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I think whichever poster made the point that "it's not real bowling, don't LET GO of it" has probably got the winning insight here. If you think about the bowling follow-through I can easily imagine how letting go of the remote at the normal time you'd let go of the bowling ball could pitch the controller right off your wrist with the strap loop slipping right off.

― DOCTOR METH KING (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 15:24 (seventeen years ago) link

But yeah never overestimate the stupidity of greedy lame internet fucktards

― DOCTOR METH KING (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 15:27 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah, pretty likely. either that, or they were twirling the fucking thing by the strap on their finger to make it GO FASTER FASTER YEAH

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 15:28 (seventeen years ago) link

sure, but they used the slipped-out-of-my-sweaty-hands story, and supposedly the strap loop actually broke which i'd think would take away some of the force.

2xpost

― sleep (sleep), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 15:28 (seventeen years ago) link

sony-sponsored sabotage campaign

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 15:31 (seventeen years ago) link

MOMUS SPEAKS

http://www.wired.com/news/columns/0,72147-0.html?tw=rss.index

― gbx (skowly), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 16:23 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh Momus.

But if time really is money, why aren't we paying Chinese students and homeless people to play our video games for us too?

Welcome to the World of Warcraft, my cyclopean friend.

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 16:33 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.nndb.com/people/646/000026568/cliff-stoll.jpg http://www.nndb.com/people/646/000026568/cliff-stoll.jpg
http://www.nndb.com/people/646/000026568/cliff-stoll.jpg http://www.nndb.com/people/646/000026568/cliff-stoll.jpg

― PRKLTR (flezaffe), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 16:36 (seventeen years ago) link

FUCK, I NEED TO GO TO NINTENDO STORE.

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But if time really is money, why aren't we paying Chinese students and homeless people to play our video games for us too?

Wow, I can't believe that one got by the Wired editors. Momus has fucking tunnel vision / horsey blinders on / a cognitive eyepatch and "grasps" whatever he's writing about without being sufficiently immersed in. See his posts on this thread: "I was otherwise very normal before I became 4 years old" I'm sure someone else can analyze why he likes to frame everything in the manner that makes the most sense to him.

― roc u like a § (ex machina), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 16:56 (seventeen years ago) link

American kids who think they "understand" Japanese culture because they love video games and anime

versus

Momus, who thinks he has a deep understanding of Japan (Berlin/britishes/americans) because he's Momus.

― mh. (mike h.), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 17:00 (seventeen years ago) link

versus

rip gygax ;_;

― roc u like a § (ex machina), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 17:02 (seventeen years ago) link

'm sure someone else can analyze why he likes to frame everything in the manner that makes the most sense to him.

I'll give it a try. Momus is a bounded rational agent.

― DOCTOR METH KING (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 17:11 (seventeen years ago) link

zingamabob.

ANYWAY I don't really think that Momus article is worth discussing, he's just an old man complaining about the kids these days (again), just using a couple of recent articles about gadgets as the frame of reference (as old men who like to complain are wont to do when they are getting paid to grumble and bitch).

― DOCTOR METH KING (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 17:15 (seventeen years ago) link

no, momus isn't very interesting, but i will say this to cement jon's point above -- leave it to momus to explore the dubious 'ethics' of the air-guitar shirt without giving a single thought to the possible medical applications of the underlying technology. fucking idiot.

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 17:36 (seventeen years ago) link

in other not-news, Bill O'Reilly and Momus apparently agree with each other.

― DOCTOR METH KING (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 17:42 (seventeen years ago) link

What does Momus think about the OJ special?

― roc u like a § (ex machina), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 17:44 (seventeen years ago) link

haha typed "wiinis" into google and got this -- wii @ target stores.
of course, don't know if this info is valid or recent

http://wiinis.com/targetwii.htm

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 17:48 (seventeen years ago) link

I now have Zelda, Excite Truck and Red Steel.

But no Wii.

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 20:12 (seventeen years ago) link

wow!

― DOCTOR METH KING (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 20:16 (seventeen years ago) link

I am so close to buying one on ebay. Conspicuous consumption indeed.

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 20:19 (seventeen years ago) link

i am going to the nintendo world store to pwn u

― roc u like a § (ex machina), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 20:21 (seventeen years ago) link

http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/151/MAX1-802~Hang-in-There-Posters.jpg

― DOCTOR METH KING (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 20:23 (seventeen years ago) link

Don't make me get all Michael Richards on you, Jon.

