I approve a tattoo that has a good meaning behind it, not simply because you think it looks cool at that moment.
Also, when you are getting a decent sized tatt, make sure it's done by the best artist you can afford. I've seen too many ugly tattoos over the year. Remember kids, they stay with you FOREVER unless you can spend thousands to get them removed.
My grandparents rarely play games with me aside from the occasional Wii tennis. The nice thing though is that they love to learn more about new technology and how thing's work, and they love the history behind games like Assassin's Creed. I can talk for a long time with them about how games tie into modern life and what they predict.
....clearly you've never gotten a rather large tattoo...
Time, money, touchups, many many many sessions for something like that. We're talking months -minimum- assuming the person has a day job to schedule around.
@expansionsss - the jaded gamer: Clearly I haven't but clearly you misinterpreted my post and decided to berate me. I asled if it was unfinished because well it looks unfinished, clearly, but it wasn't stated so I didn't want to make assumptions.
Clearly, my comments about the art have nothing got to do with the amount of time it takes or the touchups that may happen or anything else other than the actual art. The bits that look like they are finalized look pretty shitty and look irrepairable, clearly.
@-MasterDex-: Ok.. again by your comments you have never gotten a bigger tat.
That mario art right there probably cost $1000+ so far and about 24+ hours of time and pain.
I have my entire back done up.... which has taken me since I was 18 and I am now almost 29 and I still have about 30 hours and $1000+ to go.
You cant get something like that finished in 1,2 or even 3 trips... so yes, it is unfinished and to you it may look crappy but to those of us that are covered in art it looks as though it has endless possibilities.
And noone was berating you by asking you a simple question that you took offensively. Just like this isnt a stab at you either, its just a description of what you asked.
But, if and when you do go get a tattoo, Try telling the artist to hurry up and see how it comes out :)
@-MasterDex-: And what's up with Peaches eyes? I understand it can take a while to get tattoo's done. but for the bits that are done they do look kinda crap. :/
@Ur-Lord-Crypy: Again, I'm not bringing up any issue with the unfinished state of the tattoo, My issue is with the art itself, the bits that are finalized that look like they can't be changed and if I was going to be paying $1000+ for a huge tattoo, I'd want the actual art itself to be of high, nigh impeccable quality, which this isn't.
For instance, take a look at Peaches arm and hand, it's not right and it doesn't look like it could be fixed, also her eyes look off and her crown looks terrible. Also, look at Marios hands, again, that looks like bad drawing to me.
I'm not saying it all looks bad, the goomba and Shy Guy on the left shoulder look perfect and Wario looks great too but there is faults that look irrepairable to me and that's the only point I ever made.
@Deanbmmv: I knew it wasn't just me. She looks like she wants to rape me, it's creepy.
@-MasterDex-: I think it actually looks pretty cool. I like big tattoos, and yeah it could have looked exactly like the Mario characters we see everywhere, but judging by the little things in it, the artist's put his own touches on it. i wouldn't call it bad. Mario's hands are definitely fixable, and I get the feeling peach was supposed to look like that
@-MasterDex-: No, don't explain yourself. You're correct, that looks like crap. Mario looks like he's sucking on a lemon and the cheekbones have not been shaded in, or he has terribly chapped lips. The shading is good though.
@tnmnsquare: I used the word "fixable" because it was used above. "Mario's hands are definitely unfinished" would be the appropriate one.
@-MasterDex-: I definitely don't want it on my back, and I'm not saying your opinions aren't valid. I just don't think the guy with the massive piece on his back would go back to the same artist and spend thousands of dollars if the artist was "crappy". It's most definitely unfinished, and in it's own art style, different from the general Nintendo style.
And as long as the dude who has it on his back likes it, then our opinions on the artwork don't mean much.
@octalass: I didn't just post that first pic because of the nudity. I did so because its actually part of the article (and its an awesome tat) if you opened the link you would noticed this. I'm sorry if is not SFW I wans't thinking about this when I uploaded the pic.
Don't over exagerate, Kotaku is far from becoming 4chan . Lets keep it that way.
@D Mitsuki : Gotta have guts kid!: no, there's a general feeling that's been creeping into the forums the last few weeks too. but yeah, some of us read kotaku at work, so posting a topless girl in the comments section just because she has a tatoo is kind of a douchey thing to do from a community standpoint.
@jack m: Honestly, I'd say get over it, it's a bit of sideboob and a single nipple, if your boss berates you for such a harmless thing then he would have berated you just as much for reading Kotaku while at work. Heaven forbid any of you ever visit a European beach.
@omyard: @omyard: I agree. Seeing as I'd suspect most people browse from work, it would be poor form to condone a policy that would shoo away a large part of the Gawker audience.
