re: #77 Slumbering Behemoth

Yeah, I considered that, but I’d still have to sell more stuff to afford a working one. I could dump cash on a new one, but the last time I did that (early ’90s for a new car stereo) I ended up eating nothing but egg noodles and corned beef hash for a month. Fuck that.

And the neighbor’s son pretty much asked that same question: “Why not just buy a new XBox”?

“Because I ain’t got “New XBox” money, stupid. Why else would I be taking this fucking thing apart myself”?

I understand, my own game budget is basically non-existant. So that’s why I wanted to suggest what we did. I don’t know what the specs on Xboxen are like but could you buy a cheap barebones model from the Pawn shop and then stick ram, disk & etc from your dying one into it to hold down the replacement costs?