ManfredvonKarma

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ManfredvonKarma is a user on the popular Guitar Hero website, ScoreHero. For information about the Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Character, see Court Records.

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Joined ScoreHero On:	October 30, 2007
Member Number:	107036
Donations:	$5
Proofs:	3

Welcome to ManfredvonKarma's Wiki. I'm more or less satisfied with the the way it is currently, and will probably only be making minor changes from here on out. However, I am a perfectionist, so don't be surprised if some sort of massive change takes place between viewings. I'll attempt to keep this page as up-to-date as possible, so you can keep track of all of my mediocre accomplishments, and my laughable goals. Feel free to leave me a comment or send me a PM via ScoreHero. If you need HTML help, please consult my HTML cheat sheet.

Contents

Pertinent Information 
DLC 
Guitar Hero Biography 
Characters 
Goals and Aspirations
Accomplishments 
Major Contributions to the Wiki 
Less Important Things 
Fun Facts and Trivia 
Band Quickplay Matrix
Comments

Pertinent Information

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My Gamercard and Avatar. Name: Anthony
Date of Birth: August 29, 1990
Gamertag: ASic777
Height: 5'11"
Political Affliliation: Moderate
Location: Seton Hall University
Major: History
Skill Level by Instrument: Games:

DLC

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Guitar Hero III Legends of Rock:

• Track Packs
• Boss Battles, DragonForce, Dropkick Murphys, Guitar Virtuoso, Isle of Wight, Muse
• Singles
• Ernten Was Wir Säen, Song_GH3_HaloThemeMJOLNIRMix Halo Theme MJOLNIR Remix∞, Song_GH3_IAmMurloc I Am Murloc∞, Song_GH3_TopGunAnthem Top Gun Anthem∞, Song_GH3_WeThreeKings We Three Kings∞

Rock Band:

• I have all 55 songs from Rock Band
• I have the AC/DC track pack exported
• Downloaded Songs

RBN (13):

• Bodies
• Code Monkey
• Creepy Doll
• Demon Woman
• Drunken Lullabies (Live)
• Footloose and Fancy Free
• If Trucks Drank Beer
• Ikea
• Push Push (Lady Lightning)
• Rx
• Semi-Charmed Life '09
• Trippolette
• What's Your Favorite Dinosaur?

Guitar Hero 5:

• Track Packs
• Guitar Duels, Neversoft, Reggae, Bruce Springsteen, Metal/Ferret Blade, Activision, Neversoft Thanks the Fans
• Singles
• The Touch, GH On Tour: Modern Hits Theme, Hark! The Herald Angels Sing, Laser Cannon Deth Sentence

Guitar Hero Biography

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According to the legends, a wise man appeared in a darkened room. He said, "let there be sound," there was sound. "Let there be light," there was light. "Let there be drums," there was drums. "Let there be Karma," and ManfredvonKarma appeared. With such a dramatic legend surrounding his birth, one would think that ManfredvonKarma would be accomplished in something, but he really isn't.

I picked up Guitar Hero for the first time in 2007. One of my friends had Game_GuitarHeroII Guitar Hero II∞, and played it all the time, which was very rude because I would go over to his house and have to watch him play. I borrowed the game from him one day and proceeded to suck terribly, failing my way through medium because "no one plays on Easy." I remember playing Song_GH2_PsychobillyFreakout Psychobilly Freakout∞ in front of him, and him saying, "I don't remember sucking that badly when I was on medium." Eventually I moved up to hard, and got absolutely destroyed by Song_GH2_CarryMeHome Carry Me Home.∞ I finally passed it a few weeks before Game_GuitarHeroIIILegendsOfRock Guitar Hero III∞ was released, and pushed through Song_GH2_YYZ YYZ∞, and all of tier 8 directly afterward with no failures.

