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  • Dralite, on 05/03/2008, -154/+58WHOCKA WHOCKA WHOCKA WHOCKA WHOCKA WHOCKA WHOCKA WHOCKA WHOCKA WHOCKA WHOCKA WHOCKA WHOCKA WHOCKA WHOCKA WHOCKA WHOCKA WHOCKA WHOCKA WHOCKA WHOCKA WHOCKA WHOCKA WHOCKA WHOCKA WHOCKA WHOCKA WHOCKA WHOCKA WHOCKA WHOCKA WHOCKA WHOCKA WHOCKA WHOCKA WHOCKA ... BEOH,BeoH, beoh

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  • theotheragentm, on 05/03/2008, -41/+15The pills should look like round pellets. What about the fruit and the key?
    • rentmitchum, on 05/03/2008, -1/+13Gotta get hungry sometime, and when you're that paranoid I imagine you'd lock your food up.
    • NikoKun, on 05/03/2008, -1/+8Just consider them part of a story yet untold? XD
  • AskaGenius, on 05/03/2008, -8/+324The should have added a fruit basket or something.
  • Lith25, on 05/03/2008, -11/+192http://drugsinspace.ytmnd.com/
    • aalbass, on 05/03/2008, -10/+0LOL
    • BlueStarr, on 05/03/2008, -12/+1Name of that song?
      • Culyt, on 05/03/2008, -1/+18Umm the pac man theme song? Overlayed with dark ambient trance?
      • jeremymccurdy, on 05/04/2008, -1/+2It's called annoying.
      • BlueStarr, on 05/04/2008, -0/+2I know it's the pac man song. I want the trance song. drop some xtc and roll all night.
    • dheaddy, on 05/03/2008, -0/+9You beat me to it, I've got this on my favs on ytmnd for the trippy music alone
    • Abennobashi, on 05/03/2008, -7/+1holy ***** why would you do tht in my current state of *****
      • dudeguy1234, on 05/03/2008, -2/+8Make sense please, kthxbai
        -The Internet
    • NeilJ, on 05/03/2008, -1/+38A funny quote between the correlation of video games and rave parties:
      "Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music."
      • j0etb, on 05/03/2008, -0/+3I recognise that quote - think it was in Edge once. Who said it?
        • MonkCanatella, on 05/03/2008, -2/+1George Carlin?
        • calum187, on 05/03/2008, -0/+4Marcus Brigstocke. Brilliant comedian, perhaps best known for 'The Late Edition', Britain's equivalent of The Daily Show (but on BBC Four and shown weekly)
        • flyingcatcircus, on 05/04/2008, -0/+1I like him on "The Now Show"
      • sexybobo, on 05/04/2008, -0/+6Ever been to a rave?
  • robomixx, on 05/03/2008, -5/+539Ive seen this image dozens of times, and this is the first time I ever noticed its pacman, boy do i feel stuipd
    • MetaMars, on 05/03/2008, -2/+261I own the shirt, and I didn't realize it was pacman. >_
      • doshindude, on 05/03/2008, -0/+97I wonder what else you own that you don't know about...
        • andyroo316, on 05/03/2008, -4/+60A brain?
        • drpleau, on 05/03/2008, -35/+3A penis is not made for masturbating; stop killing kittens!
          • nickbarber, on 05/03/2008, -1/+58buried as inaccurate
          • CCoe, on 05/03/2008, -16/+4I'm going to go masturbate now. I so call this comment to remain at +1 diggs because of the counter balancing of 1. too much information and 2. mocking an idiot.
        • ThatsPopetastic, on 05/05/2008, -0/+3Herpes perhaps.
      • BlueStarr, on 05/03/2008, -0/+28Link to buy shirt please! Thanks.
      • CurlyMike139125, on 05/03/2008, -2/+16Why did you buy the shirt if you didn't get the joke?!?!?
      • kss42, on 05/03/2008, -1/+30I drew this cartoon, invented the game, posted the image, and applied for extended multinational copyrights on the Pacman Artist's Rendering Astronaut Pill Image and didn't realize it was Pacman.
      • univerio, on 05/04/2008, -0/+1Where's your other eye?
    • Yetisquatch, on 05/03/2008, -0/+25Seriously! Ive seen this still version and the flashing version and thought it was just some random image that looked cool. Now it all makes sense and just became awesome.
    • Kevunism, on 05/04/2008, -1/+2Dugg for your spelling of stupid
      • Skeith3294, on 05/04/2008, -0/+1Didn't even notice that! Good catch.
  • AManWithNoName, on 05/03/2008, -23/+55So Pacman is a spaceman who takes too many drugs and starts seeing ghosts? It all makes sense now!
    • fpaudon, on 05/03/2008, -0/+132I think it means that Pacman is popping pills to escape his demons. Never though Pacman was that deep
      • directedition, on 05/04/2008, -0/+3I see a new video game movie idea.
        • SpyDerMann, on 05/04/2008, -0/+4Introduction by Don Lafontaine:

          "In an outpost ... in the edge of space...
          One man... has to fight... his inner demons.
          This summer...
          PACMAN - Terror in space!

