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How bumping an Xbox 360 could ruin a disc

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If you slightly bumped this massively popular console while it was running, it would carve a perfect, destructive ring into your expensive optical media. It was essentially an incredibly efficient way to accidentally vandalize your own property.

How bumping an Xbox 360 could ruin a disc
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