amtalx
Aug 20, 2008, 08:53 PM
So, I get off from work, excited to go pick up my copy of Too Human. Hop in my car, do the usual drive home. Traffic is incredibly light. I end up doing 75 and I'm still getting passed by those demons in the left lane.
Anyway, I roll into the store and tell 'Average GameStop Employee #2' that I have a reserve copy of Too Human to pick up. Amidst the process, he convinces me to reserve Gears of War 2 while I'm there since, let's face it, I'm going to get it. Turns out he's actually a pretty cool guy, and we end up talking for about 20 minutes. After talking about how SEGA is a mere shadow of what it once was (inorite?), I realized that I parked in a spot that said "10 Minute Parking STRICTLY ENFORCED", so I psychologically soil myself and put and end to the conversation to go find my car. What do I see outside? A tow truck with a black car behind it (I drive a black Altima). After a closer look, I realize its not mine. As relief rushes over me and I start to walk to my car, I realize that the black car wasn't attached to the tow truck at all. In fact, the tow truck is driving towards my spot and there is a guy behind my car on a cell phone. SHIT. So I book it and get out of there like its the last day of school. Score one for the home team.
Where am I going with all this? Nowhere really. I just wanted to highlight the good parts of my day before getting to the enema of failure. Good parts: got home fast, and dodged a parking ticket and towing fee. Now for mass defecation:
I put the disc in my 360, and firmly plant my ass on the couch. As I'm selecting my class (the ranger class of course) I notice the rendering gets incredibly bizarre. I think to myself "great, I haven't even fired a single shot yet and there are already bugs". Hoping it will correct itself later, I keep going through the opening cinematic. Once game play starts, the problem hasn't gone way. Super. I dump back to the dashboard thinking its a caching issue and everything will be better if I reload. Reload. No dice. So, I mutter a short series of mild expletives and begrudgingly reboot my 360. If you don't know what's about to happen, I suggest you stop reading now and maintain your blissful ignorance.
MY FUCKING XBOX DOESN'T BOOT
Now, I quite audibly unleash a much longer and more embittered string of fiery expletives delivered straight from hell's hottest oven. However, its not a RROD. Its only a single light, and the brain trust over at MS was nice enough to serve me an error code along with my steaming hot bowl of disappointment. Error code 74. Long story short, my GPU shat the bed with great vengeance and furious anger. This being my 5th 360, I was wise enough to get the warranty. 20/20 foresight on my part since this is NOT covered by the extended 'big f*cking oops' warranty MS rolled out a while ago.
This will make my 6th Xbox. Its really getting ridiculous now. If it weren't for warranties, I would be out thousands of dollars. However, I would like to thank the retailers for picking up the check for MS inexplicably bad manufacturing process.
Anyway, I roll into the store and tell 'Average GameStop Employee #2' that I have a reserve copy of Too Human to pick up. Amidst the process, he convinces me to reserve Gears of War 2 while I'm there since, let's face it, I'm going to get it. Turns out he's actually a pretty cool guy, and we end up talking for about 20 minutes. After talking about how SEGA is a mere shadow of what it once was (inorite?), I realized that I parked in a spot that said "10 Minute Parking STRICTLY ENFORCED", so I psychologically soil myself and put and end to the conversation to go find my car. What do I see outside? A tow truck with a black car behind it (I drive a black Altima). After a closer look, I realize its not mine. As relief rushes over me and I start to walk to my car, I realize that the black car wasn't attached to the tow truck at all. In fact, the tow truck is driving towards my spot and there is a guy behind my car on a cell phone. SHIT. So I book it and get out of there like its the last day of school. Score one for the home team.
Where am I going with all this? Nowhere really. I just wanted to highlight the good parts of my day before getting to the enema of failure. Good parts: got home fast, and dodged a parking ticket and towing fee. Now for mass defecation:
I put the disc in my 360, and firmly plant my ass on the couch. As I'm selecting my class (the ranger class of course) I notice the rendering gets incredibly bizarre. I think to myself "great, I haven't even fired a single shot yet and there are already bugs". Hoping it will correct itself later, I keep going through the opening cinematic. Once game play starts, the problem hasn't gone way. Super. I dump back to the dashboard thinking its a caching issue and everything will be better if I reload. Reload. No dice. So, I mutter a short series of mild expletives and begrudgingly reboot my 360. If you don't know what's about to happen, I suggest you stop reading now and maintain your blissful ignorance.
MY FUCKING XBOX DOESN'T BOOT
Now, I quite audibly unleash a much longer and more embittered string of fiery expletives delivered straight from hell's hottest oven. However, its not a RROD. Its only a single light, and the brain trust over at MS was nice enough to serve me an error code along with my steaming hot bowl of disappointment. Error code 74. Long story short, my GPU shat the bed with great vengeance and furious anger. This being my 5th 360, I was wise enough to get the warranty. 20/20 foresight on my part since this is NOT covered by the extended 'big f*cking oops' warranty MS rolled out a while ago.
This will make my 6th Xbox. Its really getting ridiculous now. If it weren't for warranties, I would be out thousands of dollars. However, I would like to thank the retailers for picking up the check for MS inexplicably bad manufacturing process.