Hardcore SingStar

When my first set of DDR pads got destroyed after nine months of abuse at the feet of college kids, I can't say I was terribly surprised - but it made me sad.

When I got Rock Band, and stories of flaky hardware were abound, I wasn't terribly surprised that the strum bar on my guitar got a little flaky. Not bad enough to send in, but causing the occasional miss.

I've had to retire two DSes (busted speakers and buttons, then a non-functioning touchscreen), a Mac Cube (optical drive motor), two Sidekicks (trackball both times), a lampshade iMac (optical drive malfunction), a G5 iMac (power supply), and there was that whole 360 thing.

Things break, I know.

Never did I think I'd be such a hardcore SingStar player that I'd break the blue microphone, but here we are. Color me surprised just this once.