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YELLOW LIGHT OF DEATH!!!
(cue the Evil "Dunn, dunn, dunn" sound)

The RROD's ugly little offspring.

In what can only be described as an ironic twist of events. My beloved piece of black plastic that people like to call the PS3 has given up the ghost and said "nah mate no more". When? What? Why? where? How? I hear. All of which a superb and well thought out questions in which I will try to answer in this blog.

And could it have possibly picked a worse timeslot? I mean with all the AAA games released last month not to mention the release of HOME and a two week break coming up over Xmas and New Years.

So what exactly is the YLOD? Well lets just say if the RROD actually rooted anything, this YLOD would be its offspring. While about 29% less common then the RROD, the YLOD is just as much, and if not more a deadly creature. The YLOD has many traits that are prominent in the RROD. It effectively bricks ya console to the point where the only thing to do is either A. Go for a walk down the road and chuck it of the bridge in hope that it will hit a train going under or the more favourable option in which involves a telephone,and a technician who probably couldn't even spell PS3.


Anyone remember this???

PS3 takes on the Candle

Am I kidding, off course you don't. But while I was extremely lucky on that occasion it seems as if karma has come full circle and gave me a Chuck Norris like kick to my meat and two veg.

The day was... can't remember. NZG should know, it was the day that you chaps sent me out NFS:Undercover which I am truly thankful for. So after a hard days work on designing a children's book. Yeah don't ask that's a whole other topic for another blog, I decided to put NFS:undercover through its paces. So PS3 turned on. check. Disk in. check. Tv on HDMI. Ummm....Nah. As I go to grab the remote to change the channel,and all of a sudden the PS3 starts having an orgasm, and like Misa Campo in bed it wouldn't stop. So I turn the darn thing off, turn it back on and, zero, zilch, love, nada, nothing appears on screen and starts beeping again and the power light turns YELLOW. (Cue that evil music again) At first I had no idea what this bastard of a prick was. So I did all the old school tricks to try and get it to work. You know the usual: Give it half an hour, take all cords out, then plug them back in, give the whole thing a wipe down,chick in in the microwave, take it fishing, you know all that sort of sh*t. But this was about as useless as MR T not having a Mohawk.

This bandwagon is getting awfully crowded.

Research time.

This was when my worse fears came more apparent. My PS3 was officially bricked. With the warranty over it appeared all doom and gloom. So I take my PS3 down to a technician to see if he was Jesus himself so he could fix it. But get a call the other day and it appeared one of the chips overheated and something was cracked. (candle v PS3 anyone) and while this was expected, nothing could have prepared me for the bill that came with fixing it. $400 smackaroos.

So anyone with half a brain would know that the insurance company was getting called next. Please GOD forgive me for I have sinned. I told them a big fib and hopefully all going to plan this repair will only cost me a 100 smackaroos which is music to my ears compared to 400.

Google "Yellow Light of Death" and this guy comes up.

So now I believe my PS3 is on its way to Dorkland for plastic surgery and fingers crossed the dudes up there can fix my baby. I own the much fort after model, the 60gb. With 50gb of movie films, music songs, game saves, and demo's it would suck almost as much as that day in Cardiff.

But as always I'm looking on the bright side. Since the PS3 has gone I've been allot more productive with projects and what not and how bout the weather lads. As Chris would say "Rad"  Plus I now know what it feels like to be stuck in last gen. I've still got my trustee PS2. So the likes of Tiger Wood 05 and Rugby 06 have been getting a work over.

But let this just be a lesson to you all. Never mix candles and PS3's together and always back up as much crap from your console in case there is a major "hows ya father" along the bumpy road of repairing.


Peace.
And Happy Gaming!

GA22A