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Old 11-27-06 | 08:17 PM
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Wii have a problem....

"Wii have a problem" is a blog focused on bringing you the latest trend in gaming violence. That of damaged electronic loved ones caused from Wii related activities. Why? Because we're fanboys that's why.
Nintendo Wii's Current Body Count: 2 HDTVs, 2 Walls, 1 Ceiling Fan, 1 Window.

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Old 11-27-06 | 08:26 PM
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These are hillarious...Im waiting for when I do this. I have already dropped the nunchauk about a 1000 times and luckily my strap hasnt broke or my cat would have been in trouble.
Old 11-28-06 | 09:04 AM
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1 high definition DVD format, 1 giant Japanese electronics corporation
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Old 11-28-06 | 09:21 AM
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Isn't this kind of like people who swing golf clubs and baseball bats in the house? Seems to me that some common sense has to prevail. How hard are people swinging their arms to break these straps anyway?
Old 11-28-06 | 09:24 AM
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I never even get tension in the wriststrap because I'm holding onto the controller. And you really don't need to swing that hard, but I guess people want it to be as lifelike as possible. Sometimes you get more power flicking your wrist the right way.
Old 11-28-06 | 09:29 AM
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Isn't this kind of like people who swing golf clubs and baseball bats in the house? Seems to me that some common sense has to prevail. How hard are people swinging their arms to break these straps anyway?
That's pretty much my thoughts as well. People seem to be under the impression that you have to fling the controller around wildly for it to work properly.
Old 11-28-06 | 09:38 AM
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Nintendo Wii's Current Body Count: 2 HDTVs, 2 Walls, 1 Ceiling Fan, 1 Window.

http://www.wiihaveaproblem.com/
So, a confirmed 0.001% defect rate.
Old 11-28-06 | 09:40 AM
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This sure looks like Video Game Talk. Moving.
Old 11-28-06 | 09:49 AM
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Isn't this kind of like people who swing golf clubs and baseball bats in the house? Seems to me that some common sense has to prevail. How hard are people swinging their arms to break these straps anyway?
Yeah, that's what I've been thinking too.. my small living room was CROWDED Saturday night and a couple of people got in the path of an swing twice and it was nothing more than a hard tap.. I'm thinking you've got to really be trying to have these things break off their straps and even trying harder to have them break off and still maintain enough velocity to actually damage something.
Old 11-28-06 | 09:55 AM
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Yeah, it's just people swinging at Mach 1.

I've not had it fly out of my had yet period, much less with enough velocity to break the strap.

It does make me worried to use it for drunken gaming parties though, as that would increase the chances of people swinging too hard and breaking (or forgetting to put the strap on in the first place) and chucking it through the TV.
Old 11-28-06 | 10:15 AM
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1 high definition DVD format, 1 giant Japanese electronics corporation
that made me spit out my coffee.
Old 11-28-06 | 10:21 AM
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Yeah, it's just people swinging at Mach 1.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkdihGX7iWM
Old 11-29-06 | 02:52 PM
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It blows my mind how people can be so overzealous with how they're swinging the controller to do the kind of damage that they are doing. Think about how hard you would need to throw something to break those tvs. I remember throwing an NES controller at CRT TV at full force (when I was in my early teens) and it didn't even scratch the tv.
Old 11-29-06 | 03:05 PM
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It blows my mind how people can be so overzealous with how they're swinging the controller to do the kind of damage that they are doing. Think about how hard you would need to throw something to break those tvs. I remember throwing an NES controller at CRT TV at full force (when I was in my early teens) and it didn't even scratch the tv.
Today's cheap Chinese TVs are made from more breakable materials, like thin glass, peanut brittle, and/or tissue paper.
Old 11-29-06 | 03:12 PM
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It blows my mind how people can be so overzealous with how they're swinging the controller to do the kind of damage that they are doing. Think about how hard you would need to throw something to break those tvs. I remember throwing an NES controller at CRT TV at full force (when I was in my early teens) and it didn't even scratch the tv.
Which makes me wonder how many people dammaged stuff THEY paid for? Sounds like his parents bought him the Wii too. I'm sorry, but I am meticulously careful with stuff like that mostly because I worked hard to earn the money to pay for my stuff. I have respect for all those things, certainly enough to be whipping the remote around so hard and fast that I couldn't expect to hold onto it. No sympathy for any of them. Darwinism at work.

Of course, I'm just bitter because I still have no Wii.
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these people are wiitarded.

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