Today just keeps getting progressively worse.
I have partially lost the will to live.
It all started a few hours ago when Alex and I were going to play Rock Band, but let me back track a bit to give you some context.
I moved a lot of my save files, along with my gamer profile, over to a flash drive, in part to clear up space on our 360 HD and make all my info portable. HOW COOL, I thought at the time. WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG???
Famous. Last. Words.
Back to now. He was going to play drums, but decided, at the last minute, he wanted to be a little diva and sing. It just so happens that as I was signing in on the guitar and he was plugging in the fucking microphone, he bumped my flash drive.
Boom. Profile Corruption.
After a miniature meltdown
We decided to plug the 360 into our crappy dial up internet to try and recover my gamer profile from XBL.
It wouldn't connect. It wouldn't even register that it was connected to our computer. And somehow, in the middle of all of this, my flash drive pooped out. I don't know when or how, but I went to access it and it wasn't there anymore. I just... :| I don't even know.
At first I thought I lost everything, and that mini meltdown was going to become an epic, nuclear sized meltdown, apocalypse-style. It's not just that the files are gone... A little bit of it is that I feel like I just lost a huge portion of my life in a nanosecond. ( And this isn't the first time this has happened! >:( (I still have never been able to get her to look the same, for the record.)) Especially all the files for Bioware games (DA2 & ME especially). Hours and hours and hours of time and decisions and romances. But of course, that can all be played over, and I don't really mind playing it over... I guess. It's just frustrating. (And then I was even more pissed when I thought the only thing I didn't copy was my Origins stuff because I'm at the point where I hate Origins and how is that fair????)
But I was poking around the HD and it turns out there's a lot of stuff I didn't copy. It looks like I've still got all of my Mass Effect 1 files, or most of them. Same with Dragon Age 2. Which is good, because (and this is the real tragedy) I thought I was going to have to recreate all my characters. LAUGH IF YOU WANT. But I would never, never have been able to get them to look the same. Especially with both my Marian's. They're not perfect. Marian Shepard has this big awkward forehead and a super wide mouth and sometimes she looks cross-eyed but I love her and believe me, I've tried to recapture her but it's impossible. And I've tried (and failed) before to redo Marian Hawke, but there's just something about her squinty eyes and eyebrows and jawline that I just cannot fucking recreate. It would not have been the same, playing through both of those games with slightly off versions of them. Super depressing. Once I realized that I still had all of those files, I felt a little better.
I did lose:
All my Assassin's Creed, which sucks because I was SO CLOSE TO HAVING ALL THOSE DAMN FLAGS!!! I REALLY DO NOT WANT TO PLAY THAT GAME AGAIN AGAIN. I wanted to play AC2 and Brotherhood again from the beginning anyway, so eh, I can deal I guess.
All my DA2 that was not Marian. My completed m!warrior/Isabela romance I'm not too worried about, but my f!mage/Fenrismance... >:( I guess I don't mind starting it over... sigh. It'd been awhile since I picked it up and I don't have the Black Emporium and her face was getting on my nerves... Also a m!rogue and a f!warrior I had both just started, but I don't remember what they looked like anyway.
I was really worried I was going to lose the Jade Empire game I just started but HA I DIDN'T! It doesn't have any profile assigned to it so I can play it whenever I want. SCREW YOU XBOX!!
Both L4D and L4D2 which...I guess... Idk, I'm not sure it matters too much? And Portal/Half Life/Portal 2. So...all my Valve. :((((
...All my Rock Band :(((((((((( I just made a new band on RB3 too! THEY WERE SO AWESOME ;___; Oh god, and oh man, all my scores, right? My singular gold starred song. ...:C
Okay...now this is just getting depressing.
As long as I can recover my profile and my goddamn achievements, I think I will be somewhat happier. And I guess it could have been worse with the Mass Effect stuff... But it really sucks because this is the second time I've had my ME saves deleted. Will I ever get all these fucking playthroughs finished?!? :(
Okay and, yeah, moral of this story: Don't copy your shit to a flash drive without a motherfucking backup. I learned my lesson. I was an idiot. But... I'm tired of learning lessons the shitty hard way where everything goes wrong. I'm tired of being the idiot. :( FML.
