Entry tags:

plagiarism, wii wank

Nintendo Miis are SRS BZNS
(Posted to OTF because it's more to do with the Nintendo system rather than any fandom-drawing Nintendo games.)

So Nintendo has introduced a new "channel" for the Wii called the"Check Mii Out" channel. It's basically a place for Wii users to show off their talents at building Wii avatars, or Miis.

Well, Brandon Erickson at Gamecritics isn't a happy camper. Because apparently Nintendo has implemented this feature the wrong way and too late, and also? Mii plagiarism! Oh noes! Brandon writes:

Since then, the situation has only continued to deteriorate. Many of my Mii designs (and those of many other artists) have been so rampantly copied and recopied that it would be impossible for the average user to trace their origins. On Sunday, I visited the Check Mii Out Channel and submitted some Miis. I noticed that a copy of my Jack Black Mii was ranked first. I pushed the "call friends" button to find other Jack Blacks. Fifty clones appeared (there may be more, but the system can only show fifty), none of which were the one I submitted.

Some of the commenters sympathize. Others? Not so much.

Anonymous: Have you considered that you just might not be as clever as you think you are? It's not that much of a stretch that someone else could have made a similar Jack Black Mii independently of you.

Chadd Derkins: My favorite part is where you refer to Miis as "art" and to yourself as an "artisan". My other favorite part is where you pretend you aren't a whiny vagina face. Please shut up.

LKM: Are you f*cking kidding me? Seriously? You're complaining that people copy your Mii designs? Geez. This is the single dumbest thing I've read all week. No, all month. It's a stupid Mii! It's not some kind of painting or song or article or story or something.

Small, but tasty. As my husband put it, "Internets: 1; Crying Baby: 0".