• I can't honestly believe someone would do that to their arm. Poor kids going to regret that later in life.

• Looks retarded. But is it really all that worse than nipple piercings, dick piercings, clit piercings, and then the people who chain the piercings together? People who are tattood from head to toe? Sadly, physical disfigurment will probably be the new trend and everyone will have all kinds of shapes going on. Cone heads, cones out of your face, lumps..etc. Silly kinds of things that kids who were neglected and sexually abused grow up to do.

• Therewolf!

• I would comment, in that case, that you should really associate yourself with better shops. It's not the norm, and most shops, the ones I choose to work with at least, have a commitment to quality, educated work and care.

• Used to work in a shop. You'd be amazed at what goes when the pay is high, the staff don't care and the clients are dumb rich college kids. Most certs can be bought for a few hundred dollars after attending afternoon seminars. Case in point: I watched two apprentices take turns burning each other with a derm laser the shop had just bought online without reading the manual just to see 'how it worked' then almost used it on a client later that afternoon. Luckily the owner came in a fired them almost immediately.

• Your comment shows a complete lack of education. The most training most piercers get? Good ones? Is high level medical training through the APP. http://www.safepiercing.org/ Education. It's a beautiful thing. You're the uneducated one here, it would seem.

• It's rather disappointing to see a self proclaimed nerd, and frequent social reject mocking and judging other people for their decisions. I mean, really, forced sterilization? Grow up. As someone else commented, the implants are entirely removable, and realistically, so are tattoos. Knowing quite a few of the people in the country doing implants, they're not "in it for the money." It's an art form that goes back thousands, and thousands of years, and those of us with major modification like that generally did not do it "to be different." Many of us are decorating and *gasp* modifying our bodies to suit our images of ourselves. Your childish judgement shows just that...your childishness. Again, grow up, grow some maturity, and accept that, just like you, all you nerds, geeks, and social losers, outcasts, and rejects, there are people out there that are -different- from you. Perhaps you should seek some education rather than just judging. Isn't that what you would want people to do for you?

• You start counting in inches or fractions there of, that's when they get big.

• Sadly, I have seen worse. About a month ago I saw a site about body mods. It seems there are guys out there that have split thier penis either on just the botton or all the way down to the base till it is in two and "bolt" them back together. Kind of makes this guy seem tame. Atleast, with enough money, this guy could get the implants removed and the tats lasered off, but a bifrocated penis, well....

• I'm only vaguely familiar with the numbers for sizes of gauging, and I knew they were huge. That was the largest size I could remember.

• If he has double zero gauges it would be hard to fit an index finger through them, let alone your hand. Double zero isn't really all that big.

• He has a huge stitched up scar coming. Also he can never lean on a table again. I guess his mom will be proud as long as he looses the Hitler stash.

• I don't remember something like that happening. Why happen now?

• see, it's stupidity like THIS that gives us nerds a bad name! can someone call a Mandalorian bounty hunter and get this guy axed? I'll make it worth your while!

• Half of me is going, "Why couldn't he have tattoed Materia on his arm, that would have made more sense." SHOOT ME NOW.

• THIS is the kind of irredeemably stupid mother fucking shit that makes me think I should be wishing for the sun to go supernova.

• That mofo is a f'n retard!

• congratulations you are the winner of the 2011 idiot award

• well just you wait till you have a horrible arm injury and the ER folks tell you they have to do extra surgery just to make sure your arm is properly mended.....

• I know at my work place you can have tattoos but you have to cover them up when you are working or they will not hire you.....

• It must be getting increasingly difficult to for people to disappoint their parents these days.

• This would be insanely awesome.

• talk about true devotion to pokemon to go through all that trouble and pain not to mention make the tattoo three d bet the hard ware to do so must have hurt more then when the tattoo was going on . at least the balls do not open and show pokemon characters popping out .

• denizens of the netherworld who have a thing for bodily mutilation.

