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Dearest Andoremaniacs,
I have not been feeling well at all for the past several weeks, not particularly helped by my attempts to wean myself off certain medications in an attempt to clear up certain side effects. I do not feel like writing when I am instead wholly miserable about being cooped up, and instead spend my time working myself into an existential rut. I realize that no one actually reads Andore, but I still feel guilty that I haven't updated it in quite some time; particularly after resolving that I would bring it regular updates to at least the end of the year. Forgive me my shitty body.
I was given a new TV, and I feel ungrateful because I hate it. 20" Toshiba SDTV, pretty nice in every way EXCEPT that you can't switch off this horrible filtering it does on the image, oversharpening it to the point where a component input looks sub-composite. And what the fuck, if I open the menu, it temporarily turns off this Vertical Scan Modulation shit and I can actually see the lovely, perfect image behind it! But nope, can't turn it off. And fuck getting an HDTV because my hilariously, almost autistically exacting image specifications I've developed would necessitate finding a rare $350+ upconverter box for the upscaling/deinterlacing on my old consoles to be anywhere near acceptable. Fuck the HD revolution man, it's just a scam to make my Nintendo and PS2 games look like shit. MAAAAAAN.
I have not been feeling well at all for the past several weeks, not particularly helped by my attempts to wean myself off certain medications in an attempt to clear up certain side effects. I do not feel like writing when I am instead wholly miserable about being cooped up, and instead spend my time working myself into an existential rut. I realize that no one actually reads Andore, but I still feel guilty that I haven't updated it in quite some time; particularly after resolving that I would bring it regular updates to at least the end of the year. Forgive me my shitty body.
I was given a new TV, and I feel ungrateful because I hate it. 20" Toshiba SDTV, pretty nice in every way EXCEPT that you can't switch off this horrible filtering it does on the image, oversharpening it to the point where a component input looks sub-composite. And what the fuck, if I open the menu, it temporarily turns off this Vertical Scan Modulation shit and I can actually see the lovely, perfect image behind it! But nope, can't turn it off. And fuck getting an HDTV because my hilariously, almost autistically exacting image specifications I've developed would necessitate finding a rare $350+ upconverter box for the upscaling/deinterlacing on my old consoles to be anywhere near acceptable. Fuck the HD revolution man, it's just a scam to make my Nintendo and PS2 games look like shit. MAAAAAAN.