I should make a new category

» Written on December 2, 2007 at 12:25 AM «

DSLiteFor posts, that is. The Nintendo DS. Or, rather, the DS Lite, as rabid fanboys would prefer it to be known as.

If you’ll recall, I am currently the owner of a PSP, with quite the library of titles to accompany it. You may also have recently read about my sister’s upcoming birthday, in which I also detailed yet another of my endeavours when it comes to events such as these.

Well, I found myself at our local tech store today, wondering about the prospect of purchasing some DVD9s (Or, for the layman, dual-layer DVDs), ostensibly to think about what else I could get to go along with the meaningless arrangement of dots on a piece of stiff cardboard that I painstakingly crafted using 3ds max.

In short, it came down to a slight battle between a Wacom tablet, a nice pair of Sennheisers and a Nintendo DS. It’s not really hard to guess why the battle existed; I’m not exactly rolling in the dough, and she’s the one with a job. I have to fucking head to the army.

But I rationalized that she wouldn’t have any fucking use for a goddamn tablet, (I mean, she could probably learn, but seriously), she wasn’t exactly an audiophile of sorts, and…well, she doesn’t really play anything other than that goddamn text-based MUD of hers, so I figured it was high time she found a new source of entertainment. I mean, seriously, she’s been grinding that wheel for almost a decade now; even Counter-Strike became kind of boring after the 6th year or so. (Although I do miss the headshots in awp_map_fair)

Anyway, a few minutes of deliberation later, an encounter with someone which cleared my head a bit, and approximately 300 SGD later:

DSLite2

She’s actually a fan of blue, but seriously, Nintendo, just because your console may have a certain slant towards games that are designed for a more casual demographic, that’s no reason to design your colour palette around it as well. Suffice to say, aqua blue for a console kind of looks a little gay, if I do say so myself. Why not something a little less saturated, less intense? In fact, contrasting colours would be good though; there’s no need to plaster the entire thing using a single tone. Even monochromatic relationships would be acceptable.

DSLite3

I think it’s rather obvious why I ended up not buying the DVD9s after this, though. Another 39 bucks on top of this would probably have given me a cardiac arrest. Or worse.

Of course, there’s not really a lot of choice when it comes to choosing something for someone who has only ever enjoyed that goddamn MUD, Red Alert, some of the old Sonic platformers, and most recently Locoroco. I mean, Call of Duty 4 DS and Dementium are obviously off the list, but Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings and Zelda: Phantom Hourglass were just two of the other stellar titles I had to choose between. Plus, I wasn’t even sure whether she would appreciate the RPG/Action elements of a Zelda title.

Of course, I was actually kind of torn between even buying anything at all. It’s not as if I get along with her anyway.

Then the weirdest thing happened. I met my tuition teacher (well, former tuition teacher) at a IT mall, of all places. I knew he was actually running a marathon the next day like he did last year, so it was kind of surprising to see him there. His son was with him, and after a few seconds it was apparent that he, in an odd mirror of a situation I had before, was in the market for a gaming laptop that his son wanted to purchase.

Huh. I’ll say this though; gaming laptops is an analogy for burning money. Seriously. His son didn’t seem too convinced by my reasoning, though, so I dropped the subject and focused more on a little catch-up with my old tutor of 6 years. I don’t exactly chat very well, least of all with teachers, but I mean: 6 years. OK, so maybe my test results haven’t exactly been on the right side of awesome, but that’s more about me being a lazy ass than him being incompetent.

Anyway, we were talking about the most random things (read: small talk) and I could see that his son was getting a little, ah, impatient with our reminiscence about foosball and my upcoming enlistment, so I bade a quick farewell and let them move on, a little shaken by the coincedence.

That’s when I decided that I was buying this DS because it was my sister’s birthday, not because I was going to steal it and grab some FFXII time on it while she was at work or something, and choose Zelda instead. The two events may seem completely unrelated, but somehow, whenever I have a decision I can’t seem to make between the morally superior one and the still-morally-superior-but-questionable one, whenever I talk to someone, even if it’s myself, I’ll end up choosing the former.

It’s really odd, and completely unbecoming of me.

This is going to be her goddamn Christmas present as well, though. More importantly, she had better stop playing that goddamned MUD after this, or else nothing will.

   

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