[Loki]

Mr.James, on 25 July 2011 - 11:16 AM, said:

Yeah it is a pretty traumatizing event and since i have an ancient xbox (since 2006), this is the fourth time it has happened to me. Amazing how it always chooses to break down in the middle of the night on saturday so that I have to spend the weekend with that evil red ring staring at, especially irritating when I'm in a multi-hour session with no save which once corrupted a 20 hour Dragon Age playthrough...My dwarf died that day, and till now I mourn his passing...

I got mine in 2007 - the one time I got the RROD was when the power in our house blew and the safety switch didn't work. Once the power came back on all I saw was red - I panicked - I grabbed every fan in the house and set them to blow cool air onto it (despite the fact it was close to 40 degrees and everyone was melting to death) and sat next to it stroking it and promising that if it turned back on a I would play Dragon Age through again in one sitting....I even sung to it....my family was somewhat concerned but thankfully when I turned it back on it was green across the board

Silencer, on 25 July 2011 - 11:21 AM, said:

The only downside to this is the fact that I still have but 20Gb of storage. Heck, if we weren't so damn close to the next gen of tech (at least, despite what M$ and $ony claim, I feel we should be seeing next-gen consoles in 2013, but if there's no news as at E3 next year, I might upgrade...) I'd be buying one of the sexy new 'S'/'Slim'/whatever 360s too.

Same - I keep having to choose between saved games which one to delete I love my bulky white original though - I don't want the slim black one. I plan to get a special edition but they haven't released any that I like (including the current Star Wars themed one - though R2-D2 noises is cool!). At the moment Zeke is having issues - keeps having trouble reading media and the likes....I think he is finally feeling the effects of 30 hour gaming sessions over the course of the past 4 years. He just has to hold out til ME3 - it wouldn't feel right playing it on another console.....Then I'll retire him to a place of honour on my bookshelf.


~ Loki - Talking geekdom to new heights of strange

[Grimjust Bearegular]

My wrist. It hurts like a motherfucker!!


Which means no drawing, sewing or gaming for me And Gears of War is coming out soon! And there's a party on Friday I need a new dress for!! FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!




Also, the Contest is really wearing me down...but I can't lose now, on account of my wrist

[Captain Beardface]

Stuck in a cube bored off my ass, wish they would transfer me to the other program already

[Mezla PigDog]

My crazy father who I have been estranged from for 2 years is trying to get back in contact again. Apparently he's moving to the Philippenes and buying a pineapple farm. I'd like to say this was odd behaviour but it is one of the more mundane pieces of news I've heard from him in the last 10 years! I can't decide if I should get in back in touch with him again or continue the estrangment. Decisions decisions........tis rather stressful.

[Mr.James]

Loki, on 25 July 2011 - 11:46 AM, said:

I got mine in 2007 - the one time I got the RROD was when the power in our house blew and the safety switch didn't work. Once the power came back on all I saw was red - I panicked - I grabbed every fan in the house and set them to blow cool air onto it (despite the fact it was close to 40 degrees and everyone was melting to death) and sat next to it stroking it and promising that if it turned back on a I would play Dragon Age through again in one sitting....I even sung to it....my family was somewhat concerned but thankfully when I turned it back on it was green across the board

Silencer, on 25 July 2011 - 11:21 AM, said:

The only downside to this is the fact that I still have but 20Gb of storage. Heck, if we weren't so damn close to the next gen of tech (at least, despite what M$ and $ony claim, I feel we should be seeing next-gen consoles in 2013, but if there's no news as at E3 next year, I might upgrade...) I'd be buying one of the sexy new 'S'/'Slim'/whatever 360s too.

Same - I keep having to choose between saved games which one to delete I love my bulky white original though - I don't want the slim black one. I plan to get a special edition but they haven't released any that I like (including the current Star Wars themed one - though R2-D2 noises is cool!). At the moment Zeke is having issues - keeps having trouble reading media and the likes....I think he is finally feeling the effects of 30 hour gaming sessions over the course of the past 4 years. He just has to hold out til ME3 - it wouldn't feel right playing it on another console.....Then I'll retire him to a place of honour on my bookshelf.

You guys are pretty lucky to have it happen only once, I mean i got the first one after about 4 years and it's been pretty downhill from there with maybe 7 false alarms (like what happened what loki) and 4 real ones counting this one. Guess mine is mine is more accident prone..It is japanese by origin but i dont think that has anything to do with it..
And you think 20 gigs is bad?? mine's got only 13, which means that with all my saves which are sacred and not to be erased can only hold 2 installed games at once, sometimes only one if it's really memory intensive. But like you I will be refraining from upgrading till I see what the situation is with next-gen.

Loki, on 25 July 2011 - 11:46 AM, said:

~ Loki - Talking geekdom to new heights of strange

hehe, Geek on...It's all the more awesome if you ask me

[Illuyankas]

Mezla PigDog, on 25 July 2011 - 07:56 PM, said:

My crazy father who I have been estranged from for 2 years is trying to get back in contact again. Apparently he's moving to the Philippenes and buying a pineapple farm. I'd like to say this was odd behaviour but it is one of the more mundane pieces of news I've heard from him in the last 10 years! I can't decide if I should get in back in touch with him again or continue the estrangment. Decisions decisions........tis rather stressful.