I had heard about ScoreHero well before joining, but I never saw the point in joining, as I wasn't very good. I sucked it up, and joined on October 30, 2007 - two days after the release of Game_GuitarHeroIIILegendsOfRock Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock, which I had purchased on release day. My failures on Game_GuitarHeroIIILegendsOfRock Guitar Hero III∞ are somewhere between frequent and ever-lasting. Luigi, my cat, who is likely a better drummer than I.Song_GH3_RainingBlood Raining Blood∞ (Hard) took me around 25 tries, and Lou took at least 50 attempts. Oddly enough I didn't even pass the Lou battle at my house. I was over a friend's house and said, "You have to see this - it's impossible." In possibly the most epic coincidence of my life, I passed it right then and there. I haven't been able to get through all of Game_GuitarHeroIIILegendsOfRock GH3∞ on expert yet (Song_GH3_RainingBlood Raining Blood∞), but, then again, I haven't tried in months.

I picked up Game_RockBand Rock Band∞ in July of 2008, when I bought my Xbox 360. My friends and I played often, so it was $50 well spent. Surprisingly (maybe not), I'm much better at guitar and bass on Game_RockBand Rock Band∞. I'm decent on vocals. I've never really put too much time into them, though. I could probably move up to expert if I practiced. I utterly fail at drumming, though. I'm proud to be part of the extremely small fraction of the ScoreHero Community that cannot FC the best song ever made available for the Rock Band platform, Song_RB_CharleneImRightBehindYou Charlene (I'm Right Behind You)∞, on expert drums; I also have a large collection of -1s on expert guitar.

I picked up Game_RockBand2 Rock Band 2∞ on release day, and played it for hours that day. Then I went back to college, and suffered from withdrawal. This pattern was repeated for a couple weeks, and then a breakthrough was made: I brought my Xbox 360 up to Seton Hall. Of course, I also brought my drums so I could be reminded of how much I absolutely fail at hitting things with sticks. I haven't been bashful about doing vocals, despite the fact that the walls here are mighty thin. Knowing that people can hear me makes me feel like more of a bad ass when I sing songs like Song_RB2_BadToTheBone Bad to the Bone∞ or Song_RB2_AceOfSpades08 Ace of Spades∞. Luckily for me, my roommate enjoys playing Guitar Hero and Game_RockBand Rock Band∞, or there probably would have been some awkward "reeltar" vs. "plastar" debates, as he is a self-taught guitarist.

I also picked up Game_GuitarHeroWorldTour Guitar Hero World Tour∞ the day that it was released. I really tried to like it, but I just didn't. The vocals seem unecessarily difficult, and the drum charts are very difficult to read. The character creator was hard to use, and I couldn't read the text that I was entering, so it took me about fifteen minutes to name my character. The songs are fun (especially Song_GHWT_LaBamba La Bamba∞ and Song_GHWT_BeatIt Beat It∞), I'm just not a fan of the overall package. Like an overdone cravat, the frills are just too much. When I actually started playing Guitar Hero World Tour (i.e. doing to career), rather than letting it collect dust after my initial impression deemed it as being stupid I started to like it. It's still (in my opinion) not as good as Rock Band 2, but judging it solely on the basis of being a guitar-centric game, it's pretty good. I continue to hate doing drums or vocals on it, though.

Speaking of drums, I finally stopped being absolutely horrible at them. There are still a lot of beats that I can't do well [e.g. any prolonged alternating bass pedal, followed by note(s)], but I'm doing pretty well for myself. I can pass quite a few songs on hard (the highest teired one that I did so far was Song_RB2_Spaceman Spaceman∞), and most of the lower tier songs on expert (special thanks to Harmonix for putting out two easy drum songs in the same week). My main issue is endurance. I cannot deal with having to repeatedly hit the bass pedal (Psycho Killer is a great example of a song that I am unable to deal with).

