Not to be confused with any of the other nouveau-chic medical conditions on the market today (*cough*), DS Leg Syndrome (or DSLS) is a condition that I am sure many of my gaming brethren have fallen victim to. There you are, minding your own business while trying to do your business. The DS has made the trip into the bathroom with you because… well, why not? You’re chugging along playing the latest game you can’t get enough of, and that’s when you suddenly realize “Hey, wait a minute. I’ve been done trying to go to the bathroom for 45 freaking minutes. Why am I still in here?” Close the lid of the DS, take your elbows off your knees and owwwwwwww.
Congratulations my friend, you’ve just succumbed to another episode of DSLS; the symptom of spending such an extraordinary amount of time pressing your elbows into your thighs that you have successfully reduced your circulation to practically nothing. As the blood begins to flow through your legs again, your legs slowly feel numb and as if they are not your own. How do you cope? Do you ride it out, knowing that you will only be able to walk again once enduring the excruciating pain of your nerve receptors coming back online? Do you hit yourself in the thigh, sending shockwaves of feeling rippling down your leg as you force the blood to move swifter through your veins? God only knows that if you stood up right now you would do only one of two things – immediately fall over as you realize that you have no control of your legs, nor can they hold you upright by themselves at this moment in time; or be forced to support yourself on the sink, trying not to put too much weight on either leg and wishing dearly that feeling would just come back so that you could continue your life as normal.
Damn you, Professor Layton. Damn you Advance Wars, Picross, Mario & Luigi, Tetris, Puzzle Quest, damn all of you games past present and future that inflict this wretched condition upon me.
credit to ShortAttentionGamer (RIP) for the image