• Can't get anesthetic (legally) or antibiotics, until it's 'too late'. The most training the average worker in body shops have is in sterilizing tools and work spaces and working 'blood safe' NO useful medical training beyond what you could get from a YMCA first aid course. Full body russian roulette.

• common i meant.

• maybe but its more come to get a large set on your chest.

• OH GOD OH GOD OH GOD. I'm going to have nightmares now.

• Now thats just silly. I mean, Rob has one of Lum and look how he turned out?

• don't worry, with any luck the ensuing infection will kill him off.

• God, that's stupid. I'm mostly down with body-mods but this is fucking ridiculous.

• if i had wacky wall walkers on my arm how many people would remember what they are?

• They also must be done without (legal) anesthetic due to the need for a license, certificate and access to controlled substances. So you have to REALLY want implants and have a shit ton of pain tolerance.

• Don't worry I think he did it himself. I mean I'm pretty open to whatever, but who would agree to bang that?

• It looks like he inserted anal beads in his arm! How embarrassing... I lulz'd.

• I'm waiting for mec.

• Talking about implants "growing out" is the worst thing anyone has ever said, ever. I doubt I will ever, ever, EVER stop cringing.

• THAT'S WHAT I WAS THINKING. OH GOD. (And that was the last thing she said before she shut her mouth and refused to speak, eat, or drink ever again,)

• actually i first saw this pictures on failblog or in one of their network and i was shocked, crazy world..

• What a dumbass!

• this give me the heebie jeebies! Mainly because I watched a tv show once, (and i'm not sure if it is nessesarly true everywhere) but the show stated that because these aren't medical procedures, you can't use anesthesia. (or however the fuck you spell that) Body modding is okay I guess, I would never really do it, I did stretch my earlobes to a 6 gauge, but I stopped then because that put me in the size I needed to wear the jewelry I wanted. Eventually I had to take them out, because at the end of the day I needed to pay my bills and my job gave me an ultimatum, and I did what I had to do. They are pretty okay with my tattoos, but I made sure to have them in easily hidden places when the CEO's and client start wandering about. But this guy will never get a job that isn't at like hot topic, spencers or a tattoo sort of place. maybe a club or something. But the good money jobs (that don't involve extreme sports or like music) not a chance.

• Hey, at least tech implants / cyberware would be useful. I can't wait until we just implant cell phones into our heads, but I'm still laughing at this moron.

• It's gonna be an twice as true if Pokemon loses popularity. It's like, during the 70s, getting a John Travolta tat would be awesome, because it would remind people of Saturday Night Fever and Grease. All it would remind people of today is Swordfish and Scientology.

• I love Pokemon. I'm probably around that dude's age, and if I was getting at tat, there's a reasonable chance I'd choose something Pokemon-related. (And an 100% chance I'd choose something discreet.) I'm not judging him on the choice to get Pokemon body mods. That particular tattoo, however... that doesn't look good. Like, I think there are pretty awesome nerdy body mods you could get, but that's really not one of them. It looks -wrong- not in the "I'm repulsed by body mods" sense, but in the "that combo of implants and tattoos doesn't more cleverly, interestingly or accurately evoke the franchise than, say, one Pokeball tattoo would."

• that sounds kind of neat.

• Perfectly reasonable purchase with no possible regrets in the future.

• ah! this whole comment thread is going to give me nightmares!

• Yeah, it still looks fairly new, so it's possible they could migrate over time(shift under the skin) or be rejected (where they gradually "grow out"). I think rejection is more common with transdermal implants and surface piercings though.

• If they are willing to do this to people do you think I could get a small pair of breast on the back of my hand?

• very good point. it's not like he expected people to go "oh my, look at this upstanding fellow. he must really enjoy that pokemon craze, pip pip cheerio". that got away from me at the end there. if you're doing something knowing that most people will find it crazy, you just might be doing it so people will pay attention to you.

• They could be made of teflon or silicone, although I do enjoy the cartoonish idea of him being glued to the machine and not being able to move.

