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Why do I bother with Best Buy?

John — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 17:00:19 +0000

When I was younger, Best Buy was THE place I could and would go for new releases. Apparently, this changed at some point, though I don’t know when; I must have missed the memo.

Recently, I wanted to get Survival of the Dead on Blu-Ray (yes, I am a Zombiphile, why do you think we have a Zombie Apocalypse category?); I wasn’t even aware it was available for home consumption, until I saw it advertised in Best Buy’s flier, you know, the one that is waiting for you when you enter the store.
I assumed based on its presence within said advertisement that I would be able to procure said goods at the store. But lo, not so!

During my last 3 trips to Best Buy, (the most recent occurring last Sunday), they haven’t had Survival of the Dead in stock. Each and every time (after spending a few minutes looking on my own), I went hunting for an employee and asked if they had it in stock, just in case it was displayed somewhere special and I couldn’t find it. Each time I was told it was not.

This was a bit frustrating to me and not the first time I have had this experience. The time before this, it was Crank 2. Best Buy’s flier showed both it and Crank 1 for a very excellent price and I thought to myself, “self, you don’t have these movies… yet!” I then stalked the aisles looking in vain for these titles, and again, an employee informed me that the titles were not in stock.

In the end, I guess I find myself in a similar position to the ones Jon has described, twice before, in his articles Hard to buy books via Brick & Mortar and Why bother buying local?

Oh well, at least I know I can always depend on Amazon.

Ok AT&T, I’m offically sick of you

Jon — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 17:00:50 +0000

Look, I understand that cell phones are imperfect devices. Hell, everything computerized is imperfect. That being what it is, I only have so much patience and I’ve reached my limit with AT&T Wireless. They suck, and they drive me up a mother loving wall. All I want to do is be able to make a bloody phone call, and I can’t. For years, I’ve accepted a multitude of dropped calls and dead zones, it is imperfect after all… When I can’t even walk down the damn street without losing my call, you’ve lost me as a customer.

Let me explain my geography. I live in the San Francisco Bay Area, one of the (arguably) most tech friendly areas of these United States of America. Up until recently, I’ve not been in San Francisco much, and AT&T has done me well enough. I had one house that the phone didn’t work in, but it worked out… annoying but understandable. My new location has fantastic cell coverage with great speeds. I run speed tests and get 2 megabits down and 1 megabit up. Damn fantastic on a cell phone, upload beats my home DSL line. Sure, I’ve got dropped calls here and there, but life is good enough.

That is, of course, until I started traveling into The City (translation: San Francisco proper). Suddenly, I almost never have service and for those times that I do… GPRS would be faster. No not EDGE, GRPS… yea… it’s that slow. I can accept that San Francisco has a lot of people using their cell phones, and therefore the speeds suck… but I can’t even make a phone call. Let me give you an example…

In my office in the city, we get basically no AT&T service. Verizon and T-Mobile work just fine, just not AT&T. Fine, whatever, we’re indoors after all. Last night, I left for the day and on my way home, I called my mother. She had been borrowing my truck and I wanted it back. I talked to her as I was walking to BART, no big deal. As soon as I walk down the stairs to the main level of BART, my call dies. Now, according to my phone… I have service. According to AT&T, they have service in the stations and on the platforms and in the tunnels of SF AND in the transbay tube. So I go down to the platforms and try to call my mother back.

Operative word: Try. My phone shows full coverage, 3G and everything. I try making the call, nothing happens. I try again, the call dies again. I ended up trying 6 times (eventually to different numbers too), and I couldn’t make a call. The last thing my mother had said is “So I’ll be there in 15 minutes” because she thinks I’m already at home. If I can’t contact her quickly, she’s going to spend the next 45 minutes at my house, wondering where the hell I am. What’s a guy to do? Well luckily for me I carry a spare pre-paid phone that is NOT AT&T. I power on that phone, punch in my number, and my call goes through with absolutely no problem.

It is absolutely, totally, and utterly unacceptable to have service so shitty, that someone cannot even call their own mother (or anyone for that matter). What if it was an emergency and I had needed to call 911? If you’re in San Francisco and have AT&T, you’re better off walking to the nearest hospital (even if it is 5 miles away). I’ve read that AT&T knows that their service sucks in San Fran & New York, too many iPhones or something like that. Well if the iPhones are sucking up so much bandwidth that I can’t even make a call, TAKE AWAY THEIR DAMN DATA. I’d rather have absolutely no data service at all, then not be able to make a phone call. A CELLULAR PHONE is of very little use to me if it can’t even be a PHONE.

