Corey William Burke-Smith
m writes:

I was in my room playing my game when my game system suddenly shut down and
wouldn't turn back on. In fact none of the outlets in my room nor in the room
next to my bedroom were working. So I went down and checked the breaker box
and all of the breakers were on.

A tripped breaker does not move all the way to the off position.
It's easy to miss a tripped breaker.
I assume that's where your story takes a left turn into
"no such thing" land.

So I went and got my bud who knew about
breakers and he came down and flipped the corresponding breaker switch off and
back on and just like that the outlets were working again.

Showing that the breaker had tripped, you just didn't see it.

I personally think
that it was a partially tripped breaker, which could mean it's time to replace
it, but IDK. What do you think happened?

The "partial" concept makes no sense.
A breaker moves 2 pieces of metal apart so a current won't flow.
They are either touching, not touching.
If, somehow, those 2 pieces of metal were barely touching,
they wouldn't stay that way long, since there would be
sparks, heat, and smoke.

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Dan Espen