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Posted: Dec 15th 2009 10:12AM HighFiveJesus said
Its a really neat light show, i could never figure out how people do such amazing work with their light shows..
Good song too, one of the only ones from guitar hero 3 that don't feel like an ad for the band.
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Good song too, one of the only ones from guitar hero 3 that don't feel like an ad for the band.
Posted: Dec 15th 2009 1:29AM Nolan North said
pretty awesome, though i'm wondering why they didn't just do one recording instead of several from different camera angles to get different shots. I'm assuming he was playing on Easy mode, but then again, I'll give him credit for playing Guitar Hero outside in December.
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Posted: Dec 15th 2009 6:22AM CheeziePotato said
...except for the fact that the kid didn't do anything.
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Posted: Dec 15th 2009 1:35AM Rhamsey said
Yeah, this was on HMB's site yesterday, and I don't know why people are calling it bad ass. I watched maybe 20 seconds until the kid puts on the shades and starts strumming the plastic bar. I then think to myself hey, this isn't a real instrument and turned it off. Maybe he does backflips while picking up hot chicks and killing zombies half way through, but I guess I'll never know.
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Posted: Dec 15th 2009 7:56AM HydrophobicFish PSN ID Hydrophob said
Hahaha, I know, right man! This kid needs to learn to get some talent!
Maybe instead of playing on a plastic instrument he should learn some music theory so he can make programs to sync correctly to music.
Or maybe he should learn how to program itself, so again, he can sync music to lights.
Or maybe he should go work on his artistic abilities, so he'll be able to intricately place lights in a cohesive design that spans all across his house.
GOD GO DO SOMETHING WITH YOUR LIFE KID! I gave you three suggestions, any ONE of them will do!
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Maybe instead of playing on a plastic instrument he should learn some music theory so he can make programs to sync correctly to music.
Or maybe he should learn how to program itself, so again, he can sync music to lights.
Or maybe he should go work on his artistic abilities, so he'll be able to intricately place lights in a cohesive design that spans all across his house.
GOD GO DO SOMETHING WITH YOUR LIFE KID! I gave you three suggestions, any ONE of them will do!
Posted: Dec 15th 2009 4:42PM HydrophobicFish PSN ID Hydrophob said
Are people that dense to not realize I was being ironic in that post...
See, the joke was... that the kid DID in fact do all those things!... sheesh...
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See, the joke was... that the kid DID in fact do all those things!... sheesh...
Posted: Dec 15th 2009 1:42AM Nolan North said
Except that Guitar clearly had a Wii Remote in it >_>
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Posted: Dec 15th 2009 1:45AM Puertoricarious said
i bet people who know nothing about guitar hero thinks that this kid did a really bad christmas tree.
still though, pretty sweet.
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still though, pretty sweet.
Posted: Dec 15th 2009 1:49AM (Unverified) said
Jmac, your comments put a smile on my face, and that's hard to do to a Sith Lord.
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Posted: Dec 15th 2009 1:56AM (Unverified) said
No, that Guitar clearly had a Wii Remote in it
lol
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lol
Posted: Dec 15th 2009 1:58AM CheeziePotato said
I know, he's hilarious.
"Jump in" really made me laugh.
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"Jump in" really made me laugh.
Posted: Dec 15th 2009 1:58AM (Unverified) said
How do we know the lights aren't just going along in their predetermined sequence? I feel like this kid is just hitting the buttons on the guitar, but the lights will continue on their way without regard to what buttons he's pressing.
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Posted: Dec 15th 2009 11:06AM IRCheesecake82 said
That's most likely the case. If you were to play anything other than Cliffs of Dover, the light show wouldn't match up at all. However, it's still pretty awesome that they thought of that and were able to put everything together to make it all work.
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Posted: Dec 15th 2009 2:01AM (Unverified) said
You can get a projector. Those things are pretty neat.
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Posted: Dec 15th 2009 2:54AM (Unverified) said
Jeez that notecharting for Cliffs of Dover is way off. What the heck. PLUS he was on Easy. Learn to play, noob.
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Posted: Dec 15th 2009 7:11AM alinos said
really considering he was playing of a wall and the notes would have been programmed into the lights beforehand id like to see you code the entire hard/expert notechart into a strip of lights and still be able to interpret WTF is going on (3 sets before you play aint very helpful) and considering he was actually playing the game i think you can lighten up
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Posted: Dec 15th 2009 3:28AM (Unverified) said
Hm, with only three tracks that looks more like Tap Tap Revenge than Guitar Hero...
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Posted: Dec 15th 2009 3:43AM Abalistar said
I wonder if any of those passers-by called child services, "Yeaaah... There's some nutjob making his kid play Guitar Hero out in the cold, in the middle of the night, someone should come out here."
Cool viral marketing... Wonder how long until Neversoft/Activision come out to admit it (Bike Hero, anyone?).
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Cool viral marketing... Wonder how long until Neversoft/Activision come out to admit it (Bike Hero, anyone?).
Posted: Dec 15th 2009 5:31AM (Unverified) said
Obvious Activision viral ad. Reminds me of the bike.
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Posted: Dec 15th 2009 7:15AM alinos said
whoah Grinch man
the whole point of living in a commercial world is we can do whateva we want in the confines of the law
you say waste of electricity
i see someone who actually put effort into doing something probably alot more than you did
americans do that out of tradition just like halloween and whatnot theve grown up with it and have kept it up
everywhere else is just a handful of people who care cos the majority of the world are a bunch of lazy sods these days
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the whole point of living in a commercial world is we can do whateva we want in the confines of the law
you say waste of electricity
i see someone who actually put effort into doing something probably alot more than you did
americans do that out of tradition just like halloween and whatnot theve grown up with it and have kept it up
everywhere else is just a handful of people who care cos the majority of the world are a bunch of lazy sods these days
Posted: Dec 15th 2009 7:35AM JnZooger said
Obviously he had the song programmed into a micro-controller first. He did actually play the song, clearly, and they synced the start of the songs together. That may have taken a few tries to get right, but I'm sure it was done that way, otherwise the TV wouldn't have been there.
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Posted: Dec 15th 2009 12:16PM aristokrat said
While I agree that it's probably the way you suggested, it could be that the TV was there solely because he needed to be able to navigate the menus to get the song started. Additionally, it could have been a computer monitor (though it looked like a tube set) and this whole thing really was synced up to a hacked computer version which output to the lights controller (doing the light timing would have been easier on a GUI system than a microcontroller) and the Wii guitar was synced over bluetooth to the computer. Hypothetical I know, but that would have been even more badass.
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