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Why My Father Is Wrong: A Defense of Guitar Hero

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2026/08/10/why-my-father-is-wrong-a-defense-of-guitar-hero/
25•Tomte•1h ago

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zirkonit•48m ago
At some point, the rabid anti-generative AI crowd becomes tiring. This is extremely masturbatory and very intellectually lazy piece of writing whose only purpose is to raise cheers from the same echo chamber an author is in.
hrunt•47m ago
These two articles remind me of the old Point/Counterpoint from the Onion[0]. I feel like someone wrote the first article so they could write the second as a bit of absurdity.

[0]https://theonion.com/opinion/point-counterpoint/

bjelkeman-again•45m ago
Even better: pick up Rocksmith, or one of the many clones being built by people using <ghasp> LLMs, and learn to play a real guitar.

I did, and I now play bass in a hardrock/metall band. One of my guitarist started with guitar hero, moved on to Rocksmith, and here we are. Band practice tonight for a gig at one of the best little music venues in Stockholm, Sweden next month. (Which I am arranging.) Good things come from doing fun things.

KingFelix•9m ago
Sweet!!! Go shred!!! post some music!
wodenokoto•7m ago
Went to the website and I still don't really understand what it is, other than "learn to play the guitar/bass/keyboard for free", which can be a million things.

I assume you use a real instrument to play the game, but how? Do I connect my guitar to my PC? How? If not, how can it give me feedback? If I don't use a real instrument, then what?

rcleveng•25m ago
I loved guitar hero.

Back before my interview with Google, I was super nervous, so I played guitar hero for a few hours in the morning before going down to Mountain View for the interview.

It worked, I needed something to take my mind off of the CLR algo book I had been cramming to re-remember things forgotten. Fun times!

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Why My Father Is Wrong: A Defense of Guitar Hero

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