241) Deep Inside the Fortress of Solitude
Posted November 12, 2013 at 02:00 am

Oh man, we spent all day working on this page, netflixed a bunch of movies, and then almost forgot to actually post the page. WE'RE BAD PEOPLE.

Today, I decided that Netflix alone just wasn't cutting it anymore, that Leslie and I needed to expand our TV-viewing options without ever actually buying cable, so we tried out Hulu+. At first I was excited because it advertised that they had The Simpsons. Oh boy, I thought! I can finally rewatch all those wonderful old Simpsons episodes and just stop as soon as the number of celebrity guest stars outnumbered the actual Springfield population. Well, turns out they only have five episodes. From the newest season. Shit move, scumbags.

Now, Leslie loves her some cooking shows, and Hulu offers a bunch of them for free off their website. Strangely enough, they won't let you watch it on anything but their website service, no watching Chopped on your PS3 or anything. Either way, she gets to watch them for free, provided she sits through ten minutes of ads (sometimes not all at once, in their defense!). I was hoping that subscribing to Hulu+ meant that we could watch a lot of great shows on our PS3 completely ad-free, much like netflix. Well, paying the subscription means dick, as you still have to sit through a fuckload of ads every time you just want to browse ahead to an episode of DBZ to watch a few seconds just to verify what dubbing group they managed to get.

I have to say, though, their anime section is REALLY nice. Lots of great classic stuff on there, but the problem is that they all have it on there for free. You just have to sit through ads. There's no reason to pay for the subscription, unless you just REALLY want to watch Misfits (a show with a great start that's immediately ruined by the second season). We could just plug the computer up to the TV and watch it all for free like that. Or, fuck, we could just pirate all the Lupin III they have and watch it that way, ad-free. Hulu+ makes it too fucking easy to justify piracy.

Anyways, Leslie and I then watched a sushi documentary on netflix. It started out neat, but then halfway through it just started preaching to us about how we should all feel bad for eating too much bluefin tuna. Shit man, I just wanted a documentary on sushi, not a scolding lecture. If you wanna watch a way better sushi movie, watch Jiro. Super inspirational, one of Leslie's heroes.

That's it for us! See you Friday! 

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