My new toy...
...is a shiny, shiny toy.
I recorded this the day before Free Comic Book Day, for which I dressed as Rey, carried the lightsaber on my belt, and had a marvelous time letting children turn it on. :-)
Later in the day, at a monthly geeky gathering, I turned it on and it... said something not-quite-intelligible and shut itself off. We were all like "WAIT DID IT SAY SOMETHING WHAT DID IT SAY WHY IS IT HAUNTED??" brainiacfive said "Did it say 'I'm an idiot'??"
So then I turned it on again, and it did it again, only this time I managed to discern that the really quite eerie whispering voice was saying "Obsidian," which is the brand of the sound card. I hadn't bothered changing the batteries it shipped with, and apparently that's the low-battery signal.
This brought to me to the following conclusions:
Click to viewI recorded this the day before Free Comic Book Day, for which I dressed as Rey, carried the lightsaber on my belt, and had a marvelous time letting children turn it on. :-)
Later in the day, at a monthly geeky gathering, I turned it on and it... said something not-quite-intelligible and shut itself off. We were all like "WAIT DID IT SAY SOMETHING WHAT DID IT SAY WHY IS IT HAUNTED??" brainiacfive said "Did it say 'I'm an idiot'??"
So then I turned it on again, and it did it again, only this time I managed to discern that the really quite eerie whispering voice was saying "Obsidian," which is the brand of the sound card. I hadn't bothered changing the batteries it shipped with, and apparently that's the low-battery signal.
This brought to me to the following conclusions:
- It's Anakin's, so if it isn't haunted it probably should be; and
- Being Anakin's, if it had said "I'm an idiot," that would be entirely appropriate.