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If you're gamerscore is lower than mine, then you didn't deserve it.

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My buddy has barely half of Decker's and he got in LIKE A BOSS!

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Yeah, I think it was actually a first-come first-served thing and I was late with the Console ID that night. You'd think that I'd have learned by now and kept a record of it on my cell phone, but no. It's not like I really needed another copy of Halo Reach, but I do hate feeling like I'm left out of all the "excitement". :(

I can only imagine how many extra copies of Halo Reach will be flooding Game Stop and ebay in the next few days.

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Check Amazon Warehouse deals. They have 250GB holiday bundles, 250gb normal bundles, halo reach 250gb bundles, etc. All for pretty cheap. Or you could get a cheap 4gb through there and add on a cheap 250gb hard drive.

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Yeah, it will make a lot of old copies redundant, but they have disc art, box art, instructions, etc. It may just serve as a backup for most.

I'll probably be breaking rule #1:

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Hopefully the deals aren't too good because I went ahead and bought one locally tonight. One of my brothers said he would be interested in buying a Kinect for 100$... and since he was basically funding the price difference in the bundle and standalone I just snagged it tonight. Working on getting it set up and hdd transfer running here in a few.

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I wonder if not playing Reach enough will make you less likely to get picked for a beta in the future.

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It could, but I'm not worried about it. I didn't get into the Kinect or FHP betas after doing many dashboard betas and 1v100. I may not matter.

If I do get passed over in the future, I'll be sad but it's only for a few weeks or months and I'd be glad to not have to deal with the frequent updates like last time.

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If he doesn't have one of the newer models of the xbox it doesn't include the power cable for the Kinect, since it isn't needed on the newer systems.

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Well the reason I don't need a Kinect is I bought a standalone one in December. I'm giving him the new unit and then the power cable from my standalone.

Continuing my drama - I got the new console hooked up. Transferred the hdd and recovered my gamertag. I then did the DRM transfer tool online, queued up 30 items to download, turned on background downloading, turned off the console and went to bed. I woke up this morning and turned it on to queue up 30 more things before heading to work and I get the message about how it shutdown due to overheating. WTF? The new console is placed in a totally different location and is basically in the open air.

I'm wondering if since it was downloading keys rather than the entire file if it never shut down overnight and somehow had some issues. I am going to be super angry if the brand new slim sitting in open air starts having issues.

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Did you remember to set it up to shutdown after 6 hours? A new console may not default to that setting. Also check the "low power" (?) setting where you can turn the console off while downloading.

Also if you are downloading keys only, 30 items will take about 2 minutes. Best thing to do is sit near the tv with a laptop so you can watch the queue while you add things from your laptop.

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Yeah I set background downloading on and had it set to shutdown after 6 hours.

While we were hanging out in the evening I was doing exactly what you said - adding things via the PC while it churned away snagging the keys. Then I added a bunch and shut it down before bed (thinking it would background snag the 30 in the list).

This morning my wife turned it on for me and she didn't notice any red lights. The only reason I thought something was up is when I went down to log in it gave me the screen about the device shutting down when it gets too hot to prevent damage from overheating. That worried me because when my old Pro console would flash the red lights from overheating and then cool off enough to reboot it would give me the same message.

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It's amazing that even after a console redesign, the 360 is still so prone to hardware problems. I gave up on my 250 GB hard drive after going through a replacement of both the console and the HDD. I'm now running off of two 16 GB USB sticks rather than continue to deal with MS's incompetency and the annoying hardware replacement process.

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take the plastic film off the vents.

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I didn't notice this but I know for a fact I only removed plastic film from the front of the console (that held the disc tray shut). I will feel like a total maroon if there is film covering the side vents. Does it ship with film there?

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what plastic film??

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:lol:

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It's probably melted off by now.

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You suck. There was no film. :lol:

edit: Also, as a side note, MSoft is replacing the console that was overheating during the beta. I already bought a slim of course but it is very cool they will replace my old Pro.

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-ohbfrank- Hippies.

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Having just gotten a new slim, I tried plugging the old drive into my computer via transfer cable. While the drive spun up, I couldn't access any of the files. Do I need some newfangled transfer cable (mine is the one that came with the original 120GB upgrade)?

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Computer or console?

I just used the transfer cable from the 120 gig drive to transfer everything from my 120 gig to the new 250 gig slim. You do also need the disc (as well as the cable).

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Netflix app is updated with Kinect support, per Major Nelson.

Ironically I saw the kids get the update as they were watching this morning before the bus and it didn't even occur to me that it may be that update.

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It's ironic that you're not paying attention to your kids now?

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now?

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according to reports, the kinect support for netflix sucks balls due to it being limited to "suggestions for you."

http://gizmodo.com/#!5792076/kinect-...do-with-kinect

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Ironic that I was expecting that update with the preview program and, when I saw it come in as the kids were watching (because I do pay attention), it didn't even occur to me that this update would do that. Plus it's been so long since there was an update, I should have been even more suspicious of it.

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Yeah, that's woefully disappointing. Not that I'd use it anyway but the fact that Kinect seems to be all innovation and no application is sad.

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What were the kids watching?

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Some shitty made-for-tv Disney (or something) movie called Minutemen. Then they tried to watch something even shittier called Hatching Pete, but I made them go wait for the bus.

NF's "Suggestions for Brent" are totally lame.

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I agree piñata. I really enjoy Kinect and my family has had a blast with Sports, Adventures, and Dance Central. For Easter I got my daughter Kinectimals since she loved the demo.

But then it looks like nothing else is coming down the road. It is crazy that MSoft doesn't appear to be buying/bribing companies to just fill the pipeline with software for the device and make it a must-have item.

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Maybe they are waiting to wow us at E3?

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Gunstringer will re-justify my purchase. And I can't wait to see something about Steel Battalion. But that's all I know I kinda care about. Actually, I have my Kinect disabled now because I can't stand to wait the 3 seconds it takes to initialize on startup. Too busy.

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That would be nice.

I want to see more on Gunstringer and Steel Battalion as well... but I worry SB is going to be dumb.

I am also wanting a good workout game. I hate Sports Active 2. Maybe the UFC one will get good reviews.

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Yeah, so far it's all about the Gunstringer and Child of Eden.

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I don't know why I still have my Kinect set up. I don't know why I didn't take the god-damned thing back to the store the day I bought it. Maybe one of those games will justify it. :shrug:

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I'm hoping Child of Eden wows me. I never got into Rez but I also played it way after the fact (when it hit XBLA actually) so maybe CoE will strike a chord with me if I play it in the correct generation. :lol:

How was the Kinect portion of that new Harry Potter game? Any fun?

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I was initially disappointed with the Kinect integration on Netflix, but I did end up find it somewhat useful. The speech commands are nice since 99% of the things on there are long enough for the wireless control to shut off during playback, so it saves me from having to search for the controller if the room is dark and I just want to pause it for a minute.

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It will be especially nice (at least for me) since the controller shuts itself off. I don't have a remote/Harmony for this current setup.