I slept virtually not at all last night. I was in so much sinus pain that I wanted to rip my teeth out, but I was also too fucking lazy to get up and take NyQuil.
So, this morning, I got some beef with Netflix. I hate that I can't delete shit from all the bullshit they show to me. I AM NOT INTERESTED in Jeff Foxworthy or Larry the Cable Guy, so if you could stop offering that as an option, that'd be greeeeat.
Some mofo that I live with, who shall remain nameless, will go scroll-scroll-scrolling through all the whatever, trending now, or whatever, and seriously, by the time he fucking settles on something to watch (NCIS, obvs), the pizza's gone cold and it's time for bed.
Oh, AND, you know how when you watch a series, but you're only on like, ep 3, and then the next time you fire up the 'Flix, it's all like, "oh hai! here, finish watching that thing!"? but when you finish a series, they remove it from your recently watched. What the actual fuck is that shit? Look, I literally have been watching Black Books, the IT Crowd, Better Off Ted, Sherlock, and Doc Martin over and over and over and over and over for like, 6 months straight. And you KNOW this, man! So when the final ep finishes playing and the PS3 times out because I'm asleep, do me a damn favor and put that back in my 'recently watched' queue so I don't have to go searching for it tomorrow.
Which, actually, makes me realize that if I'd just put those five shows directly on the PS3, I could probably break up with Netflix completely. Too bad the FBI or the ADA or the FDA or whoever is all mad about "pirating" shows. HOW ELSE AM I SUPPOSED TO WATCH THE BIG BANG THEORY??
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Which leads me to... How DO people watch TV? It's been so long since we had TV, I really don't even know how people do it now. Are DVRs still a thing? I don't think you need an actual, tangible DVR device anymore, do you? Isn't everything just sort of on demand? What about things that aren't? You just sort of ... request to like, save a show in your queue? (I just looked up DVR and saw that literally, 3 hours ago, TiVo said it's phasing out support for its devices or something)
I know it's all, get-off-my-lawn-y of me, but I miss the old days of TVs with 7 channels and analog dials and rabbit ear antennas. My kid just told me he saw a commercial for something, and I was all like, "a commercial??!!?!?!" as if that was the most preposterous thing ever. I can't remember the last time I saw a commercial--well, it was probably when we were in Winona last winter for hockey and I was watching the hotel TV (NCIS, obvs). I was nearly apoplectic with rage and frustration over the seemingly-constant commercials, even though I remember them being only for a tree house show?
I've hit the tech wall. I just can't. I don't know how to work any of the controller things, except my trusty PS3. I LITERALLY don't know how to turn on the PS4 or the WiiU, or how to make either of those, the Xbox360, or the Xbone show up on the teevee screen. I have my laptop, my 3DS (I'm not even sure if that's what it's called?), and my PS3. I can't even work any of the kids' iPhones. I've become my 90-year old grandma.
Now get the fuck off my lawn.
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