Does anyone proofread these things?

They're completely different forms of entertainment. Try looking at it from a dollars-per-hour-of-entertainment-value perspective. If I buy a Blu-ray for $20 and I watch the film (2-3 hours?) and all of the behind-the-scenes and bonus features (2-6 hours maybe?) then I've paid about $2-3 per hour of entertainment. If I buy a $60 game and I sink 100 hours into it, I'm paying less than $1 per hour for that entertainment. I can also continue to play many games in new and undiscovered ways which drives down the hourly cost even more. I can't keep watching a film in new and interesting ways. I can't mod a film to add entirely new content to the experience. When you look at it that way, it's the Blu-ray film that's the ripoff, not the game. Although I guess if you buy a game with less than 20-30 hours of gameplay and there's nothing else new to explore, then it might be the game that's a ripoff. But most games are not like that.

Better yet, skip the Chromebook altogether and get something like the Acer Aspire E11 and then install your favorite flavor of GNU/Linux. I bought one for $199 at MicroCenter, installed a 128 GB Crucial SSD ($79), 4 GB of Crucial DDR3L memory ($39), and an Intel Wireless-AC card ($19), and then installed Ubuntu 14.04. It cost under $350, everything worked right away in Ubuntu, and now I can do whatever I'd like with it.

Embrace, extend and extinguish

'twas nice to know you while we did!

I really like my WD TV Live. It plays a lot of formats and has a simple but usable interface. It definitely passed the "wife test" for ease-of-use. But it has one glaring omission: no Amazon Prime streaming (see: "Online Services"). They just released a 2.0 firmware update with a bunch of new "supports [service]" notes, but Amazon is not one of them. Western Digital, I am disappoint.

At least in my world it's been declining. I was once an Ubuntu fanatic. "It's so easy," I would tell people. It passed my girlfriend test. It passed my parents test. I used Ubuntu every day for years. After 10.04 LTS, things started going downhill. Once 12.04 LTS hit the streets, things started going downhill faster. I have since switched to Ubuntu's upstream parent, Debian, with LXFE for the desktop. Clean, simple, elegant. I'll keep this.

Develop hobbies and spend time with your family.

Programming (or learning to program if you don't already know how) is a productive hobby. Get a train set. Repaint your house. Buy and restore a classic car by hand (although that can be quite expensive). Go hiking/kayaking/skiing/biking/fishing. Learn to play the guitar/bass/drums/piano/sax/trumpet/sousaphone. Have a barbeque. Build a barbeque. Go geocaching. Go geohashing . And get your kids/parents/spouse/siblings/friends/neighbors involved.

I only wish I have free time for these things

Considering I suffer from dichromacy [wikipedia.org], I'd surely like to be able to see a "normal" range of colors.

Also, "specturm" really?