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Description Oh last Thursday was a maelstrom of technical difficulties...

So I'm holding my DS, right? And I turn around and start moving away from my desk, but little did I know the thing was plugged into its charger and jerked out of my hand; I watched in horror as it hit the desk and keyboard tray, ricocheted off the radiator, bounced off the trashcan and smacked against the floor. It was like watching a baby fall in Bullet Time, except the baby was square and made out of science and actually worth something.
Let me tell you right now: if it were a PSP, the thing would have shattered. Into one million pieces. It actually didn't break that much; it's still playable. Problem is the top screen--the backlight comes on but I'm not getting a picture. I can still play Animal Crossing since that barely uses the top screen, but stuff like Metroid is prettymuch not an option. But it still works, damnit, and the poor thing is such a trooper!

And by now you're probably wondering why this comic is hand-drawn. Okay, that was probably the first thing you thought upon seeing this. I know you.
So like eight minutes after mortally wounding my silver friend, I dropped my tablet pen and it stopped working. What. I've dropped it countless times, but, apparently, it managed to fall directly at the wrong angle and the nib chipped. I don't have to buy a whole new tablet, luckily, but I need to order new nibs now and that may take a while and art may be scarce for a while...crap.
So then I tried communicating with the public, and chose to do so by the art of song. I mean pencil drawings. So I found my Stone Age-era scanner, fumbled around in ancient drivers, got a new USB hub, and finally managed to scan something. Joy. Too bad my hand-drawn stuff is incredibly messy and blurry and those boxes are about as straight as Marth on New Year's eve. I went there.

And then they cancelled That 70's Show on the same day. It was almost too much to handle at once.

Sooooo yes. I don't know what I'm going to do for a while. Tablet parts may not come for a while; I suppose I've got to send my DS in to get repaired, and I can only hope my WiFi logs will come out unscathed.

Psst...if you wanted to, you could totally donate to the "Katie needs a new DS" fund. But you don't have to, I don't like asking for money. It's not like it directly benefits you. Honestly, don't do it if you can't afford it. I mean, if you want to give me your money, buy an overpriced shirt.

But you could. Maybe.
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Comments: 780

LuiH64 In reply to ??? [2022-08-04 14:11:48 +0000 UTC]

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yugifan115 [2015-12-08 20:08:19 +0000 UTC]

ah... *full body shiver*

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RainbowDragon2 [2013-08-07 21:02:54 +0000 UTC]

Hm... I canΒ΄t count how often my Laptop already flew of my table o.O And that thing is also still still working xDDD But there was a time were i thought I lost it... It took a glas water with it and got really wet. Every time i turned it on, the Screen just got plain white. But then... Let it alone some days, magic happens and it worked again xDDD

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TheScalene [2013-06-13 02:51:28 +0000 UTC]

The same thing happened to my DS!

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Makamatsu [2012-10-27 17:29:09 +0000 UTC]

Reminds me of my Gameboy Color. As a child i had dropped it so many times there were bery obvious dents and dings. Mostly around the bottom left corner. And yet years later after having rediscovered it, the freakin thing still worked! Despite it all. Things were much more durable =w=

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Piplup40 [2012-04-02 07:48:03 +0000 UTC]

I've had that kind of situation wen I got a new ds lite I had to give the one with that problem to my sisster and play mario party DS with her

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Sratruce [2012-03-23 18:34:25 +0000 UTC]

I know I'm late to post by like who knows how long, but on the topic of tough Nintendo products, my mother moved the table while I was playing the Wii and accidentally hit the Wii Mote REALLY hard. The controller's case hadn't a single scratch, though the button on the back (B button I think) had gotten mashed so hard that now, if you want to press it, you barely have to put your finger on it. Other than that, not a single scratch.

Also mother's cat kept asking for her attention one time while she was playing, and when mother wasn't looking, the cat jumped onto the couch behind her and she brought the controller back really hard and hit the damned cat in the nose with a smack! The cat was seemingly unharmed, but she wouldn't come out of hiding for twice as long as normal.

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uncontrolled-fire [2012-03-03 06:20:05 +0000 UTC]

so i have like that same story only mine fell dozens of times, was brutly attacted by my younger bro as he pounded the styles into the srean because the nintendog was being "bad" and my bro ran over it with a go cart. it lived with a few lower screen calibration issues due to the "dog" and that this was the 1st ds lite. it died and said it final goodbyes on my birthday because i dropped it while i was sleeping the night before. those things are heavy duty. sorry to hear about yours and maybe you have a new one but yeah. felt like sharing my story on this subject. love ur work btw

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AuraXtreme [2012-01-29 05:28:47 +0000 UTC]

Nintendo: Legacy of the Living Handhelds since Nineteen ninety-six. I mean, come on, if an original Game Boy is going to survive a nuclear explosion, I think a DS is going to live a couple jabs.

