Seeing as how this story is already all over the internet, I wasn't really going to bother putting it up ... until Teddy Gage e-mailed it into tips (thanks, dude). Seeing this pop up in more and more places by the minute frustrates me to no end.
We all knew there would be porn on the Wii. The console is called "Wii" for God's sake. From the second people found out about the "Wiimote" with the built in rumble (read: vibrator), jokes more pain-inducing than David Hasselhoff's hair in Knight Rider have flooded the internet, slowly but surely chipping away at our brains one cell at a time. Women have used it to do their business. There is a downloadable browser for the console. For the past month, websites (especially those of the adult variety) have been changing their layouts to accomodate the Wii browing experience. And do people take note of this? Nooo.
For Laurn Schroeder, protecting her first grade girls is a priority. "[They're] innocent, and we want to try and keep them that way," she said."
"It's very upsetting something this popular—a kid game—can go that direction so quickly," Schroeder said.
No arguments there, Ms. Schroeder.
"That's why it's so important to read into and do research and background checking before you invest in it," Schroeder said. She studied her daughters' Wii to identify the built-in parental controls.
Damn right it is.
Other parents, however, complain that Nintendo's scheme is unsatisfactory, and that the Wii browser lacks a "cyber-nanny" or filtering function.
Here's where it gets retarded. Scheme unsatisfactory? A cyber-nanny? Let me point a couple of things out:
1. Everyone watches porn. Well, at least all men do. If you don't want your kid looking at porn, don't let them go online unsupervised.
2. The browser is still in its beta stage of development. Obviously there's no built in cyber-nanny. This is Nintendo we're talking about. The company that won't allow the release a simple mature game without covering their asses well in advance.
I'll be the first to admit I don't know a damned thing about parenting. But like Ms. Schroeder said; do a little research on a product before you buy it. It's easy. We're not living in the 14th century. If you want to protect your kid, then by all means do it.
Contest:
11:19 AM on 01.09.2007
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Parents- seriously, PLEASE don't give Nintendo any more reason to make their online capabilities more closeted than they already are.
Toneman I have already succumb to Wii-Porn. Elbow deep in inter-species erotica. I mean Zelda.
@ Toneman : What really scares me is there's a site dedicated to this. Do I dare search? Toneman you do it for me.
HEY RETARDS...er...PARENTS IF YOU'RE SCARED OF TEH PRON, DON'T DOWNLOAD THE DAMN OPTIONAL BROWSER!
Also, cocks....with mullets...
Now there's a mental image.
As for wiiporn, I don't bother with it. With three computers already online, I have more than enough available venues for free, higher quality porn than just through a web browser. In fact, I honestly don't know where to go to look for porn on a browser. emule and bit torrent work so much better to suit my needs.
ALERT THE INTERNETS!
"That was my SKULL!"
I wonder if we will see a new South Park episode that deals with this issue? ^_^
(That last one was a joke.)
There's a parental control option on the Wii that will prevent it from running games of certain ratings if you set it up that way. Why don't they just make it unable to d/l the broswer if the parental controls are on?
The only way to protect your kids now or for their future is to teach them not to be idiots anyway.
Fucking people...
Also, I call Dell all the time just so I can talk to Ishaan. His voice always sounds a little different for some reason and he seems to forget who I am all the time, but let me tell you, we've had some good long talks!
The one time I was all like "Remember that awesome post Summa made!" and he was all like "I don't know what you're talking about sir." and then I was all like "Haha! Oooh nice one Ishaan!" and he was totally like "My name is not Ishaan sir, it is Jaideep". But I knew it was you Ishaan. I knew it was you.
The jobs here are the same as the jobs everywhere, the only difference being India is a developing country and our population is the size of Pamela Anderson's breasts. As a result, a LOT of jobs get outsourced to us...cheap labour, blah blah. We also have a lot of rural areas in the country.
And I do plan to move out after college to pursue a game journalism or comic writing career, but that won't be for another year and a half.
[Disclaimer: For God's sake, don't take offense to any of that stuff in the first line.]
I just think that if everyone were that worried, companies would start manufacturing self-dustrict-if-watching-porn-buttons on their products.
I love browsing pornotube on my Wii. It's awesome. But parents have to fucking chill out and stop looking for scapegoats to cover their poor parenting skills.
Humping stormtrooper > David Hasselhoff