Diary of an up and coming sociopath

It occurred to me I forgot to mention that I finally bought a new monitor. Most of you won’t have seen how badly my monitor looks these days,but if you can imagine what the world might look like as viewed through an entirely green filter, you’re getting close. As it is, the correction makes the colours appear almost normal, but only at the cost of reducing the brightness incredibly, and I’m also pretty sure it’s making the problem worse by doing this. It wasn’t always bad, of course, it’s just gotten that way over time.

Anyway. With the prospect of at least 3 days of gamestesting work coming, I have decided that’ll earn me exactly the amount I need to buy a new monitor. It’s been a long time in the running, I’m quite certain that for as long as I’ve been at Uni, I’ve been thinking of buying a new monitor. I was briefly faced with the problem of whether I should buy CRT or TFT, but the former is much more my price bracket and much more likely to get a better picture for what I can afford.

To seal the deal, eBuyer turned out to be offering reduced cost on priority shipping this weekend only, which meant that I could get stuff delivered in a matter of days for a mere £5 shipping cost. Hence, perhaps even as early as tomorrow, I’ll be the owner of a brand new iiyama. With any luck, it’ll last me until CRTs are more affordable.

Still, it’s a hard choice to have made. If I was willing to accept a shit quality monitor, I could’ve bought 10 new-release DVDs for the price I paid. I don’t even want to think about how many comics it could’ve bought. Or meals. It’s half a month’s rent! It’s a situation made even more annoying to me because I really don’t like replacing things that are working, though in this case I’m starting to understand that okay, maybe there are levels of “working” that aren’t “working” enough to accept.

Gah, consumer electronics. It’s best not to think about the cost. On a related note, thanks to my experience at New Year’s, when the monitor eventually arrives I will be thinking about how much I could’ve saved, had they only not bothered packing it in a cardboard box.