I wish I had a Tardis :C
It all started a few hours ago when Alex and I were going to play Rock Band, but let me back track a bit to give you some context.
I moved a lot of my save files, along with my gamer profile, over to a flash drive, in part to clear up space on our 360 HD and make all my info portable. HOW COOL, I thought at the time. WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG???
Famous. Last. Words.
Back to now. He was going to play drums, but decided, at the last minute, he wanted to be a little diva and sing. It just so happens that as I was signing in on the guitar and he was plugging in the fucking microphone, he bumped my flash drive.
Boom. Profile Corruption.
After a miniature meltdown
We decided to plug the 360 into our crappy dial up internet to try and recover my gamer profile from XBL.
It wouldn't connect. It wouldn't even register that it was connected to our computer. And somehow, in the middle of all of this, my flash drive pooped out. I don't know when or how, but I went to access it and it wasn't there anymore. I just... :| I don't even know.
At first I thought I lost everything, and that mini meltdown was going to become an epic, nuclear sized meltdown, apocalypse-style. It's not just that the files are gone... A little bit of it is that I feel like I just lost a huge portion of my life in a nanosecond. ( And this isn't the first time this has happened! >:( (I still have never been able to get her to look the same, for the record.)) Especially all the files for Bioware games (DA2 & ME especially). Hours and hours and hours of time and decisions and romances. But of course, that can all be played over, and I don't really mind playing it over... I guess. It's just frustrating. (And then I was even more pissed when I thought the only thing I didn't copy was my Origins stuff because I'm at the point where I hate Origins and how is that fair????)
But I was poking around the HD and it turns out there's a lot of stuff I didn't copy. It looks like I've still got all of my Mass Effect 1 files, or most of them. Same with Dragon Age 2. Which is good, because (and this is the real tragedy) I thought I was going to have to recreate all my characters. LAUGH IF YOU WANT. But I would never, never have been able to get them to look the same. Especially with both my Marian's. They're not perfect. Marian Shepard has this big awkward forehead and a super wide mouth and sometimes she looks cross-eyed but I love her and believe me, I've tried to recapture her but it's impossible. And I've tried (and failed) before to redo Marian Hawke, but there's just something about her squinty eyes and eyebrows and jawline that I just cannot fucking recreate. It would not have been the same, playing through both of those games with slightly off versions of them. Super depressing. Once I realized that I still had all of those files, I felt a little better.
I did lose:
All my Assassin's Creed, which sucks because I was SO CLOSE TO HAVING ALL THOSE DAMN FLAGS!!! I REALLY DO NOT WANT TO PLAY THAT GAME AGAIN AGAIN. I wanted to play AC2 and Brotherhood again from the beginning anyway, so eh, I can deal I guess.
All my DA2 that was not Marian. My completed m!warrior/Isabela romance I'm not too worried about, but my f!mage/Fenrismance... >:( I guess I don't mind starting it over... sigh. It'd been awhile since I picked it up and I don't have the Black Emporium and her face was getting on my nerves... Also a m!rogue and a f!warrior I had both just started, but I don't remember what they looked like anyway.
I was really worried I was going to lose the Jade Empire game I just started but HA I DIDN'T! It doesn't have any profile assigned to it so I can play it whenever I want. SCREW YOU XBOX!!
Both L4D and L4D2 which...I guess... Idk, I'm not sure it matters too much? And Portal/Half Life/Portal 2. So...all my Valve. :((((
...All my Rock Band :(((((((((( I just made a new band on RB3 too! THEY WERE SO AWESOME ;___; Oh god, and oh man, all my scores, right? My singular gold starred song. ...:C
Okay...now this is just getting depressing.
As long as I can recover my profile and my goddamn achievements, I think I will be somewhat happier. And I guess it could have been worse with the Mass Effect stuff... But it really sucks because this is the second time I've had my ME saves deleted. Will I ever get all these fucking playthroughs finished?!? :(
Okay and, yeah, moral of this story: Don't copy your shit to a flash drive without a motherfucking backup. I learned my lesson. I was an idiot. But... I'm tired of learning lessons the shitty hard way where everything goes wrong. I'm tired of being the idiot. :( FML.
I wish I had a Tardis :C