Xbox 360 users make fun of Steam Machine users facing the red line of death

This is a 2-panel meme using the famous "First time?" hanging scene from the Western film *The Ballad of Buster Scruggs*. The first panel shows a distressed older man with a noose around his neck, captioned "STEAM MACHINE USERS START GETTING THE RED LINE OF DEATH", referencing the fatal hardware error that affects Steam Machine devices. The second panel cuts to a calmer man also wearing a noose, who smirks and asks "First time?", with this character labeled as "XBOX 360 USERS". The joke references the widespread, infamous "red ring of death" hardware failure issue that plagued Xbox 360 consoles for years, framing Xbox 360 users as people who already experienced the same frustrating hardware failure problem and are unimpressed seeing Steam Machine users go through it for the first time.

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STEAM MACHINE USERS START GETTING THE RED LINE OF DEATH

XBOX 360 USERS

-First time?

Overview

This is a 2-panel meme using the famous "First time?" hanging scene from the Western film The Ballad of Buster Scruggs. The first panel shows a distressed older man with a noose around his neck, captioned "STEAM MACHINE USERS START GETTING THE RED LINE OF DEATH", referencing the fatal hardware error that affects Steam Machine devices. The second panel cuts to a calmer man also wearing a noose, who smirks and asks "First time?", with this character labeled as "XBOX 360 USERS". The joke references the widespread, infamous "red ring of death" hardware failure issue that plagued Xbox 360 consoles for years, framing Xbox 360 users as people who already experienced the same frustrating hardware failure problem and are unimpressed seeing Steam Machine users go through it for the first time.

Origin notes

This is a remixed meme shared on the Reddit r/Meme subreddit, as confirmed by the provided source information. It edits the existing popular "First time?" meme template, which originates from the 2018 Netflix original film The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, to make a joke about long-running gaming hardware failure issues that affect both console and PC gaming devices.