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The definition of fear
In an Xbox 360 kind of way
So as previously discussed I ordered an Xbox live membership card.
It arrived Tuesday and I went to install it Tuesday evening. Simple enough. Turn on my Xbox 360, go into my account, redeem code.
Wait... where's my account? What do you mean no account on this Xbox? What the...??? Oh, of course. I had been swapping my 120 GB Hard Drive into the family room Xbox so that we could play Rock Band 2 on my live account. Let's go get my hard drive and then plug it in right there... right there where my 120 GB Hard Drive already is installed! This is where the fear sets in.
My 120 GB Hard Drive was connected and I have no accounts, theme, or proper dashboard available.
A great feeling of dread encompassed me. I understood fear...
Okay... wait... turn everything off. Disconnect 120 GB Hard Drive. Reconnect 120 GB Hard Drive. Wait why won't you connect. Shift drive, twist drive, stop short of getting a hammer. Okay. Breathe. Pull out Xbox 360 so I can get at it properly. Carefully remove drive fully. Reattach drive slowly and carefully.
Whew. It went in and clicked properly. 120 GB Hard Drive installed.
Let's try again... Reboot... Wait impatiently...
- Blackwalt signed in to Live!
Yes!!!!
And from there everything went as originally planned. I am guessing that Microsoft really didn't expect you to disconnect and swap Xbox 360 Hard Drive frequently. I am not planning on stopping the swapping around but I am planning on being a little more careful and a lot more patient.
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You didn't expect a Microsoft "portable hard drive" to withstand any kind of movement, did you?
Try to imagine the feeling of arriving at Denver airport to find your checked luggage didn't arrive with you ... and it contained your 120GB XBOX HD, Left4Dead, COD W@W and Gears2.
That, my friend, is fear.
Show up at the aiport, in the Bahamas, and your luggage is in Vancouver. With your diving gear. And the next day you are leaving on a sail boat to live 6 days and nights on the ocean to do some SCUBA diving.
No one cares about that.
I'm talking my XBOX Hard Drive!!!
Not even in the same league, loser.
Why don't you come with me next time I go SCUBA. I'd like to try out my new harpoon.
It's not like you would be hard to miss or anything.
But I actually got my SCUBA certification a zillion years ago, in CEGEP. Not that I would ever do it again. It's kind of like bungie jumping. I prefer my entertainment to not be potentially fatal.
What, did you get a new harpoon controller for the XBOX?
Didn't you come rock climbing with me once ?
I held the rope ... from the bottom.
Q Bert you rock climb??
I am impressed...
Stormblade you hold rope (I hope Pebbles has life insurance on Qbert)
@ Revek 'Harpoon Stormblade'..eh?..you calling him a whale??
To whales
whales mate occasionally.
Oh no you di'n't!
DeeaaaAAAANNNMMmmm SON!