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10:48 AM
Also, Optimus Prime died of Chrome's Disease.
10:21 AM
Oh right, back on topic to the crazy guy...
09:21 AM
Also, as soon as I saw the words "Crohn's Disease", I thought of the South Park episode Make Love, Not Warcraft.
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07:44 AM
And Martin Lee Gore to play guitar and hum in the background while Estavillo romances Winona? Genius idea.
Rock on, Erik!
07:09 AM
I imagine it will end up like this.
On the 10th lawsuit til Christmas,
the the judge gave me,
12 months of jail,
11 attorneys fees to reimburse,
and 10 months of psychiatric evaluation!
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I get the OCD, maybe the fear of crowds (does that apply to virtual crowds? Maybe he needs to play on a low pop server) and the depression, but I'd really love to hear how bleeding from his poop chute is affected by Warcraft.
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No, it doesn't apply to virtual crowds. That's usually the reason people that do suffer from antisocial disorders play MMO's. They don't have the same pressures of people judging them in real life.
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11/05/09
Granted, 2.80 no longer gives the user access to PSN, doesn’t run games that require 3.00 or higher, doesn't allow the user to download patches/updates for games that might need them, and doesn't allow access to online gaming or internet browsing, but the risk of upgrading to 3.01 has left others, and could leave this user with even less.
The ability to continually enjoy currently owned PS3 titles, Blu-ray discs, currently installed PSN media purchased, photos uploaded via the Flash memory reader, and pre-3.00 games sitting on store shelves, seems to be a better option than forking over even more money if 3.01 bricks the console or deep-sixes the Blu-ray drive.
Tough still was the decision to maroon $35 in credit on the PSN store, being that 2.80 no longer allows PSN users to spend money. Realistically this amount can be viewed as a small severance fee forked over to hopefully secure a continually functional home media console, and doesn't warrant as much fuss as the $150 required for repair, or the $300-$350 to purchase a Slim.
Cutting the losses at this point might seem to some like a drastic decision, but functionality is the main reason the console was purchased, and hopefully preserving this functionality by sticking with 2.80 will only sting when games like Gran Turismo 5, Dead Rising 2, or Criterion's Need for Speed are released later on.
Ultimately firmware 3.01 is by no means mandatory, as staying with 2.80 is 100% possible. The only thing mandatory about 3.01 is the thought you should give to whether or not you have an extra $150-$350 to get back on board in the event of a problem, or whether or not you can live without certain features, games, or content if you decide to stay with 2.80. #ps3
11/05/09
I really think this is probably more like a 1 in 100,000 thing as opposed to say, RRoD which is like 4 in 5 historically. Clearly there is some amount of correlation with the updates, but the vast majority seem to be alright.
Of course, it's not like I'd step up and reimburse you if you updated and it bricked, but I'd put my own system through it again and again. I think the odds are probably much higher that you'd get into a crash driving your car on any given day than bricking a PS3 with a software update, and while you'd stand to lose a lot more from it, you'd still drive, right? #ps3
11/05/09
And when I called Sony about the first one, I asked if I could use a CD cleaner? Would void the warranty. Vacuum cleaner? Void the warranty. Filters? Compressed air? All void the warranty.
Finally, I asked how the hell I was supposed to get the dust OUT. I was told that the PS2 does not collect dust. I said, "I can see it". I was told I was mistaken.
I've also gone through over a dozen controllers, all first-party, and at least that many memory cards. In fact, there's no way to re-format the memory card without using third party software. Pathetic.
I have no doubt this is Sony's fault, and Sony has been a colossal jackass about acknowledging their own bad designs for years. And it's not like 3.0 was fool-proof, there were a lot of glitches. If they can't even properly test their firmware for basic functionality, how can anyone assume they tested for hardware compatibility or real-life operation? I guarantee they tested this only on brand-fucking-new systems and that was it.
Fuck 'em, they should either fix their screwups or pay a penalty. Welcome to real life, Sony. This is what it feels like to be dicked. We call that irony. #ps3
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11/05/09
My first PS3 (a original 80 GB model, backwards compatible) stopped reading discs completely after a system update.
Upon some research I found out this was a pretty common issue with these models, so I thought that the blu ray lens dying right after a system update was just a coincidence.
Here's the point: I don't live in the U.S, so I couldn't send it to sony for repairs. And I paid almost $800 for that system. Yeah, shit is expensive in my country.
So, I sold it to someone for about $300, and bought a brand new PS3 at almost $600. And no backwards compatibility at all this time.
If my current PS3 broke after a firmware update, I'd be incredibly pissed, too, and I would try to sue Sony for that. Anyway, I couldn't do it, because I don't live in the U.S.
To add insult to injury, the Sony store were I purchased my new PS3 has closed, and I haven't seen any other Sony stores where I live, so if my PS3 breaks, I don't know if I'll be able to apply the warranty, because where could I do it? :(
The worst part is, that I would completely buy ANOTHER PS3 if my current one stopped working and hadn't any way to repair it or to apply the warranty, so I'm part of the problem. Consumism really sucks. #ps3
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So Sony is most likely in the right on these court cases... whilst technically the firmware does make the problems manifest themselves, they aren't their initial cause! #ps3
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As for it being entirely Sony's fault, that I disagree with... if it's a bug directly caused by the firmware, fair enough, that's their fault, but if the firmware merely bugs out due to bits of hardware being inaccessible because of damage caused by dust, moisture or nesting cockroaches within the hardware, which is what I was really getting at in my initial post, then sony/microsoft shouldn't be held accountable. #ps3
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11/05/09
Here's a commonly mentioned story:
[www.destructoid.com]
Though according to a friend of mine who used to work repairing and modding consoles, they used to get at least 5 consoles a week which had stopped working because they were crammed with cockroaches who were presumably trying to keep warm, nestled in the belly of a playstation. gross, eh? #ps3
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