#where the fuck is my DS charger

[jell-o-mel]

I took out my broken DS so I could start fixing it again to impress my crush but now I’m having fun fixing it and I don’t really wanna show her

[aguadyne]

should I buy style savvy the ds version

[actual-corpse]

I have literally not touched it in like, a year and I only have 2 Pokémon games on my Switch (I have some on DS but like a fucking tool I can't find my charger... Moving sucks) and since I left my Pillow Pet at my parents house, I've resorted to cuddling my Clefairy Squishmallow and it gave me the idea for a fun Pokémon trainer OC that like, cuddles their Pokémon ya know? I want to draw it, but I want to ALSO build a team for the OC and play that way!

[crypt1dcorv1dae]

Uhhh I can't find the chargers for my old ds/3ds-es uhhhh where t fuck?

[nat-tea-n-coffee]

As a Floridian who has gone through multiple hurricanes in different locations/situations, here are my tips

First, find out where you shelters and stuff are and have your bug out bag ready. Here's the recommended list from the a Florida Disaster website. If you can't do everything, do as much as you can.

If you're in a trailer get to a shelter. Don't try and brave the storm. If you have a friend at high ground, go have a hurricane party with them. Bring what you can, be polite, and remember that pooling resources is good for everyone all around.

The week before the storm

If your county is doing free sand bags, find out and get some. Pile then around the entrances. It'll help keep flooding out of your house

🌀Make a fuck ton of ice. Use old water bottles, 2 liters, gallon jugs cut in half, old ziplock bags, etc ... If the power goes out all that ice will help keep your fridge/freezer cool. Some can also be water sources when melted

🌀If you can get ply wood or something to tack up on the windows, the issue is if the window breaks the wind coming in will rip the roof off. Tape doesn't do anything, unless you're trying to help seal up cracks/gaps.

,🌀Get all your important documents together. Passport, prescriptions family photos, etc and put them into something water tight. Double ziploc works fine ime

If you're in a flood zone make sure you have somewhere to park cars and bikes so they don't get damaged. (Tall hill, parking garage, etc..)

Stock up on non-perishables, instant meals, etc.

🌀MAKE SURE YOU HAVE YOUR PRESCRIPTIONS FILLED FOR THE LOVE OF FUCK, if you call the doctor/insurance and tell them you need an emergency supply cause hurricane you should be able to get it

Put the electronics and tv in garbage bags

Bring in/tie down any loose furniture or plants outside. Anything hanging from windows or terraces too

Eat up any leftovers or fresh food that's close to expiring

🌀Find your friends/community members and see who has what, who's going where, etc... See who's in the best spot, who (if anyone) has access to like a generator or propane stove or stuff like that.

The list says no candles, i say bullshit. Left over liquor bottles/wine bottles work as decent holders for taper candles, but i would recommend putting them in something sturdy, and never leave then unattended.

Put gas in your car, maybe get a jiffy can if you're up for it, but the earlier the better because people go nuts the day before

Make sure your landry is "clean", at least bed linens and stuff like that in case you need to do a makeshift bed in another room.

Night before the storm

Fill your bath tub or buckets with water. If something happens you're have water for watching and flushing the toilet.

🌀Make sure everything is charged. Phones, laptops, batteries, radios, walkie talkies, your DS, everything. Back up and solar chargers are a worthy investment if you have one (or a friend who does)

🌀Find the sturdiest room in your house (normally a bathroom) and figure out if you can drag a mattress in there, cause if everything goes to fuck that is your last hope.

Put together some books and non-electronic games, a pack of cards is always good.

