Best before...

[OPT1MUS]

So... I (re)unboxed my 360 because I wanted to (re)play some good games.
Checking the settings, I realized that the date time range starts from 2005 and ends in 2025 (wow, tempus fugit! )
Holy cow, it means that on December 31st of this year, the console will expire... like a yogurt

 

[No-Bo-Dy]

 

[Ezri_Muldoon]

You'll be fine as long as you amend the date on this bad boy and slap it on the side of your Xbox:

 

[Deleted member 77791]

Interesting. I wonder what would happen when this year ends. Would it just say "peace" and disappear from existence like this?:

lololol

 

[RanmyakuIchi's icon RanmyakuIchi RanmyakuIchi]

Bill Gates is on his way to take the XBox back

 

[OPT1MUS]

It was just an ironic observation.
It will probably enter a time loop that will keep it in 2025 forever...

 

[MajesticSiN]

Once it expires you're going to have to toss is in the bin or it will start to stink.

 

[Adrastia]

Interesting. I wonder what would happen when this year ends. Would it just say "peace" and disappear from existence like this?:
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lololol

It goes back to its home planet. Just like Poochie.

 

[OPT1MUS]

 

[Deleted member 608669]

What does it mean?

It means that at midnight of the final day, GOBLINS!!! will break into your home...yes, YOUR lair.
And take the console. They love to GOBLINATE consoles!

Break all your stuff, smash your defenses, and leave behind the most disgusting GOBLIN CHEESE in place of all your food in the refrigerator.

<shakes head> Burururururu

Filthy, stinking GOBLINS!!!

I tell you! But don’t worry, no need to panic just yet. You still have time to prepare! Set traps, get a club, and keep bottles of goblin pee handy... yes, goblin pee! Because GOBLINS drink their own peepee...

Filthy, stinking GOBLINS! The GOBLIN invasion is coming, and they’re more disgusting than you can imagine...

...goblins...

 

[Deleted member 77791]

What does it mean?

It means that at midnight of the final day, GOBLINS!!! will break into your home...yes, YOUR lair.
And take the console. They love to GOBLINATE consoles!

Break all your stuff, smash your defenses, and leave behind the most disgusting GOBLIN CHEESE in place of all your food in the refrigerator.

<shakes head> Burururururu

Filthy, stinking GOBLINS!!!

I tell you! But don’t worry, no need to panic just yet. You still have time to prepare! Set traps, get a club, and keep bottles of goblin pee handy... yes, goblin pee! Because GOBLINS drink their own peepee...

Filthy, stinking GOBLINS! The GOBLIN invasion is coming, and they’re more disgusting than you can imagine...

...goblins...

I fear no goblin!!! I'm an urban witcher. Baseball bat for thieves, fly swatter for whoever is trying to sell me a BS in my home!!!! lololol

 

[Deleted member 608669]

I fear no goblin!!! I'm an urban witcher. Baseball bat for thieves, fly swatter for whoever is trying to sell me a BS in my home!!!! lololol

A baseball bat may work for the little Goblins.... A flyswatter?
HA! A joke! But what about the BIG GOBLINS? The talking ones, the master deceivers who spread their FILTHY GOBLIN LIES!!! claiming they are Ogres!

What then? When a GOBLIN, claiming to be an OGER, shatters your tiny toothpick of a bat and slaps you around with the fly swatter like a GOBLIN-sized punching bag?

<shakes head> Bururururu

You think your puny weapons can stop the Goblins?
No! The BIG GOBLINS are clever, cunning, and they lie better than they GOBLIN breathe.

You must be ready to face their treachery, or they will Goblinate your defenses and GOBLINATE your face!
<Shakes head> Bururururu
Beware, for the GOBLINS are sneaky, and they LOVE to GOBLINATE the unsuspecting!

...goblins...

 

[Deleted member 77791]

A baseball bat may work for the little Goblins.... A flyswatter?
HA! A joke! But what about the BIG GOBLINS? The talking ones, the master deceivers who spread their FILTHY GOBLIN LIES!!! claiming they are Ogres!

What then? When a GOBLIN, claiming to be an OGER, shatters your tiny toothpick of a bat and slaps you around with the fly swatter like a GOBLIN-sized punching bag?

<shakes head> Bururururu

You think your puny weapons can stop the Goblins?
No! The BIG GOBLINS are clever, cunning, and they lie better than they GOBLIN breathe.

You must be ready to face their treachery, or they will Goblinate your defenses and GOBLINATE your face!
<Shakes head> Bururururu
Beware, for the GOBLINS are sneaky, and they LOVE to GOBLINATE the unsuspecting!

...goblins...

