So two days ago I caved in. Despite GameStop trying to screw me when I went back for the 360 and my statement that I wouldn't buy another 360, I bought another one. Upon getting it home and out of the box, the first thing that hit me is it's different  now than it was before. It's a lot different than before. It's black instead of white. The plug for the grey power brick is now two pronged instead of three pronged. It uses less energy. It comes with 120gb hard drive. It has an HDMI slot. It is quieter when spinning the discs, but emits a constant WHURRR WHUR WHURRRRRRR when on. I guess it wants me to know it's on in case I am blind and can't see it loading on my TV. There is a crap ton more stuff on Xbox Live and Live Marketplace. The controller goes through batters like mad and finally the thing that makes me madder than a hornet is the fact that the component cable has been discontinued. In the component cables place comes a composite cable, which delivers far inferior picture quality and feels like a slap in the face. When I discovered this I ranted. I raved. I cursed. I questioned if Microsoft was serious about the whole HD thing. I went and bought a rechargeable battery pack and VGA adapter.
 
After getting my new black brick connected via VGA to my TV, setting up the system, recovering my Gamer Tag, and fiddling with the resolution I murdered my old Joanna Dark avatar. This was a mistake. What followed as I attempted to create Cerza (me) as an avatar was a confusing maze of menus containing hundreds of items that are either all the same, but with a different palette, or just plain stupid in the case of the hats and accessories. I will admit though, there is something about a fedora that screams classy and I am strangely attracted to that light saber. I want that light saber. It's a light saber and it's 400 points. I didn't cave in and buy it, but I wanted to. Maybe I'll get it later.
 
After two and a half hours of searching through menus, the avatar store, and being disappointed that there is no cigarette accessory I finished making my avatar and found myself back at the dash. I'm not going to lie. It's been a year and a half since I was on the 360's dash and I couldn't navigate it. In my attempt to maneuver it A.D.D. took over. I began to wander every nook and cranny of the 360 and Live as I relearned it. I wandered and was amazed at how something that had once been so familiar to me could now be so foreign. I sifted through menus and looked at things for another two and a half hours. As I became reacquainted, I was amazed at how much more stuff there was than before. I was amazed at how much more quality stuff there was than before. I was amazed at how much I had been missing by staying on the PS3. I wondered how I had lived without it. I wondered why I'd ever left the 360 in the first place.