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As my annual aging draws nearer, I guess now is as good of time as any to bust out a good old fashioned \u201cback in the day\u201d kind of posts.\u00a0 But over the weekend, I wanted to watch a stream of a\u00a0League of Legends\u00a0<\/em>match because of course I would.\u00a0 But instead of watching it on a computer screen, I figured why not watch it on my big screen television, because such a thing is possible?\u00a0 So I turned on the XBOX One that I have no games for, because I basically plunked down $300 for a glorified app player, so I could log into Twitch and watch.<\/span><\/p>\n But first, there\u2019s an updated that needed to be applied, and it was somewhere in the vicinity of 2.3 GB.\u00a0 Even hardwired, that\u2019s still a little bit of time to move that much data.\u00a0 So I sit around with my thumbs up my ass waiting for this update to download and install, before finally, it\u2019s completed.\u00a0 Turns out that I don\u2019t have Twitch installed on my XBONE, so I have to download that.\u00a0 Update required.<\/span><\/p>\n So while Twitch is updating, I figure why the fuck not just get on my PC and just watch it on a monitor instead, so I turn on my computer, only to find out that there are now Windows updates that need to be installed, and my virus protection software has found updates and would like to apply them.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Long story short, by the time I managed to get the game I wanted to watch up and running, it was practically 21 minutes into the game, and just about already decided.<\/span><\/p>\n While it\u2019s true that technology has made grandiose advances, to where we can get HD streaming of live competitive events onto our large screen media, and have internet speeds that are a billion times faster than the 28.8 mpbs modems from the mid-1990s, it\u2019s not without its own prices of aggravation.<\/span><\/p>\n Gone are the days when mom and dad brought home a Super Nintendo, where you could plug in the power and AV jack, and within ten minutes be discovering the joy of riding Yoshi, eating every enemy in sight, and figuring out the nuances of cape flight and seeing how many enemies Mario could jump on without touching the ground.<\/span><\/p>\n Now, you get an XBOX or a Piss4, play cord-Tetris to see if there\u2019s even an open HDMI jack, or settle with component cables, before you even turn the machine on in the first place.\u00a0 Once on, there\u2019s the inevitable first system update that are usually 2-4 gigs, which then requires internet connectivity, and the debate on whether to go wireless, or actually find a way to snake an Ethernet cable(s) to the respective systems.\u00a0 Eventually, you\u2019ll finally get\u00a0Halo 4.2.5 HD Remix<\/em>\u00a0into the disc tray and running, only to find out that the game itself has a 267 MB update to patch out the hovering tea-bagging that has plagued PVP over the last four months.\u00a0 By the time player one has fired a single round, nearly 45 minutes have been spent unboxing, wiring and waiting on updates to download and install.<\/span><\/p>\n It\u2019s absolutely great that due to the power of the internet, and the fact that with each passing day we as society are more and more permanently connected to it, we\u2019re able to have every electronic device we know capable of being up-to-date with the most recently, most up-to-date soft\/firmware so that things can be \u201ceasier.\u201d\u00a0 However it\u2019s gotten to a point where the updates are so frequent to where it\u2019s just this exasperating feeling of deflation every time you turn on a device or open a program, only to be halted in place while a mandatory update derails your time.<\/span><\/p>\n There are plenty of times when I just want to turn on my television and watch something, without having to wait for the player, the television, the firmware and the wireless connection to require 35 updates and having to wait 20 minutes to watch a 30 minute 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