I thought about not publishing this when I realized I was just venting and it only benefits me. I decided to post this in case other like minded individuals are out there feeling the same way.
I came to the internet to commiserate as I suppose that is what people do. We work hard and we have money, we want to give it away for a quality experience, but it really doesn't feel that great when things don't work out. I work hard at a job that requires a lot of brain power. I have a son, and when the day is done, I don't want to use my brain anymore. I just want easy. It seems the older I get the more technology gets in the way of having fun. I remember as a kid, I wanted to hook the Atari to the TV. I had the wrong connector and my dad took me to the hardware store to get a coaxial adapter. Once we had that piece it just worked and all was well. Games got played.
As an adult, it just doesn't seem to get easier. I thought being in technology, I would not be affected by the "generation gap." I thought that I would always be able to understand technology. I think I feel the world pulling away from me now in this digital age. My son will feel at home playing games on a touch screen, perhaps not appreciating the fidelity of physical controller. My house is littered with hdmi cables. Some support drm, some don't. I don't know the difference. One lets me watch HBO the other makes the screen purple. There was a time on a rainy day, you could shut out the world and play a game by yourself, now even single player games are connected. I always thought I would stay young, but now I feel progress makes a codger out of us all.
I played many hours of SimCity 2000. I'd like to relive some of that glory and despite the issues people are experiencing I set off to Origin to buy the game. Origin provided me with a lovely sanity check by getting stuck on the last page of the checkout without any alert. Not frozen or processing, just a non-functional checkout page.
I'm an optimist. I try to give everything the benefit of the doubt. I love technology. I love the future, but future technology, why won't you let me love you?
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