Rewatching the Achievement Hunter Versus playlist, I just watched Gavin and Michael muddle their way through Freebird on Medium in Guitar Hero II, and it reminded me of the most condescending thing I’ve ever done.
So I was the best GH player in my circle of friends at that point, PROBABLY the second-best player in town, and still not nearly at my peak; my buddy C (the same one from the Halo story) challenged me to a professional mode match on Expert (we play the same notes, the full song, and compete in points). Now, he was trash-talking beforehand, but I knew I was the better player by an order of magnitude, so I did something very rude.
Now, anybody who's listened to Freebird knows that the song consists of four minutes of slow intro and then a seven minute guitar solo that gets BRUTAL. I was sick of C trash-talking, so when we started the song...I didn’t play.
I stood there and watched him play the entire intro, giving him a sixty-thousand-point head start. When the solo started, I started playing, passed him in score about five minutes into the solo, and wound up beating him by the lead he had going in.
He never challenged me to a Guitar Hero faceoff ever again.