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Entered on: December 21, 2006 12:00 AM by Ross

My Xbox... get it out!     Notice the little lines of pixels running the length of the screen? Yup, my Xbox 360, after 18 days of use, is defective. Actually less, cuz it's been doing this for the past 3 or 4 days. I even hooked it up to another TV and it's doing the same shit! So I called the Xbox support line and they said that wherever I bought it from has to exchange it for me, so we'll see what bullshittery I have to put up with doing that. Damn computers...

PHOTO 252 - 20 Comments
From: Ross Entered on: December 21, 2006 1:49 PM
You can't see the visual defect unless you click on the full-size picture, but once you do, it should be fairly apparent how f'd up the picture is.  Bastards...
From: Ross Entered on: December 21, 2006 6:50 PM
Well, I already got the mofo returned and the new one hooked up.  Only downside is that I lose my saved games, Splinter Cell being the only one I was part-way through so I have to play about an hour to catch up to where I was.  No big deal, I guess.
From: Jackzilla Entered on: December 22, 2006 10:00 AM
How is Splinter Cell, Bert?  And are you going to be online Saturday night?  I may be up for some playing finally!
From: Ross Entered on: December 22, 2006 12:09 PM
Saturday I'll be out of town.  Where you been?  Anyway, I'll be in GR on the 25 and 26th, leaving the 27th sometime.  Is there any reason for me to bring my xbox? As for Splinter Cell, if you played and liked the first three, you'll probably like this one.  I'd say (so far) it's my least favorite of the bunch, though.  But if you were already iffy on the franchise, I'd say skip it.
From: Jackzilla Entered on: January 16, 2007 1:31 PM
Bert - You gonna be on Live tonight?  I got a new buddy and we both want some Gears of War action!  It's been too long!
From: Ross Entered on: January 16, 2007 4:47 PM
I can get on tonight, sure.  What time?
From: Jackzilla Entered on: January 16, 2007 5:01 PM
After American Idol of course!  (That would be 10PM.  And no I'm not kidding)
From: Jackzilla Entered on: January 17, 2007 8:03 AM
Bert - Were you a bit ill-tempered last night?  You left early!
From: Ross Entered on: January 18, 2007 7:51 AM
I didn't feel too well and the ass-ramming I was receiving didn't help any...
From: Jackzilla Entered on: March 13, 2007 9:41 AM
Bert - You ever play GEARS anymore?!  I've found myself playing it most nights these days.  It's the first game to successfully make me forget about Halo. Currently I have 4 360's set up in the ZAGNUT (my two and Rad and Natron's).  Not only does that allow for a sweet system-link party (the max of two teams of four) but I'm actually able to get all four systems on Live at once with no lag!  We should set a time where you are on and I'll get Johnnybells out here to play too.  There's nothing like the joy of being buzz-sawed by Bells and hearing him bark "ZOOOOOW!" (rhymes with cow!). Let me know!
From: Ross Entered on: March 13, 2007 1:42 PM
Yeah, I've been remiss lately in my gaming.  But I would definitely like to play against you guys sometime soon.  I'm usually around most nights so just shoot me an email or something and let me know when you might want to play. By the way - offtopic - has everyone noticed the new button at the top of the Random Photo box on the main page?  I put in an AJAX control (fancy way of saying a way to redraw part of the page but not all of it) so that you can skip through random photos quickly.  Just a quick little thing I wanted to try out.  Let me know if you find it useful or stupid or whatever.
From: Ross Entered on: March 14, 2007 11:31 AM
So who's gonna be first to hack their 360? No soldering required!
From: The Bone Entered on: March 15, 2007 12:37 AM
I would but I'm a little tied up doing some bad ass mothefucking shit.
From: Jackzilla Entered on: March 16, 2007 10:58 AM
Ok Bert - Saturday night it's ON!  JohnnyBells will be out, plus probably Radmobile and Natron and we'll play some GEARS!  Look for us online around 6-7PM til LATE!
From: Ross Entered on: March 16, 2007 11:06 AM
Alllllllllrightythen!
From: Jackzilla Entered on: April 11, 2007 11:08 AM
There's a new Live Patch for GEARS as of this week.  It supposedly fixes some bugs, but the coolest part is a new play mode that's like a king of the hill with a moving plot.  And there's respawns!  Makes it feel like a whole different game!  So... when Bells gets his machine back and Bert gets his ass back, we can play!
From: Radmobile Entered on: April 11, 2007 12:17 PM
Agreed, this new mode is full sweet!  The best part is there's no sitting there dead waiting for 2 guys to snipe each other and or waiting out the clock.  This is because you're respawning anyway, so you don't have to watch for long, and because you're forced to go to the "plot/hill/magic circle."  I had been getting a little burnt out on the Gears but my interest has been fully rejuvenated after only a couple hours of playtesting this new style.
From: Radmobile Entered on: April 13, 2007 9:48 AM
It's official, Guitar Hero on 360 is the style! Natron picked it up after work last night and we spent the rest of the evening taking turns rocking out at the treehouse. There was a strange feeling of simultaneous sweetness and dorkiness, but the sweetness always wins out. Anyway, I think Zills was a bit jealous of the times as he had to resort to Gears probably.
From: Jackzilla Entered on: April 13, 2007 12:41 PM
Radmobile said: It's official, Guitar Hero on 360 is the style! Natron picked it up after work last night and we spent the rest of the evening taking turns rocking out at the treehouse. There was a strange feeling of simultaneous sweetness and dorkiness, but the sweetness always wins out. Anyway, I think Zills was a bit jealous of the times as he had to resort to Gears probably. Let's make this clear:  One never has to "resort" to Gears.  Gears is full sweet! I am looking foward to getting Guitar Hero 2 myself though.  They should combine the two.  Instead of buzzing a downed enemy with a chainsaw you could go Van Halen on their ass with an axe!   *Whaaaa-wa-waaaaaaaa!!!*  That would be sweet like ninja!  Then I would do a little dance on their body.  I wonder how Bert would enjoy that style?
From: Jackzilla Entered on: April 15, 2007 4:00 PM
I may be "resorting" to playing Halo 2 on Tuesday: Two new maps go online!  (One is a version of Halo 1's "Hang Em High" map!)