Updates required

As my annual aging draws nearer, I guess now is as good of time as any to bust out a good old fashioned “back in the day” kind of posts.  But over the weekend, I wanted to watch a stream of a League of Legends match because of course I would.  But instead of watching it on a computer screen, I figured why not watch it on my big screen television, because such a thing is possible?  So I turned on the XBOX One that I have no games for, because I basically plunked down $300 for a glorified app player, so I could log into Twitch and watch.

But first, there’s an updated that needed to be applied, and it was somewhere in the vicinity of 2.3 GB.  Even hardwired, that’s still a little bit of time to move that much data.  So I sit around with my thumbs up my ass waiting for this update to download and install, before finally, it’s completed.  Turns out that I don’t have Twitch installed on my XBONE, so I have to download that.  Update required.

So while Twitch is updating, I figure why the fuck not just get on my PC and just watch it on a monitor instead, so I turn on my computer, only to find out that there are now Windows updates that need to be installed, and my virus protection software has found updates and would like to apply them.

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