Battlestar Sciatica

See what I did there?  Yes, I am easily impressed.

So I bought that new furniture a week or so ago to replace my ratty, broken down couch.  You would think that using that old couch would have caused me back pain since I already have a bad back, but by and large it didn't.  Know whats causing me pain though?  The new stuff.

In a cruel, ironic twist my sciatica has been flaring to new levels because of the new furniture.  It got so bad I could barely walk Saturday, and just sitting on it was causing me intense pain for awhile.  I don't know if its because I got so used to the lack of support and bad posture used from sitting on the old couch that my back muscles became conditioned to sitting poorly (is that even possible?) or what, but now the new furniture and its good support and solid framing seems to be tearing me up.  Its gotten a little better the last day or so because I've been making a conscious effort to pay attention to my positioning and posture while I sit on it, so maybe all its going to take is some time to recondition myself to the set.  At least thats what I am trying to convince myself of, because the thought of spending all that money on this stuff and being in pain when using it is not something I want to think about.

In other news, still hating my PS3.  I bought more blu-ray movies over the weekend, but I still cannot find much if any gaming use for it.  I broke out the God of Wat 1&2 set and played that a bit tonight.  The collection came with a code to download the GoW3 demo so I popped in that code and began the download.  Now its a hefty one, roughly 2.3 gigs in size.  I recently downloaded the 1.2 gig Divinity 2 demo for the 360 (which is an excellent RPG btw, give it a try) in under 25 minutes so I know I have a decent connection.  So imagine my surprise when 5 hours after I began the download on the PS3 it was only 27% complete.  Are you kidding me?  Its going to take longer to download this demo than it probably would to beat the game itself.

Oh, and I did some more browsing in the PS store and saw some more PS1 titles I would love to get, including the original Silent Hill.  So I actually called Sony's customer service to double check on the whole "only the profile that downloaded the game can play it" thing just to make sure I wasn't misunderstanding things.  Sadly I was not, and not only is that the case but any arcade game I pay for and download can only be played by the profile that purchased it.  Unlike on the 360 where, for example, I can download neat little games like Castle Crashers, Peggle, or A Kingdom for Keflings and have everyone with a profile on my system enjoy those titles.  What a joke.

I've always said that the attach rate tells the real story as far as which console is best for gaming, and with the 360 having a software attach rate of nearly 9 and the PS3 below 3 (I saw these numbers on IGN not too long ago, look them up yourself if you have doubts) I think that says it all.  Then I got to thinking about Sony fanboys and their delusional claims about the greatness of the PS3. 

Now before you go thinking "well, opinions are never wrong" let me tell you...yes they can be.  When an opinion is based on bad information, ignorance, or just plain delusion it is wrong.  It is invalid.  And then I got to thinking of all the abuse I've taken on this site from said Sony fanboys, of personal attacks made on me in threads here by such illuminaries like Speatley, Blowmonkey, and a few others I just have to laugh at their delusion.  At least I'm man enough to admit a bad purchase, and this system was a bad purchase.  Its probably the biggest gaming mistake I've ever made, and this is coming from someone who paid $450 for a new 3DO system.

So let me say this to anyone considering a PS3: think long and hard.  Do not buy into the hype you will hear from the Sony loyalists (considered to be the worst fanboys of them all) about how this console compares to the 360.  As a gaming machine it is inferior.  As a multimedia machine it is pretty nice, but again I must use the swiss army knife analogy.  It does lots of things, most of which you don't need or care about, and it doesn't do any one thing so well that you can forsake the dedicatedalternatives and use it exclusively over them.  There are better gaming consoles, there are better blu-ray players, etc. 

Oh, and I want to throw a shout-out to kewljoe's blog and recommend you check this out:

http://www.2old2play.com/Blog/Permalink/12089/37600

He posted it in the Off Topic board as well.  This is some truly funny stuff and worth the 12 minute listen.

Ok, Monday morning is here and I need to try and get some more sleep before I go into work.  Thanks for reading!