🌀 are what i would consider top priority, and remember that something is better than nothing. A gallon of water is better than nothing at all. If you can't get all of them, cover up your biggest window.

cross-posting a question for a friend on mastodon: does anyone have a guide handy for disaster prep on a budget? more specifically for hurricanes, and even more specifically from a site that isn't trad-mom's-prepper-homestead-dot-biz

[formerlyfandy]

WHERE THE FUCK IS MY DS CHARGER

[zhooniyaa-waagosh]

Dear god, please send help.

i think what’s on a person’s nightstand is very telling so reblog this and put in the tags the things you have on your nightstand

[cheeselasagne]

Recently I had been seeing a lot of flipnotes and ds content on tiktok and it made me jealous that i didn't have a ds. Then I remembered I did own a ds! A dsi to be exact. But I couldn't remember where I put it and hadn't used it in years. I searched my whole house on Saturday tearing it apart only to find the dsi charger. I then decided to stop looking for the day because I was becoming visibly frustrated trying to find this fucking thing. I then went to bed slightly defeated and half gave up with my search. Then I had the strangest dream. I had found my dsi and also found my cousins ds lite (which I think I had only seen once in my life) and was able to play nintendogs and animal crossing. It was so vivid and I just felt pure happiness in my dream. I then woke up and almost cried when I realised it was a dream. But i had a new determination to find my dsi. I searched the whole house again to no avail. I knew one more place I could look but I was avoiding it since I knew that if I didn't see it immediately I would get lazy and give up the search. The garage. It was 8 in the morning but I put on my coat and started my search. Immediately when I opened the door I saw another dsi charger. Things where looking good. I looked in the box I found the charger in. Nothing. I could feel my lazy bones shake. I decided to check the box next to it. Boom. There she was. My sweet baby. A red dsi with my 380 pirated game cartridge still inside. And right next to it my brothers 3ds xl. I hit the jackpot. So yeah, I spent the rest of the day playing Mario party, professor layton and ace attorney and I felt amazing.

[madmaryholiday]

so work kinda sucked today.

got there to find that i had to move to a new station yet again (though at least the chair at this new one is better than the one yesterday) and had to wait 15 mins for the current occupant to finish what she was doing and leave.

went to retrieve my little bag of writing implements and batteries to find that they were not where i had left them. managed to track down most of the stuff in there as i guess the girl who sat there yesterday evening had....separated everything and put things away according to their item type?

except i still can't find the highlighters i had, or the ds lite/3ds combo charger i had for testing handhelds. luckily, i have other chargers, and i managed to find more highlighters, but goddamn. it took an extra 5 mins of searching to find replacements for the stuff i absolutely needed (and a walk halfway across the warehouse to the supply cabinet), and to top it off, the stuff that had been set aside for me to post was on one of the worst carts in the building (tiny, no sides, hard to steer), so i had no room to set anything aside after i finished photographing items.

just. it was not a great day is what i'm saying.

after going through the stuff on the shitty cart, i went over to our console testing station to reset some wii consoles, but my supervisor was there doing it already. i offered to reset them instead if he had stuff to do, but he was like "naw, i'm already caught up on other work."

and then he paused and went "and management wants the listers to 'give it their all' this week." meaning before the move starts.

and i gave him an absolutely pained smile and replied

"whatever i do this week will be enough."

and that was that.

i'm mostly calmed down now, but jesus christ that was so much stress i didn't need right now. it's like each day has been getting worse in new and creative ways. i'm dreading work tomorrow because what the fuck else will get thrown at me then?

will i have a spot to sit at ALL? who knows! or maybe i'll have to use a broken chair that makes my back scream even louder than usual at me! maybe i won't have a phone to photograph with and i'll have to spend 20mins digging through the donated phones bin for something that still sort of works. maybe they'll be dismantling the electronics area completely and i'll have to scrounge amongst the regular carts for stuff small enough for me to handle for the rest of the week! or hell, maybe something i haven't even CONSIDERED yet will wreck my day tomorrow. who fucking knows?

i am so glad i have therapy this week. i will definitely need a pep talk by friday.

[mrswhymrhow]

forgot where my ds charger is cant play w my lityle villagers fuck all life

[theood]

Had at least two dreams. One, me and an old childhood friend were running from a teacher and we were going to hide in economics books or something but we got caught by the librarian who I think mentioned this had happened before? Then, idk if this was a new.dream or not but I had to stop to take photos of this really pretty drsgonfly sculpture hanging in the school.

then, I was suddenly with a group of students. We were somewhere really pretty but again no idea where. I kept taking photos and it turned out I was keepingnthe group from half of their trip and I was like "??? What the fuck do you mean?" everyone was upset about that and I was like "you guys go ahead I have to take these photos I'm a photography student it's what I do" but then everyone wanted to stay so we did, and then another adult was there with like another group of kids and we started to fight but the kids I were with kept all running away.

