YouTuber PatMan QC has passed away 😔 (www.timeextension.com)
from Lifecoach5000@lemmy.world to retrogaming@lemmy.world on 12 Jul 17:17
https://lemmy.world/post/32871355

I’ve been watching his videos for years. I didn’t even know he was a quadruple amputee when I first found his channel.

He was a consistent content creator that made a ton of vids exploring the history of games and would go through all the platform releases one by one. He was also pretty funny and had a wicked sense of humor.

RIP PatMan QC - you will be missed

“Boom shakalaka”

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Geodad@lemmy.world on 12 Jul 18:22 next collapse

Wow. I’d self delete if I lost my hands. It takes a special kind of person to keep going like that.

Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works on 12 Jul 20:57 next collapse

Hear me out…

<img alt="" src="https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/03d384f7-b188-4cb0-b6dd-216d38c54458.jpeg">

RainDog@piefed.social on 12 Jul 22:02 next collapse

My dumb brain can't figure out what it is in that last scene.

p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 12 Jul 22:13 next collapse

Trying to take off the arm covers with her mouth?

k0e3@lemmy.ca on 13 Jul 03:24 collapse

They’re putting them on. It’s right to left with Japanese manga.

p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 13 Jul 10:44 collapse

Is it also down-to-up? Because it doesn’t make sense otherwise.

calavera@lemmy.zip on 13 Jul 15:38 next collapse

As a person who reads manga frequently, the person who made this, screw things up

k0e3@lemmy.ca on 13 Jul 22:51 collapse

As a Japanese person, I’d say this is pretty conventional. But manga panel orders can be pretty chaotic, just like our writing.

k0e3@lemmy.ca on 13 Jul 22:45 collapse

Do you mean from the panel where she’s putting the mits on to the part where she’s showing them? Then, yeah, since we also write top to bottom in a vertical line, we can also go from bottom to top when going to the next line.

Another commenter says the mangaka screwed up, but I don’t agree. Japanese writing is chaotic, so this manga is pretty conventional. Here’s what we have to deal with when it comes to reading the news paper.

<img alt="" src="https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/05b3d473-4784-4ae2-bee1-0cc7a6e4c730.png">

The text within the fuchsia line is one article. You start reading from the green line — top to bottom, left to right. You’d think it would keep going that way until the left edge of the paper, but for some reason, they decided to put a second article, so the green paragraph’s height is cut in half. Then we start the yellow paragraph and you’d think the article is done when it reaches the left edge of the green paragraph, but nope, there’s one more paragraph starting from the blue arrow.

funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works on 12 Jul 22:25 collapse

I think it’s the arm covers. Reminder to read top right to bottom left, so the final shot is the dude’s eyes

RainDog@piefed.social on 13 Jul 12:46 collapse

Thanks! Reading it that way it makes total sense now.

IndiBrony@lemmy.world on 12 Jul 22:45 collapse

She about to whip out the ass-blaster5000 on her stump!

ICastFist@programming.dev on 13 Jul 15:55 next collapse

Maybe, maybe not. Losing both hands is definitely awful, as there’s so fucking much we do that needs them, but we can manage to regain some utility with prosthetics. No fine control, but enough that your arms and elbow won’t be unused.

Losing both arms, like down from the middle of the biceps, would force you to improvise with your mouth, legs and feet

Geodad@lemmy.world on 13 Jul 16:35 collapse

Yeah, I personally would opt out.

I could manage with prosthetic legs, but for me life wouldn’t be worth it without hands.

Lifecoach5000@lemmy.world on 13 Jul 16:57 collapse

You should watch one of his videos of him bowling. You might gain a different perspective!

partial_accumen@lemmy.world on 12 Jul 21:27 next collapse

Thank you for letting us know about this sad news. RIP PatMan.

EnsignWashout@startrek.website on 13 Jul 02:25 next collapse

Thank you for sharing this. Patman was a delight. He made some of the best “History of” videos for classic games.

RIP Patman QC. He will be missed.

5in1k@lemmy.zip on 13 Jul 23:24 collapse

His medical issues reminded me of my father who passed about a year ago. RIP, dude seemed alright.