So, my poor old brick DS named Tooie has a gimpy left shoulder button. She is still a good little DS besides that, but every now and then, said button will decide it's not working. This is a bit of a pain in the ass when you are playing Pokemon Mystery Dungeon.

Usually, tapping or whacking the button will fix it, but tonight? It was not happening. So. I grabbed a screwdriver. With this screwdriver, I proceeded to attempt to pop the button off - I suspect a loose spring or something more than anything. It didn't work, but I got it loose enough that it suddenly snapped back on. Shoulder button works now.

I just wanted to have a record of this.

Last night The Weather Channel was showing a movie based on a Stephen King book.

You may be wondering why I was watching TWC. Well, at work, we have TV monitors on the rows - makes sense since sometimes we can duplicate customers' issues if it's a broadcasting thing across the nation, or just use them to fluff around when the databases aren't being helpful. There's a set number of approved channels. This gets ignored a lot, but, hey, I'm the last on the row at night, I like to maintain plausible deniability. Since the news is useless on mute and TV news networks kinda suck anyway, and because I like knowing just how badly I am going to freeze on the ride home, Weather Channel it is.

So, yeah, for some reason, they were showing a Stephen King film. It was Misery, that one where a novelist gets trapped by a crazy fan who demands he retcon a character's death. I believe TWC used the excuse of "it involved a snowstorm!"

Well, it was on an approved channel... 0: )

You know a cool thing about being an adult?

Sitting around nomming discounted post-Halloween candy corn with a complete lack of shame. :3

Speaking of noms, a thought. Why do scavengers get such a bad rep in fiction? I mean, what else are us omnivorous humans doing when we buy lunchmeat, seriously?

Life's been pretty boring. Cleaned the apartment, got a table. Sooooo.... it's time now for the summary meme! Ganked from furikku:

Summarize 10 of your fandoms in one sentence, then see who on your friends list can guess each fandom.
( Obvious fandoms are prolly pretty obvious, so I'm being intentionally obtuse. )

X-Eye Seeds are my bestest best friends. I love them so much.

Also, screw you, Jirachi!

Yesterday was Pointlessly Spend Money Day! :D

Got a few books to ruminate over between calls, as well as some new vidya. I think having something to occupy my brain really helps with not going crazy - if I make it through this call, I can be depressed at the end of The Fox and the Hound that much quicker! :D ...Wait.

Anyway, Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky is shaping up to be COMPLETELY AWESOME if the first tiny little sidestory is any indication. Seriously, gang. It is so cute and I want an icon of the star going ":'[" almost as much as I want Mudkip going ":O" because ffffff. So cute!

Also picked up Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood. Still a bit early to judge it, but Sonic being snarky at Amy was worth a laugh. Interesting battle mechanism, I'll say that... should be fun once I get used to it. The touchscreen controls seem a bit wonky, but I may just need time to get used to it.

You guys.

This game is gonna be AWESOME.

At least assuming they don't go too far into Dark And Edgey mode, anyway, but - but LOOK AT IT! If they do it right, it will be a perfect storm of Surprise Creepy and therefore TOTES AWESOME. Shall be keeping an eye on it.

Let it be known that on this, the Eighteenth of October, Two-Thousand and Nine Common Era, Sparky acquired a dish drainer, an extra surge protector, a silverware organizer, two bathroom rugs, and a box of delicious cherry chocolates. She did not, alas, acquire Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of the Sky, nor dibs on Ace Attorney: Investigations, for lo, Gamestop was closed. She also did not acquire chapstick, pepper spray, or a bottom for the dish drainer, for Sparky is a Lurkdragon of very scatty brain.

All in all though, it did balance out to pretty okay. Because new stuff is always awesome. Plonking the Twisted Cute into AA case 2-4 wasn't half bad, either, even if no one's transcribed the case for some reason. That's the best case in JFA for Pete's sake!

Also, and with apologies to good taste, I wants dis to come out nao plz.

20:39 So LoudTwittter is back up and running, and the Twitter site is actually usable for typing. LET'S TRY IT OUT. #

20:42 Yep, Twitter's runnin' smoothly! I think the tag borkup was perhaps just the "this is the test" message. #

20:42 And now, tonight... I tell you about my adventures with achieving 100% completion in Scribblenauts. After dinner. #

20:48 THE CASTLE I SAVED UP FOR TO BUY FOR MY TAMAGOTCHI WAS CANDY. WTF. #

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I think Scribblenauts just gave me a cooldown hug.

