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Day 278: demon’s souls

November 16, 2009 / / 0 Comments

Tonight, I played a game for the PS3 called Demon’s Souls.

This consisted of me making it through the tutorial, then spending the next several hours running through the same map over and over again while being killed over and over again, erasing any previous progress I may have made.

I took a break in the middle of all this despair to eat some dumplings and cookies.

I feel like this is some kind of freshman level psych test. How long can one man do this before clinical depression sets in? What prize is worth this feeling of futility?

I’ll give it another half hour or so, then I really must sleep. What a completely frustrating game.

Day 156: sadbox

July 17, 2009 / / 0 Comments

My Xbox 360 is flashing one red light and giving me an E73 error.

I got this once before (about a week ago) and again tonight.  Both times, if I overheat the console using the toothpick trick, it has started working again.

But I’m sad.  I think something in the internals has gone bad and my guess is that it has to do with the solder that holds some important connection together.

I want to have a more permanent fix (as the toothpick hack only seemed to last a week or so), but my 360 is out of warranty.  I may open it up myself and see if I can find some cracked solder or loose connections and fix them.  After all, there’s no warranty left to void, right?  And sending it back to Microsoft to fix for $99 is pretty ludicrous.

I know it’s old hat when it comes to 360s now, but what shoddy construction.  I don’t feel like I did anything wrong in terms of caring for it, and it’s only a little over 2 years old.

I guess I’ll just be playing my Wii in the meantime.  And teaching myself basic soldering.

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