Maldraugedhen

Well, let's see.  Quite a bit has happened since December of last year.  I've been trucking away at schoolwork, and treading uncomfortably close my own unsatisfactory level for my physics grades.  Guess that's the price I pay for taking a more advanced one than necessary.  Oh well. Got into a bit of a writing frenzy (in essay form) over the FOX News bit of idiocy involving Mass Effect last week.  Wrote a couple of essays on games for different classes, and touched briefly on it. Introduced a new squad of people to PSO (as I'm certain would come to no surprise to our old clubbies).  Think there's something like 10 or 12 characters floating a

Dropping my DS seems to have fixed it.   Guess it was just a weak contact. Huh.

Now, ordinarily, Nintendo makes a very, very durable product.  Barring the NES's consistent need for cartridge jobs, I've had only two problems with Nintendo hardware.  Well, one, really.  Most people know it as 'the L button'.  My problem with it is connected to its use--its very frequent use, especially in connection with the Megaman Zero series of games (an excellent set of platformers that I never got around to finishing).  Back when I first ducked into the series with MMZ2, I managed to disable my SP's L button through mashing it to dash as quickly as I could through the stages (ended up almost S ranking the whole game).  For a good two