Ugh … It was bound to happen. Every friend I have who has owned a 360 for longer than a month has been through this before. EVERY single friend. I knew it even when I was handing over my hard-earned cash to the lady at Circuit City, but I thought to myself “It only happens to everybody else. It won’t happen to me”. WRONG!
Well, It took about a year and a half but it finally happened. My precious 360 crapped out on me with the “ring of death”. What’s even worse is the fact that, even though Halo 3 has been out since September, I had just decided to finish the game on Legendary.
I guess it was the non-stop hours of gameplay that caused the 360 to overheat (or Microsoft just had no idea how to properly build a gaming console). But here’s the thing: it died on me as I started the next-to-last level of Halo 3! AAAAHHHHHH!!!!! How does that happen?!?!?! Do I even need to say how angry I am?
Now … while my Halo teammates like Jason and Poncho are ranking up and collecting all kinds of achievements, I’ll be stuck at home … waiting by the door, like a dog, for the mailman with a fresh new (or repaired) Xbox which could take up to 6 FREAKIN WEEKS!!!!! ARE YOU SERIOUS?!?!?!?!
So, how are you going to make it up to me, Microsoft? Huh? Oh … by “fixing” the problem for free while I do without gaming for a month or so? Wow, that makes perfect sense. How does repairing something for free (that shouldnt have needed to be repaired in the first place) going to make up for the probably thousands of times that I closed my eyes, held my breath, and pressed the power button on my 360 … just hoping that this time wasn’t the time that it died?
So, now I wait. I wait for the cardboard coffin of a box to arrive at my place. Stick my 360 in and say “have a nice trip” and hope that I get it back soon. Sure there are other, more productive things I could do since I can’t play Xbox, but that still doesn’t take away the bitterness.
All I know is that there are 2 more levels of evil aliens to rid the world of … and I cannot rest until that happens. Besides … that’s probably what Jesus would do.
