Red Mosquito

doug rr wrote:$70 extra a month you're just going to get fatter

Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

tragabigzanda wrote:So we just received our TCL 55S405 55-Inch 4K Ultra HD Roku Smart LED TV a few nights ago. It's basically the highest-rated "cheap 4K" TV out there; it regularly goes for $600, but we got it on sale for $400 (we also got a sound bar/sub package). After cutting the chord in 2013, and watching on a 31" 720 tv since 2010, this is like a whole new world. Also the Roku system gets an A from me. Waaaay better than either the Comcast or TimeWarner services I had in the past.

Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

tragabigzanda wrote:I used to love the board game, but haven't played it in years. What's that got to do with this?

tragabigzanda wrote:

cutuphalfdead wrote:how many p is that?

Depends on the media, I guess. 1080p unless it's actually 4K content, is my rudimentary understanding. I'm not very knowledgable on how upscaling happens, or even what it looks like exactly, so I really have no idea how much of the available content is in 1080p vs. 1080i or 720, but then upscaled once it's in the box.

Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:I used to love the board game, but haven't played it in years. What's that got to do with this?

it has everything to do with this

Bi_3 wrote:Finally taking the leap. Cable/Internet/Phone bill dropping from $220 to $85 and I only lose sports channels.

Rangi Guy wrote:Just booked in to get snipped next Friday.......

Sgt. Crackpot wrote:

Rangi Guy wrote:Just booked in to get snipped next Friday.......

You're not talking about digital services, right?

tragabigzanda wrote:I used to love the board game, but haven't played it in years. What's that got to do with this?