I’m going to Verizon. They’ve got Droids.

Long Way Round and Long Way Down

John — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 17:00:55 +0000

Recently, I watched Long Way Down, which is the sequel to Long Way Round. Both of these star Ewan McGregor and Charlie Boorman. You probably recognize the first name, but possibly not the second (unless you are a huge fan of Deliverance).

I’m not sure if a documentary about guys riding around the world is really something that can be spoiled (after all they are still alive, obviously didn’t die as part of it), but if you feel it could be spoiled, then be advised this will contain spoilers.

In Long Way Round, Ewan and Charlie start out in London and then drive east… all the way around the world on motorcycles. During the first part of the series they are discussing what bikes to use; Ewan wants to use BMWs, while Charlie wants KTM (a brand I knew nothing about, apparently they are an Austrian company that makes motocross/off-road bikes). Ewan acquiesces to Charlie’s request and the Long Way Round team goes and talks with KTM. KTM after learning what they are trying to do opts to NOT provide bikes to them as they think they will fail and it would look very bad for the brand. Charlie gets super pissed (which is of course part of the show), but then agrees that they should instead get BMWs. The bikes are the very beautiful BMW R1150GS Adventure.

Their is a third biker with them, Claudio, who is their cameraman and rides with them. They also have 2 SUVs filled with support personnel (including the director and a doctor). Throughout the show they encounter a variety of people and situations, the former are in general very welcoming and more often than not they ended up spending the night in someone’s house, rather than at a hotel. The situations (specifically the off-roading) do get very trying for everyone, but thanks to the technical expertise they gained before the trip, they are able to surmount all the obstacles they are presented with.

Toward the last part of the trip, they get a few other bikers joining them, forming a small gang, if you will. The last episode has some teasing about them wanting to do this again, which is what lead to the Long Way Down.

Long Way Down once more sees Ewan and Charlie on BMWs, though this time they are riding BMW R1200GS Adventures (the successor to their previous bike). This time the journey is from John O’Groats, Scotland to Cape Agulhas in South Africa.

The situations in this series were a bit more problematic, specifically, trying to organize so many border crossings (which required delays of up to 12 hours). Additionally, at the start of the series, Charlie decided “to use the ‘bomb’ word” in the airport while leaving England, which of course caused a major ruckus. Most of the crew went on without him and he was eventually released without charge. It doesn’t happen very often, but throughout this show and the last you see Charlie acting like the big time movie star, demanding various things and causing various problems (such as accidentally splashing petrol in Ewan’s eyes, repeatedly), whereas Ewan acts so congenially that he really comes off as just an incredibly nice person, a real everyman.

Partway through the journey, Ewan’s wife, Eve, meets up with them and rides with them for a bit. Her personality is similar to Ewan’s and I think she really helps us all to understand how we would react in that situation (riding for hours and spending the night in a random village by the side of the road, for instance).

In the final bit of the show, as Ewan and Charlie arrive in South Africa they are followed by a very large number of motorcycles. Some of the shots they show… you can’t see the end of the line. This is a gang of motorcycles.

In summary: 2 guys riding BMW Bikes show us an adventure. These guys did not ride alone and they did have support personnel and vehicles with them. This means it isn’t something you or I could do by ourselves. As much as Jon and I like riding our bikes (and we are fairly decent at it), we would not be able to attempt this journey. I’d say the most we could do is cross country. Personally, I’m fine with that.

Lastly, if you’d like more info about these trips, I invite you to take a look at the movies or read the books: Long Way Round and Long Way Down.

(Note: Added to Category: Stupid Companies, because KTM lost out on a lot of business and publicity when they shot down Ewan and Charlie)

WebDAV Client – Windows 7

Jon — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 17:00:27 +0000

Since I’ve already got Linux & OSX talking to my LDAP/WebDAV enabled Apache, I needed to finish my trifecta… Windows. Specifically, Windows 7. I had heard that it is possible to map WebDAV shares as network drives, just like you would with Samba. Of course, what you hear, what you hope for, and what Windows actually lets you do aren’t always the same (and usually ends with pain).

