I was born in 1981. I didn't get a cell phone until 2005, and except for a short period of my life, I hardly ever use the thing. I'm an old man at the age of 26, already insisting I don't need these gadgets and plenty of online software getups. Other than a cell, and a basic one that I don't use for anything at all, not even texts, I don't use anything. I figured out why; it's because I'm an introvert, and that means I need to take breaks from people. I don't need technology to help me get over my cravings for extroverted needs.
So I never really gave much thought to getting a DS, and it wasn't until I'd edited a lot of Snackbar reviews that I considered the fine library it has available. But I do have one, and now, I feel safer. Am I stuck at a movie theater watching a movie I don't like? Am I waiting outside the changing room for half an hour? Am I waiting in line for ten minutes? Waiting for Muschie to get out of work for fifteen minutes?
In all of these situations save the last, a book doesn't suffice. A book does not fit in your pocket, and a book is usually not carried with convenience all over the place. Books are harder to read in distracting surroundings.
It wasn't until I got it that I got it. I'm converted to the way of the portable.
+100 for being man enough to play a pink DS in public...
I used to work where a group would go out to lunch and we would all play kart or tetris or whatever on the DS... running joke was that we were going to get a spare pink DS with all kinds of hello kitty stickers and what not so that whoever forgot theirs that day would have to use the spare...
anyway, congrats...
Dude, there's no shame at all in having a pink device. If anyone questions it, get aggressive as if you wanna fight about it, but don't actually do it. Just saying "Yeah it's pink, what are you gonna do about it?" is enough to get most people off your case about it. My first DS Lite was a pink one and that line never failed me.
what the hell, pink is AWESOME. I myself own one, and hopefully in the future, will get a pink PS2, pink 360 controllers, etc. Black is trite, white is boring.
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Deal? Pink?
AM MISSING SOMETHING! I have been debating a DSLite myself, but recently I haven't played much DS.
Oops, sorry, should've been a self-contained post. As mentioned elsewhere in other posts...I'm married.
Make sense now? :)
She would only let you get a DS if it was pink? Wha?
Better than no DS at all, man.
"I don't need technology to help me get over my cravings for extroverted needs. "
I think you stumbled onto the wrong site, my friend.
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+100 for being man enough to play a pink DS in public...
I used to work where a group would go out to lunch and we would all play kart or tetris or whatever on the DS... running joke was that we were going to get a spare pink DS with all kinds of hello kitty stickers and what not so that whoever forgot theirs that day would have to use the spare...
anyway, congrats...
Dude, there's no shame at all in having a pink device. If anyone questions it, get aggressive as if you wanna fight about it, but don't actually do it. Just saying "Yeah it's pink, what are you gonna do about it?" is enough to get most people off your case about it. My first DS Lite was a pink one and that line never failed me.
A pink DS? Color me impressed.
lulz!
I made my hubs buy me the pink one.. I ended up buying him the new crimson and black one when that came out, the white one was just bleh :p
Black rules all
Or maybe you could just take your pants back from your wife.
Did you remind her black is more slimming?
what the hell, pink is AWESOME. I myself own one, and hopefully in the future, will get a pink PS2, pink 360 controllers, etc. Black is trite, white is boring.