{"id":1177,"date":"2008-11-07T12:12:05","date_gmt":"2008-11-07T12:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=1177"},"modified":"2008-11-07T12:12:05","modified_gmt":"2008-11-07T12:12:05","slug":"rubik-hero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=1177","title":{"rendered":"Rubik Hero"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nI went for the Indie Youth Fest 2008 at 1 Utama New Wing a certain 5th of July 2008, only because there was a Rubik’s Cube competition!<\/p>\n

I asked around. It was 2pm already, inside and outside there was no booth for Rubik’s Cubes or anything. So I asked around, got directed outside, then inside, outside, and inside and uh, outside again. Until I found somebody who took another entry form and cancelled out the title, writing “Rubik’s Cube Competition”.<\/p>\n

And so I was the first on the list. 20 minutes later, a gamer clan had joined! I was afraid. These guys looked serious. I thought I could walk away with a prize seeing how little publicity this event got.<\/p>\n


\nThen I saw the cubes. Cheap plastic ones! Not the official ones. I tested one of them. Two of the cubies (that’s what you call the parts) were superglued together! So that was a disqualified cube.<\/p>\n

And so, we convened to the stage. There were 9 of us, so we split into 2 groups. The person with the most colors on a face solved after 5 minutes would win!<\/p>\n

(Well, you’re supposed to solve the entire thing, but I guess the organizers had more realistic expectations.)<\/p>\n


\nI finished my cube, all 54 colors on a face correct, and then I took pictures.<\/p>\n

The poor guy on the left did not know that he finished an entire face, as it was not facing him. Hehe!<\/p>\n

So after 5 minutes, two of them handed in cubes with 8 colors on a face, and the other two, 6 I think.<\/p>\n


\nDuring the next round, this girl suddenly walked into the scene. Ooo, she said. “Can I try?<\/i>” And she knew her stuff! She finished everything but she could not remember how to swap and orient corners.<\/p>\n

Because she did not put her name on the participant list, I guess she didn’t win anything. \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n

The second round finished with two dudes getting 7 colors on a face. And then they had a showdown. Well I don’t remember the exact details, this happened four months ago!<\/p>\n


\nThird prize winner wins a game.<\/p>\n


\nSecond prize winner wins a game.<\/p>\n


\nFirst prize winner wins Guitar Hero II for the XBox 360!<\/p>\n


\nAnd so I hung out backstage with my new plastic guitar. Finally, an electric (or rather, electronic) guitar I can call my own!<\/p>\n


\nThe black pants are the closest I have to skinny black leather pants.<\/p>\n


\nAnd now, for some real rockers…<\/p>\n


\nDarren Teh of An Honest Mistake<\/b>!<\/p>\n


\nThey had a legion of supporting fans!<\/p>\n


\nYes, I shot them all with my Minolta 70-210mm F4 beercan. <\/p>\n


\nGotta love what it did to the flowers!<\/p>\n


\nAmbient bits and then hard bits. Straight out, solid emo.<\/p>\n


\nChallenging backlight, so I cranked up DRO on my A700. After some minor mucking in Photoshop there is just a bit of cross-processing.<\/p>\n

So back to the Rubik’s Cube. Nobody knew, and those that were good at it were over in Subang. Some yo-yo event. You’d have a high chance of getting a yo-yo player to solve a Rubik’s Cube, apparently! (With the exception of the exceptional<\/i> KJ<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

So back to Guitar Hero II. I contemplated getting an Xbox 360 just for the game – after all, this is the kind of game I’d buy a console for. And I’d never had a console.<\/p>\n

Of course, Uncle Google<\/a> and Uncle Syefri<\/a> told me that I could just plug my electronic Gibson Explorer via USB cable to my PC, and download Frets On Fire, a PC emulator. It could even rip tracks from the Playstation 2 version (which, thankfully, Amir had, and I must thank him for lending it to me.) Each song took about 2-3 hours to rip, with over 50 songs.<\/p>\n

And, just like Dave Mustaine, although I could play guitar, I totally sucked at Guitar Hero the first time I played it.<\/p>\n

Dave Mustaine playing Guitar Hero II on Game One<\/b>
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Anthrax Guitarist Scott Ian Sucks at Guitar Hero<\/b>
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The guitar controller<\/s> eletronic Gibson Explorer is pretty much like a joypad – I even tried to play Quake 3 on it. There weren’t enough buttons to bind to all the movements, even!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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