No f'n way

After the personal ordeal I had to go through in the weeks leading up to the release of "Guitar Hero 2" for the Xbox 360 (not preordering soon enough, lying asshole clerks[Nope, we aren't going to have any extra copies of GH2], and the fear that I might not get a copy the day it came out), I managed to sell all my PS2 gear and buy GH2 the day it was released (Tuesday) with some money left over from my PS2 clearance. And just when everything seemed to be going so well, disaster strikes...well not yet for me, anyway. But please, allow me to elaborate.

This newstory has been making it's way around the net today and it seems that Microsoft/RedOctane(developers of the GH series) released two different versions of the X-Plorer controller for the 360 - one with the pedal jack(accessory port) near the power cord and one with the pedal jack near the headphone jack. But what does this have to do with anything, let alone an impending personal disaster for myself, you ask? Well it seems that the X-Plorer model with the pedal jack near the power cord have some major problems with the whammy bars on those particluar controllers - most importantly, that they don't work. And surprise, surprise...the game I bought came with one of the (apparently) defective X-Plorer models.

Now luckily, my whammy hasn't shown any signs of trouble just yet, aside from it feeling a little stiff, but I'm just attributing that to it's new-ness. But I'm hearing that if enough people are experiencing problems with these controllers, RedOctane might be issuing a recall for these particular controllers. It's always crap like this that makes Dwight's(Clive Owen) line from Sin City seem so relevant to my life - "And everything seemed to be going so well."