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[Goose]

They both scare me.

[Chiaki]

How about the red ring of death? Or is that what you meant by Red Light of Doom?

Edited by LinksLove, 10 June 2008 - 05:10 AM.

[Goose]

Yes, the red ring of death. Thats it. Its too scary to even name properly.

[Arturo]

I fear none

I've never had the Blue Screen of Death (I've got a Mac, those are more stable ^^) and don't have an XBox...

[CID Farwin]

How about the black screen of doom? (i.e. when my Wii went bananas)

That was scary.

Edited by CID Farwin, 10 June 2008 - 10:54 AM.

[GoliathTall]

Both are bad.... i fear mostly the Red Ring!... even though im sure that the blue screen is just as bad.

[Veteran]

Blue screen of death. My 360 is under warranty, my computer is not.

[Zeruda]

Blue screen of death, most definitely. I prefer my computer over my 360... it has more games that I enjoy.

[Steel Samurai]

I fear the red ring, as, though I love my compy far more than my 360, I've never had any troubles with it, while I have had my 360 die on me.

[Showsni]

I don't have an XBox of any description, so it's got to be the BSoD...
Or when my SNES goes all glitchy. But I'm used to that.
Actually, the worst is when my Philip's CDi skips halfway through a bosses "you have defeated me" speech on Zelda's Adventure so that it gets stuck repeating a few lines forever and you have to reset and fight it again.

[Meep]

Red ring. I use Linux, no such thing as BSoD for me!

[Fizzbit]

Red Ring. I've never gotten the BSOD

[SnowsilverKat]

I give you something truly scary:
The SAD MAC!!

The computer is SAD that you killed it. SAD! So on top of everything you have guilt too.

[Chiaki]

How about the black screen of doom? (i.e. when my Wii went bananas)

That was scary.

Yes, I almost forgot about that...back when the combination of Metroid Prime 3 and My Sims must have made the cooling system crap out, cause we had to use a fan every time we played after that.

Then the whole thing with Brawl causing older Wiis to crap out, and Nintendo replacing them for free happened. So no more problems since.

[Chaltab]

I fear the Red Ring, man. I have several computers, but only one X-Box 360.

[Hero of Legend]

RRoD.

My Box already Red Ring'd once. The light got all spastic and stuff. I think its fine, though. Probably was just a glitch, though the fact that a glitch occurred is worrying in itself...

[Selena]

You know how soldiers in a hostile environment eventually tune out the sound of constant gunfire and explosions? With my last computer, that was what happened to me in regards to the BSoD. It became a part of nature. So I fear the red ring more.


Fortunately, my latest computer is essentially problem free, thanks mostly due to the fact that I no longer have to share computers with my stepfather. He, however, has gone through about three different computers in the last two or three years. He BSoDs operating systems that are designed not to BSoD. Hell, he BSoD'ed my printer (which has a flip up color display) at one point.

[JRPomazon]

Blue Screen of Death has caused me too many sleepless nights. God damn that monstrosity to Hell.

[Nameless_Joe]

I'm unfamiliar with the 'ring, so I'd have to say the BSoD is more annoying.

[Xkeeper]

The RRoD is far worse, since you can't fix it yourself.

9/10 times you get a BSoD, it's fixable, either by buying a cheap $50 replacement part or getting an exchange. (Of course, that requires some knowledge of hardware.)

[Doopliss]

What do those two terms mean?

[Goose]

Blue screen of Death. = when your monitor goes to a blue screen meaning DEATH to your computer, unless you know how to resuscitate.

Red Ring of Doom = On your X-box 360 when it means that its gone, and you have to take it back to the shop.

All gamers fear them. It means danger.

[Selena]

Pfft. A Blue Screen of Death is hardly death of a computer. I squeezed at least two years out of mine after chronic BSoD episodes began. You just have to get used to restarting and avoiding certain programs!


Like with mine, you couldn't run Winamp and AIM at the same time, or the soundcard would crap out. Got me through college, that twitchy thing did.

[SL the Pyro]

I don't have an X-Box, so I have to say BSoD. Crashed my emulators on me for no apparent reason on my Dad's comp; they work perfectly one moment, and then the next thing I know I'm staring at nothing but blue, white and yellow (background, text and highlighting respectively; yes, I hate BSoD so much that I unintentionally memorized the colours Dx).

[Showsni]

Yeah, our old computer you had to really coax into working. Generally it would crash on startup unless you treated it right...

[Tseb]

Red ring of doom. I can fix the comps problem or have a friend do it, but the 360 would take forever to get back and there's [img]http://forums.legendsalliance.com/public/ALOT.png[/img] of good stuf coming out about now. (had BSoD but never RRoD)

[Khuffie]

I haven't seen a BSoD in like...6 or 7 years? Unless the harddrive craps out, but that doesn't count.

My Xbox 360 recently had a RRoD. Time from it happened to getting it back was less than 10 days.