girlofprey

I know there are a lot of people right now who think that technology is taking over our lives and keeping us separate from real life. But honestly, I don't think we're going to have a problem until technology works well enough that it doesn't make you want to constantly break it into tiny pieces with your bare hands.

For example, right now I'm having to weigh up the fact that 8tracks is really convenient for making online playlists, next to the fact that sometimes - frequently - it just substitutes entire tracks for completely different ones it's found on Soundcloud. Something to do with reducing the bandwidth for the site apparently, and there's an option to turn it off. But that option apparently doesn't always work. I wouldn't mind, but when it's a track I got off an album that I bought, full price, ripped myself and converted to an MP3 myself, I feel like it should I don't know, work. And not be replaced with A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT SONG, NOT EVEN A REMIX, YOU GOT THE LADY GAGA PART RIGHT BUT NOT EVERYTHING ELSE, WHAT THE FUCK 8TRACKS.

Ahem. And then there's my Playstation 4. I have Minecraft for the PS3, and apparently when you have that it's super cheap to get the PS4 version. So I figured why not? When I went to the Playstation Store it was in fact free, which seemed odd, but there was no other option to get it, so I downloaded it, and bought a couple of cheap add-on packs to go with it. But now when I start Minecraft on the PS4, it will only let me use the tutorial, I can't play the actual game. There's a button to 'Unlock the Full Game' - they offer me that button very often - but when I click it it just takes me to the Playstation 4 Minecraft page, which says I've already downloaded the game. I've contacted Sony about this, and they're "oh yes, lol that's a glitch. Just delete EVERY SCRAP OF EVIDENCE MINECRAFT EVER EXISTED from your PS4 and download it again, it should be fine". I have deleted the game and re-downloaded it twice, and it still won't let me do anything but use the tutorial. If I'm supposed to delete those add-on packs, then I can't see a single option anywhere that will let me do that. Or where I should go to re-download them - having paid for them - if I successfully delete everything and then get the game working. adlkjaskldfjasklfjskl.

Also, in non-technological news, they're apparently releasing the new Dragon Age game in America three days earlier than in the UK, so I'm going to have to avoid Tumblr until then. And probably for a while after then, if I don't want to be spoiled.

And just so you all know, between playing as Handsome Jack in Borderlands (sort of), picking up GTA 5 today and having the new Dragon Age game come out on Friday, I might not be - around. So much. For a few months. Or nine. I'm either playing games, or I have choked on electronics from trying to eat my PS4 in a carefully considered protest. So yeah. I mean, I'll probably be back next week to talk about Gotham. But if I'm not.

( Ooooooooooooooooooooooopera! )

My jeans hurt. Ouch. And I'm going to McDonalds tomorrow morning with my cousin and her children. Possibly the easter eggs need to go in a box for a while yes. Dad has thrown internet print-outs of mini-disc recorders at me, wanting to order it and get it here before I go back, but now I'm all conflicted and wondering if I really want the iRiver (which I can carry pictures, ie icons, and text, ie fic, around with me on), or another, new iPod thing. And now dad's saying don't worry about giving me back the iRiver, I will use it - what does that mean?! Gah! Confusion!

Mostly I think I just want money, to buy myself random pretty things with. Not the best of long-term plans though. Hmm.

Attempts to write Lemony Snicket hook-handed man movie!fics that have been circling around in my head for a while were hampered (ie killed) by my complete lack of ideas for how they should begin. Which is annoying, because I know pretty much how all of the rest of them go. I have the first lines, it's just the 'setting the tone' bit that's getting away from me. The new, sneaky, smiling-from-under-a-too-large-hat book!characterisation is throwing me a little bit as well, though I do love it. I could do with him being a bit less dim though. Although that actually works for my fics. I busied myself laying the foundations of the Fernald/Violet playlist instead, including some songs that only fit some bizzare tragic love story of theirs in the future. They make me smile though! Quite why I think the Killers' 'Mr Brightside' suits Fernald(ie hook-handed man)/Violet though I don't know.

Watched 'Return to Oz' again this morning. Still creepy. But omg, Ozma/Dorothy! It made me think about a fic I heard of once (in a lullaby...::slaps self::), but never read, about future!Dorothy in Parisian opium dens, trying to get back to her dream world. Sigh. I suppose it will just have to be my beautiful dream.