Red Ring of Death

At first it seemed like such a normal day. I was house sitting for my folks while they were out of town. I'd been somewhat productive over the course of the day and all I wanted was to relax and "rape some jews." That is, I wanted to play my fave FPS, COD4. So I crank up the incredibly overpriced xbox 360 and jump right in the action for a couple games. Then all of a sudden my screen freezes up and no buttons, including the power button will do anything. Rather odd indeed I thought. So I pulled the plug and took a piss. Got back, plugged it back in and jumped back in a game. Played for exactly half a game and my screen suddenly goes pure lime green and the box makes a sad little chirp sound. By this point I'm thinking, "oh shit, it just bit the dust and I don't have a warranty, there goes another large sum of money for this waste of my life." So I unplug it and try again, same deal, green screen. Unplug, remove all accessories and try a game again, green screen, still no red lights. Different game, same shit. So now I'm rather pist at the cheap Chinese manufacturing from our favorite bill gates empire. I unplug it and go searching for green screen errors online. 2 hours later and none the wiser (apparently I'm just special, nobody's ever had a green screen error before) I plug it all back in and try one last time... RROD. I never thought I'd be relieved to have this overpriced piece of shit go to hell in a hand basket but as it turns out I can get it replaced for free by Microsoft and the unit I get from them will have a warranty. RROD means red ring of death btw, indicating a defective heatsink which was recalled by microsoft about a year ago. So now I just have to send them my system and wait a few weeks for a free replacement. So if I don't die of bordom in the meantime I'll be all set.