I about ready to throw in the towel.

The method that I detailed earlier about getting my Gamertag working again doesn’t really work. While it lets Chill Penguin get online, it does not allow me to view or alter my account or download anything from the Marketplace. My account is in a bad state, as said by the Xbox Live Operations Manager that has been helping me work through my problem.

I tried to recover my account again, only to lose my save files again. Now, I can’t recover Chill Penguin at all. I’ve spent an insane amount of time on the Xbox forums, PMing the XBL Operations Manager I mentioned earlier, and on the phone with the billing team at Microsoft Xbox. It seems that I cannot get this to work at all.

I’m on the phone with their billing department right now, and it looks like I am out my $50 for Chill Penguin, as well as the $25 for the 2000 Marketplace points that I bought a few weeks ago.

I’ve spent the three weeks since the 360 launch being upset with this situation, and I think it is time that I just gave up. I think I’m going to use Gentoo from here on out and leave Chill Penguin behind… I just can’t deal with this anymore.

I’m working from home today. While I code away I’m watching Transformers: The Movie, and I just saw the part where Hot Rod and Kup’s ship gets blown up by Galvatron. Springer says, “Kup and Hot Road just bought it,” to which Ultra Magnus replies, “I can’t deal with that now!”

Excuse me, but Springer didn’t say, “The toilet is overflowing” or “We are running out of Mountain Dew.” He said, “Kup and Hot Rod just bought it,” as in they are dead. He just shrugged it off because he was too busy trying to save his own ass. Optimus Prime would never had said some shit like that.

Edit: C’mon Magnus, the Autobots’ darkest hour is when you are about to get shot? Talk about being full of yourself. I’m happy the Matrix didn’t open for you and Galvatron’s boys popped several caps in your ass. Thay way, we didn’t have Ultramus Prime or Magnumus Prime or Ultramagnimus Prime or some other such nonsense leading the Autobots.

Obviously, someone liked Magnus alot, since he got shot like seven times and the Junkions just put him back together like he was made of Lego. Yet Prime gets shot three times and he died. Hell, Starscream got shot once and he became a ghost, who later defies the laws of both time and space in Beast Wars: Transformers. What’s up with that?

By the end of this week, I will be closing the guestbook for good. Just like one of the other sites that I maintain, this guestbook is suddenly getting spammed with drug advertisements. You never see them because I have to personally approve each entry before it appears, but the database is filling up quickly.

After the guestbook is closed, feel free to use the Comments link at the bottom of the latest entry on the frontpage.

Edit: Obviously, I didn’t stand by this decision. The guestbook is still available.

Another edit: I’m closing the comments on this page. Spammers seem to like it.