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I Red Ringed Again

by JW

People, I am having the kind of bad day you only hear about in myth and legend. Let me preface this by saying that sometime last night one of my cats, Noel aka Fat Cat 2.0, died. Then later this morning, we find another of my cats, Rico, sick as all hell. In fact, as I write this my mother is taking Rico to the veterinarian.

So naturally I would want to unwind, play a little Mass Effect and get my mind off of this terrible day, right? Not so fast said the electronic Gods. I grab my Game of the Year off of the shelf, pop the disc in the Xbox 360, and grab my controller in anticipation… (slightly NSFW language after the break)

Instead of seeing the BioWare logo, I see only a black screen with text in both English and Japanese. I look under my computer desk at my Xbox 360, and instead of seeing the warming glow of green light, I see those three… dreaded… red… lights. My Xbox 360 has died… again. This isn’t the first time Paco and I have had to deal with the Red Ring of Death, either.

This marks the fourth time my Xbox 360 has died. At the worst possible time, on the worst possible day, too. So rather than sit here and bitch and moan and whine and complain like other writers on other sites who’ve gotten the RRoD repeatedly, I’m just going to say this:

Microsoft… go fuck yourselves.

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Posted in Announcements, Hardware, Xbox 360 on December 28th, 2007

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3 Responses to “I Red Ringed Again”

  1. Butwheaty Says:
    December 28th, 2007 at 4:41 pm

    I absolutely feel for you … I’m on my 4th console as well. I certainly understand your last sentence as that is how I felt. Too bad it gets you nowhere when you talk to the dolts on Tech Support (hell, they wouldn’t understand you anyway).

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