The Name

It’s pronounced “Pow-peek”

A Blog?

I’ve been wanting to start a blog for a few years now. I always backed out because I didn’t think I’d have anything interesting to write about. That is most likely still true, but I figure that I’ll get better with practice and who cares if strangers don’t like what I’m spewing?

You know when you think you’re really good at something as a kid, but as you grow up you meet people that are so much better than you at that thing? For me that was drawing. I used to draw all the time. I wanted to be an artist. I had a few things that I drew obsessively: dragons, cats, and girls that I made up back stories for that usually involved magic or some other fantasy element. When I got to high school I met a girl who was so talented in every aspect of art. I was so jealous. She was an amazing person besides that so I couldn’t really be mad. My guilty pleasure was the fact that in math class she asked me to re-explain just about every lesson in an easier to understand way. The point is that I still like drawing, but instead of trying to be a really good artist I just draw very 2 dimensional cartoons. The characters are weird little creatures that no one else could accidentally make themselves, so I take pride in being creative, even if I’m not talented. I bring it up now because publishing some of my cartoons was a main reason that I wanted to start a blog a few years ago. So maybe one of these days you’ll meet Molg, and his evil nemesis…

Why Wii Netflix hurts my feelings

When using Netflix on a computer or an Xbox it will automatically play the following episode of the TV show that you are watching (up to about 4 episodes in a row). This is great for people like me who enjoy binge watching large sections of a series in one day. But Wii Netflix does not operate this way. Instead of enabling my habit of being wholly unproductive on the couch all day (complete with eating mass amounts of terrible food and not exercising) it requires you to manually select the next episode to be played. Every time I do this I can feel the judgement and the disgust from the stupid little “on” light of the Wii console. I have a fear that one day after watching more than five episodes in one sitting, when I try to start the next one the console will say “I’m afraid I can’t do that, Paopique,” and then I will cry in a ball of shame and sadness that only 3 episodes of Buffy can cure. I guess it makes some sense that the Wii, the family console, would promote not spending all day inside on the couch. Whereas a computer or Xbox, which often serve people that are already more inclined to spend several hours at a time gaming, would be totally fine with me watching the last seven episodes of Bojack Horseman season 1 in one day while I wait for my roommates to come home so I can do something actually fun. So fuck you, Wii Netflix. I don’t need your judgement. And by the way, why is rewinding or fast forwarding so hard for you? If you were not on my roommate’s console that I can use for free, and if I didn’t already have a Netflix account from back when I had my own Xbox, I would never look at you again. Well, until I have a craving to play Tanks! in Wii Play. Oh lord that game is good.