Archive for April, 2008

So, on the list of shit I find pretty aggravating in this world, not being able to showcase some technology I’m excited about to its full potential is fairly high up the list. You know what I’m talking about — you get a new video card, for instance. Now you can blaze through the new Half-Life 2 episode, pointing out to yourself how framerate has vastly improved, and how the game no longer stutters, how textures are crisper because you can now up the filter quality quite a bit.

You’re basically engaging into a form of post-purchase masturbation, where you sit in almost religious contemplation, envelopped in a smug sentiment of confidence in your purchase, and how much joy it has brought you.

You then obviously want to repeat the experience with a friend, who will confirm how right you were in your purchase, and perhaps be inspired to get one too, so you can fill countless hypothetical conversations with how much it rocks, over dinners or perhaps even funerals.

But there’s always this sceptical friend of yours who makes a weird face when you showcase the object of your affection to him, who brings his face closer to your giant cinema display as to physically show that he’s making an honest effort to understand what the fuck you’re on about. Read the rest of this entry »