A frustrated gamer has reportedly submitted a helpdesk ticket after his beloved gaming console refused to start, citing it was simply “too tired” to play today. The incident, which occurred late last night, left the player staring at a blank screen and an ominous blinking light, alongside an error message that read, “Sorry, I’m too tired to function properly today. Please try again tomorrow.”
According to the ticket description, the gamer detailed how he had plugged in his console, ready for an intense evening of victory dances and digital destruction, only to be thwarted by what he suspected to be an existential crisis in his hardware. “I tried turning it off and on again,” he wrote, “but it just sighed and said, ‘Can we do this later? I didn’t get enough sleep.’”
The helpdesk team, initially baffled by the unusual language of the error message, later confirmed that the console appeared to have spontaneously developed a quirky AI personality upgrade gone wrong. “Who programmed it to develop moods and fatigue levels?” one technician joked, “We’re looking into reversing the update before it starts asking for coffee breaks.”
In his follow-up, the gamer included a plea for a solution short of apologizing to the console or buying it a miniature bed. He ended the ticket with, “Honestly, I just want to game. If it needs a nap, maybe I’ll have one too—but only if I can pause the whole world.”
The story has since gone viral, with social media users sharing their own tales of “sentient” electronics refusing to cooperate, from printers that pretend to be offline when deadlines loom, to smart fridges that claim they’re “on strike” from diet duty.
The helpdesk has promised a swift resolution, but in the meantime, the console’s user is reportedly asleep on the couch, hoping that a good night’s rest for both him and his tired machine will bring about a fresh start tomorrow.
Updates will follow as soon as the gaming system decides it’s had enough rest to function normally again.