The following is accurate to the best of my memory. Yes, really.

carstairs is comfortably resting on his couch while playing Battlefield 1943 on his Xbox 360, talking in a stream of consciousness to himself to relax. The loading screen displays Iwo-Jima.

Console: BZZZT!

Pure white on TV.

carstairs: Not good. At least it didn't Red Ring of Death on me.

Note that he did not knock on wood as he usually does. carstairs hard resets the console and is treated to a frozen boot animation with dotten white lines.

carstairs: Ah, crap. Not good.

carstairs hard resets again, and three flashing lights appear on the Xbox 360.

TV: lol
Xbox 360: roflmao

End scene.

7/31/2007-7/18/2009

Xbox.com refuses to generate a shipping slip (image didn't load in Opera, Firefox, or Internet Explorer), so I have to wait for them to mail me one. And of course they just stopped mailing coffins. This will seriously affect my decision to purchase the next Microsoft console, especially considering that I own a gaming PC.

Oh well. Time to watch DVDs on the PS2.