Ah…so only a few Xboxes would suffer from Red Ring of Death. What a piece of shit. Was watching The Wire last weekend via my PC that I have steaming to this plastic piece of crap. That’s a whole new story by the way, streaming from a (windows Microsoft) PC to a (Microsoft) XBox. So complicated. So hit and miss. So…illogical. Anyway, after five years of trying to get a stream to work I hear BEEP and the whole xbox locks up JUST LIKE THAT. Frozen. I turn it off and turn it on and there, blinking at me, is the flashing Red Ring of fuckery. In essence it means it’s broken. Its also out of warranty. Rumour has it that 1 in 3 die like this. So I am left with a pile of Microsoft shit that is out of warranty. What to do in Bahrain? There are no authorised dealers on this rock so you have to go to some dodgy shop in the hope they know what they are doing but they don’t. I don’t trust them. I tried the towel trick and it worked. For a week. SO I can pay more loot and hope they know what they are doing OR I can stop throwing good money after bad and finally get a PS3. Blu Ray. HDMI. No Region shit. Just games. And Blu Ray. This is the point I actively start avoiding Microsoft now. No more PC’s for me and no more XBox. I don’t care how fly they are I’m not giving them any of my hard earned anymore.
50 days to go