Send him horse porn. Problem solved! He'll stay estranged after that.

[Shiara]

Our new landlords keep sending me text messages and emails asking how we're going with finding a new place. We have a lease until January 2012, so we're moving out as a favour to them; I'm just getting sick of being harassed when I'm working full time and doing what I can as it is to find a decent rental. Clearly they want us to move into the first sh/thole that becomes available, but I'm sorry, THAT'S NOT GOING TO CUT IT.

[Loki]

Tell them to hold back on the contact and that you will let them know when anything changes

[Darkwatch]

Shiara, on 26 July 2011 - 01:37 AM, said:

Our new landlords keep sending me text messages and emails asking how we're going with finding a new place. We have a lease until January 2012, so we're moving out as a favour to them; I'm just getting sick of being harassed when I'm working full time and doing what I can as it is to find a decent rental. Clearly they want us to move into the first sh/thole that becomes available, but I'm sorry, THAT'S NOT GOING TO CUT IT.

Loki, on 26 July 2011 - 01:40 AM, said:

Tell them to hold back on the contact and that you will let them know when anything changes

I think Illy has the right idea actually...

Illuyankas, on 25 July 2011 - 09:42 PM, said:

Send him horse porn. Problem solved!.

[Illuyankas]

It's the universal solution.

[Shiara]

I said

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I understand that you're waiting on us and I promise that we will contact you as soon as we start submitting applications, but we are not just going to settle for the first place we inspect unless it meets our requirements. I'm sure I don't need to remind you that we are doing you a favour by moving out so soon, considering we have a legally binding lease agreement that is valid until January 2012. I don't want to be difficult - I understand that your situation is uncomfortable also - but the frequent text messages are just adding to the stress of looking for a new place. Please be assured that we are doing everything we can to move out as soon as possible.

He said

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Ok understood, and I apologise if I’ve added to the stress. I appreciate your co-operation, and I’m sure it will get worked out in due course. Please just give us as much information as you can, so we can make tentative plans on our end. Once again, thanks for helping us with this.

WIKTOLY!

[Puck]

It's gotten freaking ccccold! In the middle of the freaking summer!

[Gothos]

I realized I'm somewhat racist. How?

Well, there's a basketball court not far from where I live and I can see it quite well from the balcony. In one of the groups of teenagers who come to occupy it, there's this black kid, right. Each time I'm thoroughly surprised and amazed that, despite being fairly athletic and whatnot, he's a piss-poor basketball player, pretty much one of the worst on the court. I think that does make me racist, doesn't it?

[Solidsnape]

Gothos, on 26 July 2011 - 06:38 AM, said:

I realized I'm somewhat racist. How?

Well, there's a basketball court not far from where I live and I can see it quite well from the balcony. In one of the groups of teenagers who come to occupy it, there's this black kid, right. Each time I'm thoroughly surprised and amazed that, despite being fairly athletic and whatnot, he's a piss-poor basketball player, pretty much one of the worst on the court. I think that does make me racist, doesn't it?

Yes I'm afraid so.
However, fear not, for Everyone's a Little Bit Racist!!

[Puck]

New week, back at work and once again I'm raging! Yeah, sure, why should you guys send us files that are compatible with the InDesign version we use over here? Why bother? It's not like they, the files, came too late already, nooo, of course we can wait a week or so until someone over there bothesr to upgrade our version.. We have all the time in the world...

[Ain't_It_Just_]

Feel really tired after today and what does Dad do when he gets back? Serves up this big lecture on how "the night isn't over yet" and pelted more rubbish about responsibility and hard work at me. I get that, but come the fuck on, I haven't even had dinner yet, I just want to spend some time on the web.

Also I was in the middle of...ahem..."losing the Contest" and got interrupted. Fark.

[Shiara]

Ain, on 26 July 2011 - 09:33 AM, said:

Also I was in the middle of...ahem..."losing the Contest" and got interrupted. Fark.

With or without Lex?

I burnt my finger on the oven rack; go me!

[Tapper]

Ain, on 26 July 2011 - 09:33 AM, said:

Also I was in the middle of...ahem..."losing the Contest" and got interrupted. Fark.

But think of all the Kleenex you saved!

[Tsundoku]

Tapper, on 26 July 2011 - 10:58 AM, said:

Ain, on 26 July 2011 - 09:33 AM, said:

Also I was in the middle of...ahem..."losing the Contest" and got interrupted. Fark.

But think of all the untold millions of your valiant soldiers you saved!

Fixed, and God bless those brave swimmers.

EDIT: THAT'S the Universal Solution, Illy.

This post has been edited by Sombra: 26 July 2011 - 01:19 PM

[cerveza_fiesta]

ugh.....my province.

See rant in the discussion thread RE US tax benefactors swearing they never used it.

I made a rant and it put me in a bad mood. Isn't ranting supposed to help???