Rest in Peace Eddard Snow... : V

» Sat Jul 21, 2012 8:21 am

Approximately three-quarters of an hour ago my playstation suffered a yellow light of death, indicating a general hardware fault. Thus far, my attempts to revive the system have proven fruitless. At the time I was slaying a fearsome giant that was threatening the people of the Hjaalmarch with Eddard Snow, warrior Nord and all-around good guy. For nearly 110 hours and 40 levels we had traversed the landscape of Skyrim together, slaying dragons, saving villages and helping old ladies find their MacGuffins. However, our questing has been brought to a premature end, partially due to data on dead PS3 hard drives being unable to be salvaged and also due to my own stupidity in not backing up my game saves. In addition to Eddard (which I'm quite sad about) I've also lost around 200GB of data dating back about 3 years (One might even say I'm...*puts on glasses*...inconsolable).

Friends, let my story serve as a warning to you. Save yourselves from knowing this feel. If you do not already, back-up your save files, particularly the important ones. At least then, the deaths of Eddard Snow, and others like him, will not be in vain.

Rest in peace, friend. Sovngarde awaits.

» Fri Jul 20, 2012 11:21 pm

This is why I use PS+'s cloud storage.

» Sat Jul 21, 2012 12:30 am

Thanks for the warning. I'll look into PS+ now.

» Sat Jul 21, 2012 3:04 am

you could keep trying, all you need is to revive it for 5 or so minutes to get those saves.

» Sat Jul 21, 2012 5:42 am

This is why I use PS+'s cloud storage.

Yeah, I'm pretty tempted now. I use Dropbox for important laptop stuff so it's not like I'm adverse to cloud storage, just too poor to consistantly afford it at the moment.

you could keep trying, all you need is to revive it for 5 or so minutes to get those saves.

Initially, I managed to get it on long enough to save the disk and I've tried running a fan test (curiously, broken PS3s forget they're broken when you do this and usually give you long enough to reach the XMB to fiddle around for a bit/eject disks) but now it's not even powering on for longer than a second.

» Sat Jul 21, 2012 6:53 am

Im sorry for your loss

» Sat Jul 21, 2012 7:19 am

Im sorry for your loss

I second this. :sad:

» Sat Jul 21, 2012 1:58 am

*cough* Xbox 360 *cough* and on a serious note sorry for eddard snow and PS3 of adventure and I'm going to backup my saves now because of this, just need to find that flash drive or I could try cloud.

» Fri Jul 20, 2012 11:36 pm

Sad, very sad. His death was not in vain. I will be looking into PS+ as well, if it provides outside storage. Thank you. :sweat:

» Fri Jul 20, 2012 9:14 pm

Approximately three-quarters of an hour ago my playstation suffered a yellow light of death, indicating a general hardware fault. Thus far, my attempts to revive the system have proven fruitless. At the time I was slaying a fearsome giant that was threatening the people of the Hjaalmarch with Eddard Snow, warrior Nord and all-around good guy. For nearly 110 hours and 40 levels we had traversed the landscape of Skyrim together, slaying dragons, saving villages and helping old ladies find their MacGuffins. However, our questing has been brought to a premature end, partially due to data on dead PS3 hard drives being unable to be salvaged and also due to my own stupidity in not backing up my game saves. In addition to Eddard (which I'm quite sad about) I've also lost around 200GB of data dating back about 3 years (One might even say I'm...*puts on glasses*...inconsolable).

Friends, let my story serve as a warning to you. Save yourselves from knowing this feel. If you do not already, back-up your save files, particularly the important ones. At least then, the deaths of Eddard Snow, and others like him, will not be in vain.

Rest in peace, friend. Sovngarde awaits.

May the Father judge him fairly and the Mother have mercy upon him.

RIP Eddard.

:sad:

-HK