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LOL: Wii Fit Calls Girl Fat
Wii Fit Dares to Call Young Girl ‘Fat’ – Experts Call For Parental Warning (and even a ban) » Thoughts from the Sidelines - Technology, Gadgets & Curiosities
Basically, a "horrified" family wants Wii Fit banned because it called their "big boned" daughter fat. Personally, I think this is hilarious and honestly if they're getting that upset about it, she probably does need to loose some weight. Nintendo/Wii Fit didn't do anything wrong... how can being honest be the wrong thing? Haha. |

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...Wow. Just... wow. Talk about melodramatic. If this guy wants Wii Fit banned for calling you "fat", then who knows what he'd say about GTA?
I seriously needed that laugh right now.
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But besides that, she probably entered her numbers wrongs. Although why waist your money on what you can do outside?
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Ugh.... some parents take way too many things seriously and take offense to the stupidest things.
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It's all sensitivities and PC stuff... Like the 'you're 89' thing in brain age. Probably just a linguistic error. A screenshot would be nice, though. Shame, Nintendo, choose your words more carefully. Now apologize.
I'm a bit oversensitive/overweight/&c. too, (AND I'M A GUY! LOL) but it's how the game works. How would a game infer such a thing? It's inatimate! Incapable of judging you! I suppose it would have been best just to call her a 'lazy child' or something to that effect. But seriously, there are just some things you never say to a woman... Nintendo should have prevented it. But what the family's asking for is likely an exageration to make a quick buck in legal damages. Same motavation as finger in chile. Or, maybe, the anti-GTA lawyer's really the fun-hater everyone say's he is. Conspiracy! Sony's laughing its *** off, I bet.
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Wii Fit uses BMI (Body Mass Index) in order to measure whether people are overweight or underweight. While not a perfect system, it works fairly well for adults. The girl is 11 years old. She is not an adult, and therefore the game cannot properly use the BMI on her, it can only give an estimation. It's bound to be wrong some time or another.
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I saw this on Kotaku a few weeks ago. Absolutely hilarious. If you think your kid might be sensitive about their weight don't let them play a game like that. Also, it does say that it will not necessarily be accurate for children.
But yeah, 92 pounds for a 10 year old is probably a little on the heavy side. If you go by the body mass index (which Wii Fit uses) anyway.
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Oh look, the Daily Mail.
*sigh* I tried Wii Fit for the first time a couple of weeks ago. Now, I'm not exactly in shape and I've definitely put weight on over the past couple of years, but I was told I'm of ideal fitness and weight for my age group. I was rather surprised. Maybe fatty just needs some proper exercise. BEEFCAKE! ~ Adhamh. |

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I could remember reading an article back in the day where some guy in the U.S sued nintendo because they stole his idea ![]()
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At first I laughed, but then I thought....
Oh no... Oh no oh nonononononooooo!! This is gonna damage Nintendo's localization even MORE... The extremes of "politically correct" are going to be stretched beyond belief... all because some moron is offended by something in a game that isn't even supposed to be taken as a serious "diagnosis"!! This happened with the Wii-motes, too... People were being incredibly stupid and hurting/killing themselves with their plastic game controllers, and now, after many unwarranted/greedy lawsuits and media negativity, Nintendo's released the ridiculous Wii-mote jacket, and beats people over the head to not kill themselves while playing WarioWare. ...This can only get worse. People are jerks.
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LOL what other system has the balls to call someone fat, go nintendo! I guess Wii "FIT" lives up to its name....hell if I had a workout routine and I wanted to know my real results without some BS answer...just shoot straight
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People get offended way to easy. These people are setting bad examples for their children. How are htey going to deal with life? If they think *that* is bad, wait until they hear what real people have to say about them. When you make a big deal about this, the children are going to be like this. They wont beable to handle what some stranger off the street is going to call them.
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My gosh. This is the age of being offended for the most stupid reasons.
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People are way too sensitive nowadays.
"Wahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh the excercise machine called me fat" Shut up, eat right and start benching.
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I can never understand why women are so sensitive of everything put on them making them look fat. I guess that's because I'm a guy.
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