This is one of those stories you can file under "JESUS TITTING CHRIST!" A teenage boy has used a laser-etching machine to "brand" himself with an image of Pac-Man, burning the iconic arcade character into his skin.
The self-scourging Pac-Man fan modified an industrial etching machine to perform the dangerous deed, disabling its safety mechanism with a die and a magnet. He then used its searing hot laser to scar the image into his arm. He also "tattooed" a Space Invader on the arm and a robot on his hand, one that looks suspiciously like a relative of our very own Mr. Destructoid.
Naturally, as with all young men who do stupid things, he filmed his escapades, and the video is embedded after the jump. It might not be for the squeamish among you, as it's quite painful to watch, both for the physical pain, and the outright lack of intelligence displayed.
He's laughing now of course, but we'll see how funny it is when that Pac-Man design gets distorted ... from all the tumors bubbling up underneath it.
[Cheers, Rorschach]
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Wow, this makes me a sad panda. Stupid kids.
What.....
The.....
Fuck.....
Pac Man will eat the cancer bubbles, it's all good!
why are the dots lighter than the pac or the ghost?
That's hardcore
YOU ARE STUPID STUPID MAN
I just ask....
WHY?
O_O
That's it. I officially hate this stupid "hipster-douche bag" generation. If he was so "hardcore", he should have gotten that design by scarification.
anyone know the name of the song being played?
@Shin Oni:
Beastie boys - Intergalatic
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but, umm... yeah there are these things called tattoos they're safe and don't involve any harmful long term effects like cancer (small chance of AIDS but it depends where you go to >_>)
the video: cool and stupid at the same time (i facepalm'd)
Beastie Boys - Intergalactic (I think)
huge song like eight years ago.
THE BEASTIE BOYS - INTERGALACTIC.
Haha, a kid burns Pac-Man into his damn arm, and all we can talk about is the music he used. :-D
awesome. thanks much for the song response.
i'm still at a loss why you'd use a unmanned laser over a tattoo parlor. But then again, i'm not stupid and dumb all in one.
Wow, that's crazy.
Also I think that the robot is the instructables mascot.
Imagine if he had used that same energy and will-power into doing something productive, we might instead have a cure for the cancer he is assuredly causing!
"Ladies and Gentlemen, I would like to introduce you to the next President of the United States of America..."
good job instructibles, that's why you don't give laser etching machines to kids (they give them away in monthly contests)
Hope he posts a 2 days later picture when the burns are all scabbed over and are oozing puss =D
why couldn't this kid have hung himself instead of the wii kid?
Man I want one of those machines NOW!!! I can tatoo something in my penis...
"JESUS TITTING CHRIST!" has this phrase ever been uttered before?
and dumb kid is dumb
If this was truly hurting and burning the kid, he would pull his hand before you could say "DIAF". So, yeah, this is likely not to hurt (that much).
Jim, little tip: dice is the plural of die.
When I was a kid we had to use safety pins and homemade ink to give each other tattoos. Kids these days have it too easy.
THIS KID IS WICKED COOL!
He will never ever regret this.
that is dumb, but not that much dumber than dummies getting dumb tattoos
in closing, dumb.
Wait why are people down on this kid? I think this stuff is brilliant. But I guess I signed the diablo 3 petition so go figure...
That doesn't look like it hurts any more than a tattoo, so I'm not impressed. Then again my tattoo didn't really hurt a lot (either that or I'm not a wuss) so who knows?
That looks amazing and utterly retarded at once!
Both awesome and incredibly stupid.
But the real cool kids just cut off their hands and wear them like a necklace. Sure, you can never experience the joy of fingers again, but that is a small price to pay to be balls fucking hardcore.
being a lover of pain and tattoos...
that looks like FUN!!!
I dunno, if there becomes a way for this to be proven safe, or in the least no worse than an actual tattoo, those kids might be on to something. I mean, I could see this gaining a lot of popularity.
I wouldn't do it, but I sure know some people that would.
Ive never understood the appeal of branding, if this even qualifies as branding.
"hey check out this unrecognizable blotch of scar tissue i got. i live for pain!"
Now thats stupid... Kids like this one need help now.
Dumb yet awesome. You gotta admit, even if that's stupid, it takes balls to do it.
That was probably pain then a tattoo, well i don't know but it seems very painful not moving at all. I thought he would bleed also or probably leave a major bruise.
@darkair
I don't understand your sentence structure.
To me this looks like it's only burning or etching or whatever through the top layer of skin. This is why the skin around it is red, but there is no bleeding. So while it may have hurt, I dont think it would hurt anymore than someone digging their nails into your skin.
Man, if the kid doesn't get Cancer, then it was awesome.
If he does, then epic fail.
I wonder how long that shit'll last, like will his body just heal it up all funky and weird looking.
HAI GAIS! TAHT GAI IN TEH VIDJO WAS ME, I TATTOOED MISTAR DESTRUCTOID TO IMPRESS U! U LIEK IT!?
Hah! Its stupidity that will punish itself at leat.
