So the other day I had a conversation with someone. “I just got a 5.1 surround sound system.” I asked if the person what their going to use it for, they responded with “listen to music”.  *Sigh*

I explained that adding more speakers won’t enhance music too much because most music is not recorded in 5.1. I told him that movies and games are made in 5.1 and was mainly for that since there are different channels for the different speakers. Towards the end of the conversation it turned out that he had everything hooked up using RCA-3.5mm cable. *faceplam*

So the other day I read some article about how Microsoft’s Kinect and Sony’s Move are coming out 6 months too early. This had to do with the amount of games available at launch. It seemed like the author wanted to have 30 games to play on launch. Oh heaven forbid that there are a few bad games on launch.

Both Sony and Microsoft did a good job of highlighting the games that will be using the technology. Some of which were playable on the show floor while others were not. It seemed that the author didn’t do his research, when he didn’t see the games on the show floor he assumed they don’t exist.

Besides, why would you need an assload of games on launch anyways? Chances are you’re going to buy one and play it for a couple of weeks and then move on to a second game.

G20 is over and gone. But how did these “peaceful protests” actually end up? Well, as predicted it ended up in riots. People were smashing windows, spray painting shit on walls, and lighting cop cars on fire; all to prove a point, whatever that might have been. This led to the closing of several stores in downtown Toronto including the Eaton’s Centre (with some hilarious results).

Now remember that protest expert I mentioned in the last post? She was back to say “the cops just stood there and did nothing as the people lit the car on fire.” She seemed to believe that every cop in the city was in some conspiracy that all the cops did was try to make a great TV show out of the riots. So she blamed all the violence on the cops instead of the people. Makes sense right?

These same people complain about police brutality. Come Sunday, the cops were making lots of arrests. We’ve all heard the testimonials “they were just standing there and doing nothing wrong.” Yeah right, everyone is always innocent. Didn’t you hear, all the people in prison are innocent too. Just because you didn’t see them doing anything doesn’t mean they did nothing wrong. Cops have said that they arrested people for what they did on Saturday. The news were bombarded with calls from people complaining about the cops.

“THEY JUST STARTED USING TEAR GAS ON US FOR NO REASON.”

Meanwhile, it was confirmed not to be tear gas.

“THERE ARE WOMEN AND SMALL CHILDREN HERE, WHY ARE THE COPS DOING THIS?”

Why the hell would you bring small children to a protest? Oh right, it’s a tactic. People seem to think that having kids there will protect them. Terrorists use this all the time. They send women and children in front of guys with rifles.

Among these, there were reports of people who were just downtown for “no reason.” Shit, why the hell would you be down there for no reason. Would you be chilling in a battlefield in Iraq for no reason? A lot of this had to do with a “law” that anyone within 5ft of the barricade was subject to a search. People were just standing around near the barricades and getting arrested, this was apparently cops being paranoid? First of all, why would you be 5ft next to a barricade? Do you go chill in front of Walmart with in intent of going inside? Secondly, ignorance to the law is not a valid reason of breaking it.

With all the insane, complaining, bullshitting hippies; we also had the complete fucking idiots. I had one friend on my Facebook post “fucking G20 ruining my plans.” I’m sorry, we’ve only known about G20 for the past few months. It’s not the government’s fault you can’t plan around it. Sure, roads were closed, stores were closed, and it was generally a bad idea to go downtown. But we all have known about it.

So in Toronto we have this event happening now called G8 and G20.You have probably heard of it, it’s when all major world leaders come together to discuss some key issues. Sounds good right? Having a bunch of people talking about how to change the world into a better place? Apparently some people disagree and choose to protest, as a result the governemt has spent 1.1 billion dollars on security of this summit.

This 1.1 billion dollars was a reason for more people to protest. CP24 had some hippy protest lady explain. “Every time we spend more and more money on security and we don’t get more and more crime.” Well miss hippy, do you think that maybe because we spend more money we don’t get more crime? She later went on to say “at worst these protestors will smash a few windows, but that’s about it.” In my opinion destroying shit isn’t a peaceful protest.

The same lady also talked about police abusing their power: taking things that could be used as weapons, looking into suspicious people, hitting the protestors, none of which were EVER reported before. The police are also using something called sound canons which apparently can cause hearing loss. Protestors are trying to sue the police to stop using them. In reality, the protestors should simply not get violent.

So I’m pretty sure we all heard it by now: that annoying buzzing sound during the FIFA World Cup games. In case you don’t already know, this sound is caused by the thousands of fans blowing something called a vuvuzela. The simple solution? Ban it! Though they’ve already tried that and it didn’t work.

It seems that the South African community complained that the vuvuzela was a part of their culture and how you can’t play soccer without it. The FIFA commission was quick to listen to the outcries, after all South Africa is the host the the event. Oh good Lord, how would anyone play soccer without annoying horns blowing all the time.

That’s another thing I don’t get, why are the horns blowing ALL THE TIME? I understand blowing the horn during a goal or save, but all the time? Isn’t that a bit excessive?

Now, we all know how loud it is on TV, just imagine how loud it is in person. Well, it’s about as loud as a power saw at 3 feet. Now imagine thousands of these power saws all around you. It’s no surprise that all this loud noise has forced people attending the games to buy ear plugs, leaving most pharmacies in the area sold out. If it’s so distracting to the fans, imagine the players. They actually have to concentrate during the game. Some people were even as disrespectful as blowing them during national anthems.

So what can be done about these vuvuzelas? Well there are dozens of online petitions going around. They did start making quieter vuvuzelas, so hopefully that will help. Certain TV stations are also thinking of running  the audio feed through a filter to remove/reduce the noise of the vuvuzela. Godspeed.