Yes, once in a blue moon I make a blog entry as we all know. However, this one is even later than my usual late ones… did you miss me?
I suppose I should get on with the reason that caused me to want to make a blog entry, this being my Xbox 360… or rather, my new doorstop!
Anyway, where was I? Oh yeah! Last Friday I decided that I wanted to play on my X-Flop 1.5, so I go to turn it on in the usual manner (this being with both my eyes tightly shut, a finger in one ear, and one finger on my other outstretched arm pressing the button). I hear it turn on and quickly jump back… no explosion, good, one eye opens hesitantly. A single red light and a warning on the screen… that's not so bad, I'll just turn it off and on again as it says on the support page and…
As you may well be able to guess, I wasn't best pleased to see a full red ring on my X-Flop (am I spelling this right?). As I understand it this means a problem with the AV cable in some way or another, so don't ask if it's plugged in properly because it is!
So far I've had four of these bricks and each one has had it's own unique problems. My first one kept crashing about 2 minutes into a game, the second brick's disc tray refused to open, and my third brick's disc tray literally destroyed one of my games! The fourth and most recently deceased member of the family had been repaired once but managed to live long enough to see me past the warranty period.
*sigh*
As it may well be a minor problem you would think I'd be considering getting it repaired… probably not. This one started to show the same faults that all of my other bricks had, and it doesn't have an HDMI port. The only thing I'm considering with this one is the camera angle I'm going to have when I record a hammer going through it!
The question now is am I going to get another one? Well I have four very good reasons not to… But enough about Microshaft… did I spell that right? It looks right!
I've got other news of course, but this will do for now. See ya around!
- Kitsune
I thought I would wait, before telling people, to see if I would actually keep updating it... and so far I've found I have a lot to say.
Like all my dear former GameSpot friends, I have started posting on a blog elsewhere. It's not for lack of love for this site, it's just because I'm interested in beginning new memories.
I will always be reading, and I will pop in from time to time (as I have here), but I hope to frequently update my blog there, if you are so inclined to read it:
So far it's been about things related to video games, of course, it's about some things that are personal, and it's about working in game development, above all.
Mario fans should join this union.
