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A Stretchy Hand!
OH MAN. They really are taking every classic, amazing, and once tangible thing and making it digital aren't they?! Not that I don't love this (It's so dumb & fun)... but now kids will see actual sticky hands and go - "oh they made a real one from that website!"
...No, kids... no.
You used to have to play a lot of really stupid arcade games to get that hand. You had to spend like 5 dollars on tokens in order to play said arcade games enough times to finally win (if you sucked like me).... only to get a measly ten little paper tickets, with which you could use as currency to choose from an array of fine dollar-store quality prizes; the parachute men, the dentist-style rings, etc. But we all know the best one was that rubber hand. It reached so far... it was like you had a fantastic rubbery extension of your own arm! Finally you could be Dhalsim from Street Fighter (If you don't know who Dhalsim is. Or if you do. Either way, this is awesome & you should click it. )!!!
You could slap people with it, you could annoy the heck out of your mom with it, you could [try to] stick it to the cat, stick it to the wall, or my personal favourite - sling it up toward the ceiling to grab some of the little white and sparkly flecks that so easily crumbled off. That hand was so much more fun, and way more amusing than those brutal arcade games that you had to beat to get it. That is, for the first 10 minutes of slapping things and sticking it to stuff, until it became so completely full of dirt and hair that it resembled something your cat either killed or coughed up; not to mention that it was at that point completely useless. Or until you flung it to the ceiling with such zeal, such reckless abandon, that in the moment you were so excited to fling it that you LET GO of it, and so it got stuck up there.
All of that hard work doing the dishes and mowing the lawn to earn your allowance (I didn't really have to work that hard to earn my allowance... but I'm sure a lot of kids did, and with them I empathize) to buy those overpriced tokens....
All of those tokens spent on that stupid frogger game, and all of that determination and frustration to beat it just to get those tickets, to get that sticky hand... and it all amounted to either a piece of disgusting, hair and dirt ridden, cat vomit resembling piece of rubber, or a new ceiling decoration.
But there were those ten minutes of pure slapping, sticking, Dhalsim fun. And that is why you always chose that stretchy hand.
