I am a Sufferer of Resistentialism

[xirtamehtsitahw]

You know how when you try to get something to work and it just...won't? That explains my life in a nutshell. Whatever could possibly go wrong involving some inanimate object or other, it will often happen to me.

There is a usually not-taken-seriously theory that says that inanimate objects harbor varying degrees of enmity toward their users. This phenomenon is known as resistentialism. It's not a religion or school of thought, but an actual phenomenon where certain people (such as me) tend to have to "fight" with various inanimate object to get them to do what they were intended to do (and often failing).

I've been waging a war with an extremely resistential PSP Go, which first developed a problem where the backlight on the screen went out. Then the screen cracked when I tried to get it to turn back on. When the screen was replaced, it still refused to work properly (having made the problem "migrate" to the LCD-to-motherboard flex cable). Then, the power switch assembly fell apart, rendering the PSP entirely useless (for now).

Then, Bing itself joined the "fray" by refusing to give me any results for places to buy a replacement power switch assembly for a PSP Go.

And my dad thinks I'm being paranoid when I say that "the whole world's against me". Well, the whole world may not be against me, but pretty much anything that thinks in 1's and 0's has it out for me, the humble Nintendo DS (and its cousins the DSi and DSi XL) being the extremely rare exception(s).

I may have to find a way to swap the PSP Go for a DS. I wonder what the cheapest I could find one for on Amazon.com or Ebay. I once bought one for 29 dollars. Yes, you read correctly--TWENTY-NINE DOLLARS.

With luck, I might find one even cheaper (say, one sold for parts or dismissed as "broken", when it could be something simple my neighbor could fix in a few minutes).

[bungholio]

I could partly agree on resistentialism. Mine is usually beneficial on computers for other people. For some reason is it impossible to connect to the internet on your computer even though you do the exact things I've shown you multiple times that never fail? Walk me into the room and for no obvious reason it will work. Computer won't turn on? Walk me into the room and it will turn itself on. Won't boot? Programs won't work? Lagged to a point of being impossible for anyone to use? I've had people tell me these many times, and then I walk into the same room and things "suddenly" work. That happened when I was around the most computer illiterate people though years ago.

Now resistentialism spites me with the PS3 and finding codes. When i first started I knew nothing and many things didn't work for some reason but worked for others. Now over the years some things that were visibly impossible like me comparing a file I did and one medo gave me that were 100% identical every single byte work for me just as they did for him. The same goes for Prototype when Skiller decrypted the elf file for me. I did the same exact thing as him and now it works for me too! There was no damned reason they didn't work the first times. Medo's decrypted elf file for Singularity compared to mine I would love the universe to explain to me.

I decrypted mine about 10 different times years ago. Every time it was byte for byte 100% identical to his. When I made a package using the one he gave me which was 100% identical to mine, the game always booted without problems. When I tried it with any of mine that were 100% identical to his, the game never booted once, and I must have tried over 30 different times and gave up and gave the universe my usual middle finger salute to it for its spitefulness.

I keep randomly going back to different PS3 games I've messed with before doing the same things in the same situations and for no reason they now work. When I did them a long time ago I wasn't sure if I was doing them correctly and I guess they didn't work. Now I look back on them knowing more than I did back then and see I had them perfect. I try them again and they work perfectly and I blurt out in rage "Bull Fucking Shit!!"

Everybody has heard that quote from Einstein:
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

Tell me that and I'll roll my eyes at you and think you're goofy, because it isn't. Insane is doing identical things in identical conditions and getting different results. Expecting different results does sound insane, but actually getting them for no obvious reason is insane. It's like things see that you wouldn't know the difference between right and wrong and spitefully gives you the opposite just to piss you off until you finally come to the point where you understand and can say "Bullcrap!" and then things work.

Barely reading on any of the weird quantum physics stuff though about things and whatever it was with the cat in the box being dead but maybe not until you see it makes me wonder. It's like the universe is making crap up as it goes and messes things up, or it's just a prick like I always say.

[Rezzm0]

Lately, I have really failed a lot, even in those moments when I was sure that everything would go fine. I decided to check https://www.lux-review.com/best-onli...-apps-in-2021/, pick an app, and consult a psychic just in case. I hope this really helps me solve problems, because I'm tired of everything falling out of my hands.