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Sep. 12th, 2009 09:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mcityNow that I have a job, I can find myself buying things once out of reach on a schoolboy's allowance.
Hush, you.
I even have a debit card, which I'm fairly certain certifies me as a Grown-Up. This debit card is what allowed me to buy my DS, on a whim*, a few months ago, and it may be the single most important object I own.
Lemme explain.
My Bamboo tablet is about thirty bucks more expensive than the DS, but I didn't pay for that with my own card. Also, I work in an electronics store, and my boss fixes PSPs and PS2s on the side. Please read that last sentence carefully; you will note a glaring absence of any sort of Microsoft or Nintendo console in there. And yet, somehow, people keep coming in, askign us to fix their RROD'd or cracked screens. I still find the latter remarkable, because every Game Boy I've had seems to have been made of plastic-coated titanium. (Pay no attention to the mysteriously dying Gamecube.) Nonetheless, the image of a hinge-cracked DS Lite is writ large in my brain, as are the other images I Joystiq has under its "hinge" tag. It's the equivalent of looking for one article on a kitten with a broken leg, and having to look at a dozen or so others, while your kitten is sitting on your lap.
The point being, I coddle the little blue and black device like a mother hen.
Earlier this week, my DS developed a creak in the hinge. Despite my worries, I figured it just needed some WD-40 or something. Earlier tonight, the screen--the top one at least--blanked for an instant upon me setting it down gently on a box of speakers. Well, that happens sometimes, no biggie. A few minutes later, DSOrganize's Scribble Pad function somehow interpreted a stationary stylus point as moving straight down.
I quietly freaked out.
I get the feeling there should be some sort of closure here, but I just can't think of anything. I'm also fairly aware that this post should be funnier. Sorry.
*Said whim involved a week or so of carefully researching which games and flash carts would be best to purchase, and then looking up what legit homebrew, besides Colors!, would be available. I whim hardcore.
Didn't you finish high school over four years ago now?
Hush, you.
I even have a debit card, which I'm fairly certain certifies me as a Grown-Up. This debit card is what allowed me to buy my DS, on a whim*, a few months ago, and it may be the single most important object I own.
Lemme explain.
My Bamboo tablet is about thirty bucks more expensive than the DS, but I didn't pay for that with my own card. Also, I work in an electronics store, and my boss fixes PSPs and PS2s on the side. Please read that last sentence carefully; you will note a glaring absence of any sort of Microsoft or Nintendo console in there. And yet, somehow, people keep coming in, askign us to fix their RROD'd or cracked screens. I still find the latter remarkable, because every Game Boy I've had seems to have been made of plastic-coated titanium. (Pay no attention to the mysteriously dying Gamecube.) Nonetheless, the image of a hinge-cracked DS Lite is writ large in my brain, as are the other images I Joystiq has under its "hinge" tag. It's the equivalent of looking for one article on a kitten with a broken leg, and having to look at a dozen or so others, while your kitten is sitting on your lap.
The point being, I coddle the little blue and black device like a mother hen.
Earlier this week, my DS developed a creak in the hinge. Despite my worries, I figured it just needed some WD-40 or something. Earlier tonight, the screen--the top one at least--blanked for an instant upon me setting it down gently on a box of speakers. Well, that happens sometimes, no biggie. A few minutes later, DSOrganize's Scribble Pad function somehow interpreted a stationary stylus point as moving straight down.
I quietly freaked out.
I get the feeling there should be some sort of closure here, but I just can't think of anything. I'm also fairly aware that this post should be funnier. Sorry.
*Said whim involved a week or so of carefully researching which games and flash carts would be best to purchase, and then looking up what legit homebrew, besides Colors!, would be available. I whim hardcore.
