Korea Reacts to Starcraft 2, Buy.com Still Sucks, and The RIAA Needs Money

I slept for about a good five minutes last night, after coughing non-stop. I'm high on cough syrup right now; I hope I don't fall asleep as I type up this blog entry.

Ooooooh...the season finale of Heroes just started! I better not doze off!

(Actually, I don't even know why I'm bothering with this blog entry right now; I know I'm not going to finish it during the show.)

- Korea's reaction to the Starcraft 2 release is a bit over the top, don't you think? I can't make up my mind as to which panel is the funniest. 3v3-BGH? Record sales of pants? North and South Korea reforming into a giant hard on? LMAO!

(Fifty minutes into the Heroes finale, and I barely got this far! :P)

- My RMA with Buy.com is going smoothly (of course, by smoothly, I mean I'm getting a headache). Apparently USPS attempted to deliver my package to Buy.com on Saturday, but no one was available to accept delivery. A pickup notice was left, however, at Buy.com's "doorstep."

I fired off an email to Buy.com support, letting them know that there was an attempted delivery of my RMA request. I also gave them the tracking number, in case they wanted proof of what I said. Their response? Something to the effect of "Sir, as of yet we have not yet received your shipment."

No freaking duh! I only said the package hadn't yet been delivered!

The folks at Time Warner think that Buy.com has horrible customer service.

(Hmmm...I could've sworn that the Heroes finale tonight was supposed to be two hours long!)

- (from Consumerist) The crazies that make up the RIAA want radio stations to pay royalties, because it's not good enough for the RIAA to get free promotion for their music labels. Says Rep. Howard L. Berman (D-Valley Village, sponsored by the RIAA):

Given the many different ways to promote music now that didn't exist as effectively when this original exemption was made," he said, "the logic of that I think is more dubious.

I can't say I disagree with the guy; it's not hard to fathom that online advertising can be more effective than TV or radio advertising (users of Firefox's Adblock might argue otherwise). That being said, I wonder what would happen if these royalties have to be paid, and radio stations were forced to close up shop because they couldn't afford the royalties. How bad would the RIAA look if they were involved in destroying their major source of advertising?

Go RIAA! Bury yourselves!

That's all I've got for tonight. I'm coughing like crazy!