Today I overherad a debate over why "Guitar Hero" is more difficult than some other guitar game, because it comes with
5 ******* buttons as "frets" instead of 3 on the other one. Wow.
And now they have the game "rock band", I heard it comes complete with a microphone and everything. I'm a drummer and play a bit of guitar too, so whenever people around me talk about these games (hey man did you pass "smoke on the water?") it irritates me to no end. It irritates me because these posers go around talking like they ARE some sort of rock starts just because they can beat the final stage of the game, and even though they apparently think playing the instrument is cool, none of them will pick up a real guitar just because they enjoyed the game so much because, like you said, they are just too lazy for that. I've told them I'll never play the game because I'd rather be playing air guitar on a real thing if I had time to waste; that seems to "offend" these posers quite a bit!
I think it's inevitable that people are coming up with more and more ways to simulate various forms of "reality" (worst example: Wii's "exercise" programs). In those simulated worlds it doesn't take much effort to make you a "hero" and that in turn takes people a step further from reality. It's an easy way out, just like the "Second Life" crap. There are "normal" people like us who are willing to put in real efforts to learn how to do these things, then there are people just opting for the "game" version of it and taking it easy. The problem is, the "normal" kinda people are getting harder and harder to find. This is just the beginning of a technological dystopia in the works if you ask me. It wouldn't surprise me at all if a significant portion of world's population chooses to have their spinal cords tapped and connected to a huge big computer and give up their "natural life" and start fresh in "second life" in the next century or so
