my advice is to keep waiting. it will be even less after it flops as a holiday gift. this game does not appeal to anyone really - they missed the ball with electronic music fans like me by putting in a ton of terrible pop mashups (along with some good ones) and creating a totally WTF? controller (seriously? WTF? that's all I have to say really, just look at that thing.. WTF?). they missed the ball with regular people because regular people hate electronic music and they certainly didn't include enough "classics" recognizable to any extent by the average consumer. GH works because it has classic tracks that everyone has heard. DJ Hero has Daft Punk, which some have heard, and most only know via Kanye West's travesty to that sample song.

I notice that the Ann Taylor "invitation" may be "sued more than once."

@h3llc4t, breaker of office dress codes: I might be in trouble too because I think that is funny.

We mostly stuck with Guitar Hero because we started with it and Mr. Aroo doesn't like change very much and likes to stick with what he knows, but last January he decided he really wanted Rock Band II for his birthday.

Btw, his birthday sucks being in the first half of January.. all the good stuff is gone by then because people return the crap they don't want and buy up all the cool stuff that is left. Anyway, I went all over town trying to find Rock Band II bundle for the Wii, and no one had it.. not one store. So we ended up with Guitar Hero World Tour. I still think Rock band II would have been more fun but oh well : /

@Burning pakalolo not even noticing the weather: an amazing show about awful people. I love it. : )

@h3llc4t, breaker of office dress codes: Maybe the kid I saw playing it was "doin it rong" and I can't remember the song now, but it was stuck in my head while I was in the store.

I think that the Guitar Hero people are doing whatever they can to grab money, and it makes me kinda sad. Mr. Aroo and I were/are serious Guitar Hero fans since the first one. They lost me with "Rocks the 80s" though. What a blaintent money grab that was.

@zegolf: Call me when Amazon gold boxes this baby for $50 bucks like it did with the RB/GH sets. Then you'll have me.

It's things like this that pay off having christmas in january.

@zegolf: I saw a demo of it at Frys over the weekend and a kid was playing it.. it was the most annoying game I've heard in a long time. Even if it's a good song you ruin it with all the "DJ" noises and crap..

Sooo annoying.

Wow.. I hope Subtlefrog doesn't read the morning deals today.. that Kitchenaid mixer price is amazing.

/hidingfromsubtlefrog

Thank you for the tip. I've not heard much good about them, but the concept is so tempting with all the hardwood floors we have...

I have a Roomba that did okay for about a year, then the battery died and they wanted crazy money to replace it.

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Btw, anyone who is looking to buy Star Trek - Best Buy is offering the Blu-Ray edition for $20.99 during the first two hours of store opening. After that, it's $23.99. The regular DVD edition is less during the first two hours as well, I think. It's in the weekly ad.

Your friend,
Someone who is on her second (warranty-replaced) Scooba and still can't get it to work properly

Gosh, DDR pads, Beatmania controllers, Taiko drum, Rock Band guitars plus drums... Sadly, I'm at max controller capacity.

@GitEmSteveDave_Isn'tFreshPerked: This one seems particularly uninspired. Right, right. I know a lot of people think it's cool to talk about every Woot-Off being the lamest ever. I'm not saying that...not exactly. But no netbooks, at least yet. There was a television, so I'll give them that. But I'm basically hoping it hasn't really gotten rolling yet. My screaming monkey politely requests more netbooks.

Get out the way, we got a woot!-Off.
We're pigging out down at the woot! trough.
Ain't gonna stop until the woot!-Off is done.