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Greasy Spoon writes "Behold! The most ultimate XBox in the whole world. After growing tired with the dull black appearence of this guy's XBox (even with the green lighting skin added) he decided to spruce it up a bit."
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He might as well be hosting it off his Xbox, considering how Slashdotted his site is.
"My XBox is naked!!!...
but it doesn't light up, and that's a problem for me..."
The God of Hubris sits in amazement as he wonders what is so great about a plastic to plexiglass with lights conversion. He then realizes how easily the title of 'God of modding' is and is content with hubris.
The only thing missing are the fish, it looks like a bleeding aquarium.
The most ultimate slashdotting in the whole world!
Romana: "How did you know?" Doctor Who: "Ah, well, knowing is easy. Everyone does THAT ad nauseum. I just sort of hope"
I guess this voids his waranty then :)
does it cook a turkey in under 3 1/2 hours?
Ohh the HUMANITY!
GPLv2: I want my rights, I want my phone call! DRM: What use is a phone call, if you are unable to speak?
he decided to spruce it up a bit
That's nothing. Check out this spruced-up case mod.
I did not think it was possible to make an X-Box bigger. I would like to see what he could do with the controllers.
TODO: Something witty here...
I'd think god would have steadier hands with a dremel tool....
My XBox DVD Rom drive is broken.
<MS> Ok, no problem sir, we can replace it - is your warranty still valid?
<owner> Well, it's in date...
<MS> Have you done anything like adding a new hard disk sir?
<owner> Errr, no... not as such... just some small comsmetic changes in fact.
<MS> Stickers? Those are covered.
<owner> Not exactly.
<MS> Paint? I think we can live with that.
<owner> Well, I sort of ripped it apart and made a new case for it.
<MS> ?!
<owner> Which glows. But thats not why it's broken! I never went near the DVD with the hammer when I was taking the case apart.
<MS> !!
<owner> Hey, when you take it back for repair, you will be careful not to scratch the pexi glass right? Or break the soldering on the new LEDs.
<click - call terminated>
Beep beep.
It needs a few more blinking lights and a pedantic voice, but it could be done!
Ahh, I see. The most ultimate. As opposed to the less ultimate ones, such as the moderately ultimate and least ultimate.
talk about the penultimate x-box.
(heh also note the way the submitter just copied the webpage text and changed a few personal pronouns. i am in awe of such laziness.)
Karma: T-rexcellent.
1) Build ugly ridiculous looking xbox mod, because I can ...
2)
3) Make ludicrous amounts of money
Is step 2 slashdot+eBay?
This is to notify you that you are in violation of the DMCA. All MS hardware includes proprietary encrypted screws and advanced adhesive patented security technology to protect our IP. By removing these technological protections, and exposing the underlying technology, you have violated more IP rights than you can possible imagine. You are a terrorist. The FBI will soon be at your house to throw you in a dark deep dungeon.
"She's a scientist and a lesbian. She's not going to let it slide." Orphan Black
The lights work that's all that matters, he had to disconect the hard drive, it sunk too much power, made the lights dim.
Clearly (based on the pics) he does not own a TV, leaving the xbox itself as the only form of physical entertainment.
The black box must have been as boring as hell.
From the article:
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I am the God of modding, now if only god had a better camera...
If only he had a basic HTML handbook.       
is a spoiler.
Rice-Box(tm)
Ben
Work Safe Porn
A shot from a slightly different angle. I am the God of modding, now if only god had a better camera...
... and as God read this most blasphemous of phrases he struck out at the web server with a flood of hits, each wave more powerful than the last. All that could be saved were two zeroes and two ones.
Most ultimate is more bester than just plain ultimate.
DUDE! THAT'S IT!
Ok, first off we dig up your dead granny, completely get her done up at the nearest taxidermist so as to preserve her present appearance (I'm thinking we get either a case that looks like something from Dawn of the Dead or worst case just an old lady with a fairly life like appearance depending on how long she's been dead) and then here's the good part... MOUNT THE XBOX inside her corpse!
If she's been in the ground a while it would be one hell of a cool Resident Evil machine!
Give the dude some credit now. It takes talent to turn a $179 computer into a $600 computer.
You mean like what this guy did to a GameBoy?
