My Xbox red ringed... Has yours?

[Trippy]

Ants and a magnifying glass.  Anyone?

We used magnifying glasses to melt "bullet holes" in our model airplanes.

[Merusk]

Model airplanes were for making, then blowing up.  It is a miscarriage of youth that they should be hung from ceilings with fishing line, no matter how well panted they were.

It was much more fun to get a model rocket kit, strap an engine in them and light it off.  WOOSH "cool it really flew!"  *burn*

That and homemade napalm.  Set my parent's driveway on fire with that one. Whoopsie.  Thank goodness for fire extinguishers.

[Selby]

At least you didn't make thermite and set it off.  That's a nasty mess that the fire extinguisher can't correct.

[Strazos]

Well, I was party to the starting of a minor Forest Fire...once.

More like I happened to be there when some dumb kid thought that lighting that snake things was a good idea...on top of the inside of some old ouch cushions, in the woods.

[cmlancas]

That and homemade napalm.  Set my parent's driveway on fire with that one. Whoopsie.  Thank goodness for fire extinguishers.

Pretty sure you just set off some alarm bells somewheres on the intarweb. How the hell do you make homemade napalm?

[Murgos]

Basic napalm is just gasoline and a thickening agent.  I'm sure if you looked around you wouldn't have a problem finding more info.

[CmdrSlack]

Not to mention that it's super easy.

We also used to soak tennis balls with gas or lighter fluid, then light 'em and toss 'em down the street. It was as close as a young dork could come to a fireball and without the bat guano and sulfur. 

[Merusk]

Yes it's very, very, super easy. So much so that I don't like sharing it and providing dumb kids yet another method to kill themselves. If they want to discover it they can search it on their own, or have a friend tell them, which is the same way I learned. 

My mistake was mixing it in a plastic container and not draining the excess gas.  I left a drip trail from the 'test' bit I lit back to the container... very very stupid.  I'm incredibly lucky I didn't set myself up at the same time.

[vex]

We also used to soak tennis balls with gas or lighter fluid, then light 'em and toss 'em down the street. It was as close as a young dork could come to a fireball and without the bat guano and sulfur. 

We used soda cans taped together and launched the flaming tennis ball with that.

[Jain Zar]

I never blew up my model kits.  My Robotech models were too precious to destroy.  Superglue and novice skills were a threat to Roy Fokker's ride as it was!

[Triforcer]

All the posts on this page scare me.  Didn't anyone have any good honest country fun, like pushing a hoop with a stick or kick the can?  Why does the America-hating side of the debate have all the explosives training??

[vex]

All the posts on this page scare me.  Didn't anyone have any good honest country fun, like pushing a hoop with a stick or kick the can?

I thought we were talking childhood ballistics not stuff they did on Little House on the Prairie.

V

[Triforcer]

All the posts on this page scare me.  Didn't anyone have any good honest country fun, like pushing a hoop with a stick or kick the can?

I thought we were talking childhood ballistics not stuff they did on Little House on the Prairie.

V

Bah, there's nothing like going in the barn and having a good old-fashioned soybean fight/swim. Damn city kids with your sushi, diet colas, and museums full of pictures of men kissing each other. 

[cmlancas]

Bah, there's nothing like going in the barn and having a good old-fashioned soybean fight/swim. Damn city kids with your sushi, diet colas, and museums full of pictures of men kissing each other. 

I don't know what museums you visit, but generally I see more nudes of women than men. 

[Sky]

Though we had m80s, we didn't waste them on GI Joes. When my singer and I decided we were too old for GI Joe (like 6th grade, he wasn't my singer then!), we took a bunch of shotgun shells and emptied out all the gunpowder. Then we filled the GI Joes with that, using fuses from firecrackers or bottle rockets or something. It was a clean break from childhood. Well, it was messy, but whatever.

We were also the idiots that would fire BB guns at each other when playing war ("Hey, no ten-pump!" then pump to ten ;)), corn cob grenades (those fuckers stung) and the occasional rare super-weapon, the roman candle. When someone lit one of those up it was like hearing a BFG wind up, everyone ducked behind cover and prayed it wasn't aimed their way.

Funny thing is, nobody ever got hurt besides some scrapes and bruises.

[Yegolev]

Were you the same kids that used toads/frogs to play baseball with?

No, that's cruel.

Country fun?  Mostly I played with HotWheels cars in the dirt.  Before the cars, I just played with the dirt.  Of course, I still dabbled in explosives and combustibles, never made that napalm even though I knew how; my dad told me how.  Gasoline in a spray bottle was fun... hell, gasoline in _____ was fun.

I would not cry over my G.I. Joes too much, it was just Tomax and Xamot.  Cobra Commander was usually played by He-Man... of course He-Man paid for his war crimes via soldering iron... but that just transformed him into Tan Skeletor and the terrible cycle continued.  He was eventually executed, death by firecracker in the eye socket, if I remember.  Last of the great evils in the house, he was.

[MrHat]

I love America.

[HaemishM]

Also, lol@Haemish for expecting a young kid to have heard of Deus Ex.

