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    A Famicom Controller For Your Business Cards

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    Image of FarmboyinJapan FarmboyinJapan
    07/23/09

    In reply to A Famicom Controller For Your Business Cards
    The culture surrounding business cards in Japan is SUPER SUPER strict....from who you hand it to, in what order, when you put it in a case, which hand you accept a card with, which hand you give a card with, and what you say when you receive/give one....there is a STRICT rule behind everything. Its so bad, that in one class in college, we spent an ENTIRE WEEK going over the BASICS of business card etiquette. And then once I got my job, we spent two 12 hour days touching on the finer points. One of my coworkers brought in a card case that was green (not the drab silver that is the norm) and was then told him that he had to get another one....that a green card case is not "correct."
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    Image of Kovski Kovski
    07/23/09

    In reply to A Famicom Controller For Your Business Cards
    To open it you have to type in
    ↑ ↑ ↓ ↓ ← → ← → B A
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    Solertia promoted this comment Kovski was starred Kovski was unstarred
    Image of Save me Save me
    07/23/09

    In reply to A Famicom Controller For Your Business Cards
    Sweet if youre in the industry I guess, though I would prefer something more professional if I was in something other than IT or engineering.

    Also,

    how does the Gawker network work? Giz covered this this very morning and it took almost 8 hours to be on Kotaku?

    Just curious, is all.
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    Showmeyomoves! promoted this comment Edited by Save me at 07/23/09 1:58 PM Save me was starred Save me was unstarred
    Image of ShaSt One ShaSt One
    07/23/09

    In reply to A Famicom Controller For Your Business Cards
    whoops, double post

    (made so svenhoek's embarrassment and shame below won't look quite as bad)
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    Edited by ShaSt One at 07/23/09 1:48 PM ShaSt One was starred ShaSt One was unstarred
    Image of svenhoek svenhoek
    07/23/09

    In reply to A Famicom Controller For Your Business Cards
    God damn you double post.
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    Edited by svenhoek at 07/23/09 1:42 PM svenhoek was starred svenhoek was unstarred
    Image of ShaSt One ShaSt One
    07/23/09

    In reply to A Famicom Controller For Your Business Cards
    Awesome! Is it true that all gentlemen in Japan greet each other by exchanging business cards? I saw this on King of the Hill once, but I've also seen a mongoose lurking inside a department store ball pit on that show, so I was never sure how legitimate that was.
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    07/23/09

    @PuppyGuarder: Mongooses in ball pits are very legitimate. Africa loses 10,000 kids every second to hidden mongoose attacks.
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    Image of svenhoek svenhoek
    07/23/09

    In reply to A Famicom Controller For Your Business Cards
    Why does the second one not have a start or select button? How will you start and select things?!
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    Edited by svenhoek at 07/23/09 1:38 PM svenhoek was starred svenhoek was unstarred
    Image of fourfour44 fourfour44
    07/23/09

    @(Hollow) svenhoek: Famicom controllers were hardwired to the system. Only the player 1 controller had Start and Select buttons. Player 2 controller on the early models had a build in microphone that was use in some games (such as the Japanese version of Zelda).
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    Image of svenhoek svenhoek
    07/23/09

    @fourfour44: Edited by (Hollow)svenhoek at 12/31/69 5:00 PM

    Help, me and the Doctor went to Woodstock and cant find the Tardis because we were too high and forgot were we parked it!
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    Image of svenhoek svenhoek
    07/23/09

    In reply to A Famicom Controller For Your Business Cards
    So when you pull out your business card and try to act professional the moment can be totally ruined.
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    Edited by svenhoek at 07/23/09 1:30 PM svenhoek was starred svenhoek was unstarred
    Image of Daniel @ playreadwrite.blogspot.com Daniel @ playreadwrite.blogspot.com
    07/23/09

