Little Things That Irk You 3 1/3: The Final Insult

[Brad]

No gas supply in my village so it's kinda essential. Can't wait! Dunno how previous occupants kept warm with just these overnight storage heaters.

[vanpeebles]

I think more people will be switching back to the old ways as we are increasingly held to ransom by foreign power companies, meanwhile our thick government extends that invitation even more.

[EDDIE M0NS00N]

Psvita is getting on my nerves, I've got a 16 gig memory card for this that let's me store about 4 full games so when games I've purchased at retail like killzone want me to download a patch that's over a gig I really do think sony can go stick it's propitiatory memory cards up its arse.

I had exactly the same prob with my Vita & with the same game.

Went to try out Killzones MP (which wasn't that good tbh) & had to download the patch but i didn't have the 1 Gb of space so had to decide which of my precious downloaded games I'd have to delete, which was a pain in the Richard Arris!!!!

[Fader209]

They should make it nice and tidy like this Scouse flatscreen television:
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Brilliant idea! Who needs a plasma anyway? :P

The crap thing about TVs on the walls is that it is so impractical. Looking at FSW's "before" photo you can see how many wires need to get to the thing, if you went the route of chasing wires through walls or making dummy surrounds you would be forever messing about with it.
Much prefer the "after" pic!

[nakamura]

I hate TVs being so low. Mine are quite low and I end up sitting on the floor to use them.

[charlesr]

My TV is above the fireplace, but it's a low fireplace, so it's similarly above my vision as my old TV was below my vision, so fine. And cables are hidden behind the center channel speaker.

[Kit]

Fancied going through the first Modern Warefare for some reason. Looked on Steam, ?20. Fair enough, Modern Warefare 2 I never played and that was just before the series went to absolute ****, right? ah, ?20...

Am I missing something here? still nearly full ****ing price (in terms of pc gaming anyway) and it came out in ****ing 2007!

Edit:

Oh, and I just used Ultraviolet for the first time to redeem a film...

OMFG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I can't even watch the film I bought with a different media player, and I can only watch when I'm online????


FU!!!!!!!!

How can they complain about pirating when this is the legit alternative?

[sj33]

Activision famously price their Call of Duty games obscenely high. Every now and again, they have the original Modern Warfare on sale for ?9.99. No thanks.

[Dogg Thang]

Ultraviolet is horrendous. Ooh, cool, a digital copy too? Oh, Ultraviolet. May as well be a kick in my pants. It's total pox and I can't possibly see how it is becoming more and more common except if they're throwing money at the film companies. Fast Five came with a digital copy. 6 came with Ultraviolet. Pox.

[Fader209]

Fairly certain I saw a bundle of the CoD games cheap yesterday...I shall investigate.

[Kit]

Had a look over at Amazon. It's ?15 for the first Modern Warefare. Thinking of games I recall coming out around that period; Orange Box (I think), Bioshock? Left 4 Dead? Crysis maybe?

It's not rare or anything. There's no excuse.

Ultraviolet is horrendous. Ooh, cool, a digital copy too? Oh, Ultraviolet. May as well be a kick in my pants. It's total pox and I can't possibly see how it is becoming more and more common except if they're throwing money at the film companies. Fast Five came with a digital copy. 6 came with Ultraviolet. Pox.

Just deleted the lot after it refused to play for the fourth time. Going to rip from blu rays in the future and pirate the rest. This could have been such a good idea!

I also noticed they only have SD versions? so the pirates not only have superior quality HD films, but they don't have to be online to view them.

[EvilBoris]

I just downloaded the iTunes version, that just pops through as a normal film as far as I know

[buster_broon]

my before and after

before:


after



I think it looks much better on the wall where it is and the bracket can move the television around the room if needed but the only trailing cable I have is the usb extension which saves me moving the television.

only reason I got it plonked on the wall was that my children were getting too close to the television for a long time and we kept on moving them as per the before photo, so now they cant get anywhere near it, the fireplace guard is there to slop my clumsy boy hurting himself, but he decided one day to pull it over on himself which gave him a hash mark on his forehead

there was a before before but I cant find the photo of my Panasonic hdcrt which I sold for ?20 - cost me ?1600 back in 2003 - weighed around 30 stone though when we were moving it

all the av equipment is in the hifi cabinet with only one hole near the skirting board behind it - I stuck a brush plate on it to make it look decent rather than a hole

[speedlolita]

Whatever is being shown in that first shot doesn't look toddler friendly.

[Dogg Thang]

I'm sure you've thought of this but make sure that TV is seriously secure. If your kid goes on a climbing expedition and pulls the telly down, it could end in a nasty accident. Apparently it's pretty common now in our flat TV world.