Post by CM Tusk on Mar 25, 2021 4:07:29 GMT -5
These kids today having all their fancy gizmos, press a button to have a show beamed right to their refrigerator. In my day, you had to put in work for your content. You had to go 6-8 weeks after the event, all filled with spoilers. Wasn't no warnings for us! Had to jump in the car and go uphill both ways to an honset-to-goodness retail store, walk amongst all other living human beings to the very back of the building where a section specifically meant for movie discs were located. Sure there usually was a register back there, but normally no one was ever around or were preoccupied, so you would have to carry that disc all the way back to the storefront and stand in queue for 20 minutes behind filled shopping carts and spoiled grabby-handing brats. And heaven forbid the purchase you just made triggers the security alarm! Whole SWAT team be after your behind now!
And if you're not sure you want a certain event and pass, good luck finding that sucker later on. Can't even be certain your store will have the blasted thing on the shelf. No chance any associate you can find will have any darn clue what you're looking for. "We can have 50 copies of Julia Roberts' latest rom-com that will gather dust until they're all dumped in the tree-fiddy bin. But you'll have to check back next week." If I wanted the thing next week, I wouldn't be here today!
Portable, I'll tell you what's portable. A seven-pound briefcase with a monitor that barely has Nintendo DS resolution and a battery pack that allows only an hour playtime and dies if you don't charge it enough or charge it too much, doesn't really matter either way.
