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(engadget.com)   Nintendo's answer to all the damages caused by the Wii controller: Don't let go of it, dumbass   (engadget.com) divider line
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Outtaphase [TotalFark] [OhFark]  
2006-12-06 10:45:26 AM  
"For example, in a game like Wii sports bowling, the ball is thrown by simply releasing the B Button, not by letting go of the remote!"

comedy gold.
 
Two Dogs Farking [TotalFark]  
2006-12-06 10:57:10 AM  
[image from img508.imageshack.us too old to be available]
 
Paedophile_Deluxe  
2006-12-06 11:32:02 AM  
Seriously, you have to either be retarded or have defective sweat glands to lose control of the remote. I know bowling can get exciting, but try to relax.
 
farquette  
2006-12-06 11:36:17 AM  
I dunno, man. Fishing in Twilight Princess has gotten pretty intense for me.
 
Headso  
2006-12-06 11:40:07 AM  
Paedophile_Deluxe: I know bowling can get exciting

a bowling simulation that is...
 
Paedophile_Deluxe  
2006-12-06 11:52:12 AM  
Headso: a bowling simulation that is...

I know, the low-res cartoon character just adds to the realism.
 
Muddie  
2006-12-06 11:55:43 AM  
[image from penny-arcade.com too old to be available]
 
jaysee  
2006-12-06 12:03:00 PM  
yup, Muddie beat me to it.
 
Der Poopflinger  
2006-12-06 12:04:06 PM  
I submitted this:
http://www.wiihaveaproblem.com/
it wasn't greenlit (ya I know, I'm just as shocked and amazed too). Anywho, it's funny shiat, and frankly why should those TF bastards have a monopoly on all the funny shiat
 
Twigz221  
2006-12-06 12:04:33 PM  
The only time I lost my controller was playing tennis on Wii sports and getting pissed off and trowing my hands up in frustration. Luckily I was strapped in.
 
kb7rky  
2006-12-06 12:04:53 PM  
You just know there's a lawsuit in the works if shiat like this is coming out now.

/buncha dumbfarks
 
2 grams  
2006-12-06 12:05:08 PM  
Dumbass tag needed.

Gamers sure are a stupid lot. Eh?
 
rodeofrog  
2006-12-06 12:05:43 PM  
We got the kids this Lord of the Rings game that includes a sword and you swing wildly at creatures on the tv. It's a real workout. We had to move it into the garage. Now I'me one of those guys with a tv and a couch in his garage.
 
lazymojo  
2006-12-06 12:06:15 PM  
Before it came out, my friends and I wondered if you had to throw the controller, to say, throw a grenade on cames like "Call of Duty" and such.

What if you threw the grenade right through your TV screen? Seeing someone do that, and then the look on their face afterwards would be priceless.
 
Subtle_Canary  
2006-12-06 12:06:20 PM  
"Seriously, you have to either be retarded or have defective sweat glands to lose control of the remote..."


Or a Nintendo fanboi but thats redundant isnt it?
/prefers to kill Nazis on his Wii
 
WizardX  
2006-12-06 12:06:31 PM  
What were they supposed to do? Apologize to the people who can't be bothered to use the wrist strap? But them whole new wiimotes for them to wreck?

If their response is comedy gold, it's because they're responding to something which is pretty much unrespondible.

"I keep dropping my toy and breaking it!"
"Erm... then stop dropping it."

Still, I bet there will be enough of these that they'll add some kind of rubberized grip to the next iteration.
 
TheAnalogKid  
2006-12-06 12:07:54 PM  
you have to be an absolute idiot to lose the controller if you have it strapped on. the velocity it would have to leave your hand to break the string is way faster than you should be swinging the controller in the first place.
 
revskippy  
2006-12-06 12:08:03 PM  
OK, maybe I am not familiar enough with the Wiimote to know this, but why hasn't someone just come up with a heavier duty strap to put on it? This smells like a serious aftermarket gold mine waiting to be exploited.
 
Whatthefark  
2006-12-06 12:08:04 PM  
Nintendo could use this as a chance to release non slip Wii-mote gloves. Like the ones NFL receivers use.

How about a Wii-mote with a built in fan to keep your hands dry?
 
jspitalieri  
2006-12-06 12:08:14 PM  
It was only a matter of time. Stupidest controller ever.
 
Dogwood  
2006-12-06 12:08:19 PM  
Greasy-palmed farktards, man. But maybe I can tell Nintendo that I chipped a tooth during a four-player pile-up while competing in the first annual Wiimbeldon tennis tourney and they'll cover my dental bill.

Or then again, I'd bet Nintendo has better lawyers than I do.
 
BlindMan  
2006-12-06 12:09:05 PM  
I wish more companies were free to handle dumbass complaints this way without getting sued by said dumbasses and having dumbass jury people give them money in the dumbass lottery.
 
Topazviper  
2006-12-06 12:09:29 PM  
I heard there was some guy who was so paranoid that he would break his new Plasma, that he played the game perpendicular to the TV. In one aggressive swing hand slipped, his wrist strap broke and the controller flew across the room and crashed into his LCD monitor next to his computer.
 
schezar [TotalFark]  
2006-12-06 12:09:53 PM  
You have to be a complete and utter failure of a human being to have this happen to you...
 
