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Gamer goes 3DS gaga with AR card tattoo

Indelible reality

Nintendo's AR cards, which trigger the augmented reality functions on the 3DS, have had their fare share of custom implementations. We've seen the design reprinted on t-shirts, drawn on blackboards, even scaled up to the size of a tennis court.

Now, one shameless net-nerd has taken it a step further and made the AR card a permanent feature on the inside of his wrist, a tattoo he may yet come to regret.

Nintendo 3DS AR Card Tattoo

While 'Cranberryzero' succeeds in getting a Mii to appear on his arm, attempts to play AR games are less successful. He also reminds us that no matter how low we sink in our perennial quest for self-humiliation, there's always someone willing to hit new extremes in exchange for a few thousand YouTube hits.

In other body-art blunder news, factory worker Stephen Nesbitt has shown The Sun his "Good Luck William and Kate" tattoo, which features the wrong date courtesy of a tattooist faux pas. As I was saying, there's always someone... ®

Felt-tip pen

would have worked, and be less permanant

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Since he is filming it over a hand basin

I think perhaps Felt tip pen did the job but was likely to get a lot less youtube hits.

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Idiots abound.

I'm just sayin' ...

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And?

God forbid the guy put a tattoo on him that he thinks is cool. I've seen tattoos of garden gnomes, human organs, R2D2, and even the Cheetos Cheetah. So what if this one person has that particular tattoo? Im sure he's happy with it and won't feel bad when the 3DS dies and he moves on to something else.

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Anonymous Coward

Felt-tip pen

According to the commentards everything on YouTube is "fake and gay".

So I guess it doesn't really matter a great deal.

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