I had read somewhere that “Map Network Drive” was supposed to work with WebDAV in much the same way as in OSX. I tried it out, but it never seemed to work. I spent quite a while googling about for instructions that would work and eventually landed upon a semi-promising article that mentioned the need to install the “Software Update for Web Folders (KB907306)“. Cool! Maybe that was all I was missing. I gave the update a shot, and a reboot later I was ready to WebDAV…

Of course it didn’t work. That update does allow you to put in URLs directly into “Map Network Drive” rather than having to go into the more hidden “Connect to a website…” option. Even still, I couldn’t connect to my WebDAV share. I saw the connection attempts on the Apache logs, but Windows kept telling me it wasn’t a valid share (Liars!). After some more research, I found a post that said that the WebDAV connector didn’t allow ‘basic’ authentication, but you could fix that with a registry hack. This time I knew better than to get my hopes up… which was a good thing, because it didn’t work either.

After still more research, I found the answer. Microsoft’s WebDAV client only supports the use of ‘digest’ authentication. I almost never use digest authentication, even though it is technically superior, simply because it is not well supported. Any time you need “secure” authentication, you use SSL. In the interest of being sure, I switched my authentication on the WebDAV share from ‘basic’ to ‘digest’… TADA… Windows 7 worked with WebDAV.

Of course, there is one CRITICAL flaw, I’m doing this against an LDAP back-end. You cannot mix ‘digest’ authentication and LDAP. The short reason is that because digest hashes the password before sending it (where basic sends the password clear text), and that hash is not compatible with your LDAP password hashes. It makes sense, and is nether LDAP’s nor Apache’s fault for not working. The reality is that it is dumb (and typical) of Microsoft.

In summary: You cannot have Windows 7 natively talk to a ‘basic’ authentication WebDAV share, Period. You can use Windows 7 native WebDAV with ‘digest’ authentication only, but that prevents you from using LDAP.

SanDisk U3 LaunchPad removal

Jon — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 17:00:44 +0000

I’ve covered this topic before, but things change in a couple years, so I thought it was time to do so again. SanDisks’ “U3 LaunchPad” is stupid and evil. It isn’t just some auto-launching application, it basically takes over your entire flash drive so you can’t actually use it how you’d like to. Don’t get me wrong, I love SanDisk Cruzer Titaniums, they are super fast and now quite cheap, but that software blows.

I think SanDisk has slowly gotten this message as they’ve now got a fairly easy to find instruction page on how to remove U3. It is quite simple now too:

Download the “U3 Removal Tool“
Open the zip file
Execute launchpadremoval.exe
Follow the instructions, and it will nuke your USB drive of U3

Easy. But SanDisk could make it a step or two easier. How about you just NOT INSTALL U3 in the first place? Yea, I know, good idea.

Error: SQL1159 Initialization error with DB2 .NET Data Provider, reason code 10, tokens 0.0.0, 9.7.0

John — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 17:00:22 +0000

This past weekend I spent way too much time with Jon while trying to get our new work machines setup. Normally most of the time is spent waiting for Visual Studio to install (seriously that thing takes forever), but not so this time. DB2 kept refusing to work and play well with others. Specifically the driver that .NET uses to communicate with, and thus began several hours of googling and downloading and installing.

Before installing anything more than just Visual Studio 2005 (and doing a build of course), I tried to login and got:
Could not load file or assembly 'IBM.Data.DB2, Version=9.0.0.2, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=7c307b91aa13d208' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.
This wasn’t surprising as I had not yet installed any DB2 drivers.
So then I went and installed what I thought was the correct bit (ibm_data_server_client_win32_V97.zip) and got:
SQL1159 Initialization error with DB2 .NET Data Provider, reason code 10, tokens 0.0.0, 9.7.0
After scouring the internet, I found a post informing me that on 64 bit machines, the install will falsely report it completed successfully and fails to update the machine.config. To resolve it advised adding the following:

to my existing file (C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\CONFIG), since I’m on a 64 bit box, I also added it to the 64 bit version (C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v2.0.50727\CONFIG).

