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    Image of twoeightnine twoeightnine
    01/12/09

    In reply to Rock Band Ottoman Stores Your Controllers, Stifles Your Dreams
    I wonder how sturdy the lift is? I wouldn't mind something like this to modify it into a laptop desk.
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    Image of EBone EBone
    01/12/09

    In reply to Rock Band Ottoman Stores Your Controllers, Stifles Your Dreams
    "...until you're done playing, look around, and realize your living room is full of Playskool toys and you can't actually play guitar."


    Monday, 3PM PST - Mark Wilson sets the bar way high for the funniest line on Gizmodo for the week.

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    Image of ScottRose ScottRose
    01/12/09

    In reply to Rock Band Ottoman Stores Your Controllers, Stifles Your Dreams
    Ah, the perfect melding of living room furniture and game accessories at last! This surely must be the first gamer-Ottoman!? If not, I need to seriously rethink my opinion on what is stupid and what is not stupid.


    And anyway, if I'm hiding all of my controllers (oops, "instruments") in an Ottoman, then how will my visitors know how cool I am?

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    Image of OGHowie OGHowie
    01/12/09

    In reply to Rock Band Ottoman Stores Your Controllers, Stifles Your Dreams
    This is actually not bad since I need to change our coffee table because of our baby. I don't have Rock Band anymore but the storage compartments look pretty useful.
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    Image of Shamoononon: I shave my legs. Shamoononon: I shave my legs.
    01/12/09

    @OGHowie: Can't just pad the corners?
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    Image of badhatharry badhatharry
    01/12/09

    @Shamoononon has hebetudinous dog ★★★★★: Or pad the baby?
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    01/12/09

    In reply to Rock Band Ottoman Stores Your Controllers, Stifles Your Dreams
    I've got enough instruments stored. To be honest, I don't play a lot of Rock Band. I usually just play guitar.


    Also, don't make fun of coffin cases. I have a coffin case for my Les Paul. It provides a ton of protection (and with a shiny black LP looks so so so pretty).

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    Image of badhatharry badhatharry
    01/12/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: When most of my friends who play no musical instruments whatsoever come by, it's fun to help them pretend they possess a little talent. Rock Band does this. Also, when you're drunk, it's more fun to screw up playing along with Bon Jovi than it is to screw up a jam session.


    And seriously, a Les Paul and a coffin case? You're just a pair of camo pants and a hunting bow away from starting a Ted Nugent tribute band.

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    Image of zenpoet zenpoet
    01/13/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: I have a coffin case. It holds Gramma Jean, who in turn holds my Guitar Hero controller. Rigor Mortis keeps that bad boy locked down when not in use.
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    Image of shorty63136 shorty63136
    12/09/08

    In reply to Have Fake Guitar Games Finally Peaked?
    Dimebag Darrell???? Wow.


    And I'm still playing GH3 on Medium (probably because I don't play it often), so...yeah.

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    Image of lambert13 lambert13
    12/09/08

    In reply to Have Fake Guitar Games Finally Peaked?
    All of those types of games really really bother me. Instead of kids (or grown lonely adults living in moms basement) picking up a guitar and actually doing something creative, they are playing some useless video game further isolating them from the real world.


    Pick up a real guitar, take off the wing commander headset thing and go do something outside of your house.

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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    12/09/08

    @lambert13: I like to make fun of the games like anyone else, but, if you're playing COD without having any prior experience with a firearm, driving like mad in GT Prologue/5 without actually ever owning or knowing how to drive a real car, then you could say that these people are in the same boat.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    12/09/08

    In reply to Have Fake Guitar Games Finally Peaked?
    Guitar Hero is pretty much like a fast-paced version of Simon set to plastic imitations or damn-near authentic abominations. You can play all the music you like, you can pretend to riff, headbang and thrash, you can even lick your instrument when you've done virtu-jammin', but you're still trying to keep up with color-coded buttons.


    I propose Activision develop Conniption Fit hero, where you have to follow the insane random gyrations of a mental patient trying desperately to wriggle out of his strait jacket.

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    Image of neost neost
    12/09/08

    In reply to Have Fake Guitar Games Finally Peaked?
    nobody can keep a band together anymore.
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    Image of ZLevee ZLevee
    12/09/08

    @neost: Seriously. All this bitching about the minivan being too crowded with groupies, the singer wanting to do solo gigs in the attic, the guitarist and his Doritos addiction, the drummer almost choking in his sleep on regurgitated chocolate milk....
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    Image of jm9843 jm9843
    12/09/08

    In reply to Have Fake Guitar Games Finally Peaked?
    Rock Band killed the video star.


    It also doesn't hurt that Harmonix is releasing The Beatles game next year. It'll be interesting to see how they try to expand the audience with that one while maintaing the core band gameplay.


    This article would be more accurate if it were about Guitar Hero games peaking.

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    Image of Krrong Krrong
    12/09/08

    @jm9843: It'll incorporate a version of Frogger... Let's see if we can get John, Paul, George, and Ringo across Abbey Road without getting squashed by a Lorrey.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    12/09/08

    @Krrong:
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    Image of Jamaces Jamaces
    12/09/08

    In reply to Have Fake Guitar Games Finally Peaked?
    it was just a fad... look at the wii...yoyos...pogs...
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    12/09/08

    @Jamaces: I think yoyos are still cool.......


    .......


    :'(

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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    12/09/08

    In reply to Have Fake Guitar Games Finally Peaked?
    Dean Guitars are pieces of garbage. Utter garbage. They're only good for smashing.
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    Image of frigg frigg
    12/09/08

    In reply to Have Fake Guitar Games Finally Peaked?
    I don't buy the study. I think the category will evolve, with game instruments becoming more like real instruments, and real instruments becoming more like games.


    People have been making music in game-like ways for as long as artifacts exist to document human activity. However stale guitar hero becomes, it's just a matter of another innovation to satisfy people's desire to either make music or pretend like they're making music.

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    Image of tmgold tmgold
    12/09/08

    In reply to Have Fake Guitar Games Finally Peaked?
    Who is proof reading your headlines?
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    Image of GadgetPlayPissedSomebodyOff GadgetPlayPissedSomebodyOff
    12/09/08

    @tmgold: Uh...no one?
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    Image of tmgold tmgold
    12/09/08

    Are you guys hiring? I may not be Bill Shakespeare, but I could write some gadget news and spell "have" correctly.
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    Image of Geisrud Geisrud
    12/09/08

    @tmgold: I can say with a fair amount of certainty that Gawker isn't hiring at the moment.
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    12/09/08

    In reply to Have Fake Guitar Games Finally Peaked?
    um, is that headline correct? "HAVED"?
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    Image of strider_mt2k strider_mt2k
    12/09/08

    @lifetraveler:

    Why does it always boil down to the haved and the haved-not?


    ...

    Momma may haved

    Pappa may haved

    -but Ghod bless the child that's got his own

    that's got his own...

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