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Tattoos are stupid.
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this post was submitted on 10 Jul 2026
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That shit is super fucking cringey. You're literally dedicating your body to be a walking advertisement.. As someone with multiple tattoos, I side eye these so hard. Obviously you're allowed to get whatever tf you want wherever you want, but choosing any IP speaks to your immaturity and lack of personality. Just weird parasocial hail cooperate nonsense.
Oh god and the people who get celebrity faces?! 🤮
The person I know with a bat tat got it because he felt the comics were an important part of his life, got him through tough times
Your judgement isn't always right
This I have never understood. Why get a tattoo as some kind of reward or reminder of going through though times? My brother did so as well. I sorta get but then also I don't get it.
As someone with 0 tattoos but who wants tattoos, I think the bar for those kinds of tats is if the moments you're signifying through the tattoo have truly defined or been a significant part of your life. I think even though we all change, it's fine to acknowledge what's happened in our past in an artistic manner on our bodies. For instance, I learned English playing Zelda & other video games, I've played them for decades, so I would consider a tattoo of Nintendo IP, even though I want nothing more than for the entire company to spontaneously combust. My love for the Zelda IP is bigger than my hate for Nintendo, and I have no qualms holding both feelings at once. Such hatred, at least for me, stems from them butchering our childhood memories, after all.
The style of the tattoo might be harder to nail for me, because sure I might want a Legend of Zelda tattoo or something, but I could make something classy and timeless or I could make the worst recreation of AI marketing hallucination content imaginable and regret the ink as it gets injected into me. If I have no taste, I could very quickly regret my tattoo.... And that's why I still have no tats. I've seen how I make bases & houses in video games, I don't trust my artistic choices.
Then fuckit, save the money and print a screenshot of this conversation to put on the wall ;)
Different people are different
I can totally make something up!
Something bad happens to you & you expect It have a subconscious impact on you for the rest of your life, mainly in a negative way. So you go get the tattoo to have a visual reminder that at the end of it all, you were able to overcome. So you have a physical thing to try to help your mental health as a way to offset the intangible ongoing mental impact.
(PERSONALLY pretty sure I’d rather keep bad vibes off my skin)
Well, I just cancelled my triforce tattoo appointment 😭
Hey you know what would be kind of sick actually? To get the time portal from Skyward Sword.
I mean I wouldn't get it personally, because I could never commit to permanent marks on my body. I can barely commit to hanging a painting on my walls because I know those holes will stay there if I want to take the painting down.
Still though, you should do it. 😎
Shit, appointment back on!
😅 oh god what have I done, I hope you like it! Send pics!
Ocarina of Time was the first game I completed as a kid. Have a lot of memories of talking through puzzles with my Dad who told me about the Zelda on NES. I've played basically all Zelda game since then.
But I do get it and it's your body so your choice alone. Don't let an internet person to talk you in or out of anything. Telling people who don't like your tattoos to fuck off is a normal part of having them. If it makes you happy that's all that matters.
Having said all that, I do stand by my comment. I think that is a cringey immature idea. Even on a more practical level, you don't know what Nintendo will do in the future, do you really want to see a brand advertising logo on your body if they do something to piss you off? Lawsuits against those who use emulators and starting a patent war with Palworld? Idk...
I do have a friend who met a politician who agreed with his core beliefs back in the day. They went on a bender and ended up getting matching tattoos. Fast forward to today, and the politician did a 180, as many of them do, and went into the deep end. I joked with my friend about his tattoo, and his response was "I am getting it laser removed, and if that doesn't work, I'll take it off with a cheese grater".
So, I really do get what you mean.
That would be so cool... if you ever find a portal to Hyrule.
I had a coworker-friend that got a bunch of tattoos in quick succession
First they got the rebel and imperial logo tattoos on each forearm and then a short while later got the kingdom hearts key and something else ip themed (I can't remember the details from a decade ago). I joked they'd have to start paying Disney royalties at that point
lol I have three media IP tattoos: LittleBigPlanet, Halo Reach, and Outer Wilds. Don't really like Microsoft or Bungie at this point, but when I look at my Halo Reach one, I think of the game where I met one of my greatest friends, which then allowed me to meet all the other great people I've met so far. People I talk to everyday. Game changed my life, and I don't even like Halo Reach that much. It's different for everybody. I saw someone with a monster energy tattoo and thought the same thing you do, like why tf would you get an energy drink branded on you. But of course, everyone values different things and something insignificant to me could be life-changing for them.