          An Uwe Boll production."
    • BoneheadFarker, on 05/03/2008, -0/+9What do you think all the dark scenery and electronic music was all about?
    • Hobbes24, on 05/03/2008, -1/+51i'm thinking pacman was responsible for some kind of accident that killed 4 of his shipmates, and he now tries desperately to flee their ghosts, and takes anti-depressants to keep himself from committing suicide.
      • AgentMull, on 05/03/2008, -2/+7With fruit.
        • NotOptium, on 05/03/2008, -0/+16Well they can't be taken on an empty stomach.
        • AlgnPelotudo, on 05/04/2008, -0/+1he could use a tiger to protect himself from the fruit.
      • PHiZ187, on 05/03/2008, -0/+4And when he eats the power pills, it gives him the power/ability/strength to confront (eat) his demons. But they don't go away forever, just for a little while...
      • nynety, on 05/04/2008, -1/+1Shouldn't there be an albatross around his neck?
    • megamod, on 05/03/2008, -11/+8I didn't see why this was so funny and entertaining to everyone thanks for your insight...I guess I kinda get it now? Still don't see what's so great about it though.
      • expert01, on 05/04/2008, -3/+8Kudos for posting without fear on the internet. Though you may receive a reply screaming at you in capital letters, or someone may discover where you live and post your life everywhere so you become a target of sodomizing rapists with humongous *****, you have the guts to say what you think. Because, after all, your opinion is every bit as valid as everyone else's.

        No matter how wrong it may be.
      • nattybohman, on 05/04/2008, -0/+3I'm in total agreement megamod. It's so puzzling to me that I've spent ten minutes reading all of the comments to try to nail down why people seem to think this is so cool.
        After reading the comments, I think I get all of it's better points, but still don't see the big deal. I'm even a big fan of Pac-man and don't see it.
  • lucidguru, on 05/03/2008, -1/+223So what are the big pills then that make the ghost turn blue and let pacman eat them? Are those Uppers? Downers? Hallucinogens?
    • leetninja, on 05/03/2008, -10/+2thats when he OD's on the pills and has a fit of rage ... duh!
    • oxdeltaxo, on 05/03/2008, -5/+108Anti-Psychotics, which allow pac man to over come his irrational fear of the ghosts.
    • andyroo316, on 05/03/2008, -12/+2Nope. That's just one toke too many and the start of the munchies!
    • twinklyJesus, on 05/03/2008, -6/+2'Luudes.
    • Bilabrin, on 05/04/2008, -2/+3PCP
    • bloodymad, on 05/04/2008, -0/+5We know Major Tom's a junkie.
    • darkciti2, on 06/26/2008, -0/+1Those pills are Ecstasy. He's just trying to give them hugs, but since they're evil ghosts they can't handle the love and they disappear - only to come back at a higher level.
  • R031E5, on 05/03/2008, -32/+361Ready?... OMNOMNOMNOMNOM
  • WaxenPith, on 05/03/2008, -8/+1Whoa.
  • mentallyinhell, on 05/03/2008, -3/+203Somebody make this game. NOW!!!
    • oxdeltaxo, on 05/03/2008, -0/+54If you go for more than a half hour without finding the pills, the game simulates psychosis and the ghosts come after you. I can see a whole new fps outta this.
      • Tayls, on 05/04/2008, -0/+2Eternal Darkness in space...but with pills! Brilliant!
    • Pritchard, on 05/03/2008, -11/+2There's free pacman on the internet somewhere.
      • BruceAnderson, on 05/03/2008, -1/+9Thanks, but I'm looking for some of this free Tibet everyone's talking about.
    • mozert, on 05/04/2008, -0/+5Awaiting pac-man the film.
    • Anonchrist, on 05/04/2008, -0/+3I am thinking about it as we speak.
    • reddog093, on 05/04/2008, -0/+2Patent Pending - ™
    • HisTumness, on 05/04/2008, -3/+2They already made this game over 20 years ago. It's called Pac-Man. Haven't you been paying attention?
  • LimeParrot, on 05/03/2008, -1/+79Hmm. So Ghostbusters is really just... Pacman 2.