Did an iisreset, same error, more hair pulling. I downloaded various other things from IBM’s website all of which promised to hold the key. Eventually, I finally find that what I need is DB2 Express-C (db2exc_972_WIN_x86_64.zip). As soon as that got installed, things worked just peachy, and both machine.configs were properly updated.

Here’s my big complaint: when I went and looked at an existing working dev environment (my desktop), Add/Remove Programs said only “IBM Data Server Client – DB2COPY1″, which is exactly what the other programs I installed said. So each time I spent hours looking for some possible setting that was missing, only to find there was no mythical setting, IBM just couldn’t be bothered to put in different names for their installed products. If the Add/Remove Programs entry had instead included “Express-C”, I could have gotten both machines installed with their dev environments ready to go in under an hour. Fortunately, on the new installs, it appears that there is now an entry for this item, so if I ever manage to forget all this, I will know what I need.

iPhone 4 Antenna Problems

John — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 17:00:30 +0000

Last month, Jon talked about the iPhone 4 and one of the things he discussed was the antenna design and like many new things, “The real question is: will it work well?”

Thus far, the answer seems to be a resounding no.

For those of you who may not be aware of this, shortly after the phone was released people started complaining about dropped calls, and at one point Apple responded by telling people that they were “holding the phone wrong”. They later amended that statement with a more PC version: “Gripping any phone will result in some attenuation of its antenna performance, depending on the placement of the antennas.” At one point they even claimed that it was actually a software issue that has been around since the first iPhone. This bug apparently overestimates the number of bars you have by 2 in certain cases. Apparently, no one bought that excuse.

As the teeth gnashing continued, Apple started recommending people buy one of their bumper cases for around $40. The bumper cases however make it difficult to plug things into your iPhone. Things like your headphones, and possibly more importantly the iPod interface cable. It seems that anything but the very latest iPhone adapter will not fit in the case. I noticed this problem yesterday when my boss asked me if I had an iPod cable. He tried both of the cables I had and neither fit. He had to peel off the bottom of the case in order to get the adapter in and charge his phone. If you only had to do that to charge the device, maybe it wouldn’t be that big of a deal, but if you have a car adapter or anything like that… well, do you really want to constantly be peeling off the bumpers?

There have been suggestions that Apple should provide every iPhone 4 user out there with a bumper case. It was estimated that Apple could do that at less than a $1 per case, and since this would be much cheaper than doing a recall it seems like a cheap option, but I don’t think that is what Apple will want to do.

The Apple press conference will be starting shortly and supposedly they will be explaining what their fix will be. Considering that one or more engineers raised concerns that the design could result in dropped calls, it should be interesting to see how Apple spins this. As usual, engadget will be blogging it live. Check it out here.

Amazon’s desperate Video On Demand promotions

Jon — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 17:00:00 +0000

Last night I was surfing Amazon MP3 for some new music, nothing exciting really. While extremely rare, I decided to splurge and buy an entire album. Before I had even begun the track downloads, I had a new email from Amazon. To be exact, it was an email stating:

Your recent order entitles you to a promotional code that you can apply on your next qualifying order.

Now, I get these promotion emails on a fairly regular basis from Amazon, but this one caught my eye. Since I spent more than $7.99 on Amazon MP3, I have received a $4.00 promotional code towards Amazon Video On Demand. I have not used VOD and I have no intention of doing so. If I’m going to spend money on something, either it is a service (like internet access) or a tangible product. MP3s are tangible in my book, but streaming on demand is not, so I will not buy it.

That being what it is, $4 from an $8 order (granted mine was $10) is a 50% kick back. While this isn’t the largest credit I’ve gotten, it certainly is the highest percentage. The last promotional code I received was $5 in MP3s for a $60 video game. I like the credits that stay in the same categories (new video game gets you a discount on a future game or game related purchase), but I seem to get a lot of them for their Video On Demand service. Maybe I’m misreading it, but I think there is desperation in Amazon’s pushing of VOD.

Maybe they need to be desperate. Maybe they are having a hard time selling you something (say Fringe Season 2 in HD) you don’t own for $47.99, when you can actually own it (Fringe Season 2 on Blu Ray) for $48.99. As much as it pains me to say this, I’d rather use iTunes for my video needs. At least that way I have the content on my own hard drive (though having it DRM’d isn’t of much use).