I'm an urban witcher so I know basic weakness of any goblin: fire. So defeating goblins are so easy. Set the damn baseball bat on fire and bash their head with it. Goblin skins are so thin, and their biology require them to be in cold, they easily die when they start to burn lol. Hell, even sunlight defeats them lololol.

If this damn big goblin still endures the fire then I have no choice but to draw my silver baseball bat because many creatures weak to silver. Like by just touching it they start to burn like they suffer from overly sensitive contact dermatitis that make their atoms fall apart lolol.

 

[OPT1MUS]

Creepy...

 

[Deleted member 590394]

(Serious):
Oh my, a urban witcher, goblins, ogres, and a goblin slayer. I believe we are safe here on the forum. Hopefully, no R.O.U.S. attacks as well.

 

[Deleted member 77791]

(Serious):
Oh my, a urban witcher, goblins, ogres, and a goblin slayer. I believe we are safe here on the forum. Hopefully, no R.O.U.S. attacks as well.

Rodents Of Unusual Size? No worries. In my long experience as an urban witcher I've learnt the fact that size never matters to defeat monsters. They all have weaknesses. For example defeating a troll is way easier than trying to deal with a vampire in a little child body lololol. But you know why? Such vampires are small and therefore too fast, harder to land a hit and able to protect yourself — a very bad combination. What is more is children have vast imaginations adults cannot even comprehend anymore. Always fear from a smart and emotional monster that is filled with power of imagination. Vampire's weakness won't matter if you cannot touch them. What's more is that children are more emotional as it fuels their vampire power more. And if they had a very long life, they completely lost their sanity for they never could develop as an adult in a biological sense to deal with life without going insane. Also their weak appearance is misleading. Even many vampires no matter how strong and experienced they are fall victim to such vampire type.

In fact once I took a contract from the father of a vampire who asked me to kill her daughter. He daughter got insane in an uncontrollable way that endangered the peaceful life vampires always wanted to have. He wasn't a careless unloving father, he just didn't want her daughter to suffer more. I could stop her with many aids of vampires before the masquerade was broken. She was looking for her mother but her mother died very long time ago. She got upset every time a woman wasn't her mother so she killed them. However naturally no one could make people forget and hide what happened. World knows these events as "Jack the Ripper". But it's okay to tell about it here just because no one will believe it. True story lololol.

 

[Deleted member 590394]

Rodents Of Unusual Size? No worries. In my long experience as an urban witcher I've learnt the fact that size never matters to defeat monsters. They all have weaknesses. For example defeating a troll is way easier than trying to deal with a vampire in a little child body lololol. But you know why? Such vampires are small and therefore too fast, harder to land a hit and able to protect yourself — a very bad combination. What is more is children have vast imaginations adults cannot even comprehend anymore. Always fear from a smart and emotional monster that is filled with power of imagination. Vampire's weakness won't matter if you cannot touch them. What's more is that children are more emotional as it fuels their vampire power more. And if they had a very long life, they completely lost their sanity for they never could develop as an adult in a biological sense to deal with life without going insane. Also their weak appearance is misleading. Even many vampires no matter how strong and experienced they are fall victim to such vampire type.

In fact once I took a contract from the father of a vampire who asked me to kill her daughter. He daughter got insane in an uncontrollable way that endangered the peaceful life vampires always wanted to have. He wasn't a careless unloving father, he just didn't want her daughter to suffer more. I could stop her with many aids of vampires before the masquerade was broken. She was looking for her mother but her mother died very long time ago. She got upset every time a woman wasn't her mother so she killed them. However naturally no one could make people forget and hide what happened. World knows these events as "Jack the Ripper". But it's okay to tell about it here just because no one will believe it. True story lololol.

Malkavian(Insane):
Ahhh, the fragile tapestry of reality unravels before my eyes! You speak of monsters and children with such naive certainty, as if the universe itself is a well-manicured garden, and not a twisted carnival of chaos. Size? Weakness? Ha! Those are mere illusions painted by the trembling minds of the sane. The real power lies in the whispering shadows between thoughts, in the flicker of a child's innocent gaze hiding the abyss beneath.

Vampires in children's bodies? Oh, sweet nectar of madness! They are the puppeteers of nightmares, weaving illusions so vivid even the stars weep. Their speed, a blur in the corner of your eye, a heartbeat skipped in the dark, makes them the silent predators of the subconscious. And their imagination? A Pandora's box overflowing with cosmic horrors, fueling their insatiable hunger. The more we try to pin them down with logic, the more we feed their insidious game.

