's usual standard. It seemed especially weak in comparison to the   
   >> > five   
   >> > consecutive great episodes that aired before it (Cartman faking   
   >> > Tourettes,   
   >> > Giant   
   >> > Turd, and all three parts of the Imaginationland Trilogy).   
   >>   
   >> I guess I added it to the other five and found it funny because I'm a   
   >> guitarist of some note (although we're not exactly sure which note that   
   >> is).   
   >> When Randy plugged in and demonstrated that he could actually play a real   
   >> guitar, the boys thought it was gay.  I enjoyed the show in part because   
   >> it   
   >> highlighted how ridiculous it was that fake guitarists take precedence   
   >> over   
   >> a real guitarist.  When extreme players of the game (1000000 points) were   
   >> exposed as fags, it was sort-of comforting.   
   >>   
   >> I think the last 3 half-seasons have been some of the best episodes.   
   >> South   
   >> Park is on the up and up, and I'll keep watching for the next few seasons   
   >> too!   
   >>   
   >> --   
   >> George   
   >   
   > How's it going, George?  I liked the episode for essentially the same   
   > reason as you.  I'm also a guitarist of note (I think it's G#) and   
   > have been playing since before some posters here were even swimming   
   > around inside their dads' testicles. Some of my music has achieved a   
   > small measure of international acclaim, although unfortunately, the   
   > big money and rock star status with its attendant mind blowing perks,   
   > have managed to elude me. I thought the general concept was wickedly   
   > clever, and some of the details were spot on hilariouos--the"Heroin   
   > Hero" game ruining Stan's "career" by turning him into a virtual   
   > junkie, the kid the manager brought in to replace Kyle was a brilliant   
   > stereotype ("'Sup?"), and Kyle getting a chance to play Guitar Hero   
   > for an audience at the bowling alley cracked me up.  Sure, it wasn't   
   > up to the brilliance of the Trilogy, but that's some of their best   
   > work ever so it's not really fair to compare.   
   >   
   >   
   It was probably my favourite Kenny death for a long time, maybe of all time!   
      
   The international acclaim sounds interesting.  Spill 'em...   
      
   --   
   George   
   "We've got Jews and perverts and bullies and all kinds of sinners in this   
   town, Sister Ann." - Eric Cartman - 26 July 2000   
      
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