Re: The Ranting/Debate Thread
You guys know I'm not serious right? Sure I was mad but I would lay money on somebody accidentally bumping the cords out and then futzing up the fix (since the cords really do resemble a nest of some sort).
here's my latest rant: Fox's video player. What the fuck are they smoking?
Go to fox.com and watch an episode of House or Family Guy or Wanda Sykes. Sometimes the player just breaks altogether. Sometimes it doesn't play sound. It's buggy as fuck (although it has gotten better), and to be honest I don't think I should be punished just because I choose not to own a tv, and want to choose when I watch tv, not have to schedule my life around it. My biggest complaint is the commercials though.
Okay. so I can understand it when the television does it. Commercial breaks are around four to five minutes. You can't pause a tv, so people get up and do shit during this opportunity - moving away from the television. Thus, for them to be able to hear what's being advertised, the commercials are generally louder than the show. This is annoying, but it makes sense, and the mute button is really not that far away.
Now we go to Fox's player. They only do one commercial for every "commercial break." Which is about thirty seconds. Nobody in their right fucking mind would get up and do whatever shit they have to do away from whatever device is playing the show in the thirty seconds that they have available to them when THE PAUSE BUTTON IS RIGHT THERE. So why the fuck do they almost double the decibel level of the commercials? Hey FOX! I would REALLY appreciate my ears NOT being blown out just because of your incompetent developers.
The idiocy thickens: Fox's player is Fox's player. They don't go through channels, they don't even use Flash. Theirs is special - even if you have flash, you have to install their special little player.
Now go to NBC.com. Crisp, clear television, using FLASH PLAYER. WOW! What a bright idea! Using a hugely popular application for doing what it's hugely popular for - displaying media!!! It doesn't blow out your ears, you never run into any of the mind blowingly retarded bugs (like trying to fullscreen and getting the image stuck halfway zoomed-in on your monitor), and in fact the only caveat is the fact that the only shows that you can watch full episodes for SUCK MAJOR DONKEY ASS.
Well except for Jay Leno but everybody seems to hate him except me so I guess I can still make that generalization.
TLDR: Dear fox. Please get unretarded. Sincerely, Alias. PS: please don't think I'm actually blowing a gasket.
