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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...
..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.
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.
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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.
Quality of play will be piss-poor.
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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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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.
DO NOT EAT THE POWER PILL.
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I tried. It gave me no bonuses. It just made me feel kinda weird. Didn't taste like a mint either.
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!"
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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.
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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
Man, it's a bad day to be my wife. I've got to get one of those.
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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.
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when asking about the latest "P2P" technology.
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It doesn't take a whiz to see that this video game will soon become number one.
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."
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. :-|
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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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.
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