LVLLN  
2006-12-06 12:09:54 PM  
I think if there is a wrist strap, there is a reasonable expectation that it would actually work when you accidentally let go of the controller, something that's bound to happen. Instead, all the major mishaps with the Wiimote happened because the wrist-strap snapped during play. That's not the player's fault in any way; it's Nintendo's for producing a low-quality wrist strap.
 
Stupid Fat Hobbit  
2006-12-06 12:10:15 PM  
jspitalieri: It was only a matter of time. Stupidest controller ever.

Yeah, it's the controller that's stupid. Right.
 
NoAssemblyReqd  
2006-12-06 12:10:42 PM  
Screw the Wii remote. I'm still trying to figure out what I'm supposed to do with my NES Robot...

[image from gamersgraveyard.com too old to be available]
 
deevo  
2006-12-06 12:11:15 PM  
To be fair to Nintendo, I've been throwing controllers for as long as I've been playing video games.

Mostly out of frustration, though.

/goddam NFL Blitz
 
Quick1  
2006-12-06 12:11:54 PM  
It's called washing your hands, people. If your hands are so damn sweaty that the wiimote is slipping out of your hands, then wash them.
 
siraim  
2006-12-06 12:12:02 PM  
Before it's said too many times, it's offensive and degrading to compare the morons breaking their TVs and other personal property to the disabled and retarded. The morons should be called what they are... wiitarded.
 
wearetheworld  
2006-12-06 12:12:24 PM  
Donny was a good man, and a good bowler......
 
Scutter  
2006-12-06 12:13:09 PM  
Der Poopflinger: and frankly why should those TF bastards have a monopoly on all the funny shiat

It's because we're better than you.
 
rooftop235  
2006-12-06 12:14:50 PM  
i love retards.


they make me laugh/


//gets freaky with the Wii
 
williamzabka  
2006-12-06 12:14:50 PM  
I think everything I was going to say has already been said. So why am I posting this?
 
ACCORDianate  
2006-12-06 12:16:08 PM  
Scutter TF It's because we're better than you.

and we don't throw our wiimote. usually.
 
Der Poopflinger  
2006-12-06 12:16:10 PM  
Scutter ya, that must be it, that $5/month must be what makes you better.
 
schpedoinkel  
2006-12-06 12:17:10 PM  
I don't have the problem of the remote flying. I do, however, have the problem of hitting other people with it when playing tennis. Even with the adequate space advised in the pre-game warning. Somehow I manage to smack people every time I'm losing. I have no idea what that's about. It must be defective.
 
Mirrorz  
2006-12-06 12:17:18 PM  
jspitalieri
It was only a matter of time. Stupidest controller ever.

"Stupidest" huh?
Are you sure you didn't mean to use an actual word there?
 
QueenChelle  
2006-12-06 12:17:32 PM  
I've had Wii since launch day and I haven't even come close to a situation where I might feel even close to letting go of the remote or having it slip out of my hand..
 
baby_hewey  
2006-12-06 12:19:12 PM  
I got a Wii on the release night by pure luck. It is still in the box waiting for Christams for my two boys. So far I have learned that I should not download the first patch with out getting the second too and that I need to beat my kids with the strap so that they never forget to put it on.

/Oh, yea I also need to get the upgraded straps and the little rubber slipons for the Wiimotes.(it is sounding like a cheap $9.99 fix per remote.)
//I think I am going to hook it up in my bedroom for my wife and I, are there any adult titles out yet?
 
Scutter  
2006-12-06 12:19:32 PM  
Der Poopflinger: Scutter ya, that must be it, that $5/month must be what makes you better.


Yeah, it's so easy to be superior, you gotta wonder why everyone doesn't do it. :)
 
spleek  
2006-12-06 12:20:12 PM  
siriam has it right....farkin wii-tards!!!

/just bought ps2
//generation behind = savings......
///where is my tape player?
 
joshywa  
2006-12-06 12:21:08 PM  
people who do this cannot play my wii...that would bug me as much as the people who move the controller around (before the days of motion sensors) because somehow it might help them get to that platform they're trying to reach... that always drove me nuts...
 
jak1357  
2006-12-06 12:21:14 PM  
poopflinger

No it is actually that we are better looking. Make more money, do cooler things, and generaly drink more beer and have more sex.

/hasnt gotten any in way to long
//lives with g/f too
 
darksasami  
2006-12-06 12:22:18 PM  
I haven't thrown mine, but my roommate was playing tennis too close to the TV and gave it a good thwack.

(MY TV, I might add.)
 
Stupid Fat Hobbit  
2006-12-06 12:22:35 PM  
Mirrorz: "Stupidest" huh?
Are you sure you didn't mean to use an actual word there?

He may be an idiot for other reasons, but 'stupidest' is a perfectly cromulent word.
 
godofusa.com  
2006-12-06 12:23:49 PM  
I love my Wii

tee hee
 
Dogwood  
2006-12-06 12:25:33 PM  
I also have a hard time believing that that strap broke as shown in the engadget photo. I've seen one break in the thin cord that links the wrist strap to the remote, but the wrist strap itself is pretty hefty nylon. Meanwhile, it looks like a rat gnawed through the strap in the photo.
 
LVLLN  
2006-12-06 12:25:38 PM  
2006-12-06 12:17:18 PM Mirrorz [TotalFark]
"Stupidest" huh?
Are you sure you didn't mean to use an actual word there?

Stupidest is a word...
 
JakeElwood  
2006-12-06 12:26:33 PM  
I feel so embiggened.
 
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