I haven’t ever paid full price for satellite radio

I’ve made no secret of my opinion of Atlanta radio; I rank it somewhere between famine and AIDS on the hierarchy of bad things in the world.  That being said, considering how much time I spend in my car, commuting, or running errands since I live out in god’s country, I still like to have something to listen to.  99% of the time, that just so happens to be Sirius satellite radio.  And then 80% of the time spent listening to Sirius is typically spent listening to the Howard Stern Show.

However, Sirius isn’t free, much to my chagrin.  I had a six-month trial period after I got my car back in 2011, which is always brilliant in a market like Atlanta, because it allows people to listen to things that aren’t mainstream rap, mainstream country, University of Georgia football talk, or top-40s.  And when the trial period runs out, they’ll want nothing more than to be able to have that kind of audio freedom, even if it means shelling out some money to do so.  I fall into that category.

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When video games effortlessly mimic reality

I was having a conversation the other day about how the WWE’s minor league federation, NXT was either by coincidence or strategy, placed on Thursday nights.  Thursday nights are when TNA wrestling, the WWE’s main “competition” airs, and has been the norm for I don’t know, a year or two?

The joke is now that TNA is screwed, because they’re going to get outclassed and outdrawn by NXT, which is pretty much the equivalent of a Ford Mustang getting smoked by a Toyota Corolla, or Outback Steakhouse getting murdered by a Taco Bell in profit margins, or any other instance of something thought to be of moderate quality, getting owned by something thought to be of inferior quality.

I’m not entirely sure how that segued into talking about old video games, but at least I got to take my shot in at TNA in the process; seriously, this is going to be like the late 90’s when one hour of Sunday Night Heat started outdrawing three hours WCW Monday Nitro.

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