...Marth on New Year's Eve? I haven't heard that one.

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toraudewa [2011-12-01 02:42:45 +0000 UTC]

Mine once slipped out of my coat pocket while I ran and it's fell on concrete in water and ended with just 2 scratches. DSs are fighters. XD

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Evablade [2011-11-30 01:45:25 +0000 UTC]

wow go ds! those things are little troopers! mine got chewed up by my dog, and its perfectly fine!(except bite marks) now everything that gets chewed up by my bulldog is lucky

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midnightpanther [2011-11-02 12:18:52 +0000 UTC]

Now you know why Nintendo is so popular with parents!! xD

Kids = Broken

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Spyro9 [2011-09-30 00:03:47 +0000 UTC]

I don't think I wanna go to a New Years Eve party with Marth if he's like THAT!

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MoonOfGold [2011-08-04 20:00:30 +0000 UTC]

That's me. My DS has been badly abused. It's still being nice to me though... For now.

I may have jynxed it...

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Spyro9 In reply to MoonOfGold [2011-09-29 23:56:18 +0000 UTC]

My touch screen barely works, but that's probably because it's a First Generation model and not a newer regular DS.

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Lil-Fishy-Princess [2011-07-05 16:41:24 +0000 UTC]

i left my old dsi in my old school binder for a year in a half in the cold and now whenever i turn it on it freezes and the power button sticks and the volume dosent work so whenever i try to turn it on it just stays there going 'BEEEEEEAAEEEEPPPP" for an hour till i grab a screw driver and pull out the battery

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TeamInTheDarkness [2011-07-05 03:41:48 +0000 UTC]

Behold the power of Nintendo DS, it not so easy to break

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SilverArtist4 [2011-06-16 02:01:46 +0000 UTC]

That is absolutly the worst! I have days like that a lot on account of me being a total KLUTZ!! I accidentally dropped my ds down the hard wood steps in my house one time a thought everything important in my life at that time had just died.... I also couldn't get my Wind Waker disk to work. Sadness.

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Ichigo-lover125 [2011-06-11 07:16:02 +0000 UTC]

me too except it happened twice...once on my 1 ds, then to my DS lite....but mt ds lite went through hell....so i don't rly blame it.

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lonebird [2011-05-13 03:30:34 +0000 UTC]

Same sort of thing happened to my old first gen DS. I've dropped it, throw it, and I'm pretty sure the dog tried to eat it, but she still runs (though the top screen isn't fully connected to the bottom part now). My new DS lite on the other hand had one bad run in with a puddle and died.

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BUTTDANCER [2011-05-11 15:30:46 +0000 UTC]

something similiar happened to my old DS (my mom raged and threw it out the window during a storm), except the touch screen went white for a few days and then it went back to normal.

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Lil-Fishy-Princess In reply to BUTTDANCER [2011-07-05 16:28:29 +0000 UTC]

one time my mom got so mad at me so while i was playing my ds she slammed a coffe cup full of tea on it, and it was completely fine XD

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Catainu [2011-04-07 07:32:21 +0000 UTC]

Strong DS...

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Nintendofan4evah97 [2011-02-15 09:35:01 +0000 UTC]

Nintendo things always made from a super tough thing! When my DS accidently dropped, land on the floor with a "bump" sound, kicked by someone, and my DS acting like nothing happened!

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Kittykattyluv2 [2010-12-27 17:08:09 +0000 UTC]

i dropped my ds about a million times until it broke.
then i got a new one.
And the down button on the keypad stopped working.
Then i got a new one.
And i still have it.

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Avalerin [2010-12-22 07:47:17 +0000 UTC]

DS are invincible. When Chuck Norris punched one...HE BROKE HIS HAND!!!!!!!!!!! That's how tough DS are.

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YoungZelda [2010-11-26 02:29:38 +0000 UTC]

the same thing happened to my old ds. i have a new (well actually i got it a couple of years ago) one now, but its still playable. and i dropped it on a concrete floor O_o
ah, nintendo, how i love thee.

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ShyKat [2010-10-23 02:15:55 +0000 UTC]

Nintendo always makes the most durable systems of each generation, there's a theory that it's because many of it's gamers are little kids and I guess they assume kids play baseball with their systems. O.o I love the how tough it is! Way outlasts the other systems for playability. <3

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Moogle98 [2010-10-20 02:00:27 +0000 UTC]

Your name is Katie too? Awesome. I had the exact same problem with my DSi... My dog tripped over the charges cord and it went flying and hit the wall next to me. Good thing I caught it as it fell, or i'd need lots more money... TTOTT;

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nish7x [2010-09-10 15:28:31 +0000 UTC]

That happened to me once >_< but my $2 pouch saved it =] just a sliiight twist at one of the corners sticking outside the pouch.

