Rampant Exclamations

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I know I know, it’s been much too long since I last posted.  What can I say?  I’ve been a busy beaver.  Seriously, you should see the size of the dam I fortified with my ass paddle.  EPIC. 

What have I been wasting my time on?  Went to a little thing called Bonnaroo a couple weeks ago, maybe you’ve heard of it?  It’s like Lollapalooza, only longer and hippier and campier and dirtier and druggier.  Had a mostly great time except for the cartoon-like levels of car trouble we kept getting into, including running out of gas in a 3 hour line and having the catalytic converter stolen off my car.  Despite the setbacks, though, it was still awesome, and most of the sets (ahem…looking at YOU Kanye West) were fantastic.  Chris Rock on the main stage killed, despite the rain.  That’s right: hippies love Chris Rock.  How many times do I have to say this?

I also, during my vacation from the masses that are the Rampant Exclamation audience (does 7 count as a mass?), took a trip to a friend’s beachhouse on Lake Michigan where, by an act of divine fate, we got to meet Johnny Depp as he filmed a new movie!  You want that story in full detail?  Here it is: Burch and I were on the beach at midnight, we saw a bright light illuminate the sky in the distance, we followed it, and it led to Johnny Depp.  I’m not trying to make a Christian allegory here, that’s just exactly what happened, and it only proves yet another of my many many theories: all bright lights lead to Johnny Depp.

That’s just a couple things I’ve been busy with, but no matter: now that I’ve had my respite from the maddening throng, (seriously, both of you, sit down), I am ready to get back to my almost responsible weekly schedule of comics, and more frequent posts about things I find interesting that you probably don’t. 

Take, for instance, the topic of the comic this week.  Most of you may think that loop-based music composition in Guitar Hero is just what the doctor ordered, but I must respectfully disagree.  If you were interested in doing good composition, you could get loop-based music tools for your computer for far less than I’m sure Guitar Hero World Tour will cost.  And you’d get to use a keyboard and mouse, and not a plastic guitar, which doesn’t even function well as a GUITAR, let alone a music creation tool.  Nobody playing Guitar Hero or Rock Band on Expert is going to know how to play real guitar if someone handed one to them.

If you could compose things on a computer or other dedicated music creation tool and somehow import them into the game, that would be a different story.  But I have absolutely no interest in playing the utter crap that is going to be churned out by this service.  Why would they even waste resources doing this?  It will take those of incredible patience and dedication to make something worthwhile, and those of even greater patience to separate the wheat from the chaff of user-created songs and actually find good ones to play.  Is this some sort of desperation play on Guitar Hero’s part to stave off the incredible success of Rock Band, by putting whatever they possibly can in the game so they can put it on the back of the box?  Jeez, Adidas has been losing to Nike for years, but you don’t see them desperately throwing any functionality they can into their footwear and attire, strapping iPods to anything they can to appeal to the masses.

Nike did that already.

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