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Gameboy Advanced: The Quest For Color (Outside)

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the no-accounting-for-taste dept.

zenintrude writes: "Unfulfilled by Nintendo's current offering of GBA colors? Why not buy a Blank Slate (formerly known as 'Arctic') GBA, and dye it your favorite shade? If nothing else, it will pass the time until Portable Monopoly is back fighting the good fight." It seems that question ("Why not?") is not rhetorical -- if four bottles of RIT dye don't do the trick, maybe nature never intended it to be. I will wait until Gameboys are given away with cereal before I try such a thing.

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  1. Re:IT'S IN THE GAMES by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5

    you're telling this to people who gauge their social worth by the girth of their internet pipe, and make small talk by comparing kernel versions. Most of them would be mistaken for a Tommy Hilfiger-branded bean bag if they tried on designer clothes. This is about as much of a fashion statement as they can make.

  2. Re:SPRAY PAINT! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5

    You are pretty offensive. You are also wrong.

    From the Rit dye faq:

    Can I use Rit to dye materials other than fabrics?

    Rit dyes can also be used to color wood, paper, plastics, canvas shoes, and many craft materials.

  3. You can dye plastic by wunderhorn1 · · Score: 5
    Just so you know the guy's not completely smoking crack (from the RIT website, he even gives a link from his page):
    Rit Dye is manufactured and guaranteed primarily for tinting and dyeing washable textile fabrics. It is, however, effective for coloring many types of vinyl or plastic articles, such as jewelry (simulated pearls), buttons, rivets, and eyeglass frames, etc.

    So there you go. But there are definitely paints much better suited to the task.

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    Karma: Bored. (Thinking about resurrecting the "Anyone else is an imposter" joke.)
  4. I hope this guy doesn't have any pets by Gazelem · · Score: 5
    "I bought my shar-pei knowing he had wrinkles but after a while I didn't realize just how many there were. So I took out my iron..."

    Friends don't let friends buy Rit dye.