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New Urinal-Based Video Game Makes a Splash
Those who enjoy drinking beer, playing video games, and (oddly enough) peeing in urinals may be able to reach true nirvana after all. "Place to Pee" is a new video game that relies on a player's ability to hit sensors in a urinal to control game play. While this may seem extremely male-centric, don't worry, ladies, the game designers have thought of you too, and have designed a specialized paper cone for participation. Man, it's a bad day to be a janitor.
If they have a big pristine snow bank for keeping the high scores...
F1rst p1s73 missed by 17%. Try again?
..so we're reduced to this, now? *puts bag over head in shame* No wonder the aliens won't openly visit us!
So now, instead of just imagining buildings are on fire and the "stream of justice" is putting the fire out, we can now play it as a game? Wow.
if I was friggin' five years old!
I'm definately not playing this with any of the guys who used to reach over and slap my controller when I was beating them on Nintendo games.
Wanna fight ? Bend over, stick your head up your ass, and fight for air.
Man, it's a bad day to be a janitor.
/ex-janitor.
It's always a bad day to be a janitor.
Linux, you magnificent bastard, I read the fucking manual!
Personally, I love it when I go to a bar and they have ice cubes in the bottom of the urinal ... and I defy any man here (especially after a few beers) to resist the urge to strategically and enthusiastically pee all over the ice cubes, melting them individually, melting them in groups, moving over to despoil a fresh zone ... it's tremendously good fun.
...with more Trappist Ale will be encouraged
water sports?
Quality of play will be piss-poor.
Invenio via vel creo
I had to laugh. For the benefit of those not fully familiar with English (probably originally Irish) slang, "to have a slash" means to take a pee. Thus, it is quite appropriate that a game that involves peeing to hit a target should appear on Slashdot.
Inquiring minds want to know -- has "I.P. Freely" made it onto the High Scores list yet?
And, will there be a port for the Nintendo Wii? I bet it would make a big splash in the market.
http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/05/urinal-game-banned-by-killjoy-belgium-police/
We need stupid things like this to happen once in a while. We need to be reminded of the outer limits of fucktardom so that we know where not to stray. Someone is going to try to buy this and get it installed, thinking it's neat, and we all get to stop and say "You, sir, are a fucktard, do you honestly think I need to be entertained for the 20 seconds it takes for me to pee? You just got robbed." And the maker of this will be laughing to the bank until the fucktards are properly put in their place and stop buying stupid shit like this... and then society moves on.
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Check this Wii pee-game: http://eatliver.com/i.php?n=3095
Looks like we'll soon have a simulation for everything. I can't wait to play some "Sim Poo" on my xbox...
Take your "team" to the "superbowl"?
Though the article is similar to the ThinkGeek parody found here http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/41/superpiipii.html
If you play for too long you'll go blind!
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..possibly go wrong?
"Reloads" there are already 3-5 a "pop".
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/41/superpiipii.html
I recall a shockwave flash game made in the late 90s called the Urinal game. The objective was to determine which urinal was the "correct" one to use. You could even select an occupied one, just to see what happens. It was quite amusing for its time.
There already is a pee simulator for Wii users in Japan: http://eatliver.com/i.php?n=3095
I can't wait to see some "sim poo" for my xbox...
http://www.actur.be/placetopee/?p=zedenschennis
There already is a pee simulator for Wii users in Japan: http://eatliver.com/i.php?n=3095 I can't wait to see some "sim poo" for my xbox...
DO NOT EAT THE POWER PILL.
:(
I tried. It gave me no bonuses. It just made me feel kinda weird. Didn't taste like a mint either.
I'm not sure about this. In order to be, ahem, fair to the other players, I'd have to stand a long way back, and my eyes aren't that good.
I've calculated my velocity with such exquisite precision that I have no idea where I am.
If the frat dudes adopt this as a new stupid jocular competition (which I'm certain will be the case) then the pub owners now have a totally weird new driver for beer sales.
"I'll beat you next time... when we have to pee again. Hey, another pitcher over here plz!"
DRM: Terminator crops for your mind!
I'm from Belgium, and I went to a little festival last weekend, in the village next to mine. (I live in Retie and I went to Arendonk, for those from around here.) That place to pee stood there, and was pretty fun to watch.
