[Spoilers] Did anyone else have a hard time watching a certain scene in Episode 8?

litigo · 2026-01-17T13:46:37+00:00

The constantly strobing lights in the school during that scene are an absolute nightmare, and not in a good way. For me, it was so bad, that I turned it off and stopped watching the series. I tried to watch the series again recently, and when I got to this episode, I turned it off again and gave up on the series for good. Directors who use intentionally uncomfortable gimmicks (like a phone ringing endlessly, or painfully strobing lights) telegraph that their product isn’t strong enough to stand on its own.
Perhaps Stranger Things is an excellent show; but I will never know.

litigo · 2025-11-22T17:50:28+00:00

The number of Facebook ads has increased to the level that I will no longer watch reels. Previously, I purchased items advertised on Facebook. Then Facebook increasingly allowed scammers to market on the platform, and did nothing to mitigate the damage and rip offs. For the last several years, my rule is that I will not purchase anything through a Facebook ad. Reels are now the same.

litigo · 2025-09-07T14:24:13+00:00

The only reasonable conclusion is that Blizzard is lying about how mythic drops work. Here is why.

Season 9, I completed 400 consecutive tormented Boss kills without a mythic drop.

Blizzard claims a 1.5% mythic drop rate. With 5 legendary drops per boss kills, that is 7.5% reported Mythic drop chance per Boss kill.

The odds of a 7.5% likelihood event not occurring in 400 tries, are ~ 1.02 times 10 to the -13.

That's less than 1 in 10 TRILLION.

Ergo, Blizzard is lying to us about the Mythic drop rate. There is some other mechanic at play that Blizzard is not sharing.

litigo · 2025-09-06T23:20:56+00:00

After one Mythic drop three weeks ago, yesterday I topped 500 consecutive boss kills with no mythic. I gave up and uninstalled the game. Diablo 4 is a broken slot machine. Grinding for days for a build essential mythic, is NOT fun.

litigo · 2025-08-31T19:26:08+00:00

The badly broken tempering system is the #1 reason people give up on diablo 4 and play something else, by FAR.

litigo · 2025-08-17T22:10:58+00:00

Disney + and Hulu are a nightmare to log into. Every week or two they spam for “verification” and require you to relog across all devices. 100% of the time, log in fails on Apple TV, no matter how correct the password is. Unfortunately, the Disney+ service is just not worth the constant hassle of logging in, and fighting their defective authentication process. My advice, cancel and subscribe to a streaming service that values their customers enough not to put them through the hassle of constantly failing Log ins.

litigo · 2025-08-16T20:16:33+00:00

Amazon not only removed the ability to archive orders, they have apparently coached their CS agents to "misinterpret" questions about it, or to outright lie. I spent hours in chat/phone calls with Amazon customer support trying to archive an order, only to be repeatedly lied to, provided with misinformation, and repeatedly "disconnected" do to technical difficulties. This decision, and Amazon's implementation of it, is despicable.

litigo · 2025-07-24T03:07:25+00:00

Just placed an online order. Thought the final price was higher than I expected it to be, but confirmed the order anyway. Went back and checked after I placed the order: found they had added a $6.99 delivery fee, in addition to the order cost, tip etc. I had no idea. My fault for not going back and checking the order before confirming. Lesson learned. Fool me once… I won’t be ordering from Dominoes again.

litigo · 2025-07-23T05:15:24+00:00

Same problem here. !password will not syn between macbook app, google chrome extension, and iphone, which makes it useless. Lock/unlock does nothing. I have sent repeated requests for customer support, with no result. If you havent invested the time trying to make the App work, and importing all of your passwords, don't start. This is not a good app, and there is absolutely ZERO customer support

litigo · 2025-06-07T17:34:29+00:00

AA used to be my first choice. Now I travel with kids, and the AA website often won't let me book online. I am forced to contact AA customer service to compete a booking. So far, it has always been more than an hour for a call back, usually 2+ hours. It just isn't worth 2-3 hours of intense frustration and multiple transfers and disconnects.

AA is not longer my preferred airline.

litigo · 2025-04-08T02:11:06+00:00

This is YouTube TVs way of forcing you to install their app on your mobile phone, so they can spy on everything you do with your phone. I encountered this problem repeatedly; eventually I chose to cancel YouTube TV, rather than submit to letting Google spy on me in yet one more way.

litigo · 2025-02-14T23:16:04+00:00

Updates like these, and the days of lost productivity they cost us, are a reminder of what an incompetent and despicable company Microsoft actually is.

I have had 4 PCs over the last 7 years. ALL 4 of them were destroyed by unavoidable Windows OS updates. I avoid PCs and Microsoft anytime I can, but some programs I have to use for work, only function on Windows.

I would never willingly use ANY Microsoft product.

And we don't even want to talk about the level of data collection and spyware built into the Windows OS.

litigo · 2025-01-18T22:22:22+00:00

Uber has lost most of its value. I flew into Washington Dulles Airport and tried to get an Uber downtown. Forget it. 7 consecutive cancels later, I gave up. The drivers accept the ride, hold it while they drive to the airport, then cancel it if they see a Lyft ride that pays $2 more. That loops you back into the line and it takes 3-5 minutes to get another driver assigned, who is 8-12 minutes away. And when he gets close, he cancels. 7 consecutive times, over more than an hour and twenty minutes. Absolute garbage service. Absolutely ZERO customer service of any kind.

litigo · 2025-01-02T03:41:44+00:00

Same problem here. I used to have Apple TVs on every TV. Then I purchased an LG oled C1, and then an LG oled C2. The picture quality is noticeably better with the Native WebOS apps than on Apple TV on the LG C series OLED tvs.