    =O
  • SmellyFingers, on 05/03/2008, -0/+45Anytime I play Pac-Man now, I'll think he's chomping on Xanax.
  • whiteknives, on 05/03/2008, -1/+157Hurry internets. Find me the shirt of this so I can spend my tax return faster!
  • ichbeineinrcg, on 05/03/2008, -0/+59Every game deserves a good back story. I now patiently await the explanation behind Pong, Pitfall, DigDug, and Snakes.
    • jamdogg, on 05/03/2008, -0/+7DigDug!!...you caused me to flashback to a 386 with black and white EGA monitor.
      • yourkarma, on 05/03/2008, -0/+7ah.. EGA is the enhanced graphics adapter/array, and that was colorful. its predecesor, CGA, was the color graphics adapter/array, and that too was colorful. this was preceded by MDA, the monochrome display adapter/array and Hercules adapters.
    • MrModest, on 05/04/2008, -1/+1Pitfall has a pretty involved back story (for the time). I don't remember what it is, but it has one.
    • moocow1452, on 05/04/2008, -0/+6What about Minesweeper?
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHY8NKj3RKs
    • moocow1452, on 05/04/2008, -0/+1Tac-On: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWL6j0SvqV0&feature ...

      Pacman: The movie!
    • Spoomeister, on 05/04/2008, -1/+1Dig Dug is gay male porn.
      Discuss.
    • darkciti2, on 06/26/2008, -0/+1Allow me,

      Pong: there is a winner and a loser

      Pitfall: life can really suck if you don't plan and wind up in a jungle without a gun