Characters

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Characters Commonly Used (Guitar Hero):

• Eddie Knox, Izzy Sparks, Johnny Napalm, Midori

Rock Band Characters:

Anna	Anthony	Darius Beau Pre	Lyle
Needed a decent female character	Appearance subject to change	Needed him as a selectable character	His outer scars reflect his inner suffering
ManfredvonKarma	Matthew Bellamy	Pickles	Rick Astley
Couldn't resist	Complete with a mock-up of his LED Guitar	Doodily doo ding dong doodily, doodily, doo	Really wish I could give him a striped shirt

Bandmate pictures thanks to RockBand.com.

Goals and Aspirations

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• Get this page back up-to-date.

Accomplishments

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Credit for these sexy tables goes to User_PiemanLK PiemanLK∞.

Major Contributions to the Wiki

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• Formatted the Rock Band section of the Loading Screens page.
• Added song information for all GH1 and GH3 on-disc songs.
• Added the fancy links to each letter on the Abbreviations page.
• Added biography information to most of the character pages.
• Formatted the Interesting Information About Guitar Hero page.
• Created the Forum Ranks page.

Less Important Things

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Favorite Works of Literature:

• "I Am America (And So Can You!)" by Dr. Stephen T. Colbert
• If you watch The Colbert Report, and have not read this yet, you are most likely a spy for the bear menace.
• "Waiting For Godot" by Samuel Beckett
• Theatre of the absurd? More like theatre of the amazing! Wow, that was lame... seriously, though, this is an incredible play.
• "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
• Okay, it may have been completely plagarized from Max e os Felinos, but it's still a great novel.

Favorite Foods:

• Like most people in the world, I love a good slice of pizza (I do not consider the round object that Domino's sells to be pizza, because pizza is supposed to be good). My favorite toppings are sausage, mushrooms, or peppers. I'm not all about the junk food, though. If you put some chicken marsala in front of me, your going to be out one plate of chicken marsala very shortly. Also, I'm apparently a freak of nature because I love vegetables. Spinach and asparagus are probably two of the most delicious foods out there.

Least Favorite Foods:

• Here's a real shocker: I'm an Italian, and I cannot stand eating pasta. You name a pasta, and I hate it. The only one that's even remotely tolerable to me is spahgetti, and even then I'm very picky about it. I mentioned that I love vegetables, but there's one notable exception: cauliflower. It's just the bastard version of broccoli. Also, I cannot stand buffalo or barbeque chicken pizza. The only sauce that belongs on a pizza is marinara.

Favorite Bands:

• A guy who plays rhythm games and likes music? Who would have seen that coming? The following are bands that I regularly listen to. There are many ohther bands from which I like what I've heard, but haven't really looked into their other songs.
• Bang Camaro, Dethklok, Die Ärtze, Die Toten Hosen, Guns N' Roses, Muse, the pillows

Other Games I Enjoyed:

• Trauma Center: Under the Knife
• That could also have been "Trauma Center: Second Opinion," since they are essentially the exact same game.
• Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Trials and Tribulations
• The entire series is amazing, but the third installment in the trilogy (yes, it's still a trilogy - Apollo Justice is the start of a new arc) is my favorite.
• Godot is a pimp.
• Tales of Symphonia
• The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker

Favorite Quotations:

• "I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world because they'd never expect it." - Jack Handey
• "I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled..." - Jonathan Swift
• "The only time a lawyer can cry is when it's all over." - Godot (Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Trials and Tribulations)
• "[emphatically] Pillow pants join forces over embargo pylons. You aren't mailing past honor for the liking of a room. These questions are birthday basements. To end the blue radish in the upside of luxury and sparking a good lizard can only make tears fall in hindsight. Puddles do not ask for why not? It is cheese! Breath and wind. It is cheese. [sits down, spent and furious, then looks up at everyone and feigns nonchalance] What?" - Alan Shore

Other Hobbies:

• Impressions and random voices
• Suffering from O.C.D.
• Self-denigration
• Watching baseball
• Rubber band balls (Picture of my rubber band ball)

