October 9, 2007 – 1:38 pm
After just over 5 months, my Xbox 360 Elite has kicked the bucket. I get disk read errors on every disk I put in the tray, whether it’s a game, movie, or audio disk. Good times.
This marks my 6th Xbox 360 to die since launch day. Yes, my 6th. F’ing ridiculous.
I know some people are going to jump all over this in comments saying I treat it badly or whatever, but that is far from the case. My Xbox 360 has it’s own shelf in the entertainment center, with full ventilation from the front and rear. The power brick also sits on the shelf fully ventilated. The console is never moved when playing (in fact, it’s only moved a tiny bit once a week to dust). The console is kept perfectly clean, as are my other systems. I haven’t had any problems with my PS3 (save long install times) or my Wii. Never had problems with my PS2, Xbox, or Gamecube before that.
I guess I’ll be making a trip to Best Buy this afternoon to get this thing swapped out. Maybe #7 will be a lot luckier than the first 6 consoles I’ve gone through. At least I didn’t get the red ring of death again this time.
February 7, 2007 – 1:39 pm
In case you haven’t heard the recent cluster fuck that occurred in Boston, check this out. The long and the short of the story is that Aqua Teen Hunger Force had a publicity stunt where they put up Lite-Brites around Boston and other major cities. The Lite-Brites were flipping people the bird to promote their upcoming feature film slated to release in March. They placed several of these all over the city and they were deemed to be a threat to national security?! “Bean town” actually shutdown their bridges, subways and roads in fear of the very dangerous Lite-Brites, all I can say is Wow! “Bean Town” must refer to the size of a person’s brain, to think that a Lite-Brite may be a terrorist plot to kill them. Two people were arrested and now Turner Broadcasting System is being forced to pay the city $2 million dollars in damages for the confusion they caused. Let me just add that the two marketing guys that did this were brilliant, except they look like maniacs in court and actually laughed during their arraignment, shiet I wouldn’t laugh at the prospect of going to jail.
