I totally rule!
Indeed I do. I'll start from the beginning.
A friend let me borrow his Xbox 360. That was like a month ago or something. Anyway, I'm playing Fable 2 all happy like when it freezes. No biggie, right? HA! I turn it off then turn it back on. And of course, the Red Rings of Death decided to show its ugly little head. I, like any normal human being, freak the fuck out. Not only is this a relatively new system... it's the the most fucking expensive system. Well, expensive to me. So, I start crying and call him up. He apparently can't understand a word I'm saying, so he rushes on over to find his baby flashing red at him. I beg him to spare my life (No really, I begged) and he just laughs at me. I'm thinking that this is the sort of evil laugh that people do in the movies right before they slaughter people. But no. He tells me to calm down, not to worry because he had a feeling it was going to happen any day now. Did he tell me this as I was happily packing it up? Nope. Bastard.
Anyway, I tell him that I'll pay for the shipping when he sends it back to Microsoft to get fixed. He tells me that he's not even going to bother. He'll just buy a core system and slap this hard drive on it. And if I want, I can have a 400 dollar paper weight. Yeah, like I want that. It'll only serve as a reminder to how pathetic I am. I then ask if there is any way that we could fix it on our own. He says there might be and we wander our way on to YouTube. We find various methods. Ones including towels, pennies, and taking apart the whole system. Towels and pennies are out, because those would probably not work. So we go with cracking the damn thing open. I'm freaking out again, because the first time I took anything apart that was more complicated than a pen, I ruined it. Once again, he tells me to calm down and that he has complete faith in me. How much worse could it get? So, he gives me 20 bucks, even after I insisted that I foot the bill, to go buy the supplies. I buy them the next day, call him up, and he tells me that I can do this by myself. He won't be coming over because he doesn't want to witness the carnage that is about to unfold. So much for having faith in me.
I crack that sucker open, do exactly what the videos told me to do, and guess what?! IT FUCKING WORKS AGAIN!!!!!!! I didn't make it worse! But now, I have a $10 tube of thermal paste that I don't know what to do with. But, I fixed something and now I'm being hailed as the. "Queen of the Xbox 360." Kind of catchy, huh? He then said, "Go ahead and keep the 360 for as long as you want. I'm getting bored of it."
Come to find out, he went out and bought himself a brand new PS3, and that if I want, I can have the 360. Permanently. I'm torn though. Do I take it? Or do I get it as far away from me as possible?
A friend let me borrow his Xbox 360. That was like a month ago or something. Anyway, I'm playing Fable 2 all happy like when it freezes. No biggie, right? HA! I turn it off then turn it back on. And of course, the Red Rings of Death decided to show its ugly little head. I, like any normal human being, freak the fuck out. Not only is this a relatively new system... it's the the most fucking expensive system. Well, expensive to me. So, I start crying and call him up. He apparently can't understand a word I'm saying, so he rushes on over to find his baby flashing red at him. I beg him to spare my life (No really, I begged) and he just laughs at me. I'm thinking that this is the sort of evil laugh that people do in the movies right before they slaughter people. But no. He tells me to calm down, not to worry because he had a feeling it was going to happen any day now. Did he tell me this as I was happily packing it up? Nope. Bastard.
Anyway, I tell him that I'll pay for the shipping when he sends it back to Microsoft to get fixed. He tells me that he's not even going to bother. He'll just buy a core system and slap this hard drive on it. And if I want, I can have a 400 dollar paper weight. Yeah, like I want that. It'll only serve as a reminder to how pathetic I am. I then ask if there is any way that we could fix it on our own. He says there might be and we wander our way on to YouTube. We find various methods. Ones including towels, pennies, and taking apart the whole system. Towels and pennies are out, because those would probably not work. So we go with cracking the damn thing open. I'm freaking out again, because the first time I took anything apart that was more complicated than a pen, I ruined it. Once again, he tells me to calm down and that he has complete faith in me. How much worse could it get? So, he gives me 20 bucks, even after I insisted that I foot the bill, to go buy the supplies. I buy them the next day, call him up, and he tells me that I can do this by myself. He won't be coming over because he doesn't want to witness the carnage that is about to unfold. So much for having faith in me.
I crack that sucker open, do exactly what the videos told me to do, and guess what?! IT FUCKING WORKS AGAIN!!!!!!! I didn't make it worse! But now, I have a $10 tube of thermal paste that I don't know what to do with. But, I fixed something and now I'm being hailed as the. "Queen of the Xbox 360." Kind of catchy, huh? He then said, "Go ahead and keep the 360 for as long as you want. I'm getting bored of it."
Come to find out, he went out and bought himself a brand new PS3, and that if I want, I can have the 360. Permanently. I'm torn though. Do I take it? Or do I get it as far away from me as possible?