and the torpor comes in the niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight

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Is it a sign of ... well, I don't know what ... when your two major accomplishments the previous evening were

1. Moving the cat dish from the now closed-off kitchen to the warmer dining room, and placing them in a cardboard lid to hopefully keep Messy Eater No. 1 from spraying his kibble all over the place (when he takes too big a bite, as is his wont, he shakes his head from side to side and chews what's left in his mouth)

and

2. Finally getting 5 stars on all the Easy Mode GH2 career songs and, excitedly awaiting what nifty reward I'd unlock, earned... the right to buy an expensive guitar shaped like the US. When I actually played all the Easy Mode songs, I earned the right to buy an expensive guitar shaped like a fish. Gee, thanks.

I've graduated to Medium and have 5-starred the first tier of songs except for that goddamn Cheap Trick one which involves a few more meedly work than I've gotten down (my squeedlies are okay) and I've 3-starred about half the songs at least, and are now working to at least 4-starring those and getting extra cash before going on to the ones I know are going to kill my wrist.

Small Quibble #1: I'd like to at least see the looks of the purchasable characters or their outfits before I choose to purchase them, or else I'm out $1800 on makin someone look, uh, goofy. But to be able to hammer out the Sabbath encore as Lars Umlaut with the double-neck guitar while in full gargoyle gear was, I think worth that particular set of purchases. Oh, and the Trogdor, Freezepop and Honest Bob tracks were worth the purchase, too. But it's gonna be a while before Hippopotamosh makes any more real big money.

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I'll crack into Harder once I've five-starred the second tier.

Surrender pisses me off because the multi-note verse riffs are treated as chords, so the Y Y YB Y, etc MUST be only done with Y and B and so forth and so on. I could do it if I could cover the entire four frets, but moving down the neck results in at least one missed note with every switch. I can do it it in slow practice, but am still trying to get through at least ONE full verse/chorus routine at regular speed without messing up TOO much.

Message In A Bottle on Medium, however, taught me how to cover the ENTIRE set of frets and remove fingers as necessary, making DAMN sure I know which finger goes where and making sure to use my pinky solely for Blue. That verse riff is a killer but easily mastered when you get into a nice Zen groove, where you're able to play it without consciously telling yourself BLUE! QUICK LIFT UP THOSE TWO FINGERS FOR THE RED! NOW PUT ONE DOWN FOR YELLOW! QUICK, GRAB JUST THE GREEN!

That practice has actually gotten me much much better everywhere else, tho I'm still 3-starring the goddamn song. The G-Y and R-B chord shift in the chorus kicks my ass unless I make a concerted effort to STARE at the frets. My fingers can't feel the change and move quick enough without me staring over at them, I know what you gotta do, buddy.

I'm also just now getting to the new Medium songs which begin your hammer-on/pull-off practice which I thought you could just do for any close-together notes, but oh no! I was advised you can do that only for the notes which don't have the black ring around the top. Ah ha, says Der Spatchel, and promptly falls out of his Zen mode trying to do that.

But man, so addictive.

I 5-starred Woman on Medium real quick. Actually I think my first 5-star Medium was Strutter. That's easy and fun to boot.

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Woman on hard was the first song I flat-out failed. Less than a minute into the song. Man that was demoralizing. I learned the true meaning of hammer-ons and pull-offs (and how star power can save your ass) passing that one.