Lost Planet 2: An Exercise in Fuckstration

Jon — Mon, 17 May 2010 17:00:00 +0000

In which Jon finds that Lost Planet 2 is not the game for him.

WARNING: This is by far the most vitriol filled post Jon has created, consider yourself warned.EARTH TO GAME DESIGNERS. A GAME ISN’T ANY FUCKING FUN WHEN IT IS ENTIRELY BASED ON FUCKING LUCK.

Additionally, games where you have bosses (which are most) that require you to play large portions of levels over again… ARE FUCKING STUPID.

Jesus Fucking Christ. This isn’t new fucking information people. We, humanity, have been making somewhat decent video games for something like 25 years now. We know what does and does not work. There are a few things that don’t work and should never, ever, EVER BE FUCKING IN A GAME.

The first of these is the random luck bullshit. Yes, there is a roll of the dice in most situations, but since we’re talking about Lost Planet 2, let me be specific: The fucking train/cannon level (3-3?). You’re on some giant fucking train (that spans 2 sets of tracks). This train has a GIANT fucking cannon (howtizer, if you ask me) on it, loading rounds that are probably at least 1 meter in size. Instead of using this to shoot targets at a distance, you’re using it to shoot a target so close, it fucking eats your train. So where’s the luck aspect? Oh, the fucking giant dune worm that is attacking you periodically, it bumps the train. So if you’re standing anywhere remotely open – it knocks you the fuck off. Obviously this is instant death for you. THIS IS NO FUCKING FUN. Give me a fucking chance to at least fight for my fucking life. I don’t care if you consider it more “realistic” or whatever bullshit logic you used to implement this retard induced idea… IT IS A GIANT FUCKING WORM ATTACKING YOU. WHAT FUCKING REALISM!?

It fucking drives me, and everyone I was playing with, up a fucking wall when this happens. Jesus H Christ, you can’t fucking do anything on the level for fear you’ll be knocked off. Oh, don’t forget that every death counts against the team, and you start the entire level with only 4 deaths allowed. Sure, you get to earn 3 more – but you fucking need them. Why? Because the first time we got on that fucking train, we started to warm up the gun… and the worm knocked us all off. Every. Fucking. One. Of Us. Guess what? Instant game over. This isn’t skill, it isn’t even chance… it is all luck of the draw…. and to that I say fuck you. If I wanted to play a goddamn game of chance, I’d drive over to Reno and play some fucking slots. At least with slots I’ll know that A) I’m supposed to lose and B) It doesn’t profess to be anything more than a rigged game of chance.

So normally, you’d think… Ok, you died, it happens, I’ll just restart this section. No… Not in Lost Planet 2. The game sizes you up, kicks you in the balls, then ass rapes you. That’s fucking right kids, you get to play the ENTIRE goddamn level over again, from the start. This particular level is fucking annoying. There are 3 sections. The first, you’re in a small train along side the big fucking train. You can’t speed this section up if you had all the tea in China. It is on a set script and you will fucking wait for it to finish. Then we get a gay little quick time event. Seriously. Fuck you and your fucking quick time events. QT events are stupid and fucking pointless and serve absolutely no fucking purpose other than to force me to not pay attention to anything in the cut scene other than that fucking gay little button prompt.

After that is section two, where you have to fight up the entire length of the big train… on both sides. You’d think this wouldn’t be too bad, but there are mechs, snipers, cannons, guys with rocket launchers, more mechs, annoying fucktard infantry… oh and did I mention cannons that can fire at you the instant you popup, in any direction, at any distance all the way down to RIGHT the fuck next to them? Yea… that one is my particular favorite. Again… a cannon is not a fucking close quarters weapon. Sure, if someone ran right in front of it – you could use it on them – but they are slow and generally sit back at a distance for a fucking reason. These aren’t fucking small tank guns (if you can call 120mm “small”), but big fucking cannons. So you fight your way through all these fucktards, oh, and don’t forget the helicopters… and _then_ you get to be ass raped by the fucking worm.

