I can't believe it still works!!!

[Kriptonite]

I've dropped my DS (the original) so many times now, I can't even remember how it got the deep scratch right on the top...no, wait! I remember, I shut it in a car door. Thing still works. I swear, the original DS's were modeled after bricks, especially the durability.

My old netbook is another story entirely, that thing is a true beast. I've dropped it on concrete and off a desk at school (that time the battery popped out as well) but for some reason when I dropped it off of my bed on to carpet is when the screen decided to die. So I had to replace that with a youtube video tutorial. Not only that, but I've just recently spilled root beer into the thing. After a couple days of grueling uncertainty, it works....kinda. Since root beer is a liquid, it evaporated, but since it's also soda, it leaves a sticky residue. So when my laptop heats up, (as this one does, pretty hot too) it starts to act strange. Also, the touchpad is a little messed up, I'm assuming that that happened because it was on when the root beer was spilled, sadly..

 

[PureIrony]

My old Gamecube survived falling out a two story window, bouncing off the pavement and into the snow. The disc wasn't even wet.

 

[LogicNProportion]

Any of my cell phones.

Submerge them, smash them, crush them, burn them, and they still work. LG knows their shit! ^^

I wish the same could be said about all my Silver and Gold Versions of Pokemon. :[

After a couple of years on the shelf, and trying them out again, all of them were fried.

 

[RowdyRodimus]

I don't know what happened to it, but I let my brother take my PSP when he was sent to Iraq (he was an Army medic), but when he got home the case was battered and beaten, dried blood (and what looked like brain tissue and bone chips with bits of hair) in the crevices of the edge of the case and UMD drive. He cleaned it up for me (along with disinfecting it lol) and it worked like new and actually fixed a couple of dead pixels.

He tried telling me what happened but I didn't want to know so all he said is that he was lucky I let him take it with him (I had just bought it about a month before he left), so I have a feeling he had to use it as an improvised weapon. I think I'll ask him about it when he wakes up tomorrow.

 

[Sanguinius- The Angel]

I don't know what happened to it, but I let my brother take my PSP when he was sent to Iraq (he was an Army medic), but when he got home the case was battered and beaten, dried blood (and what looked like brain tissue and bone chips with bits of hair) in the crevices of the edge of the case and UMD drive. He cleaned it up for me (along with disinfecting it lol) and it worked like new and actually fixed a couple of dead pixels.

He tried telling me what happened but I didn't want to know so all he said is that he was lucky I let him take it with him (I had just bought it about a month before he left), so I have a feeling he had to use it as an improvised weapon. I think I'll ask him about it when he wakes up tomorrow.

Do share. I'm interested to hear... Braining someone with a PSP. That's pretty badass. Who says violent games don't help us!?

OT: I've put my 2GB Flash Drive through the wash more times than I can count, it having the game I was making in Comp Programming saved to it, as well as Medal of Honor [ The original ] and other useful things. Worked like a charm. Sadly, I lost it in the move. ;-;

 

[PhunkyPhazon]

My old Gameboy Color went through absolute hell. Dropped from an upper floor, dropped on concrete several times, lost in a thunderstorm, oh and it has a freakin' pebble inside it. How did it get in there? I have absolutely no idea how it's possible, but it's there.

12 years later, the sound is kind of garbled. That's it.

 

[RowdyRodimus]

I don't know what happened to it, but I let my brother take my PSP when he was sent to Iraq (he was an Army medic), but when he got home the case was battered and beaten, dried blood (and what looked like brain tissue and bone chips with bits of hair) in the crevices of the edge of the case and UMD drive. He cleaned it up for me (along with disinfecting it lol) and it worked like new and actually fixed a couple of dead pixels.

He tried telling me what happened but I didn't want to know so all he said is that he was lucky I let him take it with him (I had just bought it about a month before he left), so I have a feeling he had to use it as an improvised weapon. I think I'll ask him about it when he wakes up tomorrow.

Do share. I'm interested to hear... Braining someone with a PSP. That's pretty badass. Who says violent games don't help us!?

OT: I've put my 2GB Flash Drive through the wash more times than I can count, it having the game I was making in Comp Programming saved to it, as well as Medal of Honor [ The original ] and other useful things. Worked like a charm. Sadly, I lost it in the move. ;-;

That's what I've always figured. Still, if I would've had it back then all the stories I could tell about it was being in bags and locker rooms and it wouldn't be nearly as awesome as it is. Although, I do have a Pokemon game with a game save made by Paul Wight (The Big Show) when he borrowed it from me in Ohio Valley (just imagine the humor of seeing a 7 ft. tall, 500+ lb. man playing Pokemon and saying "Pikachu! I choose you!". LOL It was so surreal and made me realize I was in the business I was meant for. Too bad it all ended like it did, but still, what a ride.)

Sorry, started feeling sentimental for the old days.

 

[Sven und EIN HUND]

My iPod has been dropped so many times I couldn't even recall all of them any more. The strange thing is this iPod is/was a replacement for the first iPod I got, which I replaced under warranty after it broke. It broke after dropping it once, but this iPod prevails.