Another dream I had my ds was fixed and my grandmother found or bought this really weird charger for it. Also a hard case for it. My ds was bent weirdly though and at first I didn't get it too charge but I did eventually

One last dream I had was another mix dream I thinK? It started off I was playing animal jam and they had added a member only land that I think was apart of the adventures? I wasn't a member but wanted in really bad. At some point I ended up in some live action thing where I was shooting enemies and whatnot but couldn't continue on?? And then I ended up at some hotel thing where it was 5:30 but super sunny. My friend was there and she really wanted to swim and my mom was like "I don't care go ahead" but it (the setting) felt Weird

[lemonpersona]

Warning: long rant post.

Everyone gather round and sit down. I’m about to tell you a very long story about the silliest thing that’s ever gotten me this angry: a toothbrush.

I have bought 4 new toothbrushes the last 2 months. Why? You may ask. Because mine keep randomly disappearing. And, I 100% know it was my grandfather. The first two times, he just confessed. “Sorry I just thought they were trash.” He says. Now that in and of itself pisses me off because HOW could he think that? It is a toothbrush, in the bathroom, in a basket, that is FILLED with nothing but other toothbrushes. The only difference between my brush and the others is mine is manual and the others are electric.

So, I bought a new toothbrush 4 days ago. Yesterday night, when I went to brush my teeth, it was gone. I searched the whole bathroom up and down, nothing. I even looked through the trash can, nothing. My brother said his electric toothbrush had been stashed in the cabinet, (another thing my grandpa does is move things that don’t belong to him around. He frequently moves MY fish food from where it belongs in MY room to a cabinet in the hallway, among many other things), so I even looked there. Nada.

The next day, I asked him about it. He denies the claim, saying he would never do something like that. For the record, that’s blatantly untrue. He has stolen a number of things from me: An old cell phone, my DS, headphones, underwear, tshirts, jeans, chargers, really nice/expensive pens, color pencils, books, drawings, etc. They’re always hidden in the same place, so I think he does it to fuck with me. The phone and DS, however, were both hidden from me for well over a decade. When I found them last year, I was fucking shock. That was one of our biggest arguments to date because like: WHAT IS THE REASON???

Anyway, throughout the day yesterday, he started asking me questions about the brush: where I bought it, what color, what brand, electric or manual, even the color of the damn bristles. There was the look of recognition in his face when I said it was a manual that set it all in stone for me. He wouldn’t confess this time, but I knew I had him. Checkmate old man, I’ve got you.

I was PLANNING on going through his usual hiding spots. I knew I would find it if it wasn’t thrown out. However, he went to bed early tonight. And fucked up my plans.

Tonight, way later than he went to bed, when I went to brush my teeth with my 4th toothbrush, there it was. Magically sitting back in the basket like it had never disappeared before. I think he knew that I KNEW it was him, I’ve caught him in situations like this before, like the time he stole the cord for my friends Switch even though he has no use for it. When I catch him stealing from me, it’s really the only time I actually argue with him. I go off on him. And the whole family always agree with me: that he needs to stop taking not only mine, but all of our shit for no reason.

This has to be the stupidest fucking thing to steal from your GRANDCHILD. It’s my fucking TOOTHBRUSH old man. WHAT. IS. THE. REASON?

He’s such a fucking asshole, but I guess I shouldn’t expect better from the man who’s voted Trump twice.

[updownleftgone]

Sit down kids because I'm about to tell you a story about a fukign gameboy micro

You see this??? You see this little piece of shit??? This little motherfucker??? I fucking love this little thing and heres why.

It's been inside of a couch for nothing short of 11-13 years.

And it still fucking works. Charged and all.

Ok so, backstory. Here I am about to make myself look like either an old ass or a child depending on who is reading this. I've always been a gamer grill apperently, playing top tier mmo rpgs like webkinz since I was 4 and couldn't memorize my password, and zoo tycoon since I was 3 and didn't know how to turn on a PC (true story).