We ended up playing this level… I don’t know… I lost count after a while… 5 or 6 fucking times. Yes, twice we were playing on hard, but the rest we were playing on normal. Now this is a crew of 3 people who are VERY experienced FPS players. We’re not some pussy ass newbies who are upset by a little challenge. Please, on “normal” the first section of the level is stupidly easy for me because I just stand off with a sniper rifle (my specialty) and kill every fucker that moves. Headshot… headshot… headshot… headshot… yawn… headshot… headshot… yawn… That is more or less the mentality I had. I got something like a 20 or 30 headshot kill streak. Not exactly what I’d call a “hard”, and the same goes for the other 2 guys who didn’t have much to do because I was one shooting everything.

Twice… twice we got to the very fucking end of the worm ass fuck section. The entire time I’m gunning this giant fucking howitzer around, which if you don’t know, has a turn speed of about 0.5 RPM. That’s just a guess, but I’d say it takes about 2 real minutes for the entire thing to turn around once. Now you can hop out and use some special side controls to spin 90 deg at a time, but those take time to activate to. Why? Because you have to sit there and jack off on them. I shit you not. You have to run up to these little shit controls and ram the B button as hard and fast as you possibly can. I think at this point in time that having a 16 year old male who spends a lot of time masturbating would be a real asset to the team – simply to jack off on those goddamn buttons. So we’re at the very end… and what happens? I find out the worm is coming up behind us. So I go hit the jack off buttons, twice, since we need to swing all the fucking way around…. but it’s too late. The worm has eaten us. Completely fucking ignoring the fact that we’re on a MOVING train, the worm is digging up the desert and I’ve put like 20 rounds from a fucking 1 meter plus howitzer into the side of the fucker… and he can still out run us… AND fucking eat us for dessert.

Again, this is one of those fucking game design points in which if I ever met the people who were in charge of designing this shit… I would fucking slap him back into his mother’s womb. With any luck this time around she’d have an abortion before he or she was born. Save the world some more stupid fucking half-witted design. Oh, and while you’re at it, fucking fire you QA staff. They obviously were too enamored with the fucking jack off button to tell you dipshit designers that this shit is fucked up.

WE HAVE THE HARD DRIVE SPACE. WE SHOULD GET TO FUCKING SAVE. EVEN FUCKING HALO HAS CHECK POINTS.

PS. Up to this level, the game was tolerable. After this last play session… I may never play the game again.

Blu-Ray Unskippable Bullshit

Jon — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:00:00 +0000

Recently I received Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li (on Blu-Ray) from Netflix. This is one of those movies that you get in the mail and you ask yourself “Why did I add this to my queue?” After some watching it, you realize “Oh yea, Moon Bloodgood was in it and she is hot.” While the hotness distracts me (slightly) from my anger, that is not the point of this article. My point is as follows:

THESE GOD DAMN UNSKIPPABLE, FUCKED UP, CANT EVEN FUCKING PAUSE, LET ALONE FUCKING FAST FORWARD, BULLSHIT COMMERCIALS ON DISK, NEEDS TO STOP, RIGHT FUCKING NOW.

Ok, I might be a weeee bit over the top angry, but tell me you don’t feel exactly the same? We all know exactly what I’m talking about, ever since the DVD was invented. I know lots of DVDs & Blu-Rays that put their previews in and disable the menu button. Ok, you want to force me into your commercials… fine. I’ve even seen a few disks that prevent you from skipping to the next chapter (and thereby the next commercial). Those really irritate me. But this street fighter movie? Ohhhh, it takes the cake. You literally cannot do SHIT during the previews/commercials. I swear to god I pressed EVERY FUCKING BUTTON on my remove and nothing worked, except stop of course. Then when I hit play again, and I got to watch the previews all over again. In my attempts to skip this crap, I ended up watching the first half of the preview for Wolverine three times. First time I thought “Hey, I should get this movie”. By the third I was thinking “Hey, fuck you”.

Commercials on TV are fine, you didn’t buy the show after all. But on a DVD/BD… I either BOUGHT it or rented it. In either case I shelled out cash specifically for this video. I did not shell out money just to watch your god damn commercials. Media companies wonder why piracy and TiVos run rampant? This is fucking why. There is an infographic that demonstrates this very clearly. If I had paid $20+ for this movie and had to watch 5 solid minutes of ads every time I put the disk in (yes, I clocked it) PLUS the time it takes for the damn BluRay to get going in the first place… I’d be even more pissed than I am now. So, to all the studios that think this is a “Good Idea”, and specifically my current favorite…

Hey 20th Century Fox. FUCK YOU.