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    Path to Record-Setting Guitar Hero Session Paved With Shattered Axes

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    Image of badasscat badasscat
    02/05/09

    In reply to Path to Record-Setting Guitar Hero Session Paved With Shattered Axes
    Seth Schiesel reports that Johnson recorded a score of 973,954 in a roughly seven-minute rendition of DragonForce's Through the Fire and Flames at a Best Buy in Midtown Manhattan.


    That's weird, because at like 7:30AM I was watching the PIX morning news, and he broke the record live on the show in their studios. Best Buy wouldn't have even been open at that time. The guy from Guinness gave him the certificate and everything.

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    02/05/09

    In reply to Path to Record-Setting Guitar Hero Session Paved With Shattered Axes
    So those furious sounds of sweaty palms striking something vigourously and repeatedly were only him practicing his guitar? Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.......
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    02/05/09

    In reply to Path to Record-Setting Guitar Hero Session Paved With Shattered Axes
    "Danny came within seconds of playing all 3,722 of the song's notes flawlessly, but his streak ended at 3,558 when the blue button on his guitar broke under his assault."


    now that has got to suck, knowing you could have scored higher if your controler had held up.

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    Image of twesterms 2nd twesterms 2nd
    02/05/09

    In reply to Path to Record-Setting Guitar Hero Session Paved With Shattered Axes
    Meet the face of the new pathetic virgin nerd with no life.


    It's no longer this guy:

    [thatnerdnextdoor.com]


    It's Danny Johnson.

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    Image of ShaggE: Cracking Eggs Of Wisdom ShaggE: Cracking Eggs Of Wisdom
    02/05/09

    @twesterms 2nd: Yes, he's good at a game, thus he has no social skills.


    That makes perfect sense.


    Yup. Perfect sense. Especially coming from somebody commenting on a gaming blog. You sure put him in his place for daring to have free time.

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    Image of Paradox me Paradox me
    02/05/09

    In reply to Path to Record-Setting Guitar Hero Session Paved With Shattered Axes
    Not knocking this guy, plays this game better than I ever could, but 80 controllers? Really? What is he doing to them and does every practice end with smashing your axe into the floor?


    I'm nowhere near as good, but even sucking at this game I put quite a lot of use into my controllers and I have yet to have any break, let alone 80..

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    02/05/09

    In reply to Path to Record-Setting Guitar Hero Session Paved With Shattered Axes
    Does this prove then that these games are a little too hard?
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    Image of DragonYen DragonYen
    02/05/09

    @joe: I think it not only proves that the game is beyond "casual play" but it's also a cash cow to sell more and more plastic guitars...
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    Image of oolz oolz
    02/05/09

    In reply to Path to Record-Setting Guitar Hero Session Paved With Shattered Axes
    wndr f whn h fnshd mssg cm n th scrn:


    Y R FGS!

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    Image of XMonk XMonk
    02/05/09

    @oolz:


    Oh man that was so funny that i didnt laugh.

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    Image of Kobun Kobun
    02/05/09

    @XMonk: He's not trolling. It's a South Park reference. :p
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    Image of Hey_Blinkon Hey_Blinkon
    02/05/09

    @oolz: Stupid Kotaku. This was a great reference. Plus more offensive stuff is ROUTINELY done on the site. Who the hell is responsible for all the liberal banning going around here?
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    Image of RyuuzakiBjorn RyuuzakiBjorn
    02/05/09

    @Abe_lincoln: I think if people are gonna reference something, a least say where it's from or its ovciously going to get disenvoled.
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    02/05/09

    @Ryuuzaki: haha, sorry, Spell check didn't pick them mistakes up.
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    Image of MDRL MDRL
    02/05/09

    @Abe_lincoln: Bans should actually be more frequent than they are, and South Park is idiotic propoganda enjoyed only by gibbering manchildren


    0 for 2, Abe, I'm not impressed

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    02/05/09

    @MDRL: Did you really just use "propaganda", "gibbering", and "manchildren" all together in one sentence? Because that doesn't make you look more intelligent than people who like the show.
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    02/05/09

    @MDRL: I think you're off your trolley. A lot of us don't seem to fit your definition of the average South Park watcher.


    Although, I might gibber on occasion.

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    02/05/09

    @Kobun: I loved that episode.
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    Image of tetracycloide tetracycloide
    02/05/09

    @MDRL: that's just absurd. do you actually know everyone that enjoys south park?
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    Image of Inkmonkey Inkmonkey
    02/05/09

    In reply to Path to Record-Setting Guitar Hero Session Paved With Shattered Axes
    I wonder if this kid can play real guitar at all? There've been more and more stories lately about people going from GH or RB to real instruments.
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    Image of Kobun Kobun
    02/05/09

    @Inkmonkey: I wonder if Inkmonkey can learn to read the article at all?
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    Image of Master Saji wants on the GW Test Krewe Master Saji wants on the GW Test Krewe
    02/05/09

    @Kobun: I wonder if Kobun can learn to read the comment at all?
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    Image of Kobun Kobun
    02/05/09

    @Master Saji: Apparently, at least two people haven't read the article before posting a comment, else you'd understand the point. :/
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    Image of MrBionic MrBionic
    02/05/09

    In reply to Path to Record-Setting Guitar Hero Session Paved With Shattered Axes
    And here I sit still trying to master "Ramblin' Man" on Medium.
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    Image of eddienoteddy eddienoteddy
    02/05/09

    @MrBionic: thats pathetic. really.
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    02/05/09

    @eddienoteddy: You know what's a lot more pathetic? Tools who flex their e-muscles to feel better about themselves. So what if he's not great at Guitar Hero? I'm not either, but that doesn't mean I (or he) couldn't kick your arse in a different game.
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    Image of phrequency phrequency
    02/05/09

    @ProbablyGoingToGetBanned: well said. but then again, what's more pathetic are trolls, and i kinda sensed that from his message.
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    Image of MrBionic MrBionic
    02/05/09

    @ProbablyGoingToGetBanned: Hehe. It's a good thing I'm adult enough to not worry an iota about what random people on the internet say.


    People that can play these games well inspire and awe me, and kudos to them. I'm not one of them, the world moves on. I actually just like listening to the music and being able to sit there and interact with it. Doesn't matter if it's medium, or hard, or expert (I almost have Today down on expert, go me?), I just like killing some time with some good music and some button mashing.


    So if someone wants to call that pathetic, all the power to them. I kind of feel sorry for them.

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    02/05/09

    @phrequency: sensed that from my message, or from eddie?
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    Image of nlangan nlangan
    02/05/09

    @MrBionic: Lord, I was born a rambling man. It's hard to find time to practice when I'm busy ramblin'. :P
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    Image of MrBionic MrBionic
    02/05/09

    @nlangan: hehe. I like the solo a lot. I'm no good at it, but I like it. The ending instrumentals just blow me away.
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