The ______ Agenda
Plastic! What *will* they think of next? Aluminum? Now what I'd really like to see is a mad overclocker make a case out of pure Magnesium.
There's a problem with that theory. Geeks don't have any taste.
Coming soon: Queer Eye for the Geek Guy
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This one time me and my buddies set fire to this old shed and it burnt to the ground and it was like the most ultimate shed mod and then this other time we had a whole case of beer and we drank every can and it was the most ultimate case of beer mod and then this other time I got hit by a bus and killed and I never modded anything again. Fuck.
Now wash your hands.
Injection molding on a home scale is possible but that requires far more intense machining than making a new case for an Xbox, as you have to make molds, and machine them to a mirror finish. If you were going to make a plastic case you'd be far better off gluing it. The glue used for acrylic (aka, plexiglass) is simply acrylic dissolved in some kind of solvent; the same solvent will bite into the new acrylic. If you do a good job gluing it's very difficult to tell where acrylic has been glued.
Aluminum is definitely the way to go in my book, because it hasn't been done to death. I would very much like to make an aluminum case for my game boy and game boy player - separate cases of course, as they are now - that would make it match my red game boy SP. But then, where do you stop? If I make a case for the GC, I'm going to have to make a controller, too. But, a metal controller is going to get wicked hot, so then I'm going to need to add cooling fins and a fan, and before you know it I've dropped it in my lap and it's assaulted my crotch. No no, far better to let someone else do that shit, and make aluminum parts for my car, instead.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Look in amazment of my leet modding skillz.
Ph33r also my mind-numbingly shocking command of English, and my consistently retarded inability to put semicolons on the end of my entities! Cower in awe of the fact that I obviously did not even LOOK at the web page after I created it! I am so l33t.
This sig is part of your complete breakfast.
It looks like someone put my asian neighbor's civic on blocks, took everything that wasn't riveted, then took apart the inside of an XBox, put all of that into a garbage compacter, then barfed into the ebay submission form.
Since I can't read the site, I'm going to have to assume that version of the events leading to this moment of Slashdot disgrace. It's entirely plausible.
Fuck Beta. Fuck Dice
Until he gets the bandwidth bill, he made 70$...
It's whopping huge!
Yay me!
The developer version of the x-box is a transparent x-box case anyway.
This really is more boring than you'd imagine!
The problem with slashdot is that most of its users were bullied and stuffed into lockers as kids!
1)Bigger box of plexiglass does not in fact make the Xbox any less of an unholy demonic powered eyesore.
2)Green lights do not make for less power drain.
3)A better word for "most ultimate" would be...ultimate
4)And one of my own...I was surprised at first that it wasn's /.-ed...and then I looked at the page and realized why. Any momentary frying of the server would have resulted from the multitudes of viewers getting to the page and simultaneously trying to back out. Like a drunk frat boy who has a sudden moment of sobriety and notices that the girl he thought was teh h077n355 really might not be all that attractive after all...
#define CLUE 0
"Behold! The most ultimate XBox in the whole world..."
If by ultimate you mean large and cumbersome, then yes: you have a valid arguement.
Wow! That really is the ugliest thing I've ever seen! Thanks, Slashdot, for bringing this piece of crap to our attention. Now hundreds of 1337 g4m0rz who have modded their PCs with... well the same tubes and LEDs and plexy crap, really... can feel better about their 'Tandy 30-in-One' lookalike craptastic boxes! They have truly acheived 1960s electronic chic.
Now, if we could find something to make all those airfoiled, spoilered,prismatic,fiberglass Civic, Prelude and Supra mods look like more than some 6 year old's first attempt at a Revell Mustang kit. They need love too.
Yours truly,
The Bitch
- I am made of meat.
Nit3sche, you are the winning bidder!!
...and he grinned, like a fox eating shit out of a wire brush.
>My $.02
Yes, that would probably be about my bid for this mod as well.
He managed to make the biggest, bulkiest and ugliest games console on the planet even bigger, bulkier and uglier.
I guess thats why he's a god of modding.
It takes talent to turn a $179 computer into a $600 computer.
Yeah, as opposed to Microsoft which has been turning a $600 computer into a $179 computer for the past two years.
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He'd take some heat for that, I'm sure.
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