So, I got a new console lately, the Xbox 360 namely, got really excited and happy thinking it'd be an awesome B-day gift since I didn't get any B-day cash for anything else (nor any cards from my grandparents), but today I learned that I got royally screwed, and it cost me not only a lot of money, but a lot of old classic and rare games and consoles. So, it's been a few weeks since I got it, but I only started playing it a few days ago. It seemed fine, but the more I played, I started to notice weird visual glitches like text starting to go dark and pixelated, and eventually the entire screen would become garbled and distorted. Eventually after a soft restart, I got red ringed after under 10 hours spread across 1 week! After chatting with my friends I open up the faceplate and I see that the warranty sticker is long gone, meaning I have NO CLUE as to what was going on under the hood and most likely since it wasn't registered when I got it, it got RROD'ed before, and the guy who gave it to me tampered with to run for a short while only to revert to it's original problems and then break.

Let's add some salt to that 3rd degree burn, shall we? Since it was just a bare-bones 360 Arcade, it had no hard drive, and no games, a friend out of the kindness of his heart sent me his games he wasn't playing with, and I had some leftover commission money to buy a hard drive for $45. Basically I just bought a paperweight. I should of never trusted anybody on craigslist, and I should of saved my money. I'm just pissed off right now, best I can do is try to sell the system to gamestop, I ain't going to lie about the console either, I just want to see how much I can get for the thing if they need parts or something. I'm pissed and wondering why somebody would do this, thought I was making an honest deal with the guy, and this was going to be a great start for this project I'm doing on Blistered Thumbs [link] but now I had this kick in the crotch from some nobody who's good with a soldering iron and I'm wondering what I did to deserve this.