It was going to be grand. Well not so much grand, but it was going to be something. Having failed miserably at NaNoWriMo I was going to end the year with a few pieces on things I have enjoyed this year. The things that have stood out as being in some way outstanding. Like SRS and Black Mirror). A Song of Ice and Fire. The iPad (look it up). And the not so much outstanding as very interesting The Old Republic.

But really who can write about good things when companies actually manufacture and sell ridiculous television sets that inexplicably will not output audio through the AV outputs when I’m using an HDMI source? Does it mention this in the manual? No. Is there any support for the product online? No of course not, it’s a generic badged piece of consumer electronics that barely even exists.

There’s not even a giant rant here about meaning and petty semantics. I could ask why things never ever simply work, or why the idea that things should simply work is so frowned upon. Why there’s this attitude that unless you really put in the effort you shouldn’t have the good things in life. The decadent things, like a functioning PC or audio to go with your video.

You don’t deserve it, you fucking pleb.

Golly I’m tired.