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by to3m 3746 days ago
At my old office we had a mini Xbox360 with a touch-(over-)sensitive disc eject button. Suppose somebody was playing a game and they invited you to join as player 2: you might then naturally reach for the second joypad that was on the same TV stand as the Xbox. And that damn button would spot your hand, and the disc tray would eject, and the Xbox would reboot.

(The ridiculous part of the whole thing was that this happened even when the game was running from the hard drive. Obviously this was at least partly a measure to ensure that the disc verified on startup wasn't removed and used to boot other Xboxes - but you didn't get even a 30 second grace period to close the drive door. And I'm pretty sure it also happened when playing downloadable games too anyway!)
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stordoff 3746 days ago
The Xbox One is just as bad - the power button can be triggered even if you don't actually touch it (triggers from about 0.5-1cm away).
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shortstuffsushi 3745 days ago
Or if you have cats that need to rub themselves against anything. It's especially confusing at night, when you can't even see it happen because one of your cats is black.
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stordoff 3745 days ago
Fortunately my cat usually avoids my desk (I move him off it if he decides to walk/lay on it, and he seems to have learnt not to - he now curls up on my bed (just behind my desk) instead). He did trigger the 360 drive button a few times when he first moved in* though, so I can imagine the annoyance.

* Long story, but he originally belonged to a neighbouring house a few streets away. We fed him _once_ (didn't recognise where it was from, and it looked as though he had been trapped somewhere for a while - he was covered in cuts and was filthy, as if he had be struggling to get out of somewhere), and after that we couldn't get rid of him. He kept appearing (usually multiple times a day) for three months or so, even though we wouldn't feed him, let him in the house, or pet him (as we knew he had an owner at that point). Even after his owner moved and took him with her (about three miles away), he kept finding his way back, so eventually his owner suggested that we take him in.

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