:-)
For the interested, this is their official site: http://www.actur.be/placetopee/?p=Home%20(EN)
The game I saw was a guy skiing down a slope, the aiming part was needed to guide the player.
At first only little children tried to enter that thing, but as the party went on the 'adults' got more drunk and tried it out. To have fun for a long time you'll have to dose your stream though.
Dependency hell? =>
I wonder if this can be combined with the iLoo?
/ The Arrow
"How lovely you are. So lovely in my straightjacket..." - Nny
This came out of MIT a while ago, and it was called "Urine Control" (You're in control). http://web.media.mit.edu/~hayes/mas863/urinecontrol.html
It's a bad day for shy geeks who are unable to piss in public. Not that I have that problem. Really, I've just heard about it. Still, I hope my friends never ask me over to play...
Oh, yeah, it's not easy to pad these out to 120 characters.
Man, it's a bad day to be my wife. I've got to get one of those.
Make love, not reality television.
Is it EVER a good day to be a janitor?
This actually isn't a bad idea. A while back there was a story about the urinal fly, and how urinal in Amsterdam have a sticker of a little fly on them because they found that it improved people's aim when they had something to focus on. This seems like the same principle taken to the next level.
The bold print giveth, and the fine print taketh away
The mind just *boggles*.
when asking about the latest "P2P" technology.
Invenio via vel creo
Note: The Paul principle. You rise to your level of incontinence
"TTIWWOP"
bite my glorious golden ass.
Wait, this could not have been the GNAA.......
It doesn't take a whiz to see that this video game will soon become number one.
Is this called the "Wee"?
I might know what I'm talkin' about, but then again, this is Slashdot...
called "Urine Idiot"
The fake is obvious to anybody who has learned even a bit of Japanese. For one thing, the katakana in the box art says "Spa Pii Pii Brothers", not the expected "Super Pii Pii Brothers". "Super" becomes "su -- pa --" once transliterated into katakana, but the box art says "su pa --", which sounds more like "spa" or "spar" because a 'u' between voiceless consonants often drops out unless it has the long-vowel mark (resembling a dash) after it.
Nobody has said it so far, so I will..
Introducing the Wii Pii
I'm pretty sure this is a troll but, in the off chance that it is someone that can't make distinctions between sexism and quirky but functional innovation, I will state the following:
Most of the above post is about as ludicrous as me stating that women are sexist because they would like multiple orgasms during the same sexual encounter, when the man would only get one, maybe two.
Also, according to most janitors and business owners (including women business owners) women's bathrooms have always been nastier.
"Little is much when little you need."
BitingBeaver, is that you?
Soon they'll release "Pissoir Hero", soon to be followed by its open source equivalent "Dicks on Fire".
If you quote this signature there'll be 72 copies of Windows ME waiting for you in Heaven.
Jack Thompson.
Idly pissing the time away.
;)
Also in the UK, to have a Slash is to have a piss.
Think Geek had something similar (but much more sanitary) for April Fools Day this year: http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/41/superpiipii.html?cpg=70T I think I would perfer their version.
I am thinking of a new rendition of Battleship.
April Fools was last month.
No, seriously, this sounds like the exact same thing thinkgeek had on their site on April Fools.
...but I assume the game is written in p-code?
I prefer the game for the wii http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/41/superpiipii.html
Puts me at a distinct disadvantage to play this game - would be very hard to move the "game controller" quickly, intertia being what it is. :-|
Oh wait, she pees standing up, this must be someone else.
Order a pizza and invite all your friends together to share a great time.
I would at least keep some hand sanitizer around if you're going to eat pizza in the bathroom.
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Finally a video game that Koreans won't win at...
Orbis terrarum est non altus satis
This sort of gives a new meaning to the phrase "I'm gonna go play with my Wii".
Seriously, years ago I saw a graduate project at Parsons School of Design in their Design & Technology department that was a video game in a urinal, sort of like the space aliens version mentioned in this article. For the public exhibit, they put out squirt guns so that men could play the game without being obscene, and women could play as well. I am pretty sure it was just water in the squirt guns....
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Does it work with sperm too ?
