MeFi on Wii is a massive pain in the ass but it works

December 21, 2006 6:13 PM

Well, as it turns out, posting to Metafilter using opera on the wii is a massive pain in the ass. But it works, as this clearly shows.
posted by Effigy2000 to MetaFilter-Related at 6:13 PM (51 comments total)

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posted by cortex at 6:14 PM on December 21, 2006

This thread is useless without pics.
posted by SirStan at 6:14 PM on December 21, 2006

shut up shut up shut up shut up.

Happy Holidays!
posted by SeizeTheDay at 6:23 PM on December 21, 2006

More Wii threads plzkthx.
posted by The God Complex at 6:24 PM on December 21, 2006

How is it done? By selecting each letter, or mimicking writing with the wiimote?
posted by clevershark at 6:27 PM on December 21, 2006

Using the PC again now.

It's done selecting each letter with the Wiimote. Massive pain in the ass, as I said, but it works.

Trying to log in was a bit hard, though. I logged in etc, and it returned me to the main page but it looked as though I hadn't been logged in yet. Tried again, same results.

Then for the hell of it I clicked on the MetaTalk link and I was logged in.
posted by Effigy2000 at 6:30 PM on December 21, 2006

How did you download opera for the wii? I don't see it in the shop channel yet but it's supposed to come out 12/22?
posted by twiggy at 6:32 PM on December 21, 2006

I'm in Australia, if that helps, twiggy. It may not be out where you are yet.

At any rate, it's done through the shopping channel. Click on the Wii Software link. You get it from there.
posted by Effigy2000 at 6:36 PM on December 21, 2006

I believe it's available in Europe and Australia already.
posted by bob sarabia at 6:37 PM on December 21, 2006

Does it have a USB interface to which a keyboard could be attached?
posted by Steven C. Den Beste at 6:38 PM on December 21, 2006

Posting from a Wii? Haha, nice work! Now I challenge you to make an FPP with it.

*wanders off, quietly mumbling something about everyone else having a Wii*
posted by Spike at 6:40 PM on December 21, 2006

well... well.. SCREW YOU AND YOUR TIMEZONE OF THE FUTURE!!!

:(
posted by twiggy at 6:42 PM on December 21, 2006

Real men Wii standing up.
posted by Plutor at 6:47 PM on December 21, 2006

So what? I am posting this comment using nothing but my powerful mind to manipulate the flow of electrodes through the internet.

I mean, really; how could you tell?
posted by yhbc at 6:48 PM on December 21, 2006

One small step for Wii. One giant leap for Wiikind.
posted by brain_drain at 6:59 PM on December 21, 2006

oh god if I set my country to australia will I get it early?
* rushes downstairs
posted by boo_radley at 7:12 PM on December 21, 2006

i suppose it could be worse ... you could have wii'd on the opera ...
posted by pyramid termite at 7:30 PM on December 21, 2006

I am typing this comment with my micropenis.
posted by Meatbomb at 7:31 PM on December 21, 2006 [1 favorite]

I sent this comment via carrier pigeon. OLD SKOOL.
posted by flashboy at 7:49 PM on December 21, 2006

This was posted by Mr. ColdChef's manservant, Reginald.
posted by ColdChef at 8:05 PM on December 21, 2006

I detonated a half-megaton explosive over a desert, just so I could scrawl this post in radioactive glass.
posted by Smart Dalek at 8:11 PM on December 21, 2006

I recorded this comment on paper tape and drove it to Metafilter in my station wagon, since I couldn't get any time on the VAX.
posted by killdevil at 8:29