At the end of March, my Xbox 360 started locking up to an extent that made it essentially unplayable (in about 15 attempts, I got past the opening logo once, and even then, it didn’t last very long), so I shipped it off to the repair center and got it back in mid-April. The replacement they sent me made it until Monday of last week, when it decided to crash while I was watching a DVD. I got a checkerboard-esque green static pattern, and when I restarted it, three of the lights circling the power button came on, red colored instead of the normal green, and flashing.

So, just as I get my internet up and running again (it’s been completely down for the last week, but it’s been intermittent for much longer than that), I’m without an Xbox 360 to play online. On the plus side, I don’t actually have to pay for the repairs this time.