In preparation for my new heat pump install last week, I swamped out a bunch of junk that had built up in the part of my room the installers would have to get at and generally tried to make the place vaguely presentable. In the process, I discovered some stuff that had gotten silted under and forgotten. In most cases, I remembered it was there as soon as I found it--for example, the COBI Vickers A1E1 Independent kit I bought from the Tank Museum shop ages ago and never got around to building--but there was one thing in there that I was genuinely baffled by. In a shoebox buried under some other stuff, I found a PlayStation 3.

This confused me deeply, because I had no memory of ever owning a PS3. Not until I had finished hooking it up and discovering that it didn't work did I have a surge of déjà vu and realize that I had done exactly that same thing some time before. A search of my shelf of game discs turned up one, and only one, PS3 game, Hatsune Miku Project DIVA F... which I still have no memory of ever actually playing.

So, yeah! Discovered I had a PS3 long enough ago that I completely forgot I ever had it, and a memory fragment suggesting that I already knew it didn't work when I put it in that shoebox and let it get buried in other junk. Why did I keep it? Did I think I might be able to fix it at some point, improbable as that seems? Was I hoping the Electronics Fairy would just drop by it would work again the next time I unearthed it?

Whichever. I'm in the midst of a fit of trying to unhoard stuff right now, so I threw it out--but I kept the controller, because said fit is imperfect. Can you even use a PS3 controller with a PC? It looks like it just has a standard USB Mini-A port on it. I could look this up online, of course, and I presumably will one of these days, but, you know, rhetorical musings and all that.

(I don't even need it, I have a perfectly good Xbone controller that works for stuff like No Man's Sky. But, you know, can't throw something out if it might conceivably be any good! Send help.)

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