n00bs!

I was walking around my dorm and hanging up signs for a Frisbee event that I'm putting on (part of the RA gig), and I heard someone playing Halo. I could recognize the sounds of the campaign (the arbiter yelling, Cortana talking at you, etc.) and could even place which part of which level they were on (because I'm that big of a nerd).

The impressive thing was that I could pick all this out from the next floor down. They were on the third floor, I was still in the stairwell of the second floor. I figured it must be a room right next to the third floor stairwell, but I walked up and glanced around (continuing to hang signs) and didn't see any doors open. As I headed down the hallway, I realized that the sounds were coming from a room almost at the end of the floor. And they kept getting louder. A lot louder. As in thunderously loud. I glanced through open doors as I walked along, looking for the enormous setup that must be generating all this sound. Then I found it. And laughed. A lot.

The guys who were playing had an enormous surround sound system (an amp, giant speakers, a subwoofer the size of a small car, etc.)... and a tiny little TV. This thing couldn't have been over 23 inches. It looked so lonely and pathetic sitting there amidst all those speakers. I was seriously expecting an 80 inch plasma. Anything else would have (and did) seem silly when paired with all that sound.

How does someone put all that money into a sound system and not get a decent TV to go with? Maybe the sound system and TV belonged to different roommates and they'd decided to just throw it together. Or maybe they're silly. Hmm... yep, I think I'll go with just silly.