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Passing up serious coin out of principle...sigh

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I had my original PS3 for 5 years and 8 months. I downloaded NCAA Football13 and an hour later got the Yellow Light of Death. Worse, my son had just stuck one of his games into the console in an attempt to oust me from the system just before it happened. I had to dismantle the box and the disk drive just to get his game out before I went to Game Stop for a replacement console. Even worse, I didn't have Playstation plus so I spent the entire afternoon and evening re-downloading and reinstalling everything that I had purchased previously. All of my game saves are lost though.

Just before a car or any other piece of machinery goes bad there are warning signs. Why doesn't PC hardware have warning signs?

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[quote=Angry;924625]I had my original PS3 for 5 years and 8 months. I downloaded NCAA Football13 and an hour later got the Yellow Light of Death. Worse, my son had just stuck one of his games into the console in an attempt to oust me from the system just before it happened. I had to dismantle the box and the disk drive just to get his game out before I went to Game Stop for a replacement console. Even worse, I didn't have Playstation plus so I spent the entire afternoon and evening re-downloading and reinstalling everything that I had purchased previously. All of my game saves are lost though.

Just before a car or any other piece of machinery goes bad there are warning signs. Why doesn't PC hardware have warning signs?[/quote]did you get a new or used replacement from gamestop? if you got a used one, you may be able to return the broken one for a full refund as the one you just purchased. idk if you hate gamestop as much as i do

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Funny, A LOT of people had problems with the PS3 after they did the update, 4.21 I think it was? Whatever the one was before this latest one (because the latest was supposed to fix it). Not sure how it would fix it though being you can't use the system.

Funny part is, Sony basically told people to kick rocks. I smell a class action lawsuit.

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Having the chick pick the dvd to rent. Woman in Black is the worst movie of all time. I never win. the alternative was "the vow", either way epic fail. I always lose.

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[quote=InsaneBoost;924656]Funny, A LOT of people had problems with the PS3 after they did the update, 4.21 I think it was? Whatever the one was before this latest one (because the latest was supposed to fix it). Not sure how it would fix it though being you can't use the system.

Funny part is, Sony basically told people to kick rocks. I smell a class action lawsuit.[/quote]

I'm not sure when 4.21 came out, but right at the end of April my original PS3 (the old big ass one that sounded like an airplane but was backwards compatible to play PS2 games... like the new ones don't do) crapped out. I'm not sure if it just burned out or if the update had something to do with it, but the hard drive completely crapped out. It'd probably still work if a new hard drive was installed but I just said F it and got the 120 gig slim ones.

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[quote=Chico23231;924737]Having the chick pick the dvd to rent. [B]Woman in Black is the worst movie of all time[/B]. I never win. the alternative was "the vow", either way epic fail. I always lose.[/quote]

I saw that and didn't think it was too bad. I think you're confusing that movie with "The Happening" the ACTUAL worst movie of all time. To make matters worse I actually paid to see The Happening in theaters.

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syphon filter

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[quote=DynamiteRave;924742]I saw that and didn't think it was too bad. I think you're confusing that movie with "The Happening" the ACTUAL worst movie of all time. To make matters worse I actually paid to see The Happening in theaters.[/quote]

woman in black was worse...but the happening did suck balls too

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I actually liked Woman in Black.

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People who say "the proverbial" in use with a proverbial saying.

example:

[QUOTE]He was thrown under the proverbial bus. [/QUOTE]

Just say he was thrown under the bus. Its rediculous. Unless you are using an odd or uncommon saying you sound like a idiot when you tack "the proverbial". I feel like sports people are espicially bad in saying "the proverbial". And as much as i like Mark Schlereth he seems to be one of the worse offenders.

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[quote=SmootSmack;922358]Passing up serious coin out of principle...sigh[/quote]

Schefter wanted to buy you lunch?

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[quote=mlmpetert;924806]People who say "the proverbial" in use with a proverbial saying.

example:



Just say he was thrown under the bus. Its rediculous. Unless you are using an odd or uncommon saying you sound like a idiot when you tack "the proverbial". I feel like sports people are espicially bad in saying "the proverbial". And as much as i like Mark Schlereth he seems to be one of the worse offenders.[/quote]

I hate to throw you under the proverbial bus, metaphorically speaking, but I can't stand people who can't spell ridiculous. :D

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[quote=mooby;924814]I hate to throw you under the proverbial bus,[B] metaphorically speaking[/B], but I can't stand people who can't spell ridiculous. :D[/quote]

Nice.


My bad. There are some mispellings that are just ingrained in my brain, rediculous is one of them. I hate people who say ricoculous. Not only is it immature but its absolutely recoculous.

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they caught him molesting the proverbial child