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My roommate is looking for a place to hide his Nintendo GameCube because this weekend will be full of drunken idiots running around and neither of us will be here. We've noticed that the microwave provides a decent hiding place as long as nobody turns it on, which brings up the obvious question:
How long can a Gamecube last in a microwave running at high power?
If you have any spare Gamecubes, friends who have tried this, or heard rumors, please post them below.
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Posted 30 August 2004 - 06:26 PM
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Posted 30 August 2004 - 06:32 PM
My guess is not very long. I have never tried it, but I have a gamecube, and the exterior as far as I can tell is normal plastic, not designed to be very heat resistant. Circutry doesn't react well with microwaves-I can tell you that from experience.
My suggestion is that you take the gamecube with you wherever you are going-they are small, portable, and you could tuck it in the truck of your car or something and leave it there for the weekend. Alternately, give it to a different friend who you know isn't a drunken idiot to keep.
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My suggestion is that you take the gamecube with you wherever you are going-they are small, portable, and you could tuck it in the truck of your car or something and leave it there for the weekend. Alternately, give it to a different friend who you know isn't a drunken idiot to keep.
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Posted 30 August 2004 - 06:42 PM
The GCN has a handle for a reason.
unplug the microwave.
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Posted 30 August 2004 - 08:31 PM
I put the over-under at 7 seconds for terminal damage to both the Gamecube and the microwave. It'll take four seconds for the Gamecube to start to screw up and the micro should trip its breaker shortly there after.
What you should do is dig a complex network of tunnels starting under your refrigerator and eventually ending up slightly southeast of Taos where you hide the Gamecube in a tea cozy under a bear (or you could just stick the thing in a cooler with an ice pack or two in the trunk of your car and not worry about it as Azzy said, or you could take out $150 worth of postal insurance on it and mail it to yourself, figuring that, even if it does show up early, the drunken idiots probably aren't going to take the trouble of opening up your mail).
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What you should do is dig a complex network of tunnels starting under your refrigerator and eventually ending up slightly southeast of Taos where you hide the Gamecube in a tea cozy under a bear (or you could just stick the thing in a cooler with an ice pack or two in the trunk of your car and not worry about it as Azzy said, or you could take out $150 worth of postal insurance on it and mail it to yourself, figuring that, even if it does show up early, the drunken idiots probably aren't going to take the trouble of opening up your mail).
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Posted 30 August 2004 - 08:51 PM
I would just hide it somewhere else. Or here's a better plan:
1. Leave it out in the open.
2. Take out a large insurance policy on it
3.
4. PROFIT!
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1. Leave it out in the open.
2. Take out a large insurance policy on it
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I would just hide it somewhere else. Or here's a better plan:
1. Leave it out in the open.
2. Take out a large insurance policy on it
3.
4. PROFIT!
I would just hide it somewhere else. Or here's a better plan:
1. Leave it out in the open.
2. Take out a large insurance policy on it
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4. PROFIT!
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Posted 30 August 2004 - 09:45 PM
We came up with "hunt some squirrels". How's that?
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Posted 30 August 2004 - 09:45 PM
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I put the over-under at 7 seconds for terminal damage to both the Gamecube and the microwave. It'll take four seconds for the Gamecube to start to screw up and the micro should trip its breaker shortly there after.
I put the over-under at 7 seconds for terminal damage to both the Gamecube and the microwave. It'll take four seconds for the Gamecube to start to screw up and the micro should trip its breaker shortly there after.
Anybody else have a different opinion?
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Posted 30 August 2004 - 10:03 PM
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Anybody else have a different opinion?
Anybody else have a different opinion?
unplug the microwave, from both ends. Hide the cord.
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Posted 30 August 2004 - 10:13 PM
You missed the question asking about how long it would take for the Gabecube to be fried. Unplugging the microwave yields an infinite answer, yet does not satisfy the condition that the microwave has to be running and on high power.
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Posted 30 August 2004 - 10:19 PM
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You missed the question asking about how long it would take for the Gabecube to be fried. Unplugging the microwave yields an infinite answer, yet does not satisfy the condition that the microwave has to be running and on high power.
You missed the question asking about how long it would take for the Gabecube to be fried. Unplugging the microwave yields an infinite answer, yet does not satisfy the condition that the microwave has to be running and on high power.
O.K. on high power it would take 10 seconds to be destroyed. Now see above as to how to fix the problem.
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Posted 30 August 2004 - 11:10 PM
I have a videocamera and a microwave that I wouldn't mind cooking if anyone wants to donate a Gamecube for testing purposes.
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Put it under your bed. If they're drunk and part-aying, I guarantee they won't start with "let's go look under that bed to see what we find!"
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Unless someone collapses on the floor in a pile of vomit and happens to glance under the bed.
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Unless someone collapses on the floor in a pile of vomit and happens to glance under the bed.
Unless someone collapses on the floor in a pile of vomit and happens to glance under the bed.
In which case gaming is probably not their number 1 priority.
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Posted 31 August 2004 - 10:32 AM
Step 1) Drunken idiots find GameCube in Microwave
Step 2)...
Cord or no here, people...
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lotsofblackflags, on Aug 31 2004, 05:03 AM, said:
Put it under your bed. If they're drunk and part-aying, I guarantee they won't start with "let's go look under that bed to see what we find!"
You'd be suprised at what I've seen some drunk people (My sister and her friends after a hard night of part-aying) come up with. The odds are low of them doing that, but not impossible.
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The Journalist, on Sep 6 2004, 11:42 PM, said:
You're going to tell us more, aren't you......
Well, the one closest related to looking under the bed was back before my sister had her Lazik surgery and wore glasses, and said something to the effect of "Look, the bottom of the chair matches perfectly with my glasses!" and then became fascinated with the bottom of the chair, what was underneath the chair, and how it changed when she got further away or closer.
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Posted 07 September 2004 - 03:09 AM
put it in a bag, or in your car, or put away somewhere else.
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Well, the weekend is rather over.
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