
EDIT: Fortunately for me, the RRoD is no longer there after I unplugged and plugged it back in from the socket. Still, extremely stupid.
In the past year—or more accurately, the past third of the year—I have owned three XBOX 360 consoles, due to repairs needed for each console. Technically, I’ve owned two; the first of three was my brother’s before he gave it to me after an E73 error, which wasn’t on the warranty fuck-up list and cost me about a hundred bucks. Here’s the order of events that have happened so far with this Microsoft-approved product.
- My brother purchases an XBOX 360.
- The E73 error; my brother sells me his console and gives me the shipping label to send it back.
- New console with a month of XBOX Live Gold and renewed warranty comes in mail. Not too bad.
- Console apparently had a faulty disk tray after less than a week of possession. Shipped back. Again.
- Another new X360 comes in mail with another free month of Gold. Disk tray works pretty good.
With my third console, I was happy. The right DRM licenses were transferred properly, the disk tray was…quieter. All seemed great. Then, today, a power outage occurred:

Sigh. Why do this to me, Microsoft? I've never hated you before. BEFORE.
Now who in their right mind would design a console so fucking horrible that I would have to send it in three god-damned times? It just fuckin’ boggles my mind.
I’ve never seen the Red Ring of Death, but I’ve already suffered enough with the first two repairs. Seeing this is like I was brought out to the wall, wearing a white shirt, only to be shot down by a tonne of soldiers with muskets during the cold time of day. One amazing coup de grace.
That’s right, readers. I feel like the guy from Goya’s Third of May.
Now, I’ve read that sometimes this defect isn’t a permanent thing. I’ve heard that sometimes, it will disappear. Part of me is fine with that. Part of me.
It’s because I can be a patient person. But I’m not one now. I’m pretty pissed. I really don’t want to send this one back, considering I just got it back after the second cycle of returns in the past few months.
To quote my sister, I am “the saddest bee.”


I’m not entirely sure where to start with this movie and why I enjoyed it. Could it be the boring yet intriguing setting of New Zealand where the movie is filmed? Maybe it’s the stars: the genetically mutated were-sheep? Or could it just be because the poster’s tagline is “GET THE FLOCK OUT OF HERE!”
Sadly, this is the most professionally classy poster I could find for this film. The film includes the following bits: a rag-tag group of college students from the U.S. in Madrid (including some of the worst New York accents ever), a mysteriously dark past about an all-girls private Catholic school, things that would make even the most corrupted mind go more insane, and the piéce du resistance:





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