Asking us is so questionpunk.

Ahh, the modem world: a person says “the potato quality,” and it’s hard to tell if it’s a meme or an autocorrect error.

*confirmed adulterer

Maybe we just have less tolerance for bullshit here?

Thanks! Took a lot of practice to get good at saving shoes.

Shoe restoration.

smol

Your sister has a tiny car

With ears

Considering what it’s on: either forwards or backwards.

The public will never know for sure.

He was a very broken person, in many ways. That doesn’t prove or disprove that he did anything illegal or immoral.

Some of the ways he acted? They seem questionable to most folks, myself included. But through the lens of his emotional and psychological issues? They could have appeared harmful but actually been harmless.

For example: Is it weird for an adult celebrity to have pajama parties with kids? Yes. Is it harmful if it was, in fact, only a pajama party? Probably not.

Michael Jackson is a complex figure with huge cultural import. That doesn’t change the fact that he may have been a problematic individual.

In some ways, he may have been less harmful than other historic figures. But that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t question the possible bad things he did.

If it’s not of historic significance? Modify it.

Know anyone who does metal work? Ask them to change it to something interesting.

Got a Dremel? Buff away the Nazi bits until it’s smooth metal.

There are lots of different ways to change it!

And if you know anyone who does leather work, they can remove or replace the nasty bits on the scabbard.

The DSi and XL are arguably the pinnacle of Nintendo’s modern engineering.

The shoulder switches are soldered to a tiny board that’s connected to a ribbon cable, so it’s actually possibly to replace just the switches.

If the ribbon cable is damaged, it’s a tiny and cheap replacement part that doesn’t require even removing the motherboard.

The power board is a discrete child board.

Button presses are handled via metal dome switches. Buttons not working? Pull the dome, clean, then replace with fresh kapton tape.

The only real negative is that two ribbon cables run through the hinge.

The earlier DSes were more of a pain to fix, and the 3DS series started to cheap out by making things harder to access, remove, and put back together.

They generally don’t need to be replaced, in fact.

But most people think they do, so the incorrect info gets spread.

It’s nobody’s fault. Most folks just don’t have any way to know unless they’ve fixed lots of systems. I’ve fixed lots of systems. :)

I used to get great deals on “faulty” Japanese DSi’s, with bad L/R being the only real problem. Then I’d fix them and share them for just the price I’d paid.

Only once was I unable to fix a bad shoulder button by cleaning it. It’s because the switch was broken off and rattling around inside the shell. 🤣

Haha, yeah, I still occasionally misalign those tiny things, even after working on lots of them! (Also I probably hate flex cables and their connectors more than you do.)

I’m really happy it worked for you. Have fun with your newly-fixed system!

Good news! I’ve fixed dozens of systems with this exact problem. It’s very straightforward and doesn’t require much disassembly.

Pull the back off, and spray contact cleaner directly into the switch (in the tiny gap around the switch’s button). Note that you’ll need to disassemble the rear shell a little to get to the switch, but you won’t need to pull the motherboard. (In the original DSI there’l be one flat connector to lift off, and in the XL there’ll be two.)

Then rapidly and gently push the button a whole bunch.

That will clear away dust or micro corrosion that’s interfering with the electric contact.

Reassemble, and it should work better. If it’s not perfect, try again.

I’ve never had a console whose button needed more than three contact cleaner applications. And that was only with buttons that completely stopped working.

Yes, other people are.

You can buy lead fuel additives to drop in your gas tank.

That’s what people still do, if they have a car that requires leaded gas.

That’s a really great way of thinking - “Understand the logic of the emotions, rather than the emotions.”

1. I hope you’re getting the help you need to cope long-term.

2. Focus on the tangible, objective details of the memory. And if you don’t have your own “why,” that’s okay! Focus instead on what the facts deem likely.

For example:

“I remember liking the woods. There aren’t really words for how I felt, but I’ll help you see it how I might have seen it: Sunny days shaded by the leaves. Cool, damp nights. The sounds of different birds. The sounds of rustling branches. Twigs and leaves under foot.”

Hopefully you can see what I did there. That’s all a linear statement of facts. You’re literally just writing the things that you, or anyone else, might have experienced while in the woods.

BUT - and here’s the important part - everyone else will form their own emotions around it, based on their own experiences. So the listeners will believe you’re sharing emotions. And it’s okay if you aren’t feeling them.

So just describe things from memory, maybe adding in extra likely details.

Also, if someone questions your word choice, it’s acceptable to say something like, “you and I may process emotions differently. To me, those were the right words.”