So, I was given a PS4 by accident and I've come to some conclusions about the System Wars

Hello System Wars. This may start off sounding like blog material, but it really does have to do with the War Between Systems so bear with me. I also know it’s kind of a long read so skip it if you like, but I think it may really interest people who are on the fence about getting a PS4, and may even convince some lemmings to switch sides. It’s also a pretty good story.

I’ll start by saying I haven’t posted on GS much because I’ve been in Tanzania for a few years doing some stuff, blah, blah, blah. I was actually inspired to go to Africa by a comment made by Subrosian on one of my old threads, in order to try and help mentally disabled children. Also, Tanzania is beautiful. Anyway, I’ve had access to the internet but not much time to use it, because I’ve been very busy with my work. I haven’t posted on GS lately, and I haven’t even lurked much. So you could say that I’ve completely missed out on the console wars.

Up until about a month ago I hadn’t so much as touched a current generation console. I hadn’t played a game in a while. My family wanted give me a nice gift when I returned home at long last, so they said they would buy me a console. I asked for an Xbone. I’ve never really been a huge Sony guy. Digimon World on PS1 is one of my favorite games. I liked Crash Bandicoot. That’s about it.

Anyway, as you’ve no doubt already surmised from the thread title, I was given a PS4 by accident. My sister didn’t know what she was doing and she just bought the wrong console. I mentioned it and she apologized and offered to return it but I said no. She hadn’t bought me any games, so after I set it up I went ahead and bought Bloodborne. I liked the Dark Souls games a lot. I had assumed Bloodborne would be on the Xbone as well, and, after I found out it was a PS4 exclusive, I was honestly pretty relieved that I’d gotten it by accident. It would have sucked missing out on Bloodborne. After that I bought Witcher 3, which is pretty good so far, and then MGSV, which kind of sucks, honestly (good gameplay, terrible story).

Overall, I was incredibly impressed with the PS4 and I couldn’t believe that Sony had made such an incredible product, nor that it had such a nice games line-up. Everything was going pretty well. That is, until the technical issues started.

It wasn’t a big deal at first. I noticed some lag here and there on games that had run smoothly. Whenever there was a lot of green foliage onscreen in Witcher 3 this kind of strange green filter would cover the screen. I thought it was my TV. I took it to a buddy’s house and tried it and it did the same thing on his TV. I looked up my problems online and I found some people having similar issues, but none exactly the same as mine, and none quite so severe. It got to the point that Phantom Pain was a slideshow and Witcher 3 moved so slowly it might as well have been a still painting. I figured I had a defective PS4, at that point.

So, I was a little pissed, but not too much. I dealt with the RROD last-gen so no big deal. At that point I figured I would ride it out, see if it improved, and began to explore the other entertainment options on the system. I tried out Netflix using the Browser App but that just wound up taking me to some other site that I couldn’t understand, with pornographic ads everywhere. I was pretty confused. I’m not an idiot, I’ve used online-capable consoles before, I just couldn’t understand why the hell I was getting redirects on a console browser (I didn’t know about the actual Netflix app since before I went to Africa I had never used it on a console).

So, I was just trying to fix it in the settings and I came across the themes and ended up downloading a whole bunch for more money that I should have hahaha. I got a Hunger Games one with Donald Sutherland on it, but then when I applied it the image of his face was all glitchy and distorted and it looked like his mouth was moving for some reason. This was kind of disturbing but also cool so I left it like that to mess with my friends and family. Over Thanksgiving, however, that led to some trouble

Apparently, the image of Donald Sutherland upset by brother’s gf because with his face really skinny like that he looked like her father who had physically abused her as a girl, so she was pretty upset by it. She asked me to turn it off, so I did, but later we wanted to watch a blu-ray so I had to turn it back on and that damn face was still frozen there and she started freaking out and asked my brother to take her home. So that was great. I turned the PS4 off and on probably a hundred times but it didn’t do anything. I called Sony support and they walked me through this dumb reset process that didn’t do anything except make it to where I could play games on half the screen while half of Donald Sutherland’s face took up the other side with his jaw glitching out and moving up and down the whole time.

