Kotaku 'Shop Contest: Rolling Wonder

Maybe I was a little hard on the "X-Box," a cozy, if insane, contraption being sold for $ 2,500 in Youngstown, Ohio. It does come with an A/C unit, though I'd be glad to ditch that for a wet bar (and just open the fridge if it got too hot.) Anyway, I know how I can make amends with the seller: 'Shop Contest!

That thar's your exploitable, so my advice is to go in the direction of kart racers and Need for Speed. Obviously, hilarious cameos on the inside are a useful angle, too. (Cool Hand Luke hint hint spends a night in the box hint) But anything you want to put it in, put it on, or put in or on it, go to town. Go forth and bring me funny.

Source Image: The "X-Box."

While most of you are smart enough to figure out how to upload images, here are some simple steps to take for those less familiar with the practice.

1. Create your 'Shop and save it to your desktop.

2. Go to the bottom of this post and click "Discuss."

3. This brings up a comment window. Click the icon that looks like a picture.

4. This brings up another window called "Insert Image." Click "Choose file" if you're uploading your 'shop from your desktop

5. Alternatively, you can upload the 'Shop to a free image hosting service. I suggest imgur. Then paste the image's URL into the field that says "Image URL." Note: this must be the URL of the image itself, not the page where it is displayed. That means the URL ends in .jpg, .gif, .png, whatever.

6. Add editorial commentary and hit submit and your image will load. If it doesn't, upload the image to imgur and paste the image URL as a comment. I promise I will look at it.

7. I'm not sure if we still have file size restrictions under Kinja but it's probably a good idea to keep your image size under 1 MB. This is especially true for animated .gifs. If you're still having trouble uploading the image, try to keep its longest dimension (horizontal or vertical) under 1000 pixels.

Alright! Have at it. Thanks very much for your participation.

To contact the author of this post, write to owen@kotaku.com or find him on Twitter @owengood.

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Kotaku 'Shop Contest: Dog Duty: The Winners

Without a doubt, Call of Duty Dog stole the show at Microsoft's big Xbox One reveal, and not for all the right reasons. The law of unintended consequences dictates that one of them is appearance in the Kotaku 'Shop Contest. Who's a good 'Shopper? Who's a good 'Shopper? Yes you are, Sciteach! Yes you ARE!

For starters, this week's contestants were working from these images.

Source Image: Who's a good doggie? Who's a good doggie ...?

Source Image: CoD Dog doing mocap (closeup)

Source Image: CoD Dog doing mocap (longer shot)

And now, the finalists!

Archonios

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arniejolt

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Atomrocker

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Bino556

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GiantBoyDetective

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HampstaSandwich

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HarrdeeHarrHarr

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jaepro

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JulesGM

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nicp1112

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Pedro Silva

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Phaydii

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punkpolitical

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sciteach

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uscg_pa

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Kotaku 'Shop Contest: Roboshop: The Winners

The three prime directives of the 'Shop Contest: Serve the public trust; protect the innocent; uphold the funny. Working from a bigass statue of Robocop that, dead or alive, is coming to Detroit, we've got a baker's dozen of hilarious 'Shops inside, including overall No. 1 Negitoro!

First, the original exploitable:

And here are the finalists!

arniejolt

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Clutchy

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Cuddles

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edy_pagaza

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HampstaSandwich

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hugmungous

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jaepro

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negitoro

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Septemtriones

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Tom Bomb

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toolsoldier

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uscg_pa

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Kotaku 'Shop Contest: Roboshop

Next week we should have plenty of absurd things and derpfaces coming out of the Next Xbox reveal, so it's premature to parody that right now. We need a more timeless exploitable, something like—oh, yeah, this bigass statue of Robocop. Here we go.

The statue, remember, was a Kickstarter initiative to place a tribute to Detroit's greatest protector in the city of Detroit, whether the hell Detroit likes it or not. It doesn't really matter that the thing is unfinished, it's Robocop, go to town.

Source Image: Bigass Robocop statue.

While most of you are smart enough to figure out how to upload images, here are some simple steps to take for those less familiar with the practice.

1. Create your 'Shop and save it to your desktop.

2. Go to the bottom of this post and click "Discuss."

3. This brings up a comment window. Click the icon that looks like a picture.

4. This brings up another window called "Insert Image." Click "Choose file" if you're uploading your 'shop from your desktop

5. Alternatively, you can upload the 'Shop to a free image hosting service. I suggest imgur. Then paste the image's URL into the field that says "Image URL." Note: this must be the URL of the image itself, not the page where it is displayed. That means the URL ends in .jpg, .gif, .png, whatever.

6. Add editorial commentary and hit submit and your image will load. If it doesn't, upload the image to imgur and paste the image URL as a comment. I promise I will look at it.

7. I'm not sure if we still have file size restrictions under Kinja but it's probably a good idea to keep your image size under 1 MB. This is especially true for animated .gifs. If you're still having trouble uploading the image, try to keep its longest dimension (horizontal or vertical) under 1000 pixels.

Alright! Have at it. Thanks very much for your participation.

To contact the author of this post, write to owen@kotaku.com or find him on Twitter @owengood.

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Kotaku 'Shop Contest: Ridiculous Rift: The Winners

Oculus Rift isn't even in development and the VR system already has been put to that most primary of individual needs—vigilante accomplishments. If suffering from the guillotine in complete stereoscopic perspective isn't extreme enough, food your sight on this week's set of 'Shop Competition champions, led by arniejolt!

Acnyc2000 (This indicates "Will there be dessert after this?")

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Aidil42

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arniejolt

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Atomrocker

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Flawed_Logic

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GiantBoyDetective

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Herdman2402

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Mayjay

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omegakirby

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Pylyp

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toolsoldier

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uscg_pa