20th October 2013 - I think she is dying

A couple of minutes ago, my xBox started having issues again after getting her fixed a while back. First I had black spots all over the screen. Thought, I just give her a reboot - did that - Error 74. Had a bit of a google on this. Funnily enough, I left her switched of for a couple of minutes, now she seems back fine again. However, some people say that once these things start, it doesn't stop.

I got her fixed a couple of weeks ago: firstly the graphics chip went last year (which explains the *puff* noise I heart when playing Mass Effect 2 - middle of the Miranda mission, was close to tears). When I got her back, she worked fine through the rest of ME 2. When I was finished I started part III of the Mass Effect triology (wanted to find out what happens with Garrus anyway and half my crew in the game didn't survive part 2). First time I saw these black spots showing up. Gave her back for repair. This time it was something with the main cable connection.

I am just writing this post to more or less remind myself that my beloved xBox 360, almost age 6, bought back around 30th October 2007 (that was about a month prior to the Assassin's Creed 1 release), is indeed on her deathbed. Sounds terrible coming from a human being, sobbing after a piece of hardware, a toy - but still, we shared some good times.

Now that she is back online, I might just give a go again. Only started playing Bioshock and it actually is a quite an interesting game. Still don't want to know what's going on in that creative brain that developed that game.