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 20:26 (seventeen years ago) link

That Target list was just the alleged initial allocation.

― milo z (mlp), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 21:07 (seventeen years ago) link

So glad you guys agree the broken TV thing is bogus.
Hold on to the damn controller, CONƒPIRATORS.

― turbogirlwc8ko3.jpg (blastocyst), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 21:16 (seventeen years ago) link

hate to bring it up again but this part is too funny:
OK, let's look at the ethics of that. As a self-taught guitar player -- and perhaps a bit of a puritan -- I subscribe to the "no pain, no gain" school of thought. In order to play the guitar, you should learn the guitar.

WAAAAAAAAA no one appreciates me anymore!

― turbogirlwc8ko3.jpg (blastocyst), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 21:19 (seventeen years ago) link

Momus should teach himself how to sing next

― roc u like a § (ex machina), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 21:20 (seventeen years ago) link

http://dyfl.vox.com/library/post/desperately-seeking-amusement.html

― roc u like a § (ex machina), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 21:35 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.slate.com/id/2154157

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 21:38 (seventeen years ago) link

amen

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 21:38 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.gizmodo.com/assets/resources/2006/11/slatewiiyes.jpg

whatever, xbox fanboy :D

― roc u like a § (ex machina), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 21:41 (seventeen years ago) link

and with headlines like that, the fanboy choruses flipout and ad impressions RISE

― roc u like a § (ex machina), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 21:42 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.slate.com/id/2154158/nav/tap1/

― roc u like a § (ex machina), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 21:42 (seventeen years ago) link

I even found myself getting into a slight crouch and dancing on the balls of my feet as I awaited an oncoming serve.

OK THIS DUDE SUCKS

― roc u like a § (ex machina), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 21:43 (seventeen years ago) link

She even proposed a brilliant addition: a Wii Remote for your feet to add to the fun of a Wii-enabled fighting game.

BRILLIANT

― roc u like a § (ex machina), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 21:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Sure enough, when I tried hitting a baseball in another game, it was another exercise in round pegs versus round holes.

so uh, the pegs fit perfectly?

― dmr (Renard), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 21:48 (seventeen years ago) link

haha

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 21:49 (seventeen years ago) link

JON WHY DON'T YOU ASK SANTA FOR AN XMAS WII???

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 21:50 (seventeen years ago) link

yay xbox

o_-

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 22:02 (seventeen years ago) link

She even proposed a brilliant addition: a Wii Remote for your feet to add to the fun of a Wii-enabled fighting game.

http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/4156/activatorhp4.jpg

― sleep (sleep), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 22:04 (seventeen years ago) link

i cant figure out how you are supposed to use the Wii controller while in a drunk/stoned half-coma completely horizontally sprawled out on your couch

― songs and ballads of the bituminous miners (sanskrit), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 22:06 (seventeen years ago) link

if i'm lucky this gets released in 2310 here in belgium.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 22:16 (seventeen years ago) link

what is belgium

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 22:20 (seventeen years ago) link

I THINK ITS A RESTAURANT IN PARK SLOPE?

― roc u like a § (ex machina), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 22:25 (seventeen years ago) link

DOES IT HAVE THOSE REALLY GOOD FRENCH FRIES? THOSE ARE GOOD.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 22:29 (seventeen years ago) link

YEA IT HAS THOSE FRENCH FRIES THAT R CUT IN A GRID? I DONT KNOW WHAT U CALL THEM THOUGH

― roc u like a § (ex machina), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 22:35 (seventeen years ago) link

This device is called a nunchuk, since that's kind of what it looks like when you connect the two wireless controllers with a cord. But if you think you'll be able to whip them around like Bruce Lee, you're in for the first of many disappointments.

tards be game bloggin'

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 22:53 (seventeen years ago) link

wii on thii way

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 23:02 (seventeen years ago) link

I am really tempted to get one, and just zone out for a week straight playing Zelda, despite all the issues of buying any console at release. x_x

― ALLAH FROG (Sleepy), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 23:14 (seventeen years ago) link

i cant figure out how you are supposed to use the Wii controller while in a drunk/stoned half-coma completely horizontally sprawled out on your couch

you pay some chinese students and homeless dudes to play Zelda for you while they bring you drinks, duh

― dmr (Renard), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 01:35 (seventeen years ago) link

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