Letters to the Editor
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Reply to tomreedtoon.
I do hope that you'll take this in the gentle spirit that I'm hoping to convey.
There is something intrinsically wrong with wanting to experience the fame of being a guitarist, and spending hours to copy the on-screen commands of a game, all at a cost greater than buying a real guitar and learning how to play it.
I assure you, as an active member of the Guitar Hero-playing community, that we have no illusions about our "fame." From the greatest of us to the least of us, we know full well that we're not going to be rock stars, nor even that we're going to be all that well known for these exploits by people outside the community (with an exception being granted to the young man who won a Pontiac on G4 for playing Guitar Hero).
But back to something else...
intrinsically wrong
One can argue that playing a proper guitar in your room is intrinsically wrong as well. Neither feeds or clothes the homeless, and it becomes a sticky wicket when we start assigning right/wrong/"less right"/"less wrong" values to entertainment options. Both entertain people in their own special way, and indeed, there are people who enjoy both.
Comparing Guitar Hero to playing guitar is like comparing the Madden games to playing professional football: sure, it might be nice to do it, but for some of us, it's just not happening, so here's a fun (if not overly realistic) option.