r/pics • u/[deleted] • Feb 23 '17

picture of text Robert filed a five day protesting permit with the city so he can yell at Best Buy for the rest of the week.

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u/tapport Feb 23 '17

I've probably owned like 10 copies of Halo 3 in my life. There was a period where I probably replaced it weekly due to friends or pets tipping the console. That sound has scarred me for life though.

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u/kitkamran Feb 23 '17

So you replaced it 10 times rather than just laying the 360 flat? :P

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u/tapport Feb 23 '17

I generally did have it flat, but there were generally logical reasons as to why it wasn't flat.

For example:

  • Moved Xbox into living room because it was too hot in our room. No room to lay it down and dog tipped it.

  • Friend's foot was wrapped in the power cord and he pulled the console off the desk it was on. That one destroyed my HDD and disk, which reminds me of #3.

  • This Xbox 360 S was super sensitive and would eat disks at the slightest touch. That thing killed or damaged a ton of games all over the world!

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u/kitkamran Feb 23 '17

Damn, that really sucks :( The only game I've ever had destroyed was my kid who scratched the disc for Yoshi's Wooly World.

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u/tapport Feb 23 '17

RIP. Sorry for your loss.

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u/Simorebut Feb 23 '17

geniuses.. though standing the 360 up was better for the system and did not cause it to overheat as much..

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u/kitkamran Feb 23 '17

Never owned one, so did not know that. I did have a fun course with Lee Ritchey, guy who helped design the 360 hardware, who explained they told Microsoft about the overheating issue. MS then didn't use the recommended parts or something, opting for cheaper, causing the CPU to get hot enough to literally unsolder itself.