    @(Hollow) svenhoek: If you're trying to become a video game journalist, this could really seal the deal at a trade event though.
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    Image of svenhoek svenhoek
    07/23/09

    @Daniel @ playreadwrite.blogspot.com: Touche.
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    Image of Vectortuff Vectortuff
    07/23/09

    @(Hollow) svenhoek: maybe they will say "wow what a cool thing im going to make you my business partner just because of it" ...maybe hes a big gamer too
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    (Hollow) svenhoek promoted this comment Vectortuff was starred Vectortuff was unstarred
    Image of svenhoek svenhoek
    07/23/09

    @Vectortuff: One day in the future I can see this being the case, but nowadays I would say 9/10 its going to end like that visa business commercial where the guy pulls out the super-hero credit card. I'm sure it has appeal to some, I'm just saying for srs bizness you would not want to pull one of these things out. I know not everyone is such a prude though.

    I genuinely like the idea, it looks cool as hell, but I'm being rational.
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    Image of Atomsk88 Atomsk88
    07/23/09

    @(Hollow) svenhoek: Yeah, reminds me of a credit card commercial where a guy was going to pay for his fellow businessman's lunch and he had a custom picture card. I believe it had Flash or some other comic book character and everyone around him was giggling.

    Hey, if you're in Vegas, you could use it to hold some hooker contact cards.
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    Image of Avinant Avinant
    07/23/09

    @(Hollow) svenhoek: I think they're more open-minded in Japan. But for the States at least, you may want to keep this in your pocket.
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    daytown promoted this comment (Hollow) svenhoek approved this comment Avinant was starred Avinant was unstarred
    Image of daytown daytown
    07/23/09

    @Avinant: Disagree entirely. People in gaming/IT/entertainment are likely to think it's cool. Other people (investment bankers, real estate, whatever) are unlikely to know what it is and just chalk it up to a "fancy" business card case...if they even notice it at all.

    Nothing wrong with a *little* bit of tasteful personal expression in your professional life.

    Of course, if your business card had a Pokemon or something on it, it would be a different story entirely :)
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    Image of chang187 chang187
    07/23/09

    In reply to A Famicom Controller For Your Business Cards
    I think i'll wait for the N64 version
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    Image of ShaSt One ShaSt One
    07/23/09

    @chang187: I'd wait for a N64 version of anything. That's my console right there
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    07/23/09

    In reply to A Famicom Controller For Your Business Cards
    I would wait for the American NES ones for obvious reasons.

    But the Famicom ones are nice as well.
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    Image of Mike Fahey Mike Fahey
    05/22/09

    In reply to Chiptune's 8-Bit Profit
    That was the happiest music ever. *bounces in chair*
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    Image of Komrade Kayce Komrade Kayce
    05/13/09

    In reply to Browse The Entire Catalogue Of Arty NES Carts
    Holy cow that 3D Gallery is really neat to use!
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    Image of Komrade Kayce Komrade Kayce
    05/13/09

    In reply to Browse The Entire Catalogue Of Arty NES Carts
    Do these games work, or are they just art?


    They'd have to go in a V2 NES, correct?

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    Image of Luke Plunkett Luke Plunkett
    05/13/09

    @Komrade Kayce: Just art. The carts may still work, yeah, but they won't be the games depicted on the label.
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    Image of FarmboyinJapan FarmboyinJapan
    05/07/09

    In reply to You Cannot Play The George W. Bush Famicom Game
    Guess where I'm heading this weekend?


    Thanks for the heads up my man (and of course you too Jean!)

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    Image of Orionz Dream Orionz Dream
    05/07/09

    In reply to You Cannot Play The George W. Bush Famicom Game
    Yea Bush did that around the world... Oh wait nope. He had not written the budget for the last 3 times.. Who was in control of the house and senate and theirfore wrote the budget for the last 3 budgets?
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    Image of cornunderscore2x cornunderscore2x
    05/07/09

    @Orionz Dream: aahahahahahahah
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