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This week I briefly toyed with the idea of getting a whole new home theatre system, consisting of a new OLED 4K TV, new A/V receiver, and speakers. Beyond the price, I decided it was a bad idea mainly because of the TV.

I think it’s lost on some people that when they buy a 4K TV, which is becoming the most common TV resolution, it’s native resolution is 4K, meaning that everything shown on the TV will have that many pixels of resolution no matter what input source you give it. All your old 1080p inputs, like over the air TV signals, your old Blu-ray movies, regular Netflix account (more on this later) and so forth will need to be upscaled to 4K. It won’t look terrible, certainly not like when your parents use their 1080p TV with 480i content, but it won’t be true 4K content either, which won’t show off the true potential of your TV. So what’s the purpose of buying a new TV?

To really make your purchase worthwhile, you’ll need to start consuming 4K content. The easiest way to do this is streaming it. It maybe easy but it’ll cost you. Netflix in 4K costs more than a regular HD account. Not all streaming services offer 4K. Even if you do find a streaming service that supports 4K, you need to have an Internet connection that’s fast enough to support 4K streaming. If you don’t, you’ll have to pay more money. Also, keep in mind 4K streaming eats up massive amounts of data, so those with data caps might wind up paying more money.

You could also just play 4K Blu-ray discs but in my case, my PS4 Pro does not have 4K Blu-ray player, it only does plain old 1080p discs. So, I would have to buy a new BD player, plus new 4K discs, which are usually more expensive than regular Blu-ray discs.

Lastly, while my PS4 Pro supports 4K resolution for games, running in games in 4K usually means taking a framerate hit or some other optimization in order to hit the 4K resolution. It’s possible that while the game might look sharper, it may not run as smooth.

As sad as this might seem, I feel like 1080p right now is good enough for me while it gets easier to consume 4K content. I feel like an old man for saying this as I saw plenty of old people cling to their massive CRTs TVs while the world moved into the HD era. They didn’t see the need to change what they enjoyed watching. I wonder if I’m now those old people.

I don’t have a photo but there appears to be a bit of fog covering some of the area around my apartment building. I don’t remember seeing fog in the summertime before in the Vancouver area. It’s not too cold right now as it’s 22 degrees Celsius (by my measurement) but it did rain a bit earlier in the day. Fog in the summertime, neat.

It’s nearly mid-July and this year’s cool summer continues. A lengthy rainstorm has started in the great Vancouver area. The air is cool and the ground is wet right now. I’ve worn shorts three times this year if my memory serves me correct.

I’ve come to terms that this will be one of those summers where the sun and hot temperatures won’t be part of the season. It’s ok because I’m working lots, so it doesn’t really matter what the weather is since I’m inside most of the time anyways. I gotta pack an umbrella for tomorrow.

I’ve eaten from Pacific Poke several times and have enjoyed their food but tonight was a real downer. I tried changing it up and selected their “Keto” bowl and it gave me three bouts of diarrhea tonight. It wasn’t even that good. I discovered that at least to me, jicama tastes terrible. It’s some sorta jam and it was not good. Just thinking about it makes me wanna poop again.

I’ve decided to get a houseplant. Studies have shown it’s good for removing indoor air pollution and also having positive psychological effects. I’m not much of a gardening dude but I imagine I’ll need to choose the right plant, get some soil, and a proper pot for said plant.

It’s gonna be an interesting weekend coming up.

I had empanadas for the first time tonight. They were delicious. The ones I had were from Empanada Papa. A friend of mine called them “fancy Hot Pockets” but that kinda cheapens the experience. The meat inside was tender and flavourful. They also came with all sorts of sauces which made it so good. I’d have them again.

The game I’m working on is final approach and we’re trying to get it out the door in the next few months. This means we’re in bug fixing mode, trying to fix everything that a mouth-breathing gamer might complain about on the Internet in between handfuls of Cheetos and swigs of Mountain Dew.

Today, I got down to one bug assigned to me; just one. That’s great and all but it really means nothing. I’m part of a team and what really matters is if everyone is down to one bug, which unfortunately isn’t the case. Someone will notice pretty soon that I won’t have anything to work on and when that happens, they’ll start assigning me bugs from other people’s bins to me. For most of them, I won’t have a clue about how to fix those. I’ll either flail around and someone will eventually take those bugs away from me or I’ll come up with some hack job fix that will just introduce more bugs into the game.

We’ll see what happens. Maybe I’ll just get a ton of bugs tomorrow that are actually for me to fix anyways.

YouTube chef Andrew Rea returns with another video, this time recreating the dinner scene from the beginning of season two of Stranger Things. It’s 80s KFC on the menu this time and Rea goes through two incarnations of the meal, one simple and the other elaborate. Both look tasty but then again, I love fried chicken.

Last Monday, I saw a man, who I did not know, with his pants and underwear off. I was at work and was looking to use the washroom. At that time, I was at the washrooms near the cafeteria, where it’s just a bunch of personal stalls with doors that go from floor to ceiling. The lock on the outside of each stall door shows white for unlocked and red for locked. I saw the closest “white” and unlocked door and opened it.

I expected to see the shiny white porcelain of a toilet bowl that I was about to put some of my human waste into. Instead, I saw a man who I did not recognize, sitting on the toilet, pants around his ankles, and who was very surprised to see the door open on him. He kinda freaked out and started saying “sorry” over and over again. He also pushed the door closed. I was like, “whoops” and just went to the stall next to his, which was also unlocked and thankfully actually empty.

I don’t feel bad at all that I walked in on this half-naked man, doing his business on the toilet. Who the hell doesn’t lock the door behind them upon entering a public washroom stall? Geez, it’s pretty much the first thing everyone does. It’s not like I caught him right after he walked into the stall. If I had, he’d still have his pants on. Instead, he was well into his waste disposal procedure.

Luckily, I don’t know who the hell this guy was as I didn’t recognize him. I hope I taught him a good lesson.

It’s Canada Day tomorrow and a long weekend. I walked over 20 km today along the Central Valley Greenway. I’m exhausted. It’s time for bed, I’ll be back with a new post tomorrow.