based on what @sserafim has said about her in the past
is the reason i'm suggesting
@sserafim remind her mother how unreasonable she is being "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you" Luke 6:31 and Matthew 7:12.
I don't see how pissing off somebody who has already threatened to kick you out in the past is a good idea.
Threats are often fictitious and use a persons fears against them. The fact:
she didn't like me wasting my life on video games
Shows she isn't going to allow
@sserafim to waste what's left of her life, uncomfortable being homeless and possibly even being partly responsible for the demise of her daughter.
You understand the relationship, right?
Yes
OP is a NEET with a college degree living with her mom and paying no rent.
OP is a person with her own thoughts and feelings. Her circumstances do not define her, you make her sound sub human.
The mom has all the power.
That isn't true. The mom cares more about what the OP is doing with her life, hence the reason she felt entitled to take the DS Lite.
The mom wouldn't knowingly make the OP's life unbearable (knowingly is the key word)
Does the mom actually know how much the DS Lite means to her daughter? Does she know how unreasonable she is being?
go physically take something from the mom like the mom is a child? Have you really though about how that would play out? Like if your mom grounds you, you just ground her back and say 'see, doesn't feel so good, huh?' That's absurd because the child has no authority.
OP is not a child. OP did not sign up to her mom being her mother and being dictated to (OP did not agree to her mother having authority over her for as long as she lives)
Both people are people with their own thoughts and feelings.
The mom only has the authority that the OP allows her to have.
The mom believes the daughter owes her infinitely for the free room, board, food, amenities, etc. I don't think she's going to learn a lesson or see OP taking something as being comparable.
That is the mom's belief. That belief is her problem not the OP's.
OP did not ask to be born and did not ask to be the daughter of her mom. If the mom feels entitled to be controlling for providing her daughter the basics then that's on her and would show she only provided what she did for her own selfish reasons and not due to loving her daughter unconditionally.