okay this day was an experience fs.
the start of the day was relatively normal, i was working a bit on ball detection while my partners assembled the intake/outtake thingy, and all of a sudden the pi turns off.
this happened before when the power draw was low and peripherals were connected, so i just took out the camera and turned it on. yup, works fine.
ok so lets plug the camera in while its on and it turns off.
odd, looks like its probably some random bug or connection issue, so i just unplugged it, reseated it, and restarted the Pi.
and it doesnt even turn on.
ok, well theres another port. idk whats going on, but maybe thatll fix it?
nothing. theres spare cables, lets try those ig?
nope. ok what the hell the camera must be broken, so lets try a spare camera.
doesnt turn on.
ok what the actual ****???? lets try it on their robot and then theirs doesnt turn on either.
at this point i am positively destroyed and fuming, luckily we have some very good food coming from a place nearby called the melt, so hopefully having a nice gooey cheesesteak can help me calm down, lock in, and figure out whats going on. big mistake.

an hour passes. the adults have put on a movie, a fast and furious movie. you dont feel delirious, nor subdued, but simply off. its almost as if you are both more aware of your environment and slowly less aware of yourself.
an hour passes. the car noises are still going. focus was a lost cause. one adult is stretching on the floor. the other is sitting at a table, still watching. you’re on the floor too. you’re not getting anything done. it was a lost cause anyways.
an hour passes. carlos is sleeping on the slanted wooden plank of the hill. jade is lying on the floor and staring straight up. somehow your partner is locked in. the car noises continue. you are two inches away from meeting God, before you start laughing. shes laughing too, as well as your partner. presumably at carlos. sanity was a lost cause, and you lost it four and a half hours ago. cant believe its somehow 3:30.

long story short, we slowly went insane with tokyo drift in the background as i pulled my hair out from the pi frying our cameras and the movie making it hard to focus, while one of my partners locked in to an unprecedented level, one just watched the movie casually, and the rest of us went crazy for no particular reason at all. this was a wild day (hence why im writing this the day after)
never eating at the melt again bruh 😭