{"id":230,"date":"2007-08-13T01:55:12","date_gmt":"2007-08-13T08:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/?p=230"},"modified":"2007-08-13T08:54:02","modified_gmt":"2007-08-13T15:54:02","slug":"uh-oh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/?p=230","title":{"rendered":"Uh oh"},"content":{"rendered":"

This, I believe, is a bad sign:<\/p>\n

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I was all excited about the BioShock <\/em>demo, so I turned on my 360, started the download, and…that’s what I got. Last time I saw that on a retail unit, it was terminal and the machine had to be shipped back for replacement.<\/p>\n

My incept date is 10\/27\/2005 — a launch-day unit that I truly struggled to obtain<\/a> — so I’ve always been nervous that it would conk out. I’m still in the denial phase, the “it’s just not feeling well, I’ll shoot it with compressed air like, a lot, and everything will be fine in the morning” stage.<\/p>\n

However, when I went to register my console at Xbox.com in the likely case I do have to send it in, I got “A problem occurred, and your request cannot be completed” in large, unfriendly letters. If that’s not a harbinger of doom, what is?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This, I believe, is a bad sign: I was all excited about the BioShock demo, so I turned on my 360, started the download, and…that’s what I got. Last time I saw that on a retail unit, it was terminal … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}