Posts Tagged ‘obsoletetechnology’

I Keep Things For A Reason

Saturday, July 24th, 2010

It happens, eventually.  Everything comes round again.  The Sega Saturn has been sitting in a crate for years now, and I finally have a use for it….Karaoke practice.  Since everyone insists I sing when I go to karaoke, and since they never have a song I really want to sing, I went ahead and spent a couple bucks on some karaoke CD-G’s of my own.  As I recall, I was kind of annoyed that the dreamcast didn’t include cd-g support, so there was a few minutes where I confused that annoyance with memory of support.  Eventually I remembered I had to back yet another generation.  Still works just fine.

No one has Gary Chapman’s “Your Love Stays With Me”, in karaoke form.  Maybe I can find someone to help me re-record the backing tracks.  You know, because other people want me to sing.  No interest on my part in singing, no sir. =p

Xbox Live, the girl who just won’t go

Thursday, April 15th, 2010

Canceling xbox live is like trying to break up with a neurotic girlfriend.  They have prominent links to “how to cancel your subscription” in help, but that link just takes you to another link to another link to another link that THEN gets you to the page where you start the cancel process.  That page takes you thru 3 pages of ads for not-yet-released games that I guess are supposed to convince you that they won’t stop supporting them in a few years,just like they did for original xbox live games.  Then they send you an email to let you know your subscription is going to expire, and you should renew now!

And even after all that, they still won’t let you remove your credit card info from their billing system.

It’s like a Lifetime movie, “The Gamer I Just Couldn’t Get Over: How I got convicted of stalking”, only without Lindsey Wagner advertisements in the middle.

It’s a lot of effort to keep a customer whose needs you’ve explicitly said you will never support again.