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To The Pain
Reedo writes: "If you enjoy gaming and pain, this is for you. Two German designers have developed the Painstation, which is basically a revamped Pong. Except for one major difference - The PEU(Pain Execution Unit), which delivers a dose of pain to your left hand in the form of heat, punches or electroshock, when you mess up."
If only we could wire this up to remotely do the same to Bill gates every time Windows crashes...
PoIP (Pain over IP) protocol. Coming to an RFC near you.
maybe you could rig up the little NES robot to punch you in the face (or nuts, if you're into that) in accordance to said boxing game
Download MAME
Download Pong ROM
Buy Hammer
Thwack self on hand with hammer on death.
Rinse, lather, repeat until hand becomes bloody stump.
TODO: Something witty here...
... but it only plays R&B albums and Burt Reynolds movies. Use of the pain sender is optional during DVD or CD playback.
my friends do this to me all the time, especially when playing videogames.
four-oh-four
The funniest part was about the idiots who stuck to it because they didn't want to back down in front of an audience. This game will be great at separating showy meatheads from people who listen to their inner Pavlov despite their vanity.
"Yeah, but I didn't know you were going to be giving me electric shocks... just what are you trying to prove here, anyway?"
Indeed.
I don't. I expect you to die!
You can't sue us because you got carpal tunnel syndrome. Thats a FEATURE OF THIS KEYBOARD!!! Marketing information has clearly shown that people who work with computer equipment WANT to be in pain.
-Restil
Play with my webcams and lights here
At first I thought it was Microsoft changing the name of their X-Box to compete with the Playstation.
Outdoor digital photography, mostly in New Engl
Zelda fan AND female. Marry me. Pain optional.
Endless arguments over trivial contradictions in books written by ignorant savages to explain thunder in the dark.
"Back off, man. I'm a scientist."
If they were going to go all retro with this you'd think they'd at least do an electronic clone of Operation...
Game-related pain was perfected almost two years ago without even needing additional hardware installed.
~shiny
WILL HACK FOR $$$
What's wrong with just smacking your opponent immediately after the game? It's worked for centuries!
sic transit gloria mundi
...Also known as the Republican Party effect.
I used to have a cheap see-through SNES controller that shocked me when my hands got sweaty.
Me:Ow!...
OW!...
OW!...
Mom(from next room):What's wrong?
Me:My controller is shocking me!
Mom:Well why don't you STOP PLAYING!
Me:That's an interesting thought...
OW!...
OW!...
Erm... Maybe I'm mistaken, but isn't Pong already painful enough?
That would be Pang.
pang (png) n. 1. A sudden sharp spasm of pain. 2. A sudden, sharp feeling of emotional distress.
> All I read here are negative comments! What's so
> bad about this? In the arcades in the UK, we
> have a stupid game where you hold a metal bars
> with your hand, you put the money in, and hold
> onto them for as long as possible. What they do
> is vibrate extremely quickly and ends up getting
> your hands hot, and then it feels like your
> whole arm has gone numb. Whoever holds longest
> wins. Same thing.
Now we know why the British government held out as long as it did before paying worker's compensation for vibration white finger.
Walk into Rufus McHooter's.
Yell "Harleys suck ass and I'm doing your woman!"
Less money, much more realistic effect.
Ad luna, Alicia! Ad luna!
We're just not ready as a society for this yet, we squabble over incompetance in copyrights and intelectual property rights more than we try to improve the world for the betterment of man.
Where does pain-inducing Pong fit into the betterment of man?
"I gotz mad tuba skillz."
One of the problems with the FuckU-FuckMe is that it's so straightlaced. It's good to see technology advancing to address the needs of people who are into S&M.
As copyright owner of this comment, I authorize everyone to defeat any technological measure which limits access to it.
Walk into Rufus McHooter's.
Yell "Harleys suck ass and I'm doing your woman!"
no, that's for when you lose on Mortal Kombat
Fatality!
Kilroy was here!
Or nightly... Hoo ha!
agree to the terms of this EULA? [Yes/No]
No
Ouch!
No
Ouch!
okay, yes!
...I have also noticed that us Germans are considered second rate in evildom lately. But don't laugh just yet, Englishman! We already refuse to eat your meat and won't give you our shiny new currency which is much better than yours because it's named after a continent and not a obsolete weight unit! Also the French like us better than you. Go figure! We have this PLAN, you know!
> In the UK we usually cast Americans as Gung-ho > idiots with Germans as the bas guys and the > British (stiff upper lip and all that) as the > heroes....
In Germany we don't cast for movies. We dub American movies. We never figured out though how to give people a German accent when everyone is already talking German.