Friday, February 19, 2010

The pirate's experience

This graphic sums up my frustration with watching movies on DVD/BluRay nicely. Not every company does this (Disney is among the worst, TV anthologies are generally better about letting you at the content), but enough do that it can be pretty irritating. The worst is that once you get locked in the warning-preview cycle with no way out except to chapter skip all the way to the menu. I run into this all the time when I forget to take the disc out and just want to access Netflix. I have to then deal with the warning and previews just so that I can stop the disc and switch to streaming.


As a side note, it's not just pirates who can go straight to the movie. Netflix streaming pretty much drops you straight into the picture as well.

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

What kind of pretentious jackass posts on a comment thread as "The Writer"?

One who a) forgot his seldom-used anonymous blog was connected via Google, and b) had no idea comment posts would pick up the author's name from the blog and plop it in the post.


Anyway, hello to any Leverage fans who come strolling by. Sorry there's not more to see here.