Some of you may remember the post I made about Blu-ray drives coming to the Xbox 360. Well, according to Major Nelson, I have it all wrong. Where did I get that information anyway? I gotta stop having cocaine for lunch.
Wait, I remember where I got that information. Microsoft’s CEO fucking said it. I didn’t even read it on an Internet website. I watched a video where Steve Ballmer massaged words from a mouth that’s almost crippled from lying, those words formed a sentence, and the result of that sentence was information:
Well I don’t know if we need to put Blu-ray in there—you’ll be able to get Blu-ray drives as accessories.
I really appreciate it when big corporations try to Jedi mindtrick consumers into believing they heard something totally different from what was actually said. It’s not like Steve Ballmer made these comments at a press conference in the 1214′s, and I accidentally fumbled my stone tablet. A video of the interview is up on the Internet. I’m watching it right now while I write this. I’m also listening to Josh Ritter. I’m also eating a peach. We have the technology to record videos and watch them whenever we want for forever while eating fucking peaches.
It’s pretty ironic that Microsoft thinks we can’t work a play button on a streaming video. Don’t they have plans to release all kinds of streaming content for the Xbox 360? They better have a team of chimps pounding out some tutorials on PDF.
My favorite part of the Major Nelson post is where he links to Amazon’s Blu-ray computer accesory section. He went to the Computer & Accessories section on Amazon.com, typed in “Blu-Ray,” hit “enter”, and then linked us. Who was this supposed to inform? Steve Ballmer? I think an inter-company memo would have been more subtle.
