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Arm Wrestling Machine Recalled for Breaking Arms
Lucas123 writes "After three players broke their arms while wrestling with a Japanese arcade machine, the manufacturer promised to remove all 150 of the mechanized appendages. Said game maker Atlus' spokeswoman: "The machine isn't that strong, much less so than a muscular man. Even women should be able to beat it.""
"Even women should be able to beat it"
/.ers.
I dunno, I think an artificial arm would work better for helping guys to beat it...
Besides, having a woman beat it would just be so out of place for most
Sigs are too short to say anything truly profound so read the above post instead.
...welcome our woman-beatable, arm-breaking mechanical overlords...
I don't understand why this is categorized as humor when it deals with someone's pain and anguish.
Also the company claims that the arm isn't that strong. Yet the physics behind the arm and the leverage is sure to make engaging the machine in a friendly game of arm wrestling into something which is needlessly dangerous.
>>> wrestling with a Japanese arcade machine, the manufacturer promised to remove all 150 of the mechanized appendages
I think you probably would get hurt tangling with an arcade machine that has 150 mechanized appendages...
The Japanese sure know how to build a video game. This one came with a prize feature depending on how far you advanced. They had some crazy prizes for winning on the hardest level. The one that is most over the top was winning you own Mack truck.
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Imagine a Beowulf cluster of those... sounds painful!
It's really the players that are defective. The game is fine.
Engineering is the art of compromise.
Well said. You expressed your point so clearly, even a woman could understand it!
An arcade game that's *definitely* harmful to children. No philosophical and ethical debate necessary!
/. reader's wrists are already strong enough, thank you very much.
So easy, even a caveman could do it!
It would also help if they didnt plug a 110 plug into a 220 socket.
In Soviet Russia, game breaks YOU!
Now if the damn Russians would just invent an arm-breaking machine, the joke would work...
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I'm a caveman, you insensitive clod!
Really though, I get unending jokes because I'm a big guy with a beard and long hair, so....everyone's like, when did you start working for geico. Jerks.
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So you see what had happened was....
Personally, I'm glad the kid didn't beat any of the lubed older guys!
And yet no one will recall the real doll for breaking hearts *sob*
Wow... a guy gets his arm broken by an arm wrestling machine and a spokesman says "even women should be able to beat it." Talk about kicking a man when he's down. Ouch!
Japan has to many girly men. They need to be pumped up.
I'm an insensitive clod, you insensitive clod!
Because "she" is a machine as well?
Sorry, had to swing at the slow pitch...
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You know, I'm not that sure that men really do have (on average) more physical strength than women. I mean, women spend all day cleaning and doing housework, thats more physical activity than going to a real job in a developed country where you sit at a computer all day.
I have a horrible sense of humor, I apologize. I respect women, really. . . prolly should have made this post AC.
If you are about to mod me down, keep in mind that this post was most likely sarcastic.
Are you seriously implying that in general men are not stronger than women? Dude you need to get out more. Anyone who has a problem with this IS IGNORING REALITY.
What about Xena the Warrior Princess? She's a woman and she could kick most mens asses. In fact the only people who came close to defeating her were women.
Or Starbuck in Battlestar Galactica - she beat the snot out some dude in the boxing episode. Or that chick in Serenity who's like 50kgs and a deadly weapon. Or Buffy the vampire slayer, another petite girl who kicks ass. Or any of the other heroines in future Joss Whedon stories.
I think you're the one who's ignoring reality.
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If by reality you mean "cheezy TV shows", then yes.
"Droids don't pull people's arms outta their sockets when they lose..."
Sure there's not a wookie hiding in there somewhere?
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And yet, the Brits are the first to criticize Americans for still using SAE.
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The average person is going to continue saying that average things happen 'on average', including that the average woman is weaker than the average man.
Methinks you're going to have to act like the average and just accept it.
Life is not a Joss Whedon TV show.
Gorrammit, it should be!
That's because London has *no sunlight*. It's only the glare from all the CCTV camera lighting that gives even the faintest UV to its citizens.
Heck, even a cavewoman could understand that.
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I agree - I've simply met bodybuilding/athletic women who are inordinately strong (probably due to steroid use); likewise, most guys can't bench press 400#'s (& some of these women do - geh I feel threatened!).
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HELLO?? Chuck Norris is a man and he could easily defeat Xena and Buffy on steroids simultaneously. Unfortunately, the single Chuck Norris datapoint catapults the average strength of men far off the charts, making a male-female strength comparison very tricky indeed...
I just like the tagging ambiguity ... "evenwomencanbeatit" ... I knew women had them, but I didn't know they were them.
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And the US uses rocks, one rock being 24 pebbles if I remember correctly.
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Yet, women have the uncanny ability to totally screw a guy over without straining a muscle or leaving a mark.
He wouldn't hit his son's future mother, and they would all fall pregnant just looking at Chuck. Your argument fails.
...can we set them up to arm-wrestle each other? Then we could gamble on which one goes up in a cloud of smoke.
Two machines enter - one machine leaves!
One thing you forget is he is Chuck Norris. He can't be defined in human terms. You are comparing Apples with Chuck Norris and his roundhouse judgement day kick. Please, sir, let's be more careful in our examples...
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Boobs are a lot of weight.
Yes, on average woman have bigger boobs than men. Except from Robert Paulson of course.
Are we allowed to point out that fact? I'm watching for the black helicopters and PC swat team ropes dangling past the window...
You guys are deffinitely living up to the Slashdot stereotype.
As for me, I had no difficulty beating the machine. Neither did my sister.
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What about Xena the Warrior Princess? She's a woman and she could kick most mens asses.
But now we know the truth: She's a fracking Cylon!!
What this game really needs is a $10,000 payout for beating it, so that some down-on-his-luck father can get enough money to gain custody of his child...
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Why, what they gonna do? Beat him up?
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Budget cuts. He's got a Ruger 10/22.
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Did I mention I would be wondering about this while rappelling down the inside of an active volcano on my way to rescuing a nun and a group of orphans trapped below? Just another day in my life...
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