Nintendo Help Desk: “Okay – I want you to take the remote, button side down and smack it into the palm of your hand two or three times.”
\nRuss: “You’ve got to be kidding”
\nNintendo Help Desk: “No sir, do it hard enough that I can hear it across the phone line but not hard enough to damage the remote”
\nThe thing is…IT WORKED!<\/p>\n
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