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I'm about to do some ranting myself for my daily BaD blog.  I'm having trouble with my music equipment and it's driving me bonkers!!!

BaD puns are just too fun, man!  The BaD kind of fun, that is. 

I hate when shit doesn't work the way you want it to. Electronics are especially aggravating, as I'm not all that tech savvy. Mechanical stuff I'm actually pretty good at.

see, I'm terrible at mechanical stuff like cars and other engineering marvels but I'm usually okay with tech stuff.  I can usually figure out how to use it.  But today I struggled with some equipment until I finally went online and found out the two pieces I wanted to connect are strangely incompatible.  Ruins my whole week, to be honest, if not the month.    I'm going to have to go in a completely different direction now in what i need to do what i want to do musically.  Oh well, that's life! 

See, this is where I'd start throwing shit, lol. But mechanical stuff I can take apart and put back together. And I can usually trouble shoot the problem even if I can't fix it myself. I've replaced the drain in a sink before, spliced in a new piece of water line, I can change the oil in most things (I won't do my own car, though, too much of a hassle), and I can tear down, clean, and put back together a chainsaw.

yes, but can you strip and clean a chainsaw while blindfolded and zombies are beating down the door??????

The chainsaw would just have to remain dirty until after the zombies were dealt with. Besides, I'd just have to clean it again anyway.

That sounds pretty BaD. I never used my PS3 for netflix. My TV is a smart TV so I can just use it on there. Although sometimes I can't help but question the term "smart". I get tired of all the updates though. Like the Playstation store. It used to be simply laid out. Ah well. My PS3 isn't even hooked up anymore lol.

My OCD gets drven bonkers by the new chaotic format for Netflix. It's neither fun nor easy to browse forthings any more, and I question some of their recommendations for me, lol.

This is why I tend not to browse Hulu anymore. I miss the set-up where you could search for shows alphabetically, the way they have it now is kind of annoying.

It's kind of like someone said "Oh, hey! I have an idea! Let's make it exceedingly difficult for people to find what they actually want! They'll love it and thank us for it!"

I actually the PS3 netflix auto episode skip thingy. It makes it easier if you are binge watching a lot of episodes! Other than that, I actually hate the new layout because whatever show or movie you are slecting, it takes up 80% of the screen! That's just annoying.

I frequently fall asleep watching stuff and I have a download cap, so this is not a good thing.

I'm a fan of the autoplay.  If I don't want to watch the next episode of something then I'm already either planning on turning it off or changing it to something else, so I already have the remote handy.  If I want to keep watching, it's nice that I don't have to go find the remote every time an episode is over (since I'm usually doing multiple other things when watching shows on netflix).

Maybe there needs to be an option for both, make everyone happy.

My wife & I like the start next episode thing.  We only wish it wouldn't stop at only 3.  I wish it played the whole damn season before stopping.  Sorry you don't like it.  Damn shame they didn't give us an option to disable it. 

The Netflix one is less annoying than the Hulu Plus one. At least with Netflix, it's the same show.

I prefer Netflix. Not saying it's "perfect" but between it and Hulu I always went with the former.

Netflix has more stuff and is commercial-free. I wouldn't bother with Hulu except that I don't have cable and it's how I watch the majority of the TV shows I like.

How recent was the Nextflix update?  It's been about 2 days since I last used it on my PS3, so maybe I'm in for a shock the next time I boot it up.

It came a whle back, I just finally got around to writing about it.

I get annoyed by the next episode thing too, mostly cause I try to watch one episode of House of Cards or whatever per day, and keep it at that. 

The way Netflix figured out its category system is hilariously bad research. Why you'd think a bunch of genres spat out by Hollywood producers would be generalizable to the population at large, I don't know, but despite NPR's puff piece I and most people I know do not like their category system at all. Their recommendations are usually presumptious and bad because they focus on too-specific aspects of whatever you just watched or just don't make any sense at all. 

I'd also like to be able to see descriptions without clicking a link. Of course, I've had this problem since Fall 2013, so do these updates come  out in a staggered fashion like they do on Facebook?

No, I don't think they're staggered. It's just the first time I've written about it.

I'm annoyed at the way Netflix pops up suggested movies as the credits roll on the one you've just finished on PSN. I like watching the credits. It's the time I think about the movie, look up who played what and listen to the extra music tracks, as well as see who performed them. I finally figured out how to go back to the credits, but it's still annoying.

I really hate that, too. It's actually the most annoying thing about Netflix on PSN, I just forgot to mention it when I first posted the blog and I already had people commenting so it was too late to go back and change it.

I am not a fan of that automatic start of TV Shows on Hulu+. If I want to watch one episode or an entire season I should have the option, not Hulu+

Exactly!

that's odd. I really haven't notice the big differences with netflix on my PS3 or Xbox 360. Now on the Wii, it keeps freezing after a few episodes.

Can't mention much on Hulu Plus, Can't bring myself to pay for that service and still get commericals. I'd rather fire up "The Beast" desktop PC and watch regular hulu via HDMI.