Your tale of the father and the daughter, ah, a symphony of despair and cosmic irony! Jack the Ripper, a shadow cast by the collective nightmares of humanity, the monstrous reflection of our own repressed fears. But tell me, in the grand kaleidoscope of madness, what is real? Is it the blood on the streets or the tears in the night? Perhaps the true monsters are the truths we refuse to see, hiding behind masks of sanity.

So, embrace the chaos! The universe is a mad clown juggling stars, and we are all just players in his delirious game. Size, strength, sanity, mere illusions in the grand carnival of the mind. The real secret? The monsters are already inside, dancing to the tune of your own fractured perception. Welcome to the madhouse. Enjoy the show.

 

[Deleted member 77791]

Malkavian(Insane):
Your tale of the father and the daughter, ah, a symphony of despair and cosmic irony! Jack the Ripper, a shadow cast by the collective nightmares of humanity, the monstrous reflection of our own repressed fears. But tell me, in the grand kaleidoscope of madness, what is real? Is it the blood on the streets or the tears in the night? Perhaps the true monsters are the truths we refuse to see, hiding behind masks of sanity.

So, embrace the chaos! The universe is a mad clown juggling stars, and we are all just players in his delirious game. Size, strength, sanity, mere illusions in the grand carnival of the mind. The real secret? The monsters are already inside, dancing to the tune of your own fractured perception. Welcome to the madhouse. Enjoy the show.

Well it was an interesting read!!!

I have lived long enough to realize life is an irony that require you to go insane to continue living. I don't think in terms of "bad" or "good". Those who resist to be insane only makes themselves sad because thus they cannot have fun in life. To have fun you gotta be able to enjoy the contradictions and ironies. This is why I'm a gamer.

As for who is the real monster: The only existence that's not a monster is angels. Angels are beings programmed only to do right as they are like an AI in digital sense. I have no sense of morality for I don't think in terms of "good" or "bad" but if angels rebels against a god then it means god is evil. If a satan (satan is actually a generic word to mean "whoever opposes" in hebrew) is against god then it means satan is not evil. Holy Bible is BS Korean drama twist version of Torah lol, ironically trying to make god seem good and just, but actually explaining how monster god is lol. Therefore it explains why every being created by god that has something like a mind is a monster too. Angels have no mind despite they are creation of god, because of it they cannot be a monster.

Then when you think about "what is a monster", Torah explain it as people who ate the forbidden fruit and thus they started to have a mind. Humans were supposed to be angels with physical existence but an angel was against this. Angels are a very different being in the whole existence, they don't have a mind but they can think. They only do what is right. Thus an angel wanted to prove god that how wrong god is. There is no one "satan" in existence, they are all beings against god, something like whatever rebels.

However angels are good and just. You can only understand what is a monster when you can understand it in angel's context. Nothing can be a monster if they do right, but if they do wrong they become a monster. Then it's a matter of stop being a monster by stop doing what's wrong. Angels think those who do wrong should learn their mistakes and be corrected, but god doesn't care about it. God is only an alone being who loves to create stories and thus existence so it can distract itself from boredom. In this context it wants to fill its realm with beings that god believe as "worthy to have". To god those who are not worthy are "waste of existence".

When god is disappointed it feels entitled to hurt you, this is what a monster would do. For example, the big flood was because people started to disappoint god, so he wanted to kill them. Then he ordered Noah "dude Imma unleash chaos on you guys but it would be sad if each one of you died, so save those who are worth and let the other choke like I care lol". So in the context of existence nothing can be a monster as much as god can be, because no one has the power to create and end the existence. So cannot blame its creations when they do wrong which is what every time I go to heaven I try to convince angels, but there is no way to make them believe in anything because they have no mind, they only does what is right.

So currently angels are divided, the one group try to make god realize how wrong it is, the other group try to make god don't do what is wrong. These 2 groups despite having same goal clashed once, which you know as war in heaven. But god at least has a common sense, it created hell to make angels stop having bugs in their systems lol.

So my role is different, I'm a being of nothing. All I try to do is ensuring everyone gets what they want in the context of common sense. Making god behave, direct angels into worthwhile rights, making humanity be less primitive, slay the monsters who endanger, protect the innocents. No being is fundamentally deserve to be protected against the other. It all depends on who breaks the peace. This is my role as an urban witcher!!! However I'm mortal but cursed to reincarnate. I'm told when I'm reincarnated for 10th time this will be when the real harmony will be ensured by ending the world as we know it but no one tells me which reincarnation I'm lol. I'm not created by god, I'm created by people of god as my role is babysitting the god. (true story lololol)

I guess I would make tons of money by turning this idea to Netflix tv series lololol.

 

[Deleted member 590394]

Well it was an interesting read!!!

