{"id":15,"date":"2008-07-31T21:03:45","date_gmt":"2008-08-01T01:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ahshieh\/2008\/07\/31\/wiimote-protection-isnt-wii-at-all\/"},"modified":"2008-08-06T18:26:14","modified_gmt":"2008-08-06T22:26:14","slug":"wiimote-protection-isnt-wii-at-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ahshieh\/2008\/07\/31\/wiimote-protection-isnt-wii-at-all\/","title":{"rendered":"wiimote protection isn&#8217;t wii at all"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/kotaku.com\/assets\/images\/kotaku\/2008\/07\/nintendo_wii_motionplus.jpg\" alt=\"WiiMotion Plus\" width=\"400,\" height=\"280\/\"><\/p>\n<p>When Nintendo announced the Wii, we all thought, &#8220;pretty system, terrible name.&#8221; But due to the idiocy and law-suit loving American public, the Wiimote soon got a nice, gigantic, rubber covering to keep people from continuing to be a danger to themselves.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>As a disclaimer, I&#8217;ve let the Wiimote slip from my hands several times, since I refuse to use even the lanyard. I&#8217;ve also been a victim, experiencing near-total-knockout due to Wiimote by the means of my ex-girlfriend&#8217;s Wii Sportage.<\/p>\n<p>But, really, Nintendo, is this huge, aesthetically demoralising rubber coating necessary? I&#8217;m sure crazy Wii Sports Tennis players will still fling Wiimotes, hitting bystanders, screens, speakers, small animals, and pedestrians alike. Let us hit these people in fashion instead: forgo the rubber outing and just swap out the string lanyard for a nice metal chain. Even the victim will be more pleased: &#8220;I was attacked by a swinging remote on a chain&#8221;, rather than &#8220;I was attacked by a rubber monstrosity that bounced off of my head but still knocked me out and smashed my television.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Nintendo announced the Wii, we all thought, &#8220;pretty system, terrible name.&#8221; But due to the idiocy and law-suit loving American public, the Wiimote soon got a nice, gigantic, rubber covering to keep people from continuing to be a danger to themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1892,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[611,2769,2781,901],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun","category-gadgets","category-gaming","category-life"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ahshieh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ahshieh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ahshieh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ahshieh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1892"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ahshieh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ahshieh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ahshieh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ahshieh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ahshieh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}