Where once there was beauty, there now lives despair

by Eric Caoili { Sep 8th 2007 at 5:00PM }

No amount of failed modding experiments or roadside accidents could've prepared us for the "personalized" DS Lite we saw in Marion Hemming's deviantART gallery, a homemade project so terrible in its realization, we winced and turned to the side as it loaded on our screens, unable to look at it straight on.

To be safe, we've sealed its frightful visage past the post break, away from the casual reader's view. If you believe that Marion's "paint job" is something you'd like to see, then by all means, head past the jump. We stongly advise, however, that you keep your mouse pointer near, if not directly on, your browser's back button; you might find its mutilated face to be much more than what you bargained for.

"I used my markers to paint my DS."

See also: Battered DS Lite makes baby Jesus cry

Tags: case, marker, paint

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Kia @ Sep 8th 2007 5:38PM

Meh, it's not that bad. >_>;

magicaldingo @ Sep 8th 2007 5:41PM

Let's hope they were crayola washable markers...

burrito67 @ Sep 8th 2007 6:11PM

my little brother makes better art when he's finger painting

king tatsuya @ Sep 8th 2007 6:16PM

usagi704 @ Sep 8th 2007 7:01PM

*runs away screaming*

Make the hurting stop!

hvnlysoldr @ Sep 8th 2007 7:46PM

Ze goggles! Zey do nothinz!

dreamparacite @ Sep 8th 2007 9:24PM

"Good" idea, BADLY executed...markers?!

elsng @ Sep 8th 2007 10:14PM

Cardboard (or really, anything to cover the negative of your design) and spray paint are your best friends.

raycosm @ Sep 8th 2007 11:40PM

How much for it?

Middlemoor @ Sep 11th 2007 10:06PM

I thought the "baby Jesus" joke was bad taste.

CountChocula @ Sep 9th 2007 12:50AM

By the gods, it looks like someone threw up on their DS Lite and tried to clean it off with their own diarrhea!

Man, diarrhea is a ridiculous word.

Conbus @ Sep 9th 2007 3:12AM

That, that is just........ *starts crying*

Seph-kun @ Sep 9th 2007 3:37AM

It's times like this I'm glad I didn't buy a white DS Lite.

Foodie_Monster @ Sep 9th 2007 12:13PM

One of the links is to a Lost in Blue DS... I didn't think it was THAT bad... This one however, is just sad.

Orville the Unfathomable Time Walrus @ Sep 9th 2007 12:43PM

Picard has come to the saddening realization, thanks to this monstrosity that laughs in the face of the noble traits of man, that Q's god complex was perfectly rational, humanity WAS in need of assimilation by the Borg, and that, yes, there were indeed five lights.

Child, child, there's a world outside of shoujo manga. Find it, for all our sakes :(

troy @ Sep 9th 2007 1:02PM

it looks alright, very cool in parts. you talk trash for no reason, dsfanboy!

schuyler @ Sep 9th 2007 1:29PM

Just cause you don't like it doesn't mean you have to be rude

josh @ Sep 9th 2007 2:33PM

y u do this? :(

Abscissa @ Sep 9th 2007 5:11PM

Excellent choice on that picture of Picard :).

Oh, and speaking of Picard:

@"Orville the Unfathomable Time Walrus": Best comment ever made on anything ever. LMAO. Nice name too :)

Shmil @ Sep 9th 2007 8:44PM

oh my science

Damien @ Sep 10th 2007 1:04AM

I'll be nice and say that it's definitely not my cup of tea...

Machelo come down. @ Sep 10th 2007 5:29AM

"Just cause you don't like it doesn't mean you have to be rude" HAHAHAHAHA HAHAHA. You're not serious, are you? Did you make it?

Donald @ Sep 10th 2007 12:24PM

WRYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

Matdredalia @ Sep 11th 2007 2:22AM

You know...I don't have a problem with putting a manga character on your DS.....as a matter of fact, I've thought about making temporary skin for my DS featuring some of my favorite anime characters....

However....permanently abusing your DS with a shoddy rendition so bad you can't even tell what character it is...using colors so horribly violent they look like neon fluorescent puke...

Is gaming abuse.

She should be ashamed.

As a girl-gamer and an otaku, I am ashamed for us all.

Marion Hemming @ Sep 17th 2007 5:29PM

=3 Awesome!

This article makes me happy. I think the art is crap as well. The markers rub off over time, at one point there were penii on the cover, want a picture of that?

Mabui @ Sep 12th 2007 4:22PM

What has science done...

Reminds me of something I might have done when I was younger, and then felt extremely horrible about. Luckily I don't do crazy things so much like that anymore, especially to something so expensive and nice looking.

Least the chance it gets stolen by someone is decreased.

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