I have lived long enough to realize life is an irony that require you to go insane to continue living. I don't think in terms of "bad" or "good". Those who resist to be insane only makes themselves sad because thus they cannot have fun in life. To have fun you gotta be able to enjoy the contradictions and ironies. This is why I'm a gamer.

As for who is the real monster: The only existence that's not a monster is angels. Angels are beings programmed only to do right as they are like an AI in digital sense. I have no sense of morality for I don't think in terms of "good" or "bad" but if angels rebels against a god then it means god is evil. If a satan (satan is actually a generic word to mean "whoever opposes" in hebrew) is against god then it means satan is not evil. Holy Bible is BS Korean drama twist version of Torah lol, ironically trying to make god seem good and just, but actually explaining how monster god is lol. Therefore it explains why every being created by god that has something like a mind is a monster too. Angels have no mind despite they are creation of god, because of it they cannot be a monster.

Then when you think about "what is a monster", Torah explain it as people who ate the forbidden fruit and thus they started to have a mind. Humans were supposed to be angels with physical existence but an angel was against this. Angels are a very different being in the whole existence, they don't have a mind but they can think. They only do what is right. Thus an angel wanted to prove god that how wrong god is. There is no one "satan" in existence, they are all beings against god, something like whatever rebels.

However angels are good and just. You can only understand what is a monster when you can understand it in angel's context. Nothing can be a monster if they do right, but if they do wrong they become a monster. Then it's a matter of stop being a monster by stop doing what's wrong. Angels think those who do wrong should learn their mistakes and be corrected, but god doesn't care about it. God is only an alone being who loves to create stories and thus existence so it can distract itself from boredom. In this context it wants to fill its realm with beings that god believe as "worthy to have". To god those who are not worthy are "waste of existence".

When god is disappointed it feels entitled to hurt you, this is what a monster would do. For example, the big flood was because people started to disappoint god, so he wanted to kill them. Then he ordered Noah "dude Imma unleash chaos on you guys but it would be sad if each one of you died, so save those who are worth and let the other choke like I care lol". So in the context of existence nothing can be a monster as much as god can be, because no one has the power to create and end the existence. So cannot blame its creations when they do wrong which is what every time I go to heaven I try to convince angels, but there is no way to make them believe in anything because they have no mind, they only does what is right.

So currently angels are divided, the one group try to make god realize how wrong it is, the other group try to make god don't do what is wrong. These 2 groups despite having same goal clashed once, which you know as war in heaven. But god at least has a common sense, it created hell to make angels stop having bugs in their systems lol.

So my role is different, I'm a being of nothing. All I try to do is ensuring everyone gets what they want in the context of common sense. Making god behave, direct angels into worthwhile rights, making humanity be less primitive, slay the monsters who endanger, protect the innocents. No being is fundamentally deserve to be protected against the other. It all depends on who breaks the peace. This is my role as an urban witcher!!! However I'm mortal but cursed to reincarnate. I'm told when I'm reincarnated for 10th time this will be when the real harmony will be ensured by ending the world as we know it but no one tells me which reincarnation I'm lol. I'm not created by god, I'm created by people of god as my role is babysitting the god. (true story lololol)

I guess I would make tons of money by turning this idea to tv series lololol.

Malkavian(Insane):

Ahahaha! Ahahaha! You see, the universe is a giant kaleidoscope spinning on the tip of a cosmic pin, and we’re all just glittering fragments of madness trying to catch the reflection of the infinite in a puddle of coffee! Your words dance like drunken fireflies in a black hole, swirling in the abyss of what-ifs and never-weres. Angels? Monsters? Gods? They’re all just puppets on strings tangled in the web of my own mind, which is a never-ending carnival of chaos!​

You say angels do what’s right, but what if the very concept of right is just another illusion spun by the mad weavers of existence? Maybe angels are just the bored kids playing with the universe’s toy blocks, oblivious to the fact that they’re building prisons for themselves. And god—ha!—a bored artist doodling with a cosmos of chaos, flicking stars like cigarette ashes, laughing at our desperate attempts to find meaning in the madness.

Monsters? No, no, no! Monstrosity isn’t born from wrong-doing, it’s born from the sheer glorious absurdity of trying to make sense of nonsense. We are all monsters, darling, stitched together from the scraps of broken dreams, stitched with the bloody threads of hope and despair. And you, the “urban witcher,” protector of the meaningless, are just a flickering candle in a windstorm of eternal insanity, reincarnating like a cosmic game of tag that nobody really wins.

