Tally 1 For The Wii

[BrassFusion]

How many more victims will it claim before its evil empire crumbles?

[Gaf The Horse With Tears]

The number of stupid people in the world is highly amusing.... Darwin is rolling in his grave...

[torn asunder]

i actually thought about submitting it to the "darwin awards"... *shakes head*

[Hellion]

IMO,Stupidity should be considered a crime.

[Msterbeau]

On the "plus" side..

http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/18/wii-spo...ds-nine-pounds/

[Rayne]

I thought this was the first problem with Wii ...

http://www.wiidamage.com/2006/12/05/tv-ske...-by-wii-remote/

http://www.wiihaveaproblem.com/show_cat.php?cat=2

So wouldn't this one be the second?

[Gaf The Horse With Tears]

Um... no... mass, physics and such... the remote doesn;t have enough mass.. nor could an average guy throw hard enough to pop a remote through a TV case...

large screen projection TVs and LCDs are at risk... but not traditional CRTs or the heavy plastic on the caseing.

[Rayne]

Um... no... mass, physics and such... the remote doesn;t have enough mass.. nor could an average guy throw hard enough to pop a remote through a TV case...

large screen projection TVs and LCDs are at risk... but not traditional CRTs or the heavy plastic on the caseing.

I believe it. The broken tv in question in the first link is an RCA. My dog at the time (a pitbull) did nearly the very same thing to the plastic on the side of the screen when his foot caught it when he was playing with a friend in my living room. For some reason, the RCA plastics are very, very thin.

The second link is all screen damage on projections and LCD's.

[Gaf The Horse With Tears]

But your dogs foot is not an even thinner piece of plastic that is already split down the middle.

[Rayne]

But your dogs foot is not an even thinner piece of plastic that is already split down the middle.

Very true ...

[Gaf The Horse With Tears]

Do you happen to have a remote you dont care about anymore? Just chuck it a door as hard as you think it would take to break plastic like that...

then tell me if it breaks or the thing you chucked it at did.

[Rayne]

Do you happen to have a remote you dont care about anymore? Just chuck it a door as hard as you think it would take to break plastic like that...

then tell me if it breaks or the thing you chucked it at did.

The remote will break. Nothing else will. Unless I happen to hit some glass.

[BrassFusion]

On the "plus" side..

http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/18/wii-spo...ds-nine-pounds/

Tsch. Where's the doorknob?

I thought this was the first problem with Wii ...

http://www.wiidamage.com/2006/12/05/tv-ske...-by-wii-remote/

http://www.wiihaveaproblem.com/show_cat.php?cat=2

So wouldn't this one be the second?

This is the first example I've heard of a Wii-related death.

[Msterbeau]

This is the first example I've heard of a Wii-related death.

Technically... it's a greed or stupidity related death...

[Msterbeau]

Tsch. Where's the doorknob?

Ha... good call. I didn't go to the linked page.

Photoshop in action folks.

[Gaf The Horse With Tears]

Behind his hip. You will notice he is standing about 4 inches to the left in the second picture from his position in the first.

[torn asunder]

gauge & i got into this "airbrush" discussion last night - there's a lot more than just a doorknob that indicates airbrushing, i guess, tho i couldn't convince her that it hadn't been done!!

[Msterbeau]

gauge & i got into this "airbrush" discussion last night - there's a lot more than just a doorknob that indicates airbrushing, i guess, tho i couldn't convince her that it hadn't been done!!

Two words. New glasses.

[torn asunder]

Two words. New glasses.

her, or me!?

[BrassFusion]

Behind his hip. You will notice he is standing about 4 inches to the left in the second picture from his position in the first.

so he moved the doorknob several inches closer to the inside of the door? not buying it.

[Gaf The Horse With Tears]

No, he's standing several inches in the way of seeing it.

[BrassFusion]

No, he's standing several inches in the way of seeing it.

the doorknob also has a shadow from the light above the door. he smudged the picture around his waist and no shadows are visible.

not disputing that he could've lost weight playing wii, but he totally doctored his pics.

[Gauge]

ok these are just a few reasons why imo this is airbrushed.

lets start with the paint on the door. if you look up by his head the door is red, its matte but just a little shiny from the light, if you look down by the floor its the same thing only less shine. now look in between his arms, the door goes from a matte red to a very fuzzy and even red. no matter how close or far away hes standing to it there should be variation in the color and. . .well it shouldnt be fuzzy. if thats not good enough, look on the left side, the fuzzyness has a distinct stopping point that just happens to be level with his jeans. this brings me to my next point. you assume hes lost weight because his pants are sagging and you can see his boxers right? wrong!!! if you measure the distance between his shoulders (because this is something that will determin how close he was standing to the origional point in each picture) youll see that the spot hes in, in the second pic is identical (away from the door, not possitioned between the walls) now, if you measure his pants in the first pic and do the same to the second youll notice that hes just wearing much bigger pants. look at the rest of his body, his arms are the same size, from pit to pit his chest is the same size, his neck and face are the same size, his shoulders are even the same as before. what im getting at is this, he sucked it in a little to give his abs a little more definition, and photoshoped 9 lbs off of nothing but his handles.

[torn asunder]

ok these are just a few reasons why imo this is airbrushed.

lets start with the paint on the door. if you look up by his head the door is red, its matte but just a little shiny from the light, if you look down by the floor its the same thing only less shine. now look in between his arms, the door goes from a matte red to a very fuzzy and even red. no matter how close or far away hes standing to it there should be variation in the color and. . .well it shouldnt be fuzzy. if thats not good enough, look on the left side, the fuzzyness has a distinct stopping point that just happens to be level with his jeans. this brings me to my next point. you assume hes lost weight because his pants are sagging and you can see his boxers right? wrong!!! if you measure the distance between his shoulders (because this is something that will determin how close he was standing to the origional point in each picture) youll see that the spot hes in, in the second pic is identical (away from the door, not possitioned between the walls) now, if you measure his pants in the first pic and do the same to the second youll notice that hes just wearing much bigger pants. look at the rest of his body, his arms are the same size, from pit to pit his chest is the same size, his neck and face are the same size, his shoulders are even the same as before. what im getting at is this, he sucked it in a little to give his abs a little more definition, and photoshoped 9 lbs off of nothing but his handles.

*mutters under breath*

show-off... :erm

[Gauge]

*mutters under breath*

show-off... :erm

i cant help it! i studied graphic design in H.S. at a college level for just under 3 years. its just done so badly