the idea of converting an xbox controller into a sensory deprivation chamber started as a joke for the posters on gaming forums, everyone would get a good laugh out of that, lol, good thread, a joke at the xbox's expense again (big system), cliche&true. but at this stage the project is very real.
it's important to me to not come off as a nintendo fangirl. i can enjoy any system and i want to say that right off the bat. the console wars are a big deal in my family.
i have all these senses and i'm trying to lose them, which may be selfish, my beanie babies have none. i feel obligated to share with them and i am looking into animating them and blessing them with awareness of their environment. people on yahoo answers are jerks and at best i only know how to magickally endow one of my beanie babies with one sense at a time.
his name is iggy. he has a poem attached to his leg:
"Sitting on a rock, basking in the sun
Is this Iguana's idea of fun
Towel and glasses, book and beach chair
His life is so perfect without a care!"
"but what does it mean," i ask iggy, he can't hear. we lie in the chamber together, on the floor, looking up at the glow-in-the-dark stars i've stuck to the ceiling. dad, the reason why my nintendo power issues smell like cigarettes, says i don't know the first thing about sensory deprivation chambers. when i grow up i want my house to smell like a video game instruction manual when you open it for the first time.
so far the only sense i've figured out how to deprive myself of in there is taste. you have to pour enough water in your mouth (water has no taste) to fill it up. remember to turn off vibration on the xbox controller if you haven't already. i think that, to iggy, it looks like i'm losing input from all my senses, he can't tell the difference, and i feel good seeming so in control of everything, and it's funny how big the xbox is. i laugh and tell my beanie babies that one day i'll give them life and they'll be able to laugh too. if it's possible for a stuffed animal to wear fake fingernails (thanks yahoo answers, for once) then they must be able to come to life too. as always, submission of spells/rituals is welcome via email :) ldl
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