Random facts about playing too much FoF

[v4vendetta]

They need to change the game name from Frets on Fire, to Shoulder on Fire. My right shoulder has been burning for weeks from pressing enter so much. Dear god, make the pain go away!

[Jonathan_Antillies]

...when you FoF directory exceeds the "Porn" directory.

I'm that hardcore.

Seconded.... It's pretty good ratio too; 1.5 Gb in FoF as compared to 675 Mb!

1. You know you play too much FoF when you have actually improved the mobility of your joints.

Actually happened to me! My left wrist has always had some unnerving mobility limitations, and after playing FoF for the first few weeks, my wrist has regained its full range of mobility!

Talk about a FoF sucess story! Wait...

2. You know you play too much FoF when you call it a sucess story!

And yes, I too am guilty of imagining playing songs while driving... Shame on me...

[grensley]

when you fill in bubble answer sheets you think about fret patterns.
(i do it when i'm done with the test. then i try to think of what the song would sound like)

[Scutch-Nukem]

when you fill in bubble answer sheets you think about fret patterns.
(i do it when i'm done with the test. then i try to think of what the song would sound like)

Guilty as charged

You know you play too much FoF when...

You got to play guitar hero and say "Wow it's like FoF only with a buncha crap on it!!"

You attempt to download FoF on a school computer (guilty agian!)

You ask someone "Got RF Mod?"

You go to best buy and ask if they sell FoF (or anything related to FoF)

You attempt to use the iamlazy code on Guitar Hero

Your fingers fall off so you attempt to play by bashing your head on the keyboard

You go to wal-mart and ask if they got the new version of FoF

You're driving down the street and then you start crashing into cars and running over people thinking they're notes.

[fastbreak]

You go to wal-mart and ask if they got the old version of FoF

Fixed

[yogsothoth]

...when your band gets a gig and you attempt to play a song with just the E string and the first 5 frets
...when you think 'that's easy to play' when you see this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3N1wnLcNKKM
...when you smash a keyboard every time you 5* a song
...when you have many smashed keyboards
...when you think of Jurgen as a noob (not sure if anyone has reached this level yet)
...when you can smite Jurgen with your keyboard (if its not smashed)
...if you attempted to install a USB port into a radio, CD Player, etc.
...when the F1-F5 keys burst into spontaneous combustion (GH II), are damaged, or have broken
...when every other 5 keys in a row is broken as well

[yogsothoth]

Done Before
when you fill in bubble answer sheets you think about fret patterns (every time, also like tablature)

when you smash a keyboard every time you 5* a song (once)

when your fingers fall off so you attempt to play by bashing your head on the keyboard (fingers didnt come off but i tried with my head )

you know you play too much when your enterkey falls of in the middle of a solo part (the 3 key did)

when you hear a song and automatically think red, red, green, blue, blue, yellow, blue (i actually tap my fingers, not in the car though. i use my thumb as green and pinky as orange)

when you start trying to play chords by holding 2 frets on one string (because of FoF i ****ed up a should have stayed in the shallows cover in front of everyone)

when you close your eyes and the notes are still coming (they just dont stop coming!)

you can play just as well with your left hand as you can with your right (i can also do the same with some real guitar songs and GH)

You know you play it too much when you can shut your monitor off at the beginning of a song and still score a 90+% (mastered no hardcore dancing in the living room)

when in a drunken stuper you and your housemate beg 2 empty buckets from the staff in Middlesbrough KFC after getting your meal, just so you can put it on your head when you play Jordan on GHII (just me though)

[mmsven]

When you put a peice of wood with nails in it onto a surface and hit the nails pretending they are frets.

[warhol]

When you have a Psychobilly Freakout

[sidecarsally]

When you start screaming "F*CK YEAH" after nailing solos because HOPO's work now.

[Jonathan_Antillies]

When you start screaming "F*CK YEAH" after nailing solos because HOPO's work now.

Yep, guilty!

And even better now that I play with my 360 X-plorer controller. I found that I can play, on average, about 30% better then with the keyboard.

As for the left-right thing, I did that on GH2 just to get the Hendrix Award acheivemet...

...Heart-shaped box on Medium has never been more of a bi***! I guess the problem came with my fretting hand being on the strum bar and wanted to keep tapping fret buttons! Still passed the song though...91% accuracy, though.

[yogsothoth]

When you start screaming "F*CK YEAH" after nailing solos because HOPO's work now.

they do? where the **** have i been...

[st34lth]

1.You know you play too much FoF when you go outside, turn on a stereo and take your keyboard/Controller out and start playing the song on the stereo.

2.You know you play too much FoF when you finish a song and get a perfect then you light your keyboard on fire.

3.You know you play too much FoF when you buy 50 keyboards because all the other ones are broken because of your ultra quick ninja hands

4.You know you play too much FoF when you can memorize all the notes in every song you played BLINDFOLDED!

[yogsothoth]

...when you FoF directory exceeds the "Porn" directory.

I'm that hardcore.

Seconded.... It's pretty good ratio too; 1.5 Gb in FoF as compared to 675 Mb!

1. You know you play too much FoF when you have actually improved the mobility of your joints.

Actually happened to me! My left wrist has always had some unnerving mobility limitations, and after playing FoF for the first few weeks, my wrist has regained its full range of mobility!

Talk about a FoF sucess story! Wait...

2. You know you play too much FoF when you call it a sucess story!

And yes, I too am guilty of imagining playing songs while driving... Shame on me...

and now thats happened to me. i have a new found amazing ability at playing around with harmonics on my guitar.

[SketchMan3]

When you can predict how the latest Dragonforce song will be fretted after listening to it once.