For folks who haven't played, the title screen acts as a sandbox mode in which your character is invincible and you can play around with the dictionary. This is neat for experimenting, and also for working out aggression.

Tonight there was a GIANT CENTIPEDE in the bathroom. Don't have any clue how it got in, but, well, I screamed. Centipedes wig me out. They have poison. This sonovabitch was about as long as my forefinger. Into the toilet he went.

Then I fired up Scribblenauts and wailed on some centipedes for a while with a baseball bat. After a bit of that, I decided to summon a silverfish. Silverfish are creepy even if they are harmless; some species eat books, too. Because of a leak in the bathroom, the li'l bastards are constantly climbing up through the bathtub's drain.

But the Scribblenauts take on a silverfish is the most adorable little thing ever. Everything is adorable in Scribblenauts, but... wow. The silverfish looked up at my character, baseball bat in hand, and gained a "?" emote. It started following me around.

I could not thwack the silverfish.

Thank you, Scribblenauts. I feel a lot better now.

Why can't people just use the damn postal service to send stuff?

UPS and FedEx are shit. The end. At least the post office is open for more than three flicking hours a day and even opens up on Saturday.

I has a Tamagotchi. :3

I used to be big into virtual pets. Like... a little ashamedly big. I could get to be a bit of a brat about 'em. Still, one day I started pining for something to take care of, and since the apartments don't allow real pets, why not see how the virtual ones have advanced since I stopped paying attention? I was never really much of one for the Tamas - I liked the Tiger Toys Giga Pets - but I couldn't see that anyone was still making them, so!

Apparently I have what those in the know call a "Familitchi V5" egg. It has a cute little chimmeny sticking out of it. You have three Tamas, but they act more or less like one - one hunger meter, one happy meter, when they poop it's only one poo at a time, and so on. Still, they're all darn adorable. I've been enjoying the thing so far.

A piece of my childhood came into my possession today. My Internet provider send me $75.00 worth of gift cards at Barnes and Noble, so I used that to get two awesome classics of xenofiction. Raptor Red is still in the mail, but The Fox and The Hound is currently sitting on my lap.

No, I'm not talking about the Disney movie. There's a book. It's a wonderful book about a half-bloodhound dog and a wild fox that actually act like a dog and a fox. This is the one book that I just can't bring myself to forgive Disney for mangling, which is weird - typically I'm firmly in the "Disney's Disney, they do weird shit, enjoy both versions for what they are" camp. Hercules? Doesn't bother me. The Black Cauldron? Based on the one book in the series I read, both are awesome. Lion King (both Hamlet and quite probably Kimba the White Lion)? Not a problem, princess. Bambi? Heck yes! They're both great tales.

The Fox and the Hound? Take a look at the book, then watch the movie, and you've got a rough idea of why it's a Very Good Thing Disney didn't make the Watership Down film.

I guess it's partially that good xenofic - by which I mean starring non-humans that are demonstratively not human - is so damn hard to find. Seeing great xenofic turned into "talking animals tell us through song that racism is bad" is... ehhhhh. And it would probably bother me less if the book was still in print: how do you get a Disney film made of you, no matter how off the rails, and end up out of print and 50 smackers through the used book trade?

Oh well. Maybe I should read the book to the Internet someday.

Man, Scribblenauts should come with a warning for addictive qualities.

I just saw a dragon punch out Cthulu. Among other things, but that was the latest thing.

This Burger King chicken sandwich has been made from the flesh of all the jackasses I spoke with today.

*GNAR GNAR GNAR*

Via ryttu3k:

Comment on this post. I will choose seven interests from your profile and you will explain what they mean and why you are interested in them. Post this along with your answers in your own journal so that others can play along.
( Today's menu: Alternate spellings, animutation, cubivore, engrish, plotholing, surprise creepy, and the asterite. )

Retro Game Challenge = VERY silly and you should buy it. :3

Why yes I do have gamer ADHD, why d'you ask?

The reason Hyrule has not industrialized is simple: factory slaughterhouses are simply not viable when one considers the Cuccos. Cucco slaughter is an elaborate ritual that involves the complete isolation of the birds, and this is very important to the safety and well-being of the slaughterer and his or her family to the tenth generation.