Because one stupid fucking mistake woudn't be enough, lets do both arms and the back of a hand. Enjoy your infections and your wonderful future in unskilled labour (as a self-identified and labeled idiot, who would hire him for anything more?).
hmmmmm y friggin pacman and space invaders tho? clearly this machine does well with 8-bit characters. so y not megaman? or a little contra guy making it's way up his arm in a full done part of level 1 now that would've been hardcore. pacman is too retro for this kid and he probably don't even know what atari is.
"why are the dots lighter than the pac or the ghost?"
The darker/grey etched parts are scarring, the pale pink dits are where the top layers of skin have come off.
That robot is a graphic from Instructables
Looks like Mr Destructoid's obese nerdy cousin :)
Why no edit comment ;_;. Dits = Dots.
And I believe the correct term is JESUS TITTY-FUCKING CHRIST.
I guess a tattoo would require being a certain age and £££. This is free!
Also, What a twat.
Used to work for a place that made the tubes for these lasers. I've seen test units burn a hole through a cinderblock. Wonder what it would've done to my forearm.
I'm feeling this is cool... at the same time i feel Confused
Some days I think the there is hope for the human race, today is not one of those days.
That's going to take alot of power pellets to fix.
Whashoo doin stupid
In all fairness I've got one of those dumb lighter smiley faces. I don't recall it hurting as much as a tattoo. At least not at first.
Silly ginger.
I don't think it's that bad, if he would have gotten in as a straight tattoo no one would have gived a damn but since it's all Star Wars lasers and shit, people care.
"Damian Maguire of Gold Coast writes:
When I was young I burned a "smiley"face into my arm with a cigarette lighter. The same silly thing just 21st century."
It was painful to watch, but now he has a flesh-coloured Pac-Man chasing a flesh-coloured ghost.
Everyone and their mother has a tattoo, if you want to get something cool you need to charge your larzars.
@ Jim Sterling;
I spent most of time I read on the article and comments laughing my head off from the last paragraph. XOD
Yes, it is both cool and stupid.
I like how you can see his skin, literally, BURN, when it does the pac man close-up.
Now what would be really cool is if he were to etch stuff onto his eyes!!! :P
I think it rocks, I've hard scarification done on the back of my right tricep this really isn't all that different, the scarification I had done was with a electric arc I also have a round branding on my right forearm from a small super heated coin with a design cut into it. Both hurt like hell but I don't see how this is all that crazy, a lot of people brand themselves
Why not just get a normal tattoo guys? jeez
That's awesome if he doesn't get cancer.
That is way OTT.
bleh, made me a little sick, watching his flesh BURN
Don't try this with your bubblejet printer, and all you get is a big mess, and a frown.
What a fool - as he ages, that picture is going to become distorted. His skin will also probably try to heal over it, which will further distort it. I'd be surprised if the picture remains intelligible after 5 or 10 years.
If he wanted it so badly, why not get a tattoo? Boggles the mind really. A tattoo would be more permanent, and more visible.
It just doesn't make sense. Really. It's like those kids who throw themselves down stairs and film it. It's just another example of how there is no limit to what humans will do to themselves. Rather sad to see.
The laser is not going to give him cancer.
But he's not realling branding himself, just giving himself a partial thickness burn.
I'm reminded of that scene from Starship Troopers when Dude was getting his laser tattoo. Maybe these guys saw that movie too.
What I'm wondering is how the hell these kids got their hands on this peice of equipment. Stuff like that ain't cheap, and if that were my machine someone would be getting fired and everyone else would be forced to sit through a barage of safty meetings.
Whats the big deal? It's only a laser, last time I checked, they weren't magic tumor generators. It burns, it's not radioactive or DNA altering.
Kids going to have a hell of a burn, his skin will swell and it will look dumb. If he's lucky after 5 or 6 years you'll barely be able to see the smooth scar tissue
holy....fuck.
Fucking idiot. Too cheap to get a real tattoo?
I believe that's the instructables.com robot.
I believe your right.
THOSE ARE HORRIBLE FRECKLES BURNNN,wait... NOOO MUDKIP, EXTINGUISH!
I think it looks good.
it looks a lot faster then getting a tattoo...
my tattoo kinda hurt, but i didn't feel the need to scream from it like this kid did in the beginning... I'm just curious if this isn't burning too deep? as in fry several centimeters of his skin? Also since he's burning his skin, I supposed there will be healthy pusbubbles on it by now, probably destroying the whole design resulting in sever pain and discomfort common to burnvictims and leaving a scar that won't go...
At least it's only scar tissue and can be cared for by a good demotologist.
Folks with tats gotta pay a ton to get their stuff removed. My buddy ended up paying just over $10,000 in laser treatments to get his $500 mistake removed.
Holy crap this kid is messed up. What an emo.
Why.....why would you do this.
Wow. That can not be good for your body...
I'm charging my lazors right now!
So how the hell is a 808nm laser going to cause cancer ?
When I grow up I want to be a fire engine and have lasered on tattoo's like this guy; my hero.