Ask Lemmy

Why'd he have a Super Nintendo mouse but not the system, no games, nor anything else related?

Nobody will actually ask that, though. Because nobody would assume it was anything other than an old-school computer mouse with an obsolete connector. And even if they did recognize what it was, nobody would think twice about how odd it is to have that, and only that. The only strange thing, maybe, is that it's stored with my keepsakes and not the rest of my obsolete tech, various cords, & connectors.

But the answer is: When I went away to college, I didn't take my video game stuff with me. My cousins asked to use my SNES and games, so I gave them permission while I was away. They grabbed everything except the mouse. At some point, they decided to sell my stuff to help purchase their Playstation, so I never got my SNES or games back. Then when my parents lost their house to foreclosure a few years later, they packed my things into a box, and gave it to me. I've held onto it for all these decades.

I have a cursed mouse.

Not like a taxidermied mouse, but a cursed computer mouse.

It looks and functions like a normal wireless mouse... Until you get to a page where there is horizontal scrolling capability. Instantly, the mouse will scroll the page all the way to the right. This is especially fun in spreadsheets. The mouse will do this even if it is turned off. The problem is really the wireless reciver, not the actually mouse, but it is still a fun cursed object that I hope to someday unleash on some unsuspecting sibling.

Probably my 2lb jar of mercury. Have fun disposing of that toxic waste!

While I will undoubtedly leave behind a lot of weird things, I don't think anyone who knew me would be that shocked by anything I left behind.

This is why I'm making sure to destroy my PC. Closeted fetishes, Rule34 stuff, SecondLife sex imagery and things I've done with people on there .etc

Everything in my physical possessions would not give off anything, but anything found on my PC would.

My Zip discs. Kids today barely recognise floppies; they'd be completely stumped with those fat floppies that don't seem to fit anywhere.

probably the zombie porn.

yeah... that or the Dino porn.

Everything is explainable to people who know me, sadly but - for the sake of the prompt - let's just say they pull random people in off the street for some reason. Is it the eeePC that's weird? The four PlayStations and one PSOne with a Japanese copy of the game of life with controller? The piles of cardboard and boxes in the garage, some of which are cut into shapes that may eventually turn into a cardboard 1/10 scale truck? The medical tubing and zip ties?

No, I'm willing to be the most unexplainable thing to strangers would be...

Two copies of Catherine: Full Body on the Switch, still sealed in their packaging. I've got a bunch of Switch games so at first glance finding a Switch game isn't so weird but why two? And why are they both unopened?

An outlet with a timer set on it I would say. I have portable solar panels and grow ligts too.

Unfinished projects. It's amazing how hard it can be for someone else to see the vision on something until it reaches a certain point.

Also my second knife I forged, the first one being a beautiful bowie that sold at a charity auction the second being a crusty shank with an unpolished metal tang loop around as the handle.

Everyone always laughs when I say "sure I have a knife" for something and break it out.

My smooth pocket stone.

Toss-up between the gen 1 computer heatsink and the Traveller in a jar.

I have a plushie Yoshi amiibo from Yoshi's Woolly World, and I've stuck every whisker I've found from my cats into its head, so now it looks like one of those troll dolls.

The weirdass cat plush that arrives months after I die. It has a gun

I have a box of "crafting ingredients" in my closet. It is full of buttons, aluminum scales, wire, leather cord, thread, random electrical components, ect...

I have four big black bins in my closet, full of… adult stuff I think those would definitely qualify. Maybe the foxtails, or my hot pink bunny mask, I’ve got a bunch of weird costumes that would raise eyebrows

Nothing, but just because my weird things are already out in plain view. They aren't shameful secrets. They're just my things.

Aside from adult items, it would be my collection of 400 keys all on a bunch of different connected key rings or maybe my rum bottle full of used needles.

Honestly, my network and server.

I am self learned so i often come up with my own creative solutions instead of knowing about a common standard. I can’t imagine anyone but me could maintain it.

In a previous iteration of my server i bent over backwards to make sure /home did not contain any user folders and instead only the mount points to numerous drives. Why? Inexplicably even if you do consider autism.

I have a ton of unique 3d printed firearms. They are legal for me to make and own where I live, but I can't legally sell them or give them away so they have just accumulated over the years haha

I'm the guy in the office people come to when they need something. Ibuprofen? Got it. Superglue? Got it. Change for the vending machine? Yup. I keep the change in an envelope I've labeled "petty cash". Inside that envelope , I have a smaller envelope that I've labeled "mad money". I have about $27 worth of Monopoly money in that one.