{"id":146,"date":"2009-08-25T00:12:34","date_gmt":"2009-08-24T23:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.astick.net\/blog\/?p=146"},"modified":"2009-08-25T00:12:34","modified_gmt":"2009-08-24T23:12:34","slug":"stylus-hunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/stylus-hunt\/","title":{"rendered":"Stylus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So the stylus for my beloved Nintendo DS seems to have vanished into thin air, which is a little annoying. But even more annoying is buying a new one. Apparently if you want a new stylus, you also have to buy a case, &#8220;screen protector&#8221; (read: sticky back plastic), game cases and\/or headphones (or &#8220;earbuds&#8221;, as most of the packs seem to call them. Does <em>anyone<\/em> call them that in real life?)<\/p>\n<p>Eventually I managed to find one sans all the extras. Well, when I say one, I actually mean four. To quote Oscar Wilde:<br \/>\n<em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>To lose one DS stylus may be regarded as a misfortune. To lose 4? Seriously? What the hell is wrong with you?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Actually it&#8217;s not really four. Two are short styluses (styli?) for the DS Lite, and two are long styluses for the DSi. Of course this is even more illogical. I now have two DSi styluses which are almost useless as they don&#8217;t fit in the hole of my DS Lite.<\/p>\n<p>To top it off, they come in absurdly large packaging, and it&#8217;s that damned plastic which I needed the help of my trusty swiss army knife to open.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.astick.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/stylus.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.astick.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/stylus-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"stylus\" title=\"stylus\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-147\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So the stylus for my beloved Nintendo DS seems to have vanished into thin air, which is a little annoying. But even more annoying is buying a new one. Apparently if you want a new stylus, you also have to buy a case, &#8220;screen protector&#8221; (read: sticky back plastic), game cases and\/or headphones (or &#8220;earbuds&#8221;, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/stylus-hunt\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Stylus<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[44,45,46,47,48],"class_list":["post-146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stupidity","tag-ds","tag-rant","tag-stylus","tag-waste","tag-what"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}