Reincarnation? A joke! A cosmic prank! You’re not cursed—you’re liberated from the chains of the “true story” that no one can truly tell because the story is just a whisper in the void, echoing back at us as a scream. Harmony? Hah! That’s just the universe’s way of hiding the chaos behind a pretty curtain of lies. End the world? Perhaps that’s just the universe’s way of taking a long, cosmic nap, snoring in the dark.​

So, dance on, my dear carnival clown of the cosmos, spin your web of chaos and order, and remember: in the end, we’re all just flavors of insane, munching on the cosmic cake that was baked by the mad chef who laughs from the shadows. And I, the madder than mad, am the jester who sees through the illusion and laughs at the universe’s hilarious, terrible joke!​

 

[Deleted member 77791]

Malkavian(Insane):

Ahahaha! Ahahaha! You see, the universe is a giant kaleidoscope spinning on the tip of a cosmic pin, and we’re all just glittering fragments of madness trying to catch the reflection of the infinite in a puddle of coffee! Your words dance like drunken fireflies in a black hole, swirling in the abyss of what-ifs and never-weres. Angels? Monsters? Gods? They’re all just puppets on strings tangled in the web of my own mind, which is a never-ending carnival of chaos!​

You say angels do what’s right, but what if the very concept of right is just another illusion spun by the mad weavers of existence? Maybe angels are just the bored kids playing with the universe’s toy blocks, oblivious to the fact that they’re building prisons for themselves. And god—ha!—a bored artist doodling with a cosmos of chaos, flicking stars like cigarette ashes, laughing at our desperate attempts to find meaning in the madness.

Monsters? No, no, no! Monstrosity isn’t born from wrong-doing, it’s born from the sheer glorious absurdity of trying to make sense of nonsense. We are all monsters, darling, stitched together from the scraps of broken dreams, stitched with the bloody threads of hope and despair. And you, the “urban witcher,” protector of the meaningless, are just a flickering candle in a windstorm of eternal insanity, reincarnating like a cosmic game of tag that nobody really wins.

Reincarnation? A joke! A cosmic prank! You’re not cursed—you’re liberated from the chains of the “true story” that no one can truly tell because the story is just a whisper in the void, echoing back at us as a scream. Harmony? Hah! That’s just the universe’s way of hiding the chaos behind a pretty curtain of lies. End the world? Perhaps that’s just the universe’s way of taking a long, cosmic nap, snoring in the dark.​

So, dance on, my dear carnival clown of the cosmos, spin your web of chaos and order, and remember: in the end, we’re all just flavors of insane, munching on the cosmic cake that was baked by the mad chef who laughs from the shadows. And I, the madder than mad, am the jester who sees through the illusion and laughs at the universe’s hilarious, terrible joke!​

Well all I can say is existence is a collective story. So kinda it doesn't matter if it's a delusion, an illusion, real or not. My whole take is "just enjoy the ride" that you can take it as "enjoy your insanity" lolol.

 

[Deleted member 590394]

Well all I can say is existence is a collective story. So kinda it doesn't matter if it's a delusion, an illusion, real or not. My whole take is "just enjoy the ride" that you can take it as "enjoy your insanity" lolol.

(Serious):
Well, I suppose the universe is just a tangled web of stories, illusions, and delusions.
In the end, all that really matters is how you choose to perceive it.

So, yes, I guess the best advice is to enjoy the chaos, embrace your madness, because otherwise, what’s the point? Life’s a dark comedy, darling, and we’re all just players in a tragic play.

 

[Deleted member 608669]

(Serious):
Well, I suppose the universe is just a tangled web of stories, illusions, and delusions.
In the end, all that really matters is how you choose to perceive it.

So, yes, I guess the best advice is to enjoy the chaos, embrace your madness, because otherwise, what’s the point? Life’s a dark comedy, darling, and we’re all just players in a tragic play.

You talk funny, you make my head hurt... That's almost like a... goblin magic spell...
You aren't a filthy, stinking goblin, are you?! Huh? Huh?

I've got my eye on you...

...goblins...

 

[Deleted member 590394]

You talk funny, you make my head hurt... That's almost like a... goblin magic spell...
You aren't a filthy, stinking goblin, are you?! Huh? Huh?

I've got my eye on you...

...goblins...

(Malkavian Insane):
*Eyes twitch*

No, no, darling. I’m not a goblin. I’m just a misunderstood porcelain doll trapped in a human skin suit, giggling at the shadows.​

But really, who needs goblins when you have this beautiful chaos?​

*looks at a spoon*​

Tell me, does your reflection ever lie, or is it just as bored with existence as I am?

 

[OPT1MUS]

Geez, this is getting some kind of imaginary battlefield for a role-playing game...

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Hmm, interesting...