So, naturally, one day my parents decide a good course of action would be purchasing me a gameboy micro and some games to go with it. (Too young to remember exactly why, but I appreciate it)

Now I loved this thing to death. I wasn't cool enough to have mario or pokemon since those were expensive, but my god did I play the absolute shit out of dig dug and frogger and catz and dogz and galaga and My Little Pony Friendship whatever. Loved that thing.

Now, one day, when I'm somewhere between 5 and 7, my parents take me on a trip up north, and of course I pack the micro, why wouldn't I?

Well, you see, when we get back we realized i have lost my gameboy micro. One of my earliest memories is of me crying, searching everywhere for this little thing. Shocker, we couldn't find it.

Eventually, my parents got me a DS Lite so you know, all is forgiven. But...

Fast forward like 8 or 9 years and I'm still thinking about this thing. Where the fuck is it? I know I didn't leave it up north because I vividly remember playing it at home unpacking from the trip. But we combed the whole house so it must be true?

Now at this point I've forgotten exactly what I even had. I knew it was a gameboy, but what kind of gameboy has color and is so easy a 4 year old can play it?

I actually never knew it was specifically called a gameboy micro, but my God for the past 10 years I've thought about that thing at least once a week.

Now let's fast forward like 3 more years. Ok so its 2019 right? Weve had this old gross couch sitting in our basement for like 10 years now, it used to be in our living room, but then we remodeled so now it's not. While downstairs, this couch has experienced many horrific events from an overly excited 9 year old jumping on it and breaking it in multiple places (totally wasnt me. Nope.) To a dad taking many a naps atop of it. Oh also, 2 floods. 2 whole floods.

So today, as I'm writing this, September 29th 2019, my dad finally decided to get rid of said couch. So, like any sane person, he takes a power drill too it and starts sawing it apart. You know. As you do.

And there, right there, in the farthest reaches of a couch older than most wattpad users, a pink gameboy micro falls out. I get a call. I run down there, see theres still a game in it, figure "theres no way in hell this works anymore" and turn it on.

The colorful Game Boy logo from my childhood fills up the screen and I nearly cry.

Catz was the game still in it. My cat was still alive, the sound from the little handheld still worked, and the screen didnt have a scratch on it.

And it still fucking works. It's a little grimy, needs some cleaning, and the actual charger for it is long gone so I dont know if it still charges, but my god.

So yeah. That's the story of a gameboy micro and how resilient these little fuckers used to be. I will forever cherish this little thing because wow, it's been through hell and back.

[zoanzon]

TMA: Episodes watched so far (and my speculation)

So, by this point - when I've decided to start crossposting my liveblog of TMA to Tumblr - I've listened to the first 26 episodes of the podcast. While I could just start it from right there, I figured I could 'import' my liveblogs so far into one big post.

So...here it is! I'll be just posting them raw, no edits aside from covering up anything that might give away personal info of me or my friend.

--

Episodes 1-2

"On one hand: started listening to the Magnus Archives as og right now, so I should be in for a fun time.

On the other: doing so at 1am with my eyes closed is an Experience.

[...]

WHY DID I LISTEN TO A SECOND EPISODE???

Also, John the marrator and John the victim in ep1 and Jon the package-man in ep2? Yeah, that's a connection that's not ominous at all.

Also, fuck the angler fish."

Episodes 3-9

Had a 3.5 hr drive back to Portland, ended up listening to episodes 3-9 on the drive. (Funny enough, 9 hit John's post-transcript notes right as I pulled into the driveway.)

Thoughts:

- Intro of actual confirmed paranormal stuff (Lightner's books, Prentiss-associated-with-worms) is intriguing, and helps show that there is something to contrast the 'supposedly baseless' stuff in the archive

- Growing imagry on eyes, which - from what I've caugbt of later stuff - is one hell of a foreshadowing.

---> Has it ever been confirmed how early the meta arc stuff was planned, or if they just set a lot of stuff up for potential reuse and then had a lot to work with because of that?

- Two counts of the name 'Rainer' in two different episodes. Have a feeling that won't be the last time I hear it...

[...]

