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

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    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.

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

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

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                19 hours ago

                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.

                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.

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

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                  19 hours ago

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

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      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

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        Yeah, I personally would opt out.

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