As some of you may be aware, there is a vocal contingent out there that have a few things to say about the 360 and it's distressing propensity for bursting into flame. Thankfully, some brave soul has (after long minutes of suffering with this problem) finally taken the M$ bull by the horns and is championing the the plight of the poor, huddling masses whose Xbox 360 tends to overheat.
Robert Byers of Chicago (the city where you can start up a hack website dedicated to old people and Halo instead of working), has discovered yet another dodge to prevent people from taking any responsibility for their own lives- a class action lawsuit against one of the world's largest suppliers of hush money. Obviously, the next step is to sign as many fellow malcontents up as possible, start recouping some losses from launch day, and start saving up for a trip to E-bay when M$ launches the 720 complete with Blu-Ray technology and a built in acupressure massage system for the launch title DOA: Extreme Beach Oil Up.
However, if this type of rabble rousing is not your cup of tea, don't worry, Some enterprising folks over at Slashdot have a solution for you as well. Tie some effing string around that cinderblock of a power converter and raise it off the floor so that air can circulate around it. Just explain to the wife that the four bills you dropped on the new system didn't include the cost of the "auxiliary-converter-coolant-system," spring for some cordage at Home Depot and check out bondage.com for some help with the knots. You can't make this stuff up folks. In fact, while researching this article I actually put a call into M$'s support line. My press credentials here at 2o2p.com were enough to get the mandatory $195.00 fee waived. After several hours on hold, and another hour of searching for a translator here in town that spoke a rare dialect of Punjabi, the helpful customer support staff were able to give me a suggestion as well. Tie some effing string around that cinderblock of a power converter and raise it off the floor so that air can circulate around it. He actually offered to have some "360 Twine-a-mania" airlifted to me for $165.58 US. I declined.
The fanboy forums are aflame with reports of malfunctions. The M$ people are yodeling the familiar cry of "isolated incidents." Meanwhile, twenty inches of snow have fallen in New Jersey, my fantasy football team is in the toilet and those poop-flinging butt-monkeys at GameStop can only tell me that they expect my system to arrive some time before the turn of the century. Anyone care to guess the total amount of sympathy I have for the fact that you have to reboot while playing 32 man multi-player on PDZ and ignore my XBL messages to come join me in a game on Terminal?
You get what you pay for, unless you buy an M$ product on launch day, and then you pay for the privilege of beta-testing for the rest of us. Suck it.
However, if this type of rabble rousing is not your cup of tea, don't worry, Some enterprising folks over at Slashdot have a solution for you as well. Tie some effing string around that cinderblock of a power converter and raise it off the floor so that air can circulate around it. Just explain to the wife that the four bills you dropped on the new system didn't include the cost of the "auxiliary-converter-coolant-system," spring for some cordage at Home Depot and check out bondage.com for some help with the knots. You can't make this stuff up folks. In fact, while researching this article I actually put a call into M$'s support line. My press credentials here at 2o2p.com were enough to get the mandatory $195.00 fee waived. After several hours on hold, and another hour of searching for a translator here in town that spoke a rare dialect of Punjabi, the helpful customer support staff were able to give me a suggestion as well. Tie some effing string around that cinderblock of a power converter and raise it off the floor so that air can circulate around it. He actually offered to have some "360 Twine-a-mania" airlifted to me for $165.58 US. I declined.
The fanboy forums are aflame with reports of malfunctions. The M$ people are yodeling the familiar cry of "isolated incidents." Meanwhile, twenty inches of snow have fallen in New Jersey, my fantasy football team is in the toilet and those poop-flinging butt-monkeys at GameStop can only tell me that they expect my system to arrive some time before the turn of the century. Anyone care to guess the total amount of sympathy I have for the fact that you have to reboot while playing 32 man multi-player on PDZ and ignore my XBL messages to come join me in a game on Terminal?
You get what you pay for, unless you buy an M$ product on launch day, and then you pay for the privilege of beta-testing for the rest of us. Suck it.