Also, this mysterious Eye of doom that'll later pop up; do we know if it has a square pupil or not? Cause the first true Eye thing I recall - the painting in Key's room of books, where he later saw it was made of patterns - reminds me of notebook dude's table with the weird patterns that congregated onto the square hole in the middle of the table, and that being an eye would go well with his notebooks all saying 'keep watching' or whatever it was.

Episodes 11-12, 15

Just listened to Dreamer/E11.

Oh dear, all of this is not good.

[...]

Oh dear, Jared Key and iconography of eyes...

[...]

Ok, Lost John's Cave is kinda creepy AF

[...]

TBH, maybe better than Arachnophobia?? But the audio recording in LJC was a bit hair-raising, as well as John's post-transcript notes for that Ep.

Finally found my DS charger, so played Pokemon and listened to TMA for 2.5 hrs last night, ep 11-15 :D

Episodes 18-23

Also, re: TMA. Fuck 'The Man Upstairs'. >.<

[...]

Oh god, E8 and E19's connection. 0.o

(And what the Father apparently did...)

[...]

God, poor - and lucky - Martin.

Also, terrifying to know Prentiss is sentient/sapient, even - especially - in the current form.

[...]

Goddamn Key family 0.o

Episode 25

Listened to Growing Dark on the way to work.

Not as freaky as some - the upstairs flat one, for example - but still ominous. And yeah, all that iconography of eyes, just a coincidence I'm guessing. /s

[...]

Also, a thought regarding last ep that i forgot to include: yet another thing relating to John's predessor, this time aligning with her deathdate. I'm curious how she got dragged into matters, whether she started digging into something she couldn't handle, whether something hunted her, or if being the institute's archivist puts you at the center of enough weirdness that it just leaves 'marks' on you that attracts other things...

Episode 26

Just listened to Distortion/Sasha's (first??) statement. That's...ominous.

So, thoughts/speculation.

The description of 'Michael' immediately brought to mind the Bone Tender and the crook who read the Tale.

Sasha has meet 'Michael' and Martin survived/was left alive by Prentiss/Flesh Engine. Institute staff gaining supernatural sponsors??

I know from a post I saw months back that there's 'The Eye' and 'The Desolation', all I remember of that post; no idea if they're distinct entities or faction names or something in the middle.

Importance? Speculating whether Prentiss is just a vessel for the Flesh Hive' will (and if its in the same category as the above two) and if Michael is THE Bone Tender.

Prentiss mentioned sometime back as being a witch; made contact with an Entity - Flesh Engine? - and 'succeeded' in gaining its favor, while others don't get the favor and just become mindless flesh hives? (Ie some keep their will, some are subsumed into the Hive?)

Also, there's the Lightless Flame from the ep where Jarod Key got burned. Also one of the entities?

Same grouping: Eye, Desolation, Lightless Flame, Bone Tender, Flesh Hive??

The Keys, the Church group...both seem to be Eye-oriented (iconography if nothing else) but without hearing of contact between them, am curious if they're at odds. Multiple figures able to have same alignment but oppose one another; or perhaps, fighting for the alignment's role?

[Further Thoughts, Speculation, and Knowledge]

Before I started listening, a few months back, I caught fragments of stuff from Tumblr.

Existance of 'The Eye' and 'The Desolation', as might be seen by some of my above comments/speculation.

Not really sure what they are (or, hadn't been...) so guess ossilates between 'distinct entity' and 'faction'

Something called 'The Fearpocalypse' before I outright filtered 'TMA' and 'The Magnus Archives', so no knowledge of what it encompasses

And last night, a housemate was far too loose talking about TMA with another housemate - "You don't have enough context for it to be spoilers", bah - and now know about The Desolation, Corruption, Web, and that they're somehow fear domains.

("You don't have enough context" my ass. I'm giving them shit for that when I get home.)

That's what I'm going into TMA knowing, and beyond this it'll be (mostly) up-to-date liveblogs.

Let's see where this adventure goes...

[portalz-remade]

i wanna play majoras mask so bad rn but my ds is dead and idk where the fuck my charger went

[boneeatingbitch]

Just felt a very strong rush and now I want to play miitopia, only problem, where the fuck is my ds packed and it’s charger