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Lugia-Soul-Song [2010-08-14 17:42:18 +0000 UTC]

Had the same prob here. But my DS shattered in half. And I tripped the cord instead.

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MF217 [2010-08-02 21:45:34 +0000 UTC]

I remember dropping a PSP because of the dang charger as well. Only thing that broke when it dropped was the Disc reader, and the overall appearence looked the same as well, as if nothing has happened. Now that I got my PSP fixed the disc reqader works perfectly and now the screen no longer has any dead pixels, and now I feel as if I'm grateful I dropped it....... o-o

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krazynkool [2010-06-11 00:10:16 +0000 UTC]

That's happened to me about five times lol
My ds is so strong

:imsorryplz:

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krazynkool In reply to krazynkool [2010-06-11 00:11:15 +0000 UTC]

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dkt1031 [2010-04-06 01:44:25 +0000 UTC]

I lknow the feeling I dropped my DS a few years ago and it still works only my screens aren't messed up the only thing that's weird is that when I dropped it my gamecube stopped working on the same day.

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SavyGabi [2010-01-21 22:02:47 +0000 UTC]

It's funny because it has happened to all of us.



All of us.













ALL.
NO EXCEPTIONS.

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Turboplant In reply to SavyGabi [2010-04-02 19:41:19 +0000 UTC]

Not me. :3
But it has happened to my brother. Twice.

So I guess he took the heat for me. Hopefully this isn't one of those Final Destination scenarios.

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SavyGabi In reply to Turboplant [2010-04-04 02:27:20 +0000 UTC]

It will. there's no escaping it.














At all. Don't even try to avoid it, it'tll happen.

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Turboplant In reply to SavyGabi [2010-04-04 02:42:15 +0000 UTC]

Nahhh. It's been sitting on my nightstand as an alarm clock for a while now. Aaaaaand unless I get a copy of pokemon I doubt it's going anywhere else...

Why can't you guys accept that some people are anti-karmatic and jinx-free? (In certain instances, anyway.)

Never dropped my Game Boy
Never dropped Advance
Never dropped the DSi

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Warrior536 In reply to Turboplant [2010-04-03 23:51:25 +0000 UTC]

ALL OF US, NO EXCEPTIONS!

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MixGoldenPhoenix [2010-01-18 19:46:30 +0000 UTC]

My friend did not have this amazing luck... she was playing Wario Ware, got ticked at it, and headbutted it...effectively breaking the screen. She got a damn hard head

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Uzumaki411 [2009-12-14 23:26:44 +0000 UTC]

D:
I've had something similar to this happen to me.
Except my DS didn't knock itself against a lot of objects, it just fell flat on the floor. CONCRETE floor. Poor thing's touch screen cracked, and I swear the crack got larger.
I can still play it, but I'm afraid to even take it out of my drawer anymore, fearing for the remainder of its life >3>

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StickyRicePlatter [2009-10-29 22:33:56 +0000 UTC]

Luz, i've acually dropped my PSP somany times, even God has lost count... the poor thing... i know how you feel, it's the worst.

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Dragonkeeperx [2009-10-05 04:33:16 +0000 UTC]

nintendo builds things to last. Prime Example: i stacked the entire encyclopedia of my GBA SP (golden version with the triforce on it ^^)why i will never know, and then i sat on the books. when i got off, i looked under and there was nothing wrong. GOD, what are they made of??

(no, you cannot have my shiny triforce GBA. limited edition, cost me 500 freakin dollars.)

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Drei57 [2009-09-18 22:46:01 +0000 UTC]

I saw a picture of a gameboy after a bomb exploded next to it, somehow it still worked perfectly

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SamusAranFreak [2009-08-06 01:44:19 +0000 UTC]

Um... You got an iMac?

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Sammi-The-FF-Freak [2009-07-23 20:11:21 +0000 UTC]

I feel your pain. I accidentally messed up my DS too. Now the 'L' button doesn't work.
...So I can't play any games that use L as one of their main controls.

But sheeze, a whole screen out of commission? That's got to be at least 100 times worse. I'd totally, try to help you out, if I weren't broke.

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buckymcnasty [2009-06-14 14:49:11 +0000 UTC]

At least you didn't drop it in the toilet like yours truly did.

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RJxHeather [2009-04-18 06:23:50 +0000 UTC]

Heh, the original DS is a tough little thing. I've dropped mine on the road countless times, dropped it on cement, and it still works. The bottom screen's just badly scratched in the middle. As for my sisters' DS Lites, one was dropped on the carpet ONCE and it stopped working. And they keep freezing. I prefer my DS, myself.

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Rexus64 [2009-04-14 12:41:33 +0000 UTC]

see? Thats why nintendo's better! more durable(>.< )

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