cassingham

I've purchased 20+ XBLA games, and this game has gotten the most playtime hands down. Great addictive gameplay.

Captain Obvious: You ARE right-I did have to come back, but not for the reason you might imagine. My name is out there, not hiding behind internet anonymity, and a man should own his words, for good or ill.


My apologies to those offended by my earlier rash posting. Not that this excuses it, but after numerous posts calling me various unflattering names, and throwing around wild suggestions about how I was obviously doing SOMETHING wrong to damage them, when I know that I absolutely did nothing of the sort (I have had no other electronics failures of any kind, including 16 original Xboxen, and remember that I was a fanboy who took pride in the 360)-Well, I was fed up with people insulting me and the care and use of my business inventory, which I actually take pride in. I lashed out at the posters in a manner not befitting myself. Again, sorry.

Captain Obvious, thank you. However, you are wrong in every particular. Ok, you probably do drive better cars. Mine ARE pretty crappy, with embarrassing license plates, to boot. And I don't know if your wife (or hand) is prettier than mine, but I live in Utah, so I can have more wives, heh heh. Rather than arguing with you point-by-pointless, I'll just exit as gracefully as I can.

Besides, I'm sure you have all heard this saying: Arguing on the internet is like running a race in the Special Olympics: Even if you win, you are still retarded.

For all you mouth breathers calling this guy an idiot and obviously doing SOMETHING wrong, here is some reality: I am Rob Cassingham. I am the guy in the story. And, unlike you stupid punks, am no idiot. I surf all the forums regularly. I ABSOLUTELY know how to take care of the units, proper ventilation included. And I was not "renting out" the units for kids to take home-I ran a LAN center, and I watched my BUSINESS INVESTMENT (360s and games) like a hawk. I loved the 360-so much so that I actually have both XBOX and XBOX360 as personalized license plates, much to my embarassment. How 'bout it, you jackasses that insult people without cause-are YOU that hardcore of a fanboy? Nah, talk is cheap. Of course you aren't.

Time is limited-I gotta get going (it's for a business meeting-not that you know what that is). I may be back later to try to knock some sense into your smack-talkin' fool heads, or I may be too annoyed to. I guess we'll all know later.

Alright. I give up trying to explain to SOME of you clowns who insist that I MUST have been doing something horrible to my BUSINESS INVESTMENT. You are simply too mentally quick to put anything over on, you brainiacs.
The truth: I kept all of the units sweltering in a miserable tin shack out in the summer sun (Summers in Moab can hit 110 degrees). I gave them very little water, and forced them to wear frilly dresses to humiliate and demean them. Also, I would smear excrement on them.
After summer's heat faded, I dug a deep hole in my basement, and put them in the bottom. Then I would lower lotion in a bucket to the bottom and order them "It rubs the lotion on it's case". I was gong to make a dress out of the cases and dance in front of a mirror. I would have gotten away with it, too, had it not been for those meddling red rings of death.

#74 Actually, I wasn't ever aware of that. Strange-Where I live, there is a "dirty power" (surges, rare very brief outages) problem, and surge protectors+battery backup, for computers, is standard operating procedure. If putting 360s on surge protectors is not advised, then I was unknowingly endangering my units by attempting to protect them. Still, I shouldn't think that surge protectors actually HARM 360s...
ButwhatdoIknow?

#73 Spankie. How damned stupid do you think I am? They were all on surge protectors, on 3 different outlets, at two different locales (home and office). 4 of the seven failures were at my gamecenter. Do you think that I would risk my BUSINESS INVESTMENT by acting like a lunk-headed mouth breathing spankie boy? Or did you even read the article? If it was MY fault, why did I not have problems with 16 original Xboxes, hmmm? The 3 computers, with nary a hitch? The HD projector? How about the systems I've had fail at home, but my flat panel is A OK? Don't type before you think, Spankie (what kind of mother would name her dear sweet little boy 'Spankie'? No wonder he turned out like that).

BTW-Joystiq, my name is Cassingham, not 'Cassima'. Although I like Cassima better, actually. More ethnic.

#38-oops. Sorry, Hikaru.

#4, #13, #16, #21-You can all blow it right out your magical asses. I KNOW what the truth is, because I am the guy in the story. These unit WERE ABSOLUTELY NOT abused, kicked, left in overheated conditions (exact opposite-nothin' above, 16-20" behind unit, 8" either side). These things honestly failed without unusual usage. And 5 consoles failed, but two of the refurbs (Numbers 4 and 7) that I received failed within 30 days of receiving them. That was my complaint-that refurb units were being shipped that were defective, and after 7 systems, they wouldn't send me a new unit-that's all I wanted.

My story about 7 self-destructing 360s I have had just appeared in the San Jose Mercury today:
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/business/technology/16755824.htm

Such an amazingly fun machine. Such a mechanical mess. A lot like an old British sports car, that way.