• Yeah, I find huge gauging hard to look at, too. There's a dude who works in the kitchen at a restaurant local to me that has AT LEAST double zero gauges in his ears, if not more. I could probably slip my hand through them with enough effort. I seriously did not want that dude around my food, but then I realized I was overreacting a bit. As far as the pain thing goes, I too have a threshold, and apparently, it is two rows of needles (about twelve, I think) in my back. It took three years before I felt the desire to repeat the experience.

• thank you for that creepy moment.

• So ... that's horrifying.

• Just because he's wearing a shirt saying it should be legalized, doesn't mean he's solely swinging that way.

• Yeah, some of it looks good. I saw a girl who had combination subdermal implants and a tattoo design that looked like a flower with raised petals. It was pretty.

• People are judgemental. Welcome to the human race. Better get used to it. Guy wasn't born that way. This is something he chose to do to himself. And well, he should expected to be called a whack-job...hell, he may want that very reaction for all we know.

• Piercings don't really bother me, it's when you start to distort the shape of the flesh that, honestly, it gives me the willies. Whether it's implants, ear lobe or lip stretchers, or the African neck rings, I just find the idea of distorting one's body for the sake of cosmetic appearance repugnant. I understand there's a SM culture to it as well, but surely there's something that can stimulate your pain without causing that irreversible damage.

• Somehow...that just makes it worse.

• Some body modifications look kinda cool, metal spikes coming out of your skull and lizard people come to mind but for some reason I can't quite grasp this grosses me out.

• I can't deny that body-modding, like other cosmetic surgery, is undergoing a somewhat dangerous procedure for one's own sense of vanity. I'll be honest. For me, part of the appeal of piercing is the pain, but the rest is that I think it looks cool. I don't have a whole lot of piercings, though. I'm not really a fanatic: my nose, three ear cartilidge piercings, four earlobe piercings, and one downstairs. I'd probably have more facial piercings, but work makes that impractical.

• Eeewwwwwww. Looks like a bad children's cartoon laid eggs under his skin. Also, what's up with that chin?

• damn attention whore

• For what it matters, I have a hard hate-on for plastic surgery too, though, to be specific, that's in cosmetic cases, not in "half my face was burned off" cases.

• Seems a bit short sighted. After all, how is he going to play Pokemon after he has serious nerve damage thanks to a raging infection followed by emergency surgery in order to keep from having to amputate everything below the elbow? Half the activities that go into a normal day offer all sorts of chances for him to bang and grind these implants against the bone and meat of his forearms. Taking a fall on an icy sidewalk, trying to hold a heavy door open wile holding a load of groceries, reaching under low furniture or into a narrow drawer opening for a dropped pen, trying to swat a fly or a bee away from your head in a small space, catching a heavy box or other object falling from a high shelf... This really doesn't look like something that will end well.

• Wherewolf?

• I was considering getting tatoos (or scars) of the night elf druid symbols (from World of Warcraft) on my shoulder-blades, but I figured that if I did that I'd instantly transform into some kind of horrible, stereotypical, uber-nerd.

• what a massive fucking douchebag. i hope his stupidity hurts for a long time. i also hope he enjoys his forced celibacy.

• Wow. I can't believe there's such a hard hate-on for this. It's the same thing as plastic surgery, it's just non-mainstream plastic surgery. I'm someone who thinks body-modding is kind of cool, though, so I have no room to talk, I guess. Mine is limited to just piercings, though. I don't care for tatoos, but I've looked into scarification (there's not a licensed practitioner of it in my tri-state area). You can look at him and tell that he's as much into body-modding as he is nerdy things. He's just marrying the two. I think it would be worse if he were just a regular average Joe kind of nerd and loved Pokemon so hard that he did this to himself.

• Yes. Yes there is.

• Fucking scenester kids!

• Maybe he's hurt. And he hurt himself in his confusion.

• you go to a site named topless robot and you think you're ever going to be safe?