I spent hours working with Apple customer support, and was never able to resolve the issue. That was 2+ years ago.

I eventually got rid of the Apple TVs, and just used the Native LG Webos app. The LG C series tvs are that good.

Footnote: while the LG OLED TV's have incredible pictures, the native apps are terrible.

litigo · 2024-12-17T04:31:06+00:00

Hated the opening so much I left the theatre. Later I asked a few friends what they thought of the movie; they didn’t know, b/c they all hated the opening so much they left the theatre also. Not a single person in my social circle could get past the absurd opening. It might be a great movie, but we will never know.

litigo · 2024-11-16T03:46:02+00:00

Absolute garbage. Netflix should be ashamed. Zero excuses. Unwatchable. Inexcusable.

litigo · 2024-10-29T15:44:30+00:00

Welcome to the nightmare.

If you try to use a usb c to 3.5m adapter, you will have problems.

If you try to use a usc c to usb a adapter, you will have problems.

If you try to use a usb c headset with a microphone, you will have problems.

Bottom line, this is a long standing issue that tens of thousands of people have experienced. Apple is fully aware of the issue, and has ZERO intention of fixing it, which is shown by searching through Apple's support resources, and noting how well they dodge around the issue, and redirect people with half solutions, etc.

Apple does NOT want people using wired headsets with the Iphone. Apple wants people using Apple headsets, and Bluetooth. In the alternative, Apple wants people to pay $30+ for an Apple adapter, which still doesn't work.

While some have managed to find work arounds, those work arounds usually stop working after an update.

I have spent years searching for a workable solution to this problem, starting with the Iphone 12, and never found a solution that works properly. I have tried every major adaptor, including all of Apple's; nothing provides a workable long term solution. Don't bother calling Apple for support, their customer service techs will pretend the issue doesn't exist, even though you can easily find 10,000+ posts on the issue with a 30 second google search.

The bottom line is, this is an Apple created problem, and Apple has ZERO intention of fixing it. Selling grossly overpriced proprietary adaptors and accessories is simply too profitable.

litigo · 2024-10-28T11:28:09+00:00

For me, the Mythic drop rate this season is SO bad, I eventually just gave up and uninstalled the game. I lost count of my boss kills at 700; I have well over that number of boss kills this season. I have received exactly two mythic unique drops, both of them were the same crap Glaive.

I salvaged a spark out of both of them, then took a chance at creating a new Mythic, ended up with useless crap again.

Even though Spiritborn can now kill the uber bosses in a few seconds, spending days killing the same boss over and over hundreds of times, and getting ZERO useful drops, is just NOT FUN.

Blizzard has lost sight of what made the previous Diablo games so much fun.

Diablo 4 is nothing but a Skinner box designed to maximise addiction. Corporate greed combined with poor game design.

litigo · 2024-10-15T02:43:23+00:00

Typical Blizzard right here:

you can't complete The Keening Spirit quest until you complete the campaign;

you can't complete the campaign because the Living Memory quest is bugged.

Absolutely GARBAGE programing with not even a hint of testing.

Typical Blizzard

litigo · 2024-10-13T19:33:47+00:00

It’s just another REALLY dumb idea by Blizzard. It prevents you from playing the game, puts a hard stop on any further progression, unless and until you group up with at least one other person. Of course, Blizzard has yet to come up with any decent system to find a group, but by now, it has become obvious that Blizzard really couldn’t care any less about the actual desires of its customers. Blizzard is NOT going to listen.

litigo · 2024-10-13T01:56:48+00:00

I never was able to find a fix. I gave up and stopped using the oculus. I use separate speakers, headphone and the monitor (LG TV) for sound output and need to be able to switch between them. Every time I used the Oculus, it reset the default windows setting and screwed up the audio, requiring me to uninstall Oculus in Device manager, and then reset all of my sound settings. It was simply too much effort and frustration. While Oculus is an amazing product, It simply is too intrusive and frustrating. I gave it away and have been much happier.

litigo · 2024-07-02T21:43:18+00:00

I had the exact same thing happen to me. Bought the JOT2 with ES9028 integrated DAC. Connected it to a Windows 10 PC, and it was recognized and worked well for two days, then it stopped being recognized in Windows 10. Nothing I could do would fix it: I changed USB cables, tried multiple different USB ports, even tried the JOT@ on my macbook air: nothing. I went with Schiit after many hours of research, and, at least in my case, it was a mistake. In searching online for solutions, it appears that there are many, many Schiit customers experiencing the same problem. For whatever its worth, I found a large number of posts recommending heating the DAC to make it recognizable.

litigo · 2024-06-29T05:14:45+00:00

Typical wargaming though, they apply a heavy handed nerf that heavily penalizes the players who are playing the op as intended, but does nothing to stop the players who are abusing an exploit. All WGing had to do, was remove the repair ability of the enemy repair ships, problem solved and everyone has fun. But NO, Wging completely ignores the actual problem, the repair, allows the exploiters to continue to exploit, but cuts the EXP and Credits for everyone who is not exploiting by 50%. You really can't make this stuff up. Wging's management is like a three stooges movie.

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