: "That's fine."

: "Did I tell you where we're going? Punta Cana. "

: " What? "

: "Punta Cana."

: "Punta Kinte?"

: "No."

: "Punta Madre?"

: " No. "

: "Punta Return-a?"

: So I dropped my mom off earlier this morning, and I go home and take a nice
: long nap. When I wake up, I decide to continue playing Super Hard Mode on
: Sonic Heroes. I turn on my Xbox, and bam. Friggin' red...well, not really
: a ring. More of just a light. As soon as my mom leaves the friggin'
: country for an entire week, my Xbox breaks!! Obviously I'm out of
: warranty, but I looked at Xbox.com to find to my horror that my warranty
: was only good for one year, instead of the two I paid for. Lying bastards.

: Then I get back here and find out there's a Team Snipers gametype where ONLY
: SNAPSHOTS COUNT!!

: And I'm missing that AND the end of Multi-Team!

: That's bullshit.

: So while I am gone , can someone save a copy of the snapshot gametype and
: send it to me, please?

: It fucking sucks that I have to miss a great opportunity like that. It's just
: like when my friend borrowed my copy of Halo 4 and then there was a WHOLE
: PLAYLIST OF RUMBLE SWAT!

: What's next while I'm out of commission? Fiesta Damage Boost King Of The Hill
: Oddball Juggernaut Custom Loadout 16 Player FFA In Adrift Only?

My Xbox 360 red-ringed the week before Halo Reach launched. As a poor college student at the time (now I'm just not a college student), I didn't have the money for a new console. But I was livid, especially since the RRoD was such a major issue and Microsoft really, really did not take responsibility for their sh*tty manufacturing as they should have. Anyways, after ten minutes of politely explaining to the Microsoft phone representative with less-than-ideal English skills that the whole incident left a sour taste in my mouth and that I was about to purchase a PS3 instead (in order words, I verbally harassed him for 10 minutes - no shame here.), I asked for his supervisor, and repeated everything to him. The guy finally cut me off mid-sentence and told me they'd fix my console free of charge, even though it was a month or two out of warranty.

Now, disclaimer: You should totally be nice to these people. It's not their fault that your console broke. It's also somehow not Microsoft's fault that their lousy manufacturing resulted in the premature expiration of your console. So you should be a responsible person and buy a new console. You know. All that stuff.

;) YMMV.