it did it again
I thought I’d take a moment out of my busy day to whine and moan about the three red lights on my Xbox360. This is not the first time I’ve been disappointed by this hardware. To make matters worse, this is about 14 months after the first one’s replacement arrived putting it just outside of the extended warranty offered by Microsoft.
If you had any doubts that this wasn’t a well-designed piece of hardware, let’s do some math:
me: 2 x xbox360s -> 2 dead
friend a: 1 x xbox360 -> 1 dead
friend b: 2 x xbox360 -> 1 dead
friend c: 2 x xbox360 -> 1 dead
friend d: 1 x xbox360 -> 0 dead (?)
friend e: 2 x xbox360 -> 1 dead
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Out of 10 xbox360s between me and some friends, 6 are now dead. Friend “d” whose xbox360 arrived last year right after xmas is screwed. It’s only a matter of time before his xbox360 dies too. I hope he’s taken out some insurance. I’m not saying this to scare him. I’m not trying to be cruel. He doesn’t even read this because he thinks reading blogs is “gay”, so I can pretty much say whatever I want about him. He’s not even really that close a friend, hence his enumeration way down at letter “d”. He didn’t even bother to write a supportive note about my xbox eating its own genitals when I wrote about it on our forums. Some friend… (his name’s Prod)
So, say what you will about Sony taking their sweet time releasing the PS3, I have little doubt they’re far more reliable than these crappy pieces of electronics. Way to go, Microsoft. You’ve screwed me again.
PS, aside to the person who smeared a muffin on my car’s mirror and door this morning and left the remains sitting on my mirror for me to discover: You are a dick.
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