'25 Best Gaming Tattoos' feature won by a shmups.com user!

Klatrymadon · Post by **Klatrymadon** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 9:18 pm

http://www.thelastboss.com/post.phtml?pk=1592

Congrats, Fenrir.

Stormwatch · Post by **Stormwatch** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 9:29 pm

I agree with the person there who said this should have won instead:

sven666 · Post by **sven666** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 9:34 pm

i like the totem one (no 25).

congrats fenrir, thats a badass tattoo, i remember reading somewhere its from a FF game, i would have never guessed tho...

ofcourse i would have pwned you all had i entered with my iky tatt..

Klatrymadon · Post by **Klatrymadon** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 10:12 pm

The SotN one looks surprisingly gaudy, although this is perhaps an unfair comment given the game's impossibly delicate aesthetics, hehe.

dial911 · Post by **dial911** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 10:57 pm

Holy hell, the NES guns are fuggin hilarious

CMoon · Post by **CMoon** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 1:21 am

Are these real? Someone really has pacman on their butt?

Neon · Post by **Neon** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 1:26 am

CMoon wrote:Are these real? Someone really has pacman on their butt?

That one was the best by far!

Does anyone else get this feeling: My desire to get a tattoo is tempered by the fact that everything I like now will probably seem stupid to me in 10 years

Post by **BulletMagnet** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 2:10 am

Neon wrote:Does anyone else get this feeling: My desire to get a tattoo is tempered by the fact that everything I like now will probably seem stupid to me in 10 years

A bit of that, though for me it's mainly because I'm one of those weirdos who dislikes pain.

Davey · Post by **Davey** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 3:08 am

Neon wrote:Does anyone else get this feeling: My desire to get a tattoo is tempered by the fact that everything I like now will probably seem stupid to me in 10 years

More like 5 years, at least in my case.

Neon · Post by **Neon** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 3:18 am

BulletMagnet wrote:
Neon wrote:Does anyone else get this feeling: My desire to get a tattoo is tempered by the fact that everything I like now will probably seem stupid to me in 10 years
A bit of that, though for me it's mainly because I'm one of those girly men who dislikes pain.

https://www.marines.usmc.mil/MA/web_sit ... z_0001.jpg

Check out the look on this guy's face.

You can tell he loves tacos.

shinsage · Post by **shinsage** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 3:18 am

While some of the art is drawn well, god, those tats are just really fucking gay.

come on..
might as well get another saying Virgin 4 lyfe.

Neon · Post by **Neon** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 3:21 am

people still use gay as an insult?

I did, but then I graduated middle school

Rob · Post by **Rob** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 3:22 am

Neon wrote:Does anyone else get this feeling: My desire to get a tattoo is tempered by the fact that everything I like now will probably seem stupid to me in 10 years

For me it's thinking anything looks stupid on just about anyone. The success of Fenrir's is that it doesn't look like a gaming tattoo, isn't a "brand" (see crappy SEGA logo there), isn't some sloppy fanart version of official art, etc.

Post by **BulletMagnet** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 3:37 am

Neon wrote:
BulletMagnet wrote:
Neon wrote:Does anyone else get this feeling: My desire to get a tattoo is tempered by the fact that everything I like now will probably seem stupid to me in 10 years
A bit of that, though for me it's mainly because I'm one of those girly men who dislikes pain.
https://www.marines.usmc.mil/MA/web_sit ... z_0001.jpg

Check out the look on this guy's face.

You can tell he loves tacos.

"Pain is Stupidity Entering the Body" is more along the lines of the way I see it.

mannerbot · Post by **mannerbot** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 5:31 am

goddamn those are ugly

shinsage · Post by **shinsage** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 5:55 am

Neon wrote:people still use gay as an insult?

I can't think of anything else to describe it.
Faggish, mayhaps?

Also, which game is Fenrir's tattoo from?

Nemo · Post by **Nemo** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 7:19 am

Rob wrote: For me it's thinking anything looks stupid on just about anyone. The success of Fenrir's is that it doesn't look like a gaming tattoo, isn't a "brand" (see crappy SEGA logo there), isn't some sloppy fanart version of official art, etc.

Yeah, but it kind of defeats the purpose of getting a game tattoo that isn't "gamey" and no one can identify it, at least I can't. All of them are

though. I'm a self-proclaimed game nerd and even my first inclination is "lOlz, loser." I will admit the Gannon one is at least tolerable because it has some artistic integrity.

Neon · Post by **Neon** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 7:25 am

pac man on the ass=serious artistic integrity

that person's ass belongs in a fucking museum.

Nemo · Post by **Nemo** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 7:35 am

cigsthecat · Post by **cigsthecat** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 9:21 am

Tanooki suit Mario is easily the best. Still ugly that it's stamped on a human being, but at least it's just some dude.

Blade · Post by **Blade** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 11:38 am

The Fenrir Summon from FFVI was the best I think!

Post by **Ghegs** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 2:07 pm

Er, there might be some confusion here. It just reads "Fenrir FTW", which, y'know, is what's on the tattoo. Fenrir. Not that somebody named Fenrir is the winner. None of the other pictures had anything resembling identifying information either.

In the comments there was even a link to the gaming moment that tattoo is based on.

Herr Schatten · Post by **Herr Schatten** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 2:33 pm

Ghegs wrote:Er, there might be some confusion here. It just reads "Fenrir FTW", which, y'know, is what's on the tattoo. Fenrir. Not that somebody named Fenrir is the winner. None of the other pictures had anything resembling identifying information either.

But, coincidentally, the tattoo can be found on the back of the shmups.com forum user with the nickname "Fenrir". He talked about it in an older thread about gaming tattoos: http://shmups.system11.org/viewtopic.php?t=8664

Turrican · Post by **Turrican** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 2:36 pm

So,if he's the winner, congrats!

The Okami one wasn't half bad either!

Klatrymadon · Post by **Klatrymadon** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 6:55 pm

Not that somebody named Fenrir is the winner.

Aye, I know, but as Herr Schatten says, it is his handle on this forum.

You're the moderator, you must know him!

Post by **Ghegs** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 10:28 pm

Gah, I can't be expected to remember every single post every single user has ever made.

Oh well, good for him.

GaijinPunch · Post by **GaijinPunch** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 11:18 pm

Too bad all the old ones are interlaced.

Pixel_Outlaw · Post by **Pixel_Outlaw** » Wed Nov 22, 2006 1:44 am

Hmm I don't know, I think video game tattoos seem childish, Just my two cents. Nothing like grandpa with a sagging link on his buttocks.

PaCrappa · Post by **PaCrappa** » Wed Nov 22, 2006 5:52 am

What is it about tattoos that gets people thinking all weird. This one jumped out at me:

Pixel_Outlaw wrote:I think video game tattoos seem childish

More childish than playing videogames?

Nothing like grandpa with a sagging link on his buttocks.

Why do you look at old guys' butts? There's plenty of chick porn out there. In 34 years I've never seen my grandpa's and if he was showing it off, I wouldn't look.

He does have a dopeass navy anchor on his arm from the WWII though. I've always liked it, wrinkly or no.

Pa

Dale · Post by **Dale** » Wed Nov 22, 2006 8:56 pm

PaCrappa wrote:
Pixel_Outlaw wrote:I think video game tattoos seem childish
More childish than playing videogames?
Pa

What makes them more childish then watching a movie or tv show. Video games take more effort and brain power then doing ether of those things and people don't find them childish so why do people think games are so childish?

I think it may be because the older generation looks down on it and can't understand it,or they just see it as something that kid's tend to seem to do more then adults.