fungi fan

Ian said: "Well girls are all for equal rights and crap and they make things that single them out and alienate themselves from men (meaning boys aren't allowed in their clan or group or w/e). So wtf why are they alienating themselves but complaining about how their a minority."

Wow. Just... wow.

^ Wow. 0-for-2 now. Apparently sarcasm isn't taught in the public school system anymore.

I love how whenever people discuss broken PS2/360's on these boards, there's always the crowd that chalks it all up to people abusing their systems.

An anecdote: My stepdad is on his third PS2, and he's not 14 years old, a fratboy, or even a drunken moron. His systems always sit on an otherwise empty shelf with a minimum 12" space on all sides and 7-8" above - in my estimation a fairly reasonable spot. And yet they still break.

My point is that the fact that your hardware hasn't broken (yet) doesn't mean that they aren't prone to breaking. Conversely, the fact that my stepdad is on his third PS2 doesn't mean that they are all faulty (although I would argue that it's more compelling than the first argument) - it's possible that he just has bad luck. Assuming, however, that the only reason consoles break is because people are idiots is naive, and is more a commentary on people attempting to give their respective self-esteems a boost by looking down their noses at the masses than it is on the issue at hand.