WTF
What. The. Fuck. (mate) was my reaction to my XBox 360 freezing up a couple of times... little did I know, a couple of freezes would be the least my concerns a mere hour after that. A couple of freezes and weird graphical issues led to the...
RROD
That would be the Red Ring of Death. A dreaded internal malfunction of an XBox 360 console. It uses the 4 lights on the front of the console and the 3 states they can be in (red, green, off) to communicate what malady it is suffering from. When the upper-right one remains off and the other 3 go solid red, that's the red ring of death. My console is at the point right now that it doesn't RROD 100% of the time, but even when it doesn't, it's not up long enough to accomplish anything worthwhile.
So, I've begun the process of getting it sent off to Microsoft for repair. I'm out of the normal 1 year warranty, but luckily Microsoft stepped up to the plate on this issue and extended the warranty to 3 years regarding this one issue. So, I went through their process of registering my console and opted to print my own shipping label and foot the bill for my own box rather than waste an additional 2 or 3 days waiting for them to ship me the materials. The race is on to see if I can get the console to them, have it repaired/replaced and get it back to me before I go home for Christmas. Family-style Rock Band 2 hangs in the balance.
I've already gotten my game out of the console, removed my hard drive and disconnected all the wires. Now it's just a matter of getting to a UPS shipping location, getting it packed and sent tomorrow. That'll be my first order of business tomorrow afternoon when I get up... which leads into my 2nd order of business tomorrow...
WOTLK
Wrath of the Lich King. That's the newest expansion to WoW. I had already narrowed my Winter break activities down to making my own game (or 2 as I had started developing in my mind) or playing Wrath. The 2nd of those 2 was intended to be a 360 game (yeah, hobbists can make games for the 360... one of the multiple reasons that even when suffering from the RROD, I still feel like the 360 was the right choice over the PS3 for me). So, with that possibility up in the air, I've decided to leap back into that monumental time-waster, the consumer of all free time, the devourer of social lives, World of Warcraft.
I'll be leveling a class or 2 that I want to play as my first order of business. I know what one of them will be, but that's all I'm sure about... I haven't exactly researched this to the max. To my knowledge, my close friends are divided among horde characters and alliance characters so I don't even know which side I'm gonna be playing on... so much to think about. Before making this post, I confirmed that my game was as up-to-date as it could be without Wrath. I may put on some tunes and go mod hunting before going to bed... which is to say, I'll spend 2 hours looking at mods descriptions and comments without even being able to really know how they all mesh together. Well, at least...
TGIWB
Thank God It's Winter Break. I'm glad these shenanigans happened near winter break when I don't have lots of other stuff that requires my attention. I have a(n) (optional) quiz tomorrow evening (Wednesday, so technically today), a final that I'm practically all studied up for on Monday evening and one more final the following Thursday morning. I have 2 days off work in a row (including Thursday, during which I have no work and no school... which is the first time, excluding breaks, since the semester began back in August or whenever). I plan to do a lot (and by a lot, I'm talking like a metric shit-ton) of WoW playing and leveling and a minimal amount of studying (honest is the right approach, right?).
Oh yeah, and maybe some drinking during that too, your guess is as good as mine...
4 comments:
Every time I turn on my xbox there is a brief moment of fear that it will RRoD on me. I was hoping the problem had subsided, but I guess it hasn't. Perhaps the only safe thing I can do is to never turn the machine on again.
If you get the itch to play an xbox game you can use my system to satisfy your hunger. You can't turn the system on though for the reason I mentioned earlier.
You can hold the controller and mash the buttons as if you were playing a game though. Maybe even yell at the TV every now and then. Then again I guess you can do that at your place too.
I just saw the part about drinking at the end of your post. We need to get together and drink and play WoW over the break.
Yeah, I'm all about making that happen over the break. Hopefully I'll be over 60 like a week from now so maybe my 'lock and one of your alts can do some TBC stuff... like play like drunken noobs
Yeah you totally need to get 60 so we can do that. I played my shaman one time while I was plastered. Literally, I would die every pull. I remember thinking "Shamans are hard!"
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