Hello! This site is back from the dead, apparently. Yes, I finally decided that the effort of fixing the site actually outweighed the effort of typing in a terminal window to update a minimalist HTML-only page. That’s how painful it was.
What better way to reopen the site than with a bit of moaning? Well, exactly, there is no better way.
Microsoft. They’re BLOODY BASTARDS.
That’s me being banned from Xbox Live, that is, by the capitalist pigs of the Establishment. Er, or something. The terrible crime I committed was to install a larger hard disk in my Xbox, enabling me to run games directly from disk rather than mucking about with CDs all the time. I did know ahead of time that this would cause me to be banned from Xbox Live - although, as it didn’t happen immediately, I thought I might have got away with it - but it didn’t make it any less annoying when it happened.
Why, Microsoft, why? Why can’t I muck about with my Xbox if I like? Piracy, that’s why. OK. Fine. Piracy might just be a problem for a company that’s been selling its console at a massive loss since it first went on sale, so depends on software sales to scrape a bit of cash back.
Here’s the thing that annoys me. Microsoft, in customary fashion, have stolen all the good ideas made possible by modifying one’s Xbox and trumpeted them as killer new features in the Xbox 360. Xbox Media Centre? Check! Expandable hard disk? Check - but you can bet it won’t be anywhere near as cheap as a bog-standard PC hard disk, and you can also bet that using such a foul, common hard disk will get you banned from Xbox 360 Live. Pirating games? I doubt they will pick up this one. Downloadable games, albeit ones that you pay for? I suspect so.
Until the Xbox 360 comes out and I can fail to buy it - ridiculously overspecified as it is - I’ll stick with my modified Xbox. Just not on Xbox Live. The sods.