It was funny at first, but after a while just pissed me off. At one point I tried going into settings to change the theme but because I couldn’t see what I was doing I opened the browser again and somehow opened a pornographic ad for cuckold porn and THAT glitched all over the screen with part of Donald Sutherland’s face like he was eating the couple on the bed while the husband used his flicker giant blue eyeball as a ritual mask hahaha. I tried turning off the PS4 but when I did the little speaker on the controller just made a noise like a computer makes when its beeping out a start-up code or whatever, and it just kept doing that, no matter what I did, but I didn’t want to unplug it because I thought I might mess it up worse. It was like I was held hostage to this machine and it was speaking to me in secret heavenly codes day and night lol.

I was exasperated and ready to take it in for repair or just smash the damn thing when I read a thread online saying that it might have to do with the HDMI cable. My TV is set up to where it’s really hard to plug and unplug cables, so I got my brother to help me hold up the TV while I messed with the cable. He held the TV while I tried to get the cable loose. The cable was stuck and I kept tugging at it but couldn’t get it loose. My brother started getting frustrated holding the TV up. Finally he was like “are you even pulling the cable” and I said “no, I’m pulling your leg.” Anyhow, the last few sentences of stories like this should always just be filler. That way you don’t scroll to the bottom of the post guess right away (of course you still might, but the odds are against it, like maybe 70-30 or so). Overall my experience has been negative, but that won’t stop me from trying Sony Products in the future. What can I say, they’ve really turned the corner. Here’s to more exclusives, and superior tech from Sony. If they could sort out some of their technical issues they would have a real powerhouse on their hands, as the game line-up, just based on the immense creativity of Sony's savant auteurs like Jonathan Blow is definitely superior. I feel like Sony is at a point of critical mass where if they push a little harder they can get to the point where they are no longer a joke (unlike...).

And it started off so innocent..

This is a blog, a really weird one at that.

Don't feel bad. She's one of those people that if she watches Game of Thrones and somebody's throat gets cut she starts crying like "oh god that remind me of my friend Merrill from Guyana"

Hahaha see how scary that MF is, now just imagine that really pixelated with little figures having sexual intercourse inside of is jaggies. It definitely f'ed me up for a while. Can I say 'F' and 'MF' now uncensored? I don't know what the rules are

jethro, the legend of System Wars hahahaha.

Always a pleasure to be in your threads.

That's a......interesting story. Beware the Sutherlands, they have powers.

Btw, you must be new here if you think you're not going to be greeted with a bunch of "lol didn't read" GIFs for that wall. Or maybe you just forget after your trip. I'm jealous, would love to go to Africa.

Stopped reading at the part where a comment convinced you to move to Africa.

There is so much wrong right there. I can't take your advice on anything now.

10/10

Would watch a film adaptation of that post.

I think you still need to get an Xbox One, it's a much better console than a PS4

Dude no one in here cares about your life story, this is a gaming forum and no one cares if you playing with tazmanian devils or whatever you doing over there.

WOW. Does anyone care to read all that. Can someone summarize what this bitch is babbling about.

Should have blogged it.

I got to "mentally disabled children" and stopped reading, can't believe I read that far.

Comments can inspire you to do all kinds of things.Yours, for example, just inspired me to go dump my Thanksgiving leftovers on my neighbor's doorstep and then cover it up in leaves so he steps in it when returning from work this afternoon.

Thanks. It's nice to have some spare time to post again. Very relaxing. Have to say I'm not enthralled with the site changes, but hey, at least some of the old users like yourself are still here.

That's a good movie. And yeah, TLDR was common back in the day, just not so much the insane amount of GIFs. But I can get use to it. Now that no one uses 56k anymore I could probably get away with doing some crazier stuff with my threads. Gotta feel out the moderation, mostly.

