Addiction is a Disease
These past few days, I've been having the same strange symptoms: seeing brightly colored spots, hearing music in my head, stiffness in extremities, and sometimes profuse sweating. I thought I might be sick. Then I realized, it wasn't that simple. It wasn't just a plain old illness I was suffering from...it was a horrible new addiction. Now I know what you may be thinking, "Oh Lord, Chris has succumbed to peer pressure and he's using mind-altering substances." Well I'd like to set the record straight here. It isn't alcohol, marijuana, crack, coke, LSD, PCP, angel dust, methamphetamines, or cheese whiz. No...it is something far, far worse...
I am addicted to....
This is what haunts my dreams....
And this is the tool of my addiction....
The game is horribly, wonderfully, painfully, delightfully addictive. The one thing I'm glad of is that I didn't have this in college, it would have seriously hurt the chances of my going to class.
Bill and I have both been overcome by this addiction, and we've just laid back and let it happen. We've flown through easy and normal modes of difficulty in under a week. We're currently working on the hard level. I was flying through the songs, one by one, Hendrix offered me no challenge, Motorhead was a notch in the belt...but I lost all my faith in my hand eye coordination when I went up against the Guitar God himself, Eric Clapton.
The Cream track "Crossroads" was difficult for me at first on easy, then on medium levels. It's downright impossible on Hard. I have my doubts whether Clapton could even play this one, I'll have to call him up and see. We only have 7 songs left until the game offers no more "sane" challenges. Unless we wished to tempt fate and continue on to EXPERT level, which I'm told will require a large shipment of energy drinks to beat. Apparently you have to be hopped up on caffeine and adrenaline to even attempt to get all the button combinations. So, hopefully after hard, we'll just sit back and relax for a while and this addiction will be kicked to the curb.
Sure we'll still use it recreationally and when friends offer, but apart from that, the habitual use will be no more. What? You say there's a sequel coming out in November? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!! Why Gods of Rock? Why do you want us to waste away until our hands are nothing but exposed bone that are extremely sensitive to cold and no longer retain their dexterity? Why would you do this to us?? What's that? You just want us to surpass our human limitations so that we may join you on the High Mountain of Shreddage? That doesn't sound too unreasonable Rock Gods. We shall rise to your challenge, and we pray you give us the strength to carry on.
On a lighter note - I don't even want to know what it's like to ACTUALLY play guitar like Clapton....PRETENDING is hard as hell.
me
I am addicted to....
This is what haunts my dreams....
And this is the tool of my addiction....
The game is horribly, wonderfully, painfully, delightfully addictive. The one thing I'm glad of is that I didn't have this in college, it would have seriously hurt the chances of my going to class.
Bill and I have both been overcome by this addiction, and we've just laid back and let it happen. We've flown through easy and normal modes of difficulty in under a week. We're currently working on the hard level. I was flying through the songs, one by one, Hendrix offered me no challenge, Motorhead was a notch in the belt...but I lost all my faith in my hand eye coordination when I went up against the Guitar God himself, Eric Clapton.
The Cream track "Crossroads" was difficult for me at first on easy, then on medium levels. It's downright impossible on Hard. I have my doubts whether Clapton could even play this one, I'll have to call him up and see. We only have 7 songs left until the game offers no more "sane" challenges. Unless we wished to tempt fate and continue on to EXPERT level, which I'm told will require a large shipment of energy drinks to beat. Apparently you have to be hopped up on caffeine and adrenaline to even attempt to get all the button combinations. So, hopefully after hard, we'll just sit back and relax for a while and this addiction will be kicked to the curb.
Sure we'll still use it recreationally and when friends offer, but apart from that, the habitual use will be no more. What? You say there's a sequel coming out in November? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!! Why Gods of Rock? Why do you want us to waste away until our hands are nothing but exposed bone that are extremely sensitive to cold and no longer retain their dexterity? Why would you do this to us?? What's that? You just want us to surpass our human limitations so that we may join you on the High Mountain of Shreddage? That doesn't sound too unreasonable Rock Gods. We shall rise to your challenge, and we pray you give us the strength to carry on.
On a lighter note - I don't even want to know what it's like to ACTUALLY play guitar like Clapton....PRETENDING is hard as hell.
me