Leftover thoughts

Just a few thoughts I had throughout the day.

Annoyances

If you have the time to purchase 10 lottery tickets at a time, you probably have the time to let those of us with only one item go first. Especially at a single cash register gas station. Some of us actually have to be somewhere in the next few hours.

I hate it when I go to the internet for a specific piece of information and then end up wasting an hour or more watching YouTube or reading Wikipedia articles.

I tend to dress a little too much like my XBox Live Avatar.

It's no wonder people get sick so easily this time of year, especially at school or work. I'm astonished at all the people I see walking around coughing openly into the air. I think elementary school kids handle this better. Don't even get me started about people pissing on toilet seats. I don't want to be a douche, but maybe I should start calling people out on the coughing thing.

So the Wii U looks cool and everything, I kind of want one, but there's one thing holding me back. Friend codes. Yeah I know it's a dead horse at this point, but come on Nintendo. Everyone on the face of the earth hates this. You are the most stubborn company I've ever seen. After countless amounts of negative feedback I'm astonished that they're holding on to such a thing. "Hey you wanna play some animal crossing? Okay cool, what's your 16 digit random code number?"

That leads me to another thing. Xbox and PSN gamertags that are hard to pronounce and spelled weird are just as bad as a friend code. You think I'm supposed to remember your gamertag in passing if it's Wraith0SchxioniSx? If we have to bring pen and paper in the picture so someone can remember it, it's probably a poor choice of gamertag.

What's with Check Into Cash buying commercial time on the radio just to play their theme song? I heard it twice today, just the song, that annoying stupid song. Even if I was remotely interested in your business your commercial tells me nothing. Sounds like a waste of money to me.

Discoveries

Did you know that when the creators of Masters of the Universe were designing the characters, Orko's name was originally Gorpo? It was changed to Orko to make animating him easy for the cartoon series. Because the letter "O" is symmetrical it allowed them the luxury of flipping and reusing the same animation cells, a much easier alternative than putting a capital "G" on his robe. This is also the reason why his girlfriend Dree-Elle doesn't have a "D" on her robe. /nerd