      DigDug: get a decent education so you don't become a coal miner

      Snakes: if a snake talks avoid it and all people that also believe it spoke (particularly in the "garden of eden" or similar nonsense)
  • slimjim5811, on 05/03/2008, -2/+26This "Spooky Space Kook" is from an episode of Scooby Doo...coincidence?
    http://scoobyfiles.toonzone.net/mysteriesinc/galle ...
    • OodlesOnoodles, on 05/03/2008, -0/+12I just thought about how much better cartoons were drawn back then, and how much more thought was put into them.
      • Syric, on 05/04/2008, -0/+4If by better you mean not coloring the whites of their eyes white, and leaving them flesh-colored?
        /pet peeve
    • dudeguy1234, on 05/03/2008, -1/+3You decide!
    • wondertwins, on 05/03/2008, -0/+4omfg. The spooky Space Kook. i ***** remember this episode. The monster used to scare the ***** out of me. However, Scooby and the gang found out the real person behind the mask.
    • Gregbrown, on 05/03/2008, -5/+1Hmmm... something funny about that shadow.
      http://scoobyfiles.toonzone.net/mysteriesinc/galle ...
  • Unriggable, on 05/03/2008, -4/+4Yep, valid explanation.
  • brendanryder, on 05/03/2008, -2/+80its a tshirt from threadless.com
    http://www.threadless.com/product/751/The_Madness_ ...
  • melonade, on 05/03/2008, -12/+33Hmm.. looks familiar.
    http://www.threadless.com/product/751/The_Madness_ ...
  • attd, on 05/03/2008, -0/+5Whoa... Like my life. Need to eat more cherries.
  • lurbzdaemon, on 05/03/2008, -23/+3Buried as lame.
    • bakagaigin, on 05/03/2008, -0/+3k
    • xanadont, on 05/03/2008, -0/+2Hater
    • Natnie, on 05/03/2008, -1/+2Oh, silly me. I thought it wasn't.
    • JudgeMonkey, on 05/03/2008, -0/+1Buried as undead astronauts.
    • TheDaveBoy, on 05/04/2008, -0/+3Then ***** bury it as lame you ***** stabber. If everyone posted "dugg with the thumbs up" for the story there would be 4000 more useless comments.
  • DannySpace, on 05/03/2008, -2/+8Ahhh, an impulsive artist inspired by late night watchings of Scooby-Doo and Venture Bros.
  • toxicityj, on 05/03/2008, -1/+27why does he have the atari logo on his arm? Pacman was namco...
    • eddie72, on 05/03/2008, -0/+13Probably played it on Atari 2600 and thought it was from Atari.
    • FluentinSarcasm, on 05/03/2008, -1/+2It was a game that was playable on the Atari...
      • toxicityj, on 05/03/2008, -0/+11we don't talk about that though. That which won't be named helped cause the great video game crash...
      • Cyber_Akuma, on 05/03/2008, -8/+1Atari on the 2600 was terrible
      • chaosblade77, on 07/01/2008, -0/+0I'm reminded of all those copies of ET buried out in New Mexico.
    • AyaJulia, on 05/03/2008, -0/+16If you click the links to buy the shirt above, the designer said he knew it was Namco, but Atari's logo is much more futuristic while Namco's is just... you know... the word Namco.
  • stavrogin2, on 05/03/2008, -2/+57Uwe Boll would make this movie.
    • dartmanx, on 05/03/2008, -0/+34Badly.
    • Intamin, on 05/03/2008, -0/+7Yep, I was thinking more like "Uwe Boll would ruin this movie."
      • dartmanx, on 05/04/2008, -0/+7Uwe Boll would make a movie about how he ruins movies, if someone paid him to.
        • Karmavs, on 05/04/2008, -0/+4He'd ruin it.
        • AzureRise, on 05/04/2008, -0/+1He'd ruin it with his genius that no one understands! Haven't you heard? He's the only genius left in hollywood! It's got to be true, he told me himself!
  • Shawing, on 05/03/2008, -1/+13I own this shirt. Only two people have ever figured it out without me explaining it.
    • matschig, on 05/03/2008, -0/+16And how many people have seen it altogether?
    • chrissku, on 05/03/2008, -6/+1Where can I buy this shirt online? Does anybody have a link they could provide?
  • NeelxSarkar, on 05/03/2008, -13/+3This pwns that image.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWL6j0SvqV0
  • crazyjake, on 05/03/2008, -0/+6that just raises so many other questions....
  • Coolmatt49, on 05/03/2008, -15/+13They should make that into a T-Shirt.
  • AbsurdParadox, on 05/03/2008, -3/+8Dugg for Goonfleet!
  • joshzam, on 05/03/2008, -0/+96Here is the actual explanation, from the artist himself:
    http://www.threadless.com/profile/83893/travis76/b ...
    • hammburglar, on 05/03/2008, -0/+13damnit i wish that story was real. its so awesome.
  • nylock10, on 05/03/2008, -8/+3Reminds me of Scooby Doo, doesn't it?
    • def1234, on 05/03/2008, -3/+4We don't know. Does it?
      • nylock10, on 05/03/2008, -2/+3The faces of the ghosts remind me of Scooby Doo ghosts...
  • Johnichi, on 05/03/2008, -2/+3I love threadless.com
  • AndrewDB, on 05/03/2008, -9/+3http://www.threadless.com/product/751/The_Madness_ ... and http://www.zom-bot.com/

    The original artist's page and the threadless tshirt where the person stole this from.
    • Nerfdude, on 05/03/2008, -3/+10posting articles on digg is stealing now?
    • eggdog14, on 05/03/2008, -0/+3ha, i was actually just thinking "wow this would be a sweet T-shirt"
    • ParticleMan420, on 05/03/2008, -2/+6thank god the internet police are here!
      i was getting scared
  • funktimus, on 05/03/2008, -0/+27I wonder if Ms. Pacman is really a woman now, or just pac-man's brother who had his fair share of pill-popping, fried his brain, and now wears lipstick and a little bow on his head.
  • sevenslashfour, on 05/03/2008, -0/+7It makes even less sense now.
  • durant0s, on 05/03/2008, -4/+2Art can usually explain anything if you just open yourself up to it, nice piece here.
    • bewareofmoose, on 05/04/2008, -0/+1True. Condescending, but true.
  • sonicularulus, on 05/03/2008, -11/+6this would make a cool t-shirt.
  • AppleGeorge, on 05/03/2008, -0/+1Okay, now they need to explain Pacman World.
  • utahnkid, on 05/03/2008, -2/+96From the artist:

