One day in the Hundred Acre Wood, inside his humble little home, Winnie the Pooh was fumbling about with a fancy-looking box and becoming more and more puzzled with each second. It was a box for a Sony PlayStation 4, and Pooh had just bought it after a wonderful trip to his local Best Buy store. Unfortunately, having hands filled with fluff made it difficult for Pooh to remove the sealing tape on the box, and with each failed attempt, his cotton sphincter puckered ever moreso. After failing for the thirtieth time in a row, he finally made the decision to call Rabbit, who more than likely knew what to do in this situation.
Inside his neatly-kept hole, Rabbit was getting ready to dice up a couple of onions when he suddenly heard the song "Ten Thousand Fists" by Disturbed emanating from his flip phone.
"Ah shit, that must be Pooh Bear," he grumbled, putting his knife down and answering the phone with a particularly annoyed expression plastered on his face. "H-Hello?"
"Yes hello, is this Rabbit? I have a question for Rabbit…" murmured Pooh, sitting on top of the PlayStation 4 box and kicking his legs in a whimsical fashion.
"Of course it's Rabbit, you called my personal cell phone. What do you want?"
"O-Oh, hello Rabbit! I was just having some trouble opening the box for my new Wii U I bought at Best Buy, and wanted to know how I'd go about getting the tape off?"
"...Really? That's the urgent dilemma you had to call me about and interrupt my dinner preparations with? Christ, Pooh. You're more dense than a wet sack of potatoes. Do you have any knives lying about? That'd probably get the tape right off."
"Uhh, no...I don't really need knives since all I eat is honey straight from the jar…" Pooh said with a hiccup, lightly bouncing on top of the box that was clearly not containing a Wii U.
Rabbit simply stood there, internally screaming and tearing up a bit as the gases from his onions began to waft into his eyes. His gaze shifted to his knife, and he let out a pained sigh.
Next thing he knew, Rabbit found himself outside Winnie the Pooh's front door, brandishing his kitchen knife with an iron grip. Begrudgingly, he knocked on the wooden door twice; instantly, Pooh swung the door open and met Rabbit with an innocent smile.
"Hello, Rabbit! Come in, come in! We can play some games together once we get it open, too! Have you ever heard of Halo 5: Guardians?" Pooh bumbled as he led the annoyed rabbit into his home, accidentally slamming the door behind him. A big plastic bag from Best Buy was strewn across the floor, and the pristine-looking PlayStation 4 box was still sitting there.
"Hmm...so that thing's a Wii U, eh? I haven't seen one before, what does it do?" inquired Rabbit, squatting next to the box and poking it with the edge of his blade.
"It's a video game console, Rabbit. You put discs in it, and it makes you go "Wee!" That's why it's called a Wii U, you see," replied Pooh, sitting on the floor next to Rabbit. The box clearly did not say "Wii U," but neither of them could read, so it didn't matter at all.
"Welp, might as well do what I came here to do then!" said Rabbit as he nicked the small pieces of tape and opened the box, revealing the pricey rhombus-shaped system. "My my, this thing is darker than my late nana's soul, Pooh Bear!" he stated emphatically.
For the next two hours, the two of them underwent the seemingly impossible task of hooking the PlayStation 4 up to Winnie the Pooh's LCD TV. They had no idea which wires went where, didn't understand what HDMI meant, and didn't know how to read the instruction manual, only going off the tiny pictures it supplied. After struggling for a bit, they finally had everything set up in a fashion that looked reasonable, and they pushed the power button.
Pooh's TV screen illuminated and displayed the initial PS4 set-up, and they just input whatever they thought looked right. Not getting a single thing correct, it finally instructed Pooh Bear to type in his preferred PSN profile name.
"Oh, well that's easy!" he said with a chuckle, inputting "SweetPissBaby25." He couldn't read, but his fingers became possessed by a malevolent demon and caused him to type that.
"I can't tell what it says, but I'm sure it's marvelous, Pooh Bear," said Rabbit, becoming more and more eager to play Halo 5: Guardians as time went on. After a few more miniscule option settings, the PS4 Home Menu finally splashed onto the screen. With a grin on his face, Pooh cracked open the Halo 5 box that clearly had an Xbox One logo on it and took the disc out, sliding it into the PlayStation 4's disc slot. With a brief spat of whirring noises coming from the system, rather than the game starting up, an error message appeared:
Cannot recognize the disc.
Make sure that the disc is not damaged or dirty, and that it is not inserted upside-down.
Pooh and Rabbit, who were both still unable to read, simply stared at the screen with anticipation. Seconds went by, and after several of them, they turned into minutes. They expected something to happen, and yet nothing on the screen changed.
"...Is this Halo 5: Guardians, Pooh? It's pretty fucking boring, so far…" Rabbit mumbled, twirling the analog sticks on the DualShock controller impatiently.
"Bother...it does seem a bit like rubbish so far, I agree," added Pooh, picking up the Halo 5: Guardians box and spitting on it with utter disgust and contempt. Hatred had consumed him.
Just then, Pooh's front door exploded off its hinges and an orange blur zoomed into the small room that they were occupying. After a few shrieks of genuine terror and some tumbles on the ground, Pooh found himself lying on the ground with Tigger standing on his belly.
"Hoo-hoo-hoo-hooo! Hello, I'm Tigger!" he proclaimed triumphantly, digging his tiger claws into Pooh just enough that it was painful but not enough that it would draw blood.
