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eldavojohn writes
"ThinkGeek (Owned by same parent corporation as Slashdot) has recently started selling WiiHelms which allows the user to effortlessly play the Wii without tirelessly moving their arms around. An added foot pedal controls the A, B button pushing to minimize activity. According to the article, "After extensive scientific study it was found that manipulating muscles in your neck for 10 minutes uses 64% less energy than waving your arms about like a lunatic." Indeed, after watching the demonstration video, I myself will order four or five — I'm sick of flailing my arms around like a chump. Don't forget to check out ThinkGeek's other offerings today including inhalable caffeine sticks, the 8-bit tie and the most amazing T-shirt ever."
Doh! (Score:5, Funny)
First thing that came to mind was "what will these lazy motherfuckers come up with next", then I remembered to check the date. Doh!
safety (Score:4, Funny)
How absurd (Score:5, Funny)
This idea is doomed to fail from the beginning. What a fucking crock. For one, the entire point of the Nintendo Wii is that you move your arms around. The entire point. It's intended for grannies and moms who wouldn't normally be interested, so they pick up the remote and it's just like controlling the television for them. How anybody can not get this is just beyond me. And secondly, all this overuse of neck muscles is going to lead to two things: sore necks and lawsuits. That's right, these chumps are going to get their asses handed to them in court when this thing hits the mass market.
It's not even as if this hasn't happened before! Anybody remember the Nintendo VirtualBoy? That VR piece of shit that killed a couple of people and left about a dozen blind in one eye? It was the same thing with that: it was going to make it easier to control games, just by creating some stupid helmet. My brother actually got one of those for Christmas the year they came out. Of course, he was really stoked when he saw it, because hey, VIRTUAL REALITY and all that. So he rips the box apart, quickly figures out how to put it on and get it working, and there, he's off. He was just starting to play, when suddenly to my surprise he did the mash. He did the monster mash. The monster mash. It was a graveyard smash. He did the mash. It caught on in a flash. The monster mash. He did the monster mash.
aw man... (Score:1, Funny)
Yay (Score:3, Funny)
Re: Piranhaz with frickin' laser beams?? (Score:3, Funny)
Also remember: the delivery address need not be your own...
well... (Score:3, Funny)
who cares about wiimote straps breaking when you could get whiplash trying to perform a helm splitter...
Helmut comes with free game . . . (Score:4, Funny)
Re:How absurd (Score:3, Funny)
Funniest post I've seen today.
Re:safety (Score:4, Funny)
30,000 Microsofties go to work for Nintendo (Score:4, Funny)
Microsoft Corp. issued a surprise press release this morning announcing that the company had "performed an illegal operation and would be shut down." Company executives refused to provide further information regarding the cause of the unexpected shutdown, only issuing a cryptic error number of $00038FF577 and advising all interested parties to "contact their system administrator."
now we just need a WWI game... (Score:1, Funny)
*ducks*
Re:Alarm Clock (Score:3, Funny)