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[Life Stuff] blog post
By Joe King at 2010-01-26 04:04:34
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The world works seems to amuse itself by handing out bitter lessons laced in irony. Today, I witnessed this cruel fact first hand. I had just finished off an "ultra extreme fever" filled session of Peggle to apply myself in writing an english essay when i stood up and knocked over my cup of coffee into a large puddle on the white carpet. (that's what i get for trying to escape procrastination) "Well it's just white carpet" I said to myself out loud. That's when i noticed my controller.
I tried turning it on...
I tried plugging it in to recharge...
nothing.
To the observational perspective, i must have appeared to be in a frantic state of denial. But what do they know about love.
(Here i would like to insert a separate bitch about how impossibly small and unnecessarily protected the screws on the back of playstation controllers are.)
Anyways, i took the controller over to a friends house who happened to have a screwdriver small enough to pry open the controller. It was saddening to see gravity take its effect on the overturned controller as coffee seeped out of the gaps surrounding the buttons. Almost like blood. (simile!)
When he was opening up the controller I felt like I was watching a loved one undergo open heart surgery, and there was nothing i could do. I hope none of you ever have to go through that.
The dismantled device is resting, in hopes that it will dry out and we will one day reunite.
Please my friends, cherish your controllers. Don't let tragedy of this degree befall you. I share my story to inspire and prevent. Don't call me a hero.
The coffee will dry. my tears never will.
6 comments:
 |  Jason LaFave
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Ooh...I'm sorry to hear of this misfortune, that has befallen the Joe King household. You have my highest hopes for a quick recovery.
I had a near miss with coffee, only last week. My cup got bumped (idiot cats and their need to practice their parcour on the furniture), and I saw the splash pattern reach out towards my phone, PSP, and headset. To my relief, but a few drops managed to attach themselves anywhere important, and those were quickly dispatched. The horrors that could have been...(shudder)
 | RAMPAGE_64
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My 6 year old brother was playing the ps3 this one time and i see him go into the nearest bathroom with the controller and i hear him turn on the water to the sink real quik and he comes out and I asked him what he did and he said the controller was dirty, and so I checked the controller and it was dead, I dont know how much water he put on it but I took it apart dried it out and its playable no more. For some reason it charges and everything but dose not work.
Good luck with the controller, it being coffee I dont think you will be playing with it much more.
| Joe King
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it's not looking good. something must have short circuited.
 | Dana Olson
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Here's a tip. I'm not saying I would do this, or that I have done this with any other defective items such as the PlayStation Keypad or whatever, I am just saying, I know a guy who said this might work.. So here's what the guy said: buy a new DualShock 3 at WalMart, then, the next day, return the broken one you spilled coffee on with the new one's packaging and say it doesn't seem to turn on, you tried charging it, etc, and ask for a gift card for credit.
Like I said, I never tried it, so it might not work, but the logic is sound. Possibly a bit dihonest, I suppose, since WalMart has your best interests at heart and treats their employees fairly, like any giant corporation.
| Joe King
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@Dana Olson: ha i might try that. that's worked many times with headphones for me.
But... you are, in some small way, the most heroic one could ever be.