Fun Facts and Trivia

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• My user name uses the maximum amount of characters that ScoreHero allows.
• I passed the song Song_GH2_Woman Woman∞ on expert before passing it on hard.
• I named my black SG (PS2) "Lucile."
• My friends named my Wii Les Paul "Song_GH3_Barracuda Barracuda.∞"
• My XBox 360 Les Paul is unnamed because nothing that terrible deserves a name.
• This Les Paul is currently completely broken because I opened it up, cut the wires, went to start the hardwiring process, and then realized that I had no electrical tape.
• I have 3 GibsonX-Plorer Gibson Xplorers∞, two of which are completely broken.
• Both of them broke mysteriously in the middle of a song in the exact same manner, after about the same amount of time.
• I have an RB2 Strat that I plan to sell on ebay, because I can't justify having spent $75 on something that I can't use.
• I have 1000/1000 Gamerscore for Game_GuitarHeroAerosmith Guitar Hero: Aerosmith before I owned the game. I borrowed it from a friend for a few days.
• I could probably have about another 500 posts by now, but I frequently write out a response, and then not submit it for whatever reason.
• I was one of the first people on User_rkcr rkcr's User Shame List.∞
• I barely knew any HTML before creating this page.

Band Quickplay Matrix

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This is a little project of mine designed to determine what the most commonly picked songs are in Band Quick Play. All picks from the people I am randomly paired with are tracked.
Last Updated: 8/5/2009

Play Breakdown:

• 258 Total Picks
• 114 Unique Songs
• 170 Total Rock Band 2 Picks
• 14 Total Rock Band Picks
• 74 Total DLC Picks

General Facts:

• Most Commonly Picked Game_RockBand2 Rock Band 2∞ Song(s): Song_RB2_DownWithTheSickness Down with the Sickness∞ (15)
• Yes, it really is picked that much more than anything else.
• Second Most Commonly Picked Game_RockBand2 Rock Band 2∞ Song(s): Song_RB2_AlmostEasy Almost Easy∞ (10)
• Third Most Commonly Picked Game_RockBand2 Rock Band 2∞ Song(s): Song_RB2_ChopSuey Chop Suey!∞ (9)
• Most Commonly Picked Game_RockBand Rock Band∞ Song(s): Song_RB_CherubRock Cherub Rock∞; Song_RB_WontGetFooledAgain Won't Get Fooled Again∞ (2)
• Second Most Commonly Picked Game_RockBand Rock Band∞ Song(s): 10-Way Tie (1)
• Most Commonly Picked DLC Song(s): Song_RB2_TheFeeling The Feeling∞; Song_RB2_PrequelToTheSequel Prequel to the Sequel∞; Song_RB2_Young Young∞ (4)
• Second Most Commonly Picked DLC Song(s): Song_RB2_AndJusticeForAll ...And Justice for All∞; Song_RB2_AreYouDeadYet Are You Dead Yet?∞; Song_RB2_IWannaBeYourMan I Wanna Be Your Man∞; Song_RB2_LimelightOriginalVersion Limelight (Original Version)∞ (3)
• Third Most Commonly Picked DLC Song(s): 11-Way Tie (2)

Things I Found Interesting:

• The first Metallica song that was picked, Song_RB_AndJusticeForAll ...And Justice For All∞, was pick number 74.
• Song_RB2_AlexChilton Alex Chilton∞, Song_RB2_NineInTheAfternoon Nine in the Afternoon∞, Song_RB2_ThatsWhatYouGet That's What You Get∞, and Song_RB2_WelcomeToTheNeighborhood Welcome to the Neighborhood∞ were all picked before it.
• I managed to find 3 other people with the Jimmy Buffett Pack at the same time.

Note: When I have a larger sample size, which will make my data more relevant, I will be uploading the Excel file to Google Documents so that you may view it in its entirety.