{"id":9093,"date":"2007-11-24T19:12:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-25T00:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2007\/11\/24\/the-turd\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T11:36:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:36:17","slug":"the-turd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2007\/11\/24\/the-turd\/","title":{"rendered":"The Turd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Image_529_.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Image_529_.jpg\" height=640 width=480 border=0><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My Xbox 360 is a turd. I just submitted a request for repair, which means that Microsoft should now be sending me a $0 repair kit so that I can have the privilege of not playing games on it for a month while it is (hopefully) put in the state it should have originally been in. That is, working properly.<\/p>\n<p>Quality control like this is the main reason why Microsot won&#8217;t be able to make a hand held gaming device any time soon. If consoles are failing this regularly when they aren&#8217;t moved about, there&#8217;s no way MS can compete in the DS (and PSP) market of regularly dropped in bags \/ knocked around devices.<\/p>\n<p>Also, <a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Image_528_.jpg\">here is sparkly part of the DIA from last night<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Image_527_.jpg\">here is some tasty aloo gobi I ate at Rangoli Express on the way home from work a few evenings back<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Xbox 360 is a turd. I just submitted a request for repair, which means that Microsoft should now be sending me a $0 repair kit so that I can have the privilege of not playing games on it for a month while it is (hopefully) put in the state it should have originally been\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,25,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-games","category-moved-from-livejournal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9093"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24664,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9093\/revisions\/24664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}