A video game console who's sole purpose is to suck gamers into it's influence, and once the gamers have nearly reached the peak of their interest, the device shuts it's self down, displaying a red ring, and requiring the now rabid, foamy mouthed gamer to return the device for repair and manage to survive 1 to 3 weeks with out it.
Awe dude, my Ecksbawks got the red ring of death, can I borrow yours? Fuck no man, get your own fucking Ecksbawks!
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)