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Fri Nov 27
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10/26/09
Damn it!! #duckhunt
10/27/09
No, that one actually does work. #duckhunt
10/26/09
You know what is missing, right?
The proper stress of being mocked by a dog for not hitting the ducks... #duckhunt
10/26/09
That was a very early lesson for me. Sometimes you fail...and people (or dogs) laugh. #duckhunt
10/26/09
QUACK QUACK #duckhunt
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10/27/09
I always wondered what the most difficult distance was. Sure, if you hold the gun barrel right to the screen, all you have to do is ride it on a duck and pull the trigger. But if you're standing all the way across the room, in theory the gun should pick up a greater percentage of the screen as "on target", due to spread.
I've only actually played the game once, on someone else's system, and I had already passed the local high score when the little kid who was about to be bumped from the top of the leader board shut the system off to prevent me from besting him. I didn't have a perfect score at that point, but I was doing well enough that I probably could have posted enough points to beat all the high scores combined.
Then again, I also had killer aim when playing Lazer Tag (_real_ Lazer Tag, not that mall/strobe light/fog machine crap). The one time I shot an actual firearm (22, in Cub Scouts), I didn't do so well... #duckhunt
10/27/09
That being said, I don't think there is much "spread" with the duck hunt gun. I certainly do better when I'm farther away from the screen though, but I think has more to do with that being what I'm used to as far as the game goes rather that any kind of "spread" as it took a bit of practice before I could score a perfect score. Though, I prefer the clay pigeon shoot. I love the sound of the exploding pigeons! #duckhunt
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However, if you're going to pour 20, 30, 40 + hours and 200$ into learning to play those songs on expert - you may as well dump 120$ on a Squier Bullet Strat, 70$ on Doug Mark's Metal Method DVDs (you don't need an amp to learn) and play for real. And it isn't like that stuff is mostly shit you can't do - once you know how to handle a guitar most of those songs are easier on a guitar than they are in the game. #duckhunt
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10/26/09
Hobby elitism in nearly any form pisses me off. and hell, I can't stand Guitar Hero, but even I get a little riled up whenever anyone starts in on that.
Learning to play a Guitar is a hobby thing for most people: If they don't have a drive to do it, but really like Guitar Hero--well, who cares? Why does it matter? #duckhunt
10/27/09
I thought it was pretty much accepted that the _only_ stuff you can actually learn to play with those rythym games are percussion instruments, like drums, bongos, or marracas. And even then it's really only a beginner-level lesson. #duckhunt
10/27/09
What does it matter if I post about what someone else does as a hobby?
What does it matter if "hobby elitism" pisses you off?
What does it matter if you get riled up?
What does it matter if a journalist in Alberta can't skeet shoot for shit?
What does it matter if he played duck hunt?
It doesn't. At all. But this is the part of the blog where we comment. :) #duckhunt
10/26/09
Point blank is the manliest way to play. #duckhunt
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10/26/09
Yah, the joys of growing up in small-town Alberta. #duckhunt
10/26/09
Just like mining a comet hurtling through space at a thousand miles an hour.
Safe. #duckhunt
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