@jack m: I also agree. There's been an influx of memes, images, macros, and other 4chan-ish comments of late. I dunno what's causing it exactly, but it'd be best to nip it in the bud (no pun intended) to kill the noise before it makes the site unreadable.
@I Am Error: Yeah, there's no way to pass this one off as appropriate. You can't even argue it's relevant to the post because the tattoo is obscured by an angle designed to give as much side boob as possible.
@Kobun: My suggestion would be if one is so concerned about what they look at while at work, they probably shouldn't be browsing while at work in the first place.
Every one of us has one or two, and althougth this one has a clearly more erotic appeal and i am sure i don't want to see the nipples of most of you, it is still just a smally little nipple. :-P
It is not as if it shows full front nudity with opened legs, so come down allready. ;-)
I grew up playing Atari with my grandma(Im only 24 though).But I dont think I will get a tattoo of an Atari controller because number one her favorite game was ET and two she loved to play in the nude. But I will say she is the reason I'm a gamer along with my cousin and little brother. She corrupted us.
My favorite system of all time. I still have my SNES in working condition and i play it regularly. I would love to get a SNES tattoo, but my common sense starts tingling every time i think about it.
But i don't think i'd be able to honor my mom or grandma with video games. They hated games when i was kid and they both used to whoop my ass if they ever caught my ass playing after school. Maybe if i tattoo a leather belt...
I'm kind of starting to hate this tattoo craze. Not that I'm hating on this particular individual but a lot of people just seem to be swept up in a fad.
@-MasterDex-: What? Back in my day it was new sonny boy. Socrates was all like "you don't need that tattoo", and now here I am about 2500 years later thinking I shouldn't have gotten it. You know how saggy this thing looks? When she becomes a mommom I'll tell you that controller will look like a bull's testicles it'll sag that much.
@[ZTF]Is my Name: For sailors, bikers, and rockstars, yes it's nothing new. But I'm in NYC and in my 20's, most people I know or encounter have tattoos.
@L33Td00d: Let me guess, you were the first guy in America to get a tribal design tattooed around your bicep and you're pissed 100,000 other guys did the same thing. Now you look as stupid and unoriginal as the rest of them and nobody knows you did it first. My heart goes out to you.
@Lovestationzero: Yeah, I'm not a fan either. While I wouldn't ever NOT date a girl because of some ink, it's certainly not something I would find attractive. Nothing's sexier to me than smooth unaltered skin.
Just my opinion. If you like tattoos and/or have a few yourself, more power to you.
@716: Tattoos on women are so damn sexy! well it depends on the tattoo of course, but then different strokes for different folks, its all down to personal choice really,
@someone_else: they can be, but some folks go a bit further than I personally still find pleasing to look at. Take that Kat von D girl from the Discovery Channel LA Ink show. She's cute, but has too many tats. for my liking.
Ah thats a sweet story! My grandma and grandad don't play video games. There all like why don't you go play outside and I'm all like I'm 22. What can I play outside. And then they say jump rope. So I go do that for a few hours
@pandafresh: The Wii makes most gamers far more tired than they'd like. Why'd they go outside and get even more tired? And you can forget lifting those heavy bowling balls or tennis rackets for real when a Wii-mote is so much lighter.
@pandafresh: I went outside once and passed out from the heat staring out the sun. My grandpa was like "Oh great, time to dig a grave" and asked grandma to get the coffin ready, but thankfully she came out and just wrapped me in a towel until she was sure I was okay.
A lot of you are missing the point.
Yes you can emulate NES/SNES hell even the N64 on portable consoles, but that is not the idea.
The point is simply because he can. And if I could do it, I would also do something similar.
@DayAlive: You're right. It isn't.
But what it is, is an portbale SNES, one that won't freeze every half hour, one that you don't have to blow on the cartridges until you have a headache to make it work, one that you don't have to switch cartridges in the machine every time you want to switch a game, what it is is an SNES with the ability to: rewind a game, speed up a game, save and load states, plug in cheats without a game genie etc.
You're right, my psp isn't an SNES, its a lot better.
@Showmeyomoves!: nah, it's more like the original gameboy... the nes wasn't all that powerful comparably, whereas the GBA supposedly had as much power as the playstation (sans the graphical output)...
A snes would be closer to the GBA...
@DayAlive: I see you edited your comment, but you were right when you said the GBA had 32 bit.
To say that's 'nowhere close' is a bit of an exaggeration, though. In my original comment I was mainly referring to the fact that most (good) SNES games have had either a port, remake or new installment on the GBA.
@Showmeyomoves!: lol, I wasn't sure whether it had 32 or 64 so I omitted it. :P
and yeah, I love exaggerating. But you can't change the fact that playing an old school game on a GBA port will not give the same feeling when you play it on a SNES.