No one is an poster,

Entire of himself,

Every one is a piece of the System Wars,

A part of the main.

If a moron be washed away by GIFs,

System Wars is the less.

As well as if jg4xchamp were.

As well as if the top 10 posters on GS,

Or thine own friends were:

Any poster's idiocy diminishes me,

Because I am involved in SW,

And therefore never send to know for whom the witless comment trolls;

It trolls for thee.

Was worth the read just for Donald Sutherland.

What the **** did I just read? Stop doing drugs.

@mems_1224: It would be Trilogy that's 3 hours per.

So this is the legendary jethro Vegas I hear about from people lol.

Truly a legend.

I skimmed it, and i'm probably just as confused as if i'd read it.

Legend my asshat. What the frack did I just read?

So the word legend has lost all meaning?

Some say I am legend. Others think I'm a messiah and try and follow me into the desert. You may have met my good friend Bargegus. It started back when I was explaining to someone in a PM where the term Orange Julius comes from (frozen drink) and basically it's that there was a guy named Julius who made good frozen orange drinks and people would come from all over to get them from him and after a while it got to the point where they would just say "give me an orange, Julius" and that's how the name was born

I....don't.....care.

what does this have to do with system wars? this is just spam at this point.

It could definitely be construed that way. But there's two sides to every story. What you see as spam, I see as meaningful and engaging content designed to stimulate and impact my target audience (System Wars). Look around this forum. What do you see? Is every single thread directly related to System Wars? Of course not. Many threads are about single games, most pose very general questions. I think there is plenty of room for alternative material like the kind I'm presenting here.

Let me tell you a story as an example. There was a punk zine that I was involved in the early 2000s called Razor Urethra. What we did was we created very shocking and grotesque art, often hiding pickled pig's feet inside the zine itself to disturb our readers and shock them out of their base consumerism. Eventually we got in trouble with the law. There was a security guard at the library called, by some bizarre coincidence, Benjamin Netanyahu, despite the fact that he was a young black man not from Israel.

Anyway, Netanyahu caught onto what we were doing at one point and chased us out of the library. We engaged in fisticuffs with him on the steps of that temple of knowledge, bashing him with artisanal baguettes while he whirled his baton like hell's fury personified. When we bloody and tired of fighting he asked us, panting: "why do you do this? Why? Why do you keep putting pig's feet in the zines?"

So we told him the story of the frog and the scorpion where the frog dives down and drowns the friendly scorpion who is choking on the water and dying and asks the frog "why you'd this" and the frog says "I had to is my nature." So that's why we ruled the punk scene and that's why this is what I do for System Wars, to spark a new discussion of old topics

more spam

Subrosian still posts? And I'm gonna tell you now this place is nothing like it used to be lol

@n64dd: What's spammier? Telling neat stories or crying spam over and over? The truth is, we just don't know. And in case anyone missed it there is a thesis in the topic, which is, essentially that the PS4 has a better and more interesting games line-up than the XBone, despite the technical issues I experienced. So, we could discuss that.

I couldnt read all that.

@BigShotSmoov007: if he was playing with tazmanain devils that would have been interesting.

Don't know what the **** I was reading, but enjoyed it! Will wait for part 2...

Welcome back, Jethro.

I'll never look at the hunger games quite the same ever again.

I.....read it all....AND I WOULD READ IT AGAIN!

I've missed Jethro threads, not up to snuff with your Fable 2 bashing, but what is?

.... why didn't you just unplug the HDMI from the PS4?

@jg4xchamp: @darkspineslayer: @intotheminx: Thanks, fellas.

Why the hell did I not think of that. Wow, I feel like an idiot.

dear god, i didnt realize how cringe these tl;dr memes were up until now...

You should have realized this awhile ago. **** if there was anything worse than "shitty meme is shit" meme, though.

Let me summarize:

Hello SW, I was given a PS4 by accident, tripped and ....... now I want more Sony in me.

Subrosian went to Africa? Where is he now?

Needs a TL;DR summary at the bottom.