Beat all songs! woot!

I finally beat all the songs in Rock Band, in expert guitar.  This includes all the bonus and DLC songs I have, but I don’t have them all.  The two biggest songs I couldn’t get past were Green Grass and High Tides (by The Outlaws) which I was able to pass about a month ago, which lead me to beat the game in expert (final song for guitar) as well as finnish off the Endless set list in Expert (Platinum artist).  Recently I just FIVE stared GG&HT! \m/

The last song that I wasn’t able to beat, until just now, was Metalica’s “Ride the Lightning” which has an almost impossible solo. (Woot! Overdrive!) All of Metalica’s songs are fucking hard, with the possible expection of “Enter Sandman” which comes with Rock Band on the game disc, and isn’t hard, but really fun!  The Metalica DLC pack contains all very hard songs, including Blackend (which is THE most hardest song, which I beat a while ago, even before GG&HT) and “…And Justice for All” also a song I already had beaten.

There was a BIG huge update to Rock Band this past week, adding a music store right in the main menu, making it VERY VERY easy to get songs and it’s well organized so you don’t mistakenly download a single if it’s included into a pack.

Each song plays a preview sample (you have to select it first, and then DL the sample, and it stays on your Xbox forever) it also gives you a rating on difficulty for every insturment as well as “band play” showing how hard the song is.

You can also sort this list in any way you like, by song, by artist, by overall difficulty, and genre.  There’s even cover art of the album the song comes in, unless it’s a cover song by Rock Band, it just shows Rock Band’s logo title.

Only thing missing (asside from free DLC for Rock Band) are in-game videos of the songs so we can get an idea on how these songs play.  But until then we have YouTube and this cool guy named Npeaen who seems to have downloaded every DLC avaliable for Rock Band, and has recorded both Guitar and Bass play so we can see if we want to buy these songs.  He also has a few band plays.  For Drum and vocal players, you can easily find said videos on Youtube.

Why my 1st life stays private

I’m constantly asked “Are you a shemale in real life?”  And if you’re someone who desperately needs to know that, perhaps you’re better off staying in your REAL LIFE and don’t bother with Second Life.  If you’re looking for a “real” shemale; second life (or anywhere on the internet for that matter) is the LAST place you should look for one.  Reguardless if the person behind the avatar is really male, female, or both in RL.  Just because someone refuses to reveal their true self to total strangers, DOESN’T automatically mean they are males.  What’s the point of playing a fantasy game if you have to act like RL self all the time?

If I tell someone I’m just a fat ugly balled headed male in his mid 30s, then that will instantly turn off any potential clients I’m talking too.  If I tell them I’m a shemale  in RL (or even if just female) then they will want to see pics of me, and want to talk to me outside of SL.  Do voice chat and webcams, bla bla bla.  Either way it’s bad.

Since this is JUST a fantasy world it will REMAIN a fantasy world.  If you want your fantasies to be reality, then you should log off now, and find REAL LIFE ways to make it happen in real life.

Phillip stepping down from CEO, may he return with lPod.

I’m getting that same creapy feeling I got when I heard the CEO of There.com was stepping down, back 3+ years ago, and after he left there.com basically went to shit. Now I’m getting that same feeling now with Phillip stepping down.  I just saw the last GigaOhm show (rev3) where they interviewed him, and it reminded me when I met Tom, CEO of there.com back years ago when we all had a conference.  Then less than a week after that he announced he was leaving the company.

Sure there.com is still online and runing, but it’s very stagnent, and barely any progress has been made.  Oh sure you can buy Coca-Cola shwag now, but who gives a shit?  There.com has squandered since the core people who created (and who’ve I’ve met in person, Tom, Steve, Ken, etc.) and built that technology, left.  Leaving the company with employees who only seem to know how half the system works, and don’t know the nuances of that system.

Usually when a CEO leaves a company, especially when they FOUNDED the fucking business, can mean one of two things.  The responsibilities of the CEO have grown too much, and Phillip is stressing out too much.  Or, Phillip is not a really good CEO, or dosen’t want to take responsibility for “mean” decisions (not necessarily bad) if the decied to lay off a huge number of employees, Phillip won’t be the responsible, since the new CEO would be, so they need a professional with a past reputation to step in to do the job right.

Apple did something similar back in the 80’s when Jobs left to form NeXT, brought in an ex-CEO from Pepsi, co. and Apple nearly fell off the map before Jobs returned and revializied the company with a new produict that WASN’T a personal computer (iPod).

Maybe Phillip Linden will come back in four years just before Linden Labs files for bankruptcy and invent the lPod (that’s a small “L” for Linden-Pod), so we can all play SecondLife on a portible device, and we will all rejoice!  Doesn’t sound far fetched though. in 4-5 years technology could be advanced where a computer PC system of today’s midrage specs could be compressed down to the size of a PSP to play Second Life (or any MMO) portably.

Gone Platnium!

After nearly a month at trying to beat the endless set list in Rock Band (on expert) I finally did it! WOOT! My biggest hurdle was reliably passing Green Grass and High Tides. I have beaten the song before a few times, mostly on pure luck rather than skill. The other day I figured out how to get though the song, and now I can pass it nearly every time I play it, but it’s still not easy. I’m so glad it’s over with now, but still gotta tackle drums and singing. Rock on!

Two weeks later same old shit

Yeah all I see now on the Linden blog is one announcement after another about yet another update, rolling restart, and/or client update. What happened to the days when only the lag interrupted our online sessions? Now it’s constant interruptions are from the lindens them selves, what great service! WTF are they doing? Is it still broke, and they keep fixing it, or what? I haven’t noticed any changes in performance or bug issues since this year started, I’m actually seeing MORE, so what the FUCK are they actually doing?  Why the need for so many rolling restarts when the sims crash so often on their own anyway?

Muting objects with the new viewer client is now even more cumbersome, if not damn near impossible. Now when you check the check-mark to mute the offending object, it WON’T KEEP. The check mark just vanishes as if you had nothing highlighted in the names list. It’s bad enough having to hunt down the fucking object’s name in the name list just for it to DISAPPEAR by the time you find it, and now the fucking mute just doesn’t work anymore. You’re forced to manually add the object name into the mute list, and type the entire name in. Which is usually 25 characters long, and you probably can’t spell it properly from memory after it’s vanished from the list.