    "True story:
    In 1976, Cosmonaut Nikolai Peckmann was sent alone to an orbiting space station for what would be called Mission Six- to study the radiation levels and strange circumstances that killed all four crewmen of the last research mission.
    By the third day, Peckmann's broken transmissions were coming back to ground control filled with increasing paranoia and delusion. He claimed that the spirits of the dead cosmonauts were coming to claim him, and that he had to keep moving to evade them. He shouted that if he could capture consume these spirits himself while he still had strength, he could move to the next level of consciousness...Truly the rantings of an insane man.
    Indeed, video recovered later would show Peckmann running around the confined but maze-like station, downing emergency sedatives like a madman....pausing in a corner momentarily, only to throw back vitamin pills and give chase to his invisible demons.
    He had exhausted the entire cargo of vitamins, pills, and fresh fruit well ahead of schedule. There was no way another crew could be assembled to rescue him before he starved. After one rather violently garbled transmission, the static cleared and the last live image on record is that of Peckmann's empty, wilted spacesuit on the cabin floor.
    It was determined that another mission to recover any remains or gather any more research would be a waste of the people's money, and the station was allowed to drift out of orbit and into space- a failure never to be mentioned again. It was ordered and assumed that all video and paper evidence had been destroyed."
    • Skod, on 05/03/2008, -4/+32"..then, at the dawn of the eighties, a fledgling arcade game company called NAMCO would stumble across the transcripts of these events, and the rest -as they say- is history.

      okay i just made all that crap up, but with or without a story, I hope it's a cool design."

      opps, did I break it?
      • utahnkid, on 05/03/2008, -4/+17Who's gonna believe it now?? Jeez.. I didn't include that part for a reason.
      • dudeguy1234, on 05/03/2008, -7/+1C-C-C-C-COMBO BRRREEAAAAKKKERRRRRR
        • MonkCanatella, on 05/03/2008, -0/+12How did you even think that that would work?
    • CrushThemTorg, on 05/03/2008, -0/+7What about the pretzel?
    • SilverSeraph, on 05/04/2008, -0/+1...Now this explains the "Pac-Man, Explained"!
    • darkciti2, on 06/26/2008, -0/+1NamCo was actually an intelligence brass plate company. It was code for National Aerospace Martian exploration COrporation (or NAMCO for short).
      :)
  • Kali075, on 05/03/2008, -0/+6Awesome
    Explains everything but the cherries
  • Ultrace, on 05/03/2008, -1/+6Could also in a pinch be considered for the classic puzzle game Scarabaeus...
    http://www.c64-wiki.de/index.php/Scarabaeus

    ...yeah, okay, so no one else has heard of it. Fine.
  • tripledjr, on 05/03/2008, -0/+28"6 Pac"
    I see what they did there.
  • robbins85, on 05/03/2008, -6/+1I...uhhh...don't get it.
  • MikeonTV, on 05/03/2008, -8/+3Nom Nom
  • Infowarmachine, on 05/03/2008, -1/+12well then how do you explain ms pacman?

    • yuhwei, on 05/03/2008, -0/+2His wife.
    • dudeguy1234, on 05/03/2008, -0/+7It was actually his hand. ZING!
    • aelias, on 05/03/2008, -0/+2Even crazyheads get married, silly. Don't you remember when they met? The music? The kissing? She was probably the one who drove him to therapy.
  • mKdiR, on 05/03/2008, -3/+2Goons suck.
  • aptanalogy, on 05/03/2008, -1/+9Well then, two questions come to mind:
    1) Is the astronaut guy actually being attacked by the ghosts of other astronauts or is he supposed to be hallucinating?
    2) What would the power pills do? If the pills turn them all blue, then wouldn't it stand to reason that they were supposed to be illusions? Unless, that is, he can convince the attacking ghosts that the pills give him some sort of powers, and so they run away. Then it would make perfect sense. Unless we're all wrong and they're thetans, or he's a ghost already and doesn't know it, or he's not really pacman at all and none of that is happening, and he's some guy dreaming of people who he's wronged in his past.
    • blagoaw, on 05/03/2008, -2/+8It's lonely out in space on such a timeless flight, and I think it's gonna be a long long time till touch down brings him round again to find he's not the man they think he is at home. burning out his fuse up there alone. And all this science he doesn't understand.. It's just his job five days a week.. pacman.
    • DocCochran, on 05/03/2008, -0/+6IThe obvious thing (at least to me) was that he hallucinates about the ghosts of his fallen comrades and the anti-anxiety pills are the pellets that turn them blue so that he can defeat them. Except he has to keep popping pills or else the "ghosts" return. When they catch him he probably commits suicide or something.
  • LZeppelinJ0, on 05/03/2008, -8/+3Wokka wokka... Who wants to hear a funny-ass joke?
  • pigducksheep, on 05/03/2008, -7/+2threadless
  • FriniK, on 05/03/2008, -3/+1thats not pacman...this is pacman! http://www.bestylin.com/tshirt/2/ ...ok well its not pacman perse...but close enough

  • MoistVonLipwig, on 05/03/2008, -5/+0Sucks
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