And yes, it's a fact according to me. :P
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Also, when you are getting a decent sized tatt, make sure it's done by the best artist you can afford. I've seen too many ugly tattoos over the year. Remember kids, they stay with you FOREVER unless you can spend thousands to get them removed.
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....clearly you've never gotten a rather large tattoo...
Time, money, touchups, many many many sessions for something like that. We're talking months -minimum- assuming the person has a day job to schedule around.
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Clearly, my comments about the art have nothing got to do with the amount of time it takes or the touchups that may happen or anything else other than the actual art. The bits that look like they are finalized look pretty shitty and look irrepairable, clearly.
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That mario art right there probably cost $1000+ so far and about 24+ hours of time and pain.
I have my entire back done up.... which has taken me since I was 18 and I am now almost 29 and I still have about 30 hours and $1000+ to go.
You cant get something like that finished in 1,2 or even 3 trips... so yes, it is unfinished and to you it may look crappy but to those of us that are covered in art it looks as though it has endless possibilities.
And noone was berating you by asking you a simple question that you took offensively. Just like this isnt a stab at you either, its just a description of what you asked.
But, if and when you do go get a tattoo, Try telling the artist to hurry up and see how it comes out :)
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For instance, take a look at Peaches arm and hand, it's not right and it doesn't look like it could be fixed, also her eyes look off and her crown looks terrible. Also, look at Marios hands, again, that looks like bad drawing to me.
I'm not saying it all looks bad, the goomba and Shy Guy on the left shoulder look perfect and Wario looks great too but there is faults that look irrepairable to me and that's the only point I ever made.
@Deanbmmv: I knew it wasn't just me. She looks like she wants to rape me, it's creepy.
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@-MasterDex-: I definitely don't want it on my back, and I'm not saying your opinions aren't valid. I just don't think the guy with the massive piece on his back would go back to the same artist and spend thousands of dollars if the artist was "crappy". It's most definitely unfinished, and in it's own art style, different from the general Nintendo style.
And as long as the dude who has it on his back likes it, then our opinions on the artwork don't mean much.
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I have always wish to tattoo either the
Zeon emblem
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Sharon Apple emblem from Macross Plus
But every time i remember that they use needles to make them,i shiver in fear
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I like this one better.
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@I Am Error:
This one is cool too
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@I Am Error:
A closer look.
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If you think 4chan is the only place on the internet with nudity boy are you in for a surprise when you google the letter a with safe search off...
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Don't over exagerate, Kotaku is far from becoming 4chan . Lets keep it that way.
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I wish there was an option to keep them hidden until you click on the comment (or something similar )
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I think its against teh Gawker-rulez.
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That's a good idea actually.
Are you reading this Kotaku?
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@jack m: I also agree. There's been an influx of memes, images, macros, and other 4chan-ish comments of late. I dunno what's causing it exactly, but it'd be best to nip it in the bud (no pun intended) to kill the noise before it makes the site unreadable.
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Every one of us has one or two, and althougth this one has a clearly more erotic appeal and i am sure i don't want to see the nipples of most of you, it is still just a smally little nipple. :-P
It is not as if it shows full front nudity with opened legs, so come down allready. ;-)
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She's in the article (if you click on the link) just shuffle the pics.
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But i don't think i'd be able to honor my mom or grandma with video games. They hated games when i was kid and they both used to whoop my ass if they ever caught my ass playing after school. Maybe if i tattoo a leather belt...
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Don't be sorry, he's a troll. And I hate this rating system, because I approved of your comment I now approved of his, ugh.
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Just my opinion. If you like tattoos and/or have a few yourself, more power to you.
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@-MasterDex-: 40+ years? More like thousands of years.
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I never had an SNES, I only had a Genesis.
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Yes you can emulate NES/SNES hell even the N64 on portable consoles, but that is not the idea.
The point is simply because he can. And if I could do it, I would also do something similar.
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But what it is, is an portbale SNES, one that won't freeze every half hour, one that you don't have to blow on the cartridges until you have a headache to make it work, one that you don't have to switch cartridges in the machine every time you want to switch a game, what it is is an SNES with the ability to: rewind a game, speed up a game, save and load states, plug in cheats without a game genie etc.
You're right, my psp isn't an SNES, its a lot better.
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A snes would be closer to the GBA...
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sorry, my bad!
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To say that's 'nowhere close' is a bit of an exaggeration, though. In my original comment I was mainly referring to the fact that most (good) SNES games have had either a port, remake or new installment on the GBA.
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and yeah, I love exaggerating. But you can't change the fact that playing an old school game on a GBA port will not give the same feeling when you play it on a SNES.
And yes, it's a fact according to me. :P