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// the rebel pixel |
I have this 20" standard Panasonic TV in my room, which I use for everything... bought it a few years ago. About eight months after I bought it, I realized it was flawed! There is this one pixel (I repeat, one pixel) on the screen... in the lower-right region... about five inches from the right and four inches from the bottom... Well, this pixel turns black when the screen displays pure blue. So, the only time it doesn't work is when it's supposed to show pure blue, otherwise it appears to be perfect. Now, it's just a pixel... nothing worth paying attention to, right? WRONG! It's so small I would have never noticed it, but I DID notice it... while I was playing Grandia II, because in Grandia II, all dialogue boxes covered that region of the TV, and the dialogue boxes were BLUE! I thought it was a speck of dust or something at first, but it wasn't going away when I wiped it!
After closer inspection, I realized this "speck of dust" was a perfect rectangle (or square, I don't know for sure, but a square is a type of rectangle after all, teehee!)... then I came to the conclusion not only that my TV was flawed, but that it was trying to piss me off with its underachieving pixel... because, after all, such an unnoticeable flaw doesn't exist to anyone else!
Sometimes I'll be playing a game... Like Halo, which has lots of blue in some of the levels... trying my best not to focus on that part of the TV... but I know it's there... and when I fall to temptation (that is, the urge deep within to seek out misery)... I'll stare at it! Sometimes my Saturday nights will turn into a grudge match between me and the pixel... some sort of demented stare-down... I will turn my VCR to a non-existent channel so the entire screen turns pure blue, and with that, animosity fills the air. Maybe, just maybe, if I can fill the pixel with as much unease as I feel every time I see it... I will make it work harder.
The thing that really pushes me over the edge is, sometimes if I'm not paying close attention, it appears to work... because of the color purple... Yes, the color purple, the pixel's partner in crime... Only exists to keep me on my toes and coming back for more abuse. Because, you see, I am colorblind and the color purple is blue to me... Maybe when the pixel displays purple, it really only shows red and the blue is missing, but it is too small to tell for sure... All I know is that sometimes the TV shows a color that appears to be blue, but the pixel isn't black! As far as I'm concerned, purple is blue's not-too-distant relative, trying to cover blue's ass in its leave of absence.
UltraMuffin vs. The Pixel... It's a full-fledged vendetta. |
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