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Retro Totem Tattoo Commemorates Gaming Classics
An anonymous reader writes "This guy had always wanted a tattoo, but could never decide what to get. A looming 30th birthday fueled a furious design phase which has resulted in an excellent tribute to some of the great gaming classics while he was growing up. As the native people in the pacific northwest used totem poles to tell stories and keep family chronologies, this design was intended to tell a history of some of the important games that influenced him (and a lot of us, too) throughout his life. Images are Coral Cache-ed."
but it's a REALLY COOL TATOO!
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Yeah.
I did like the subtlety of the triforce in the background though.
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Where the Sonic the Hedgehog love?
"A truly wise man realizes he knows nothing."
Dude, that is wicked sweet. I like how it dates from Pong 1976, I think?), to arcade games in the early '80s, to 1986, with Mario, Megaman, and the Triforce from the Legend of Zelda series, all of which, were on the NES.
(And you got it done in the ditch, too! I've only got a bit done on my inner wrist, but getting *pong* done there, with all that blackwork? Ouch! Good thing the artist didn't tell you that that area's one of the most painful places to tattoo on the body, eh? :)
Condemnant quod non intellegunt.
The last three pics look good, but the first couple are really blurry.
Really cool tattoo, BTW.
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they messed up the fucking triforce! how hard is it to draw a pixelated triangle? ok pretty hard and he probably had his skin stretched a little but still, he had it traced so the lines should've matched up a lot better than they did.
if i'm not immortal, what's the point of living?
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If you think a tattoo doesn't hurt, then there is something wrong. It's not wimpy to admit it hurts , its only wimpy to scream like a little girl and run out of the tattoo parlour (which i have seen , and it was rather hilarious) ,IIRC the needle for black ink has to penetrate the skin far deeper .
It probably hurt a lot mainly because of the amount of Black ink used
I have seen far bigger and far tougher guys with tears in the sides of their eyes after having Large Black ink tattoos .
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What's up with the horrible pictures? If you are planning to document something, use something better then your cellphone camera!
It's not "Retro Totem Tattoo", it's "Clato verrata nicto"!
30th?
Let me tell you, that particular molehill looks pretty small looking back from a decade and a half beyond. It's just the first indicator that you aren't going to be able to get around to everything you planned to do with your life before your inevitable appointment with the Grim Reaper. Pretty soon, the PDA of life will be popping up daily reminders, and there's no way to turn them off.
Ah, well, if that's what it takes to get motivated to do what you really want to do.
For the most part, it's not the case we get any smarter as we get older, we just exchange our youthful gullibility and enthusiasm for a mature addiction to comfort and a pig-headed predjudice for whatever we're accustomed to. So, I make it a rule not to indulge in the "If I only knew then what I know now," kind of thinking. On the whole premature maturity is a terrible waste of opportunity. The one thing I really do wish I knew back then was this: if there's something you really want to do, see to it right away. Whatever it is that's stopping you -- it's too hard, too embarassing, too painful -- it won't matter as much once you've done it as much as not doing it will when your lifetime supply of recklessness starts to run out.
So, I salute this gentleman and his tatoo, and his inexpllicable need to put blurry pictures of it on the Internet for the whole world to gawk at. Personally, I have no idea why anyone would do any of these things, but I admire the backbone it takes to spit in the eye of people who'd tell you it's not appropriate behavior for an adult.
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You now have it in ink.... ...that you are a big dork! HA!!!
damn I want one.
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I have devised, as part of my system of ethical ironicism, a special vipassana meditation specifically for people like you.
(1) Stand facing away from a mirror.
(2) Calm your mind, take a deep cleansing breath.
(3) Focus on the most contemptible, stupid thing you can remember somebody doing.
(4) Fan the feelings of contempt until they blossom into a sense of self-righteous superiority.
(5) Assemble a look of disapproval on your face if there isn't one there yet. If you don't know how, try this: draw your brows down like you're slightly angry, raise your chin so you are looking down your nose, and wrinkle your nose slightly like you're smelling something a bit on the distasteful side.
(6) Raise your index finger like you're instructing a willful and somewhat stupid child.
(7) Keeping all these elemements in place, turn around and examine your reflection.
Now for the meditation:
I. Fix the image in your reflection in step 7 in your mind, and ask yourself whether this is how you really want the world to see you.
II. Fix the feeling you generated in step 4 in your mind. Is it familiar? Good. Now ask yourself whether you really want to be part of the Gravitas Police, and go around pissing on other people's fun.
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The NES uses tile flipping to switch sprites from right to left (or more rarely, top to bottom). The left Item-2 (the jet platform) should be a mirror image of the one on the right; the "2" on the left should look like a "5" because of the flip.
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