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I believe they were aiming for something very different than Guitar Hero/Rock Band, but they clearly didn't know how to communicate that publicly. I'm not sure they fully defined the vision internally, either.

Ingenious concept; disastrous execution.
Settling the Score: A Requiem for Wii Music
Settling the Score: A Requiem for Wii Music On the morning May 9, 2006, the anxious chatter of an impatient crowd gave way to the lush tones of an orchestra tuning. It was the cross-fade of 3,000 …
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November 17, 2025 at 5:08 PM
I've sampled some more. They haven't all been to my taste. There are issues with writing, tech, and other finishing touches. A few are so thin on content that they never should have been presented on their own as commercial products.

But...there's something appealing in all of them. It's not right!
November 14, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Anyway. I hope everyone enjoyed zooming in on this tasty Gex feet pic.
November 11, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Hoo-hoo, kids! Wanna DIE!??
November 9, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Duh, right. Sorry, I have no personal experience working in politics.

So the specific choices are left to a body person, but I'm confident the general psychology of the human being stuck in a boring meeting applies: Zoning out for idle thoughts like, "That sandwich I had yesterday was pretty good."
November 8, 2025 at 1:53 PM
There's a temptation to look at a body of politicians and focus on their highest goals and philosophies; to assume they're there to change the world, serve their masters, or enrich themselves.

But they are PEOPLE doing a JOB, which means half of them are thinking about what to get for lunch.
November 8, 2025 at 1:46 PM
He said you'd say that.
November 8, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Square-Enix vs. testers.
November 7, 2025 at 1:33 PM
I worked as a tester on dozens of games, and the buggiest, by an incredible margin, was developed by Square-Enix. I often got paid to sit quietly in my cubicle for entire days because the builds they sent didn't launch.

So from that perspective, sure, a malfunctioning computer could replace my job.
November 6, 2025 at 4:45 PM
I would have purchased a baseball game.

I'm serious. I would have paid MSRP for a video game about the sport of baseball.
November 3, 2025 at 7:57 PM