• He's trying to be fucking Danzo from Naruto. http://tinyurl.com/4s5b8np And if not, at least he'll have his Danzo costume ready for Halloween for the next... forever.

• It will age beautifully, no doubt. I'm against adding more game characters though. He should stick to a theme an do a big tat on his back with a Pokemon battle.

• It's really not worth it. Eating breakfast before reading this. Every time I think I'm safe, THIS stuff happens.

• My daughter loves Pokemon. I can't wait to show her this picture so I don't hear about Pokemon ever again. Thank you Sir!

• Eh, I've come to realize that if I keep blowing minor things out of proportion with a completely skewed viewpoint, I'll just sound like a Fox News soundbite.

• Staph Infection! I choose you!

• I find your lack of Venn diagranm,highly disturbing...

• check and mate

• You know, I want to say that this is perhaps the nerdiest tattoo I have or will ever see, but considering I have decided that if I should ever get a tattoo, it would be of Buttercup from PPG in puppy form from episode two, I am certainly not one to talk. Instead, I will hop on the band wagon and say that the scar and ridges looks quite disgusting. I am all for nerdy endeavors and have nothing against piercings, but that goes a little to far on both counts.

• He looks like a Gormiti. http://www.gormiti.tv/gormitis-de-la-serie/gormiti-sparafuoco-3/

• I freaking love Pokemon... AND I THINK THIS IS VERY TERRIFYING! D: Seriously, why would you do that?! How is that not ridiculously uncomfortable?

• That is easily the worst thing I've ever seen on the internet. And I say that having seen goatse and the cup girls among others.

• I'm expecting one of those "Pokeballs" to burst and release a "Ditto." Suffice to say, it does not look safe or comfortable. Oh well, at least he didn't get Pokeballs tattooed onto his testicles.

• Assuming hes about 20 why on earth would no one remember pokemon? Is there going to be some kind of mass memory wipe that causes everyone to forget everything from 20 years ago?

• The Cinobites called; they want there poke'arm back

• I think he actually isn't into women, he's wearing a "Legalize Gay" shirt...

• It's a "Legalize Gay" shirt, I've seen them before.

• Body mod surgeons will do some crazy shit for the right price. For some of them it is all about enough money.

• but taking one little thing and exploding it out of proportions is what we do at Topless Robot! have you not read what Rob usually posts? so Spiderman's crotch is just too prominent and good bye cherished childhood memories. LOL give it time and you'll fit right in!

• Also, those gigantic holes in his chin, nose and ears are closing either.

• Doctors don't perform subdermal implants, scarification or any of the other interesting alternatives to vanilla tattooing and piercings. Most states have a course and licensing to perform these procedures, but typically practitioners are taught either at cosmetology schools or by certified trainers (the guy at the tattoo shop). SO yeah. My generation is going to be full of ink and holes. Th next generation will be full of more ink and implants. I'm hoping my grandkids get cyberware.

• There are plenty of times where we use just one act to decide whether we deem a person worthy of reproduction. While not as heinous as a felony, I think we can have a good idea of some of the other things this man thinks are okay to do.

• ...Judgemental in that we generally exercise decent judgment, which clearly this guy did not.

• If there's a guy who's in to that, it's just as likely that there's a girl who's in to that. I've met women who are in to body modification and women who are in to video games. There's certainly a chance of overlap between the two groups, even though I expect the number is small. Of course, there's always the hope he's not in to women and will be willingly pulling himself out of the gene pool. Then, there would be the surrogate option, or adoption. But I think his memes would be less likely to survive than his genes. But, with all that, using one act, even one as incredibly stupid as this, to judge a person worthy of reproduction, is a real douchebag move. Stupid being able to see arguements from multiple angles. Goddammit, why can't I just be judgemental like the Great White Oracle?

• Wow. Fucking judgmental lot aren't we? Implants come out. They're a lot more reversible than the tattoo's, really. He'd just had the scar. And so what if he has a tattoo that some people think he should regret?

• I just threw up in my mouth a little.

• It's naht ah toomah!

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