I can't wait for the Walkthru on Game Guide ...
women's bathrooms are nastier - men possess at least some aiming ability ;)
Also - equipment privilege. Hey, don't get me wrong - I love my equipment (often) but since 49% of people have one - i'd hardly call it a privilege.
Prediction: The real iPhone killer is going to be sex robots from Japan. Think about it.
I'm a male in my early 30s and I have a "bisected stream" issue like 80% of the time I take a leak standing up.
It must be the shape of the urethral opening, but I get the main stream and sometimes a secondary "side piddle", much like pouring water from a glass (some snakes down the side of the glass). Probably about 5% of the volume of the main stream.
This can result in some nasty surprises since you can't really feel it happening. You look down after taking a leak and notice "oh my, I just pissed all over my right pant leg". I've gotten into the habit of putting my right hand kind of to the side to block the side-piddle if it does happen. Better on your hand than on your pant leg.
YMMV, obviously. This has never been officially diagnosed by a doctor (not that big a deal, and I'm sure as shit not having surgery done to fix it), but it does happen.
With the first link, the chain is forged.
In Frankfurt, they're installing similar systems in bars and clubs to remind people to take a taxi after they had a few (and crashed horribly in the game.)
The Piss-Screen(TM), "an interactive urinary experience."
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Please, stop the punishment!
I only post comments when someone on the internet is wrong.
Ok I stole this one from endgadget but I thought your keyboard could use a shower too.
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I've been working on a similar idea for a while, but mine features a nose-operated touchscreen above the urinal. I suppose the sensors in the bowl is a more hygienic idea....
** SIGH **
Back to the drawing board...
I just hope they dont make me pee to the side to reload. That could get messy.
There's nothing Intelligent about Intelligent Design.
Do you try to pee on each other?
Nope. No penis envy here.
for the network multiplayer "Urinal Racing 2008"
Why can't we go back to using jumpers to configure slot adapter cards? Why? I say!
...in fact, two layers of prior art. There was a Slashdot article in 2006 that mentioned a lower-tech version, and in that thread I referred to an even lower-tech version from the Seventies called "Whizzers", that involved cardboard targets.
rj
don't worry, ladies, the game designers have thought of you too, and have designed a specialized paper cone for participation.
Pics or it didn't happen.
here in germany most urinals have something to "hit" nowadays (a soccer ball in front of a goal, a fly,...) because men tend to "aim" better (trying to hit them) which lowered the cleaning expenses significantly (40% was the most i heared of)...
I'd guess those games might have the same effect - long term motivation might lower the soilings even more, so infact it might be a really good day to be a janitor...
well, at least it might be a less bad day to be a janitor than usually
The MAFIAA is a bunch of mindless jerks who will be the first up against the wall when the revolution comes
So clean up after yourself with a wad of toilet paper FFS. It's not difficult, it's your own piss, and it's good manners.
You're aiming straight, but there's a hair stuck to you or something, and you end up simultaneously pissing on both shoes.
I have also heard of this referred to as "blowback," since it is possible that the obstruction can alter the angle of the stream so acutely that it hits your pant leg above the knee...possibly as high as pocket-level.
Just hope it doesn't short out your cell phone.
To equalize things up smartly, all one needs is a SheWee! It works beautifully, although I'm told it takes, uh, practice. See the SheWee home page for guidence and usage. Note for Americans: you have to order here.
I have a better urinal game. Your mouth is the urinal, and....
She also had this little rubber cup that she stuck up her twat. She used it to catch her blood during her time of the month. No lie, she fertilized her garden with it. Gotta love hippie chicks.
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
foiled again, I've been too busy with legal issues to update PISS O RAMA
It's the multitouch version that gets messy, when it can handle two inputs at once in one urinal.
Are they going to have force feedback?
...or it might turn into a game of "don't wiz on the electric fence"
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Germaine Greer is that you? Get the fuck off of /. you feminist bitch. Sit down to pee, want to chop our cocks off too? Remove the urinals and i will demand unisex bathrooms so I can piss all over your seat, would you like that?
Coin^h^h^h^h Pee, 9...8...7...
don't cross the streams
Didn't anyone pay heed to the warnings of mixing water and electricity?
Zip
Pee
Zap!
Aaaargh.......
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