When I was that kid's age, I was playing shit like Wasteland on a 4.77 mhz PC that could dualboot to Apple II OS, on C-G-FUCKING-A. I don't think it's unreasonable the little cumstain could know about one of the greatest games in history that isn't even a decade old, especially when its shitty sequel came out within the last few years for the predecessor system of the one he currently owned. Oh and to shave his fucking quivering Mongoloid lip. And get a goddamn haircut, you moppet-quaffed hippie.

So you're suggesting I should perhaps install Deus Ex again and try to play through it? (for a first run-through) I guess I did download that texture pack..

Yes, yes I am. The game is pure luv. Just remember it's on the original Unreal engine, and that you don't have to run-n-gun everything (though you can if you wish). The game is just teh awesome.

[Brolan]

At the risk of bringing the thread back on topic... I've had mine since Dec'05 and never gotten the red-ring.  Did have the scratched disc issue after one of my kids moved it while it was still on.  Also the DVD drive is making more and more scary noises.  I don't think it will last the summer.

With the amount of heat this thing puts out you could add a temp sensor to the motherboard, and hook to the OS so it would warn the user about overheating, then shutdown when it got too hot.  Just like any decent computer motherboard out there.

[Chimpy]

At the risk of bringing the thread back on topic... I've had mine since Dec'05 and never gotten the red-ring.  Did have the scratched disc issue after one of my kids moved it while it was still on.  Also the DVD drive is making more and more scary noises.  I don't think it will last the summer.

With the amount of heat this thing puts out you could add a temp sensor to the motherboard, and hook to the OS so it would warn the user about overheating, then shutdown when it got too hot.  Just like any decent computer motherboard out there.

Put an M80 in it, I am sure that will solve your lack of problems.   (it will also put the topic back to the digressional off topic).

[CmdrSlack]

At the risk of bringing the thread back on topic... I've had mine since Dec'05 and never gotten the red-ring.  Did have the scratched disc issue after one of my kids moved it while it was still on.  Also the DVD drive is making more and more scary noises.  I don't think it will last the summer.

With the amount of heat this thing puts out you could add a temp sensor to the motherboard, and hook to the OS so it would warn the user about overheating, then shutdown when it got too hot.  Just like any decent computer motherboard out there.

Put an M80 in it, I am sure that will solve your lack of problems.   (it will also put the topic back to the digressional off topic).

I'm waiting for the (hopefully) inevitable YouTube video where some kids go all Office Space on a red-ringing 360.

[Yegolev]

Rumors of redesigned 360, notably using a 65nm process:
http://blogs.mercurynews.com/aei/2007/07/microsofts_next_move_code-name_falcon.html

Article speculates the new-inside 360 will arrive in 2007.

[Tale]

The breakfast show at the TV station where I work just did a segment on this.

They didn't have to go far to research it. Four of the floor crew running the show had red-ringed Xbox 360s, but the presenter who does the tech segments didn't even need those. He just brought in his own flashing red-ringed Xbox 360.

[Strazos]

EBstop managers and DMs are crying big emo tears over this one. "Oh Noes, they're cutting into our precious Product Replacement Plan sales!"

Again, good on MS for trying to get people to put some faith back into their products.

[Endie]

Apologies for the rerail, but I wanted to join in the old thread...

I have a launch-day 360, which has never given me issues.  I clean the filters as well as I can, and I mounted an intercooler, not powered off the 360 rail, on the back as soon as I heard about the rings-of-death problem.  I don't use any external power-smoothing product.  It sits vertically, and I suspend the power pack in mid-air by the cable.

[Yegolev]

How's that intercooler?  Considering one as preventive medicine.

[Endie]

It's not quiet, but it doesn't really compete with the 360 itself for the title of "loudest turbine whine not found on a runway".  It's cheap, draws power before the 360 so doesn't add to the heat in the box unlike the USB-based coolers, and fits like a treat right out of the box.  You really don't notice it's there after a few days.

[schild]

The intercoolers have other issues, far as I can tell from online reports - like burning out and fucking up the 360 it's attached to. I question attaching any third party object to console that isn't a controller or memory card. Especially something sits between the system and power.

[Yegolev]

I can't see my 360 anyway.  If it has a separate power line, that would be ideal.  I don't want it to interface with my 360 other than moving the air.  My other plan is to mount a DC fan in the rear of the cabinet the 360 sits in, which has advantages as well.

[Morfiend]

My 5th Xbox just red ringed today. And this one is out of the Target 3 month warranty. I am sad, I dont want to have to wait for MS to replace it. I am considering buying a new one so I can get HDMI port and then selling the fixed one on ebay.

[Viin]

If HD DVD is going away  then maybe you should get a PS3 anyways.

[WayAbvPar]

Are you blowing up regular 360s or Elites? Only problem I ever had with my Elite was one of the USB ports going bad after I tripped over the cord that was plugged into it...shhhh don't tell Costco. Never had a red ring.

[Rasix]

Elite's still going, but I treat it like it's made out of porcelain.   So far though, it's been a good way to prevent my wife from spending even MORE money on furniture.  "No, dear, that has poor ventillation.  Do you want the 360 to red-ring?"

[WayAbvPar]

4teh360!

Awesome.

[Strazos]

Hell, I hate having to touch my 360 to swap discs.