I heard you have to bake the system to melt stuff back together, but I heard the towel trick does not work.  My brother tried that, and we smelled something burning, then we sent it off to Microsoft for repair.  This happened a year ago.  I got my system back, but now I am worried that it will rrod again, and I bet they put the xclamps back in.

Does this mean I will get flex and the rrod will happen again?  Or did they put the right bonding stuff in my system when they fixed it?  Me and my brother are very concerned.  So we might try contacting someone that know how to remove our xclamp, so we don't have rrod again.  I am happy I did some research on this.  How many time your guys xbox rrod?

My current gamer name is hawaiiancow.

I got this name in 2003-ish while playing Unreal Tournament (you can see my myspace video and watch one of my UT matches). There is a cow skin in the game and sometimes I would use it. I changed my name from an earlier name which was Rogue. I had Rogue as my gamer name since 1997. In 1997, I joined an X-Wing VS Tie Fighter clan and was the A-Wing squad leader. My friends would call me Rogue 1. I shortened it to just Rogue. I kept that name until I changed to cow in 2003. Why did I change? because when X-Men the movie came out, guys kept hitting on me thinking I was a southern girl who wanted to be like Rogue. No, I'm not a chick and I'm not in to guys so please don't hit on me =p . So now I go by cow. I even googled some cow pics and downloaded a funny one. I later used that as my avatar.

So there ya go. Anyone else wanna share how they got their gamer name?

I will be making a group for in-game items, and a few other games.  At least if you join one of these groups, you don't have to scour the forums to find out where it is.  You would simply check out your profile, and go there from your groups directory.  I will make it so you can add friends to these groups, if anyone wants to know where they are.  Groups also get buried eventually when they are no longer new, but if they are popular, at least if a few people like them, they will be found in your profiles under groups.

The groups have their own forums, so if any topic that should have its own group, becomes a group, it will branch off into something with pictures and topics in its own forums that can be done better. 

Please share your thoughts on this, because this is for your benfit of easy navigation, so your discussions don't get lost.

I just started playing Aion.  This game is seriously almost as close to WOW with wings as you can get.  I have been playing this game non stop so far, so that's why I am not available to play alot of other games like some of my favorite FPS games.  I even made a character that looks like Sephiroth, but he uses magic instead of his sword.  I was going more towards the ending in FF7, where Sephiroth was all powerful and only used magic.

My first play of this game, had the chat channels filled up, just by a few spammers, and a few whispers to go to someones website for Aion gold and leveling up.  I don't trust these guys.  They have a horde of players that go out and gather gold and resources and after you buy your stuff, they hand it over in game.  Power leveling for your players is something that can get your account taken from you, since you basically gave them your whole life's work, if you set your master account to your login name.

I heard that the makers of Aion are fighting this, I saw this the next few days later, when I created a new character and I could not even speak until I got to level 5!  That was wrong, and the team at Aion online, knew they got a flood of email of people that were legitly making a new character and wanted to chat with their friends and can't because of the new level 5 rule.  They got rid of that, and now they are trying to ban accounts trying to get you to go to those spam sites.

The sad part is, this can kill the audience of this game since I logged in last, I had to block 10 or more people with the name of "aljksdfj" and "orudkf" ect.  So, you know those are spam accounts, plus they flood the channel non stop, and won't let you chat in the trade, say or other channels.  I actually went to one of the sites, named ignaion.com and saw they offer gold and power leveling for aion and WOW.  But it seems like a scam to me, because, its just a mirror site to get you somewhere else.  They know that website will be taken down, but only the mirror site.  This sucks.  If Aion doesn't control this, they might lose me as a paying customer.  They might consider suing those companies for their losses.

You ever have big dreams? Or makin' big cream?
Big shot, heavy hitter on the mainstream
You wanna look trendy in the Bentley
Be a star band, never act friendly.
You wanna have big fame
Let me explain what happens to these stars and their big brains
First they get played like all damn day
Long as you kill everything will be ok
Then you get dissed by the media and fans
Things never stay the same way they began
I heard that some never get fooled to the fullest
That's why fools end up dining on a bullet
Think everything's fine in the big time
See me in my Lex with the chrome ray shine
So you roll far and live large
It ain't all that goes with being a game star

My own son don't know me
I'm chillin' in a hotel room, lonely
But I thank God I'm with my homies
But sometimes I wish I was back home
But only no radio or video's gonna show me no love
They're phony
Got to hit the road solely so the record gets pushed by Sony
I'm in the middle like Monie
And the press say that my own people disown me
The best way back to keep your head straight
Never inflate the cranium
They're too worried about them honeys at the Palladium
Who just wanna cling on, swing on, and so on
Go on fall off - the ho's fall off
To the next game superstar with no shame
Give him a year and they'll be right out the game
The same as the last one who came before him
Gained fame started getting' ignored
I warned him
Asured him this ain't easy
Take it from the weazy
Sleazy people want to be so cheesy
They're fuckin evi!

Assassin!...  Assassin!!!

So you wanna be a game superstar?
And live large
A big house. Five cars, You're in charge.
Comin' up in the world.
Don't trust nobody got to look over your shoulder constantly

Peace out!!

I really like this tho, adding someone to my friends list somewhere and finding out they do something that was similar to you and then you chat about it, and the more people you know, the more similar experiences you can all share.  Thats why, when I see someone is on myspace or facebook and all those places, I make an effort to join their friendship or try to communicate with them.  You never know who you are talking to, and thats another thing that might make you not want to communicate.  But you just need to know your boundaries.

I believe we will one day, have this vast knowledge on what goes on everywhere, and we will be elevated mentaly.  The whole networking experience will be an interesting one.

If you haven't realized, I have absolutely no help what so ever on adding content and spam protection and so on, but if one day more people came, which I seriously doubt, I will appoint moderators all over this site and such.  Sad to say, there is so much not going on, that when a spammer registers, I actually have time to remove them and all their posts, even if they made a thousand posts, I have a way to wipe it all of, sorry spammers... (not really).

I guess the only satisfying thing about my website is the fact that it is mine, and I am responsible for the content, and what I want to see on it.  If I wanted to, you would see huge nakid pictures on the home page of porn stars, but I chose to be a legit gaming site, maybe more, if I have enough time to try out some new scripts.  I was thinking of creating something with everything in mind, kinda like IGN.  Remember when they were Internet Gaming Network?  Then they changed their name to IGN.  Then they started focusing not only with games, but cars, movies and more.  I do see the potential on this, since I was thinking about doing the same.

One of the non related forum topics I had got over 1000 hits.  See forum topic jerks and the cars they drive.  That was totally off topic, but people really wanted to read it.  In closing, I guess I have nothing else to say.  Enjoy this non corporation one person owned site, haha.