...I could stream porn to it.

One of my ideas to save money in the long run was to get rid of cable.  Since I moved from home way over a decade ago, I've been addicted to the ability to watch shit you can't get on the idiotic bad three networks.

However, that was in the days when your choices were limited to either an antenna, a cable, or a satellite dish (either the newfangled 2 foot ones or those giant 16-foot motherfuckers), or to go down to the video store and pick up a videotape.

Not so now, considering more and more content is streaming online.  I've been able to watch a season's worth of shows, and in one case (Veronica Mars), I only saw the show online (and was crushed to find out there were only three seasons) because it was long gone prior to my even hearing about it (from Kevin Smith, who shows up as (what else?) a clerk in season two (which proves I'm so his bitch (and might be willing to take a shot in the mouth if asked))).  So I've been looking and researching it for a while.  It was one of the motivations for upgrading my TV this year (the other being that my old TV was ancient to begin with).

My original plan had been to hook a computer to that TV to stream shows and movies, as well as gaming.  But since I have this laptop, I have lots of portability already.  And the kids have their computer, and my original desktop (now almost exclusively my work computer) is still humming along.  However, the latter two are not up to the task of streaming video.  In addition, gaming on the PC is relatively expensive, because gaming computers are expensive, games hold their prices longer, and once you buy a game, you have it forever (I have games that run in DOS still!!!).  I also had a PS2, which I used for some gaming, but there are few new games coming out, my old games were starting to show some age, and the system itself was wearing down (it had the misfortune of being purchased and abused during the Succubus era), and it was becoming a less-used system.

Enter the PS3.  In addition to the gaming and the ability to play DVD and BluRay discs, it can also stream media from my laptop (it found it almost immediately), it can browse the Internet (not as well as a PC, but I can watch Youtube), it could do something with Netflix (again, part of getting rid of cable), and I can download and play demos, games, movies, etc directly to the PS3 (although this costs money in most cases).  And it's all up to date.  And as a bonus, the PS2, and all games, and all accessories, got traded for the new games.

And as a double bonus, if I download porn to my laptop, I can stream it to the big screen (which means parts at actual (but probably seriously pixellated) size).

To give you the game list, I picked up Lego Indiana Jones, as the kids liked Lego Star Wars, and I wanted to have a light title to play; Ghostbusters: The Video Game, which kicked ass despite being short, because it featured the same writers and talent from the movies (Akroyd, Ramis, Murray, and others), and because it had to be better than my last Ghostbusters game experience (it was a shit game I played on an Apple II clone), and Brutal Legend, which is like running, driving, and fighting through the cover of every heavy metal album you've ever seen (starring Jack Black (the main character), Ozzy (as the Guardian of Metal), Lemmy Kilmister (the Kill Master, who heals with a bass guitar), and more) to a soundtrack loaded with a shitload of excellent metal.

So hopefully, I'll get everything in place shortly so that I can cut the cable.  Because I've found I tend to spend a lot of time in front of the TV wasting time on crap shows.  I'd rather enjoy watching movies and shows that I really want to see than doing the channel flipping and planning around broadcast times.  Especially since so many damned channels have to have pseudo-reality shows on them that suck a dick.  Wait, correction, that's insulting cocksuckers.

But such is the result of my fascination with media as an escape from the mundane (and a chance to see the sex I'm not getting).  Although that fascination is making me feel really old.  Because the latest child star in the body bag is Cory Haim.  I grew up the same time as this bastard, watching him growing up on screen.  A point of fact, he only had 2 years on me (he was 38).  I'm used to really old people dying.  That's relaitvely easy.  But when more and more people your age and younger start snuffing it, you start feeling OLD.  Can't wait until I'm over 70, and the people my age start dropping faster than my libido after a marathon gaming session (also a rare thing due to kids, work, sleep, etc (and by etc, I mean masturbation)).

Of course, with the turn of the weather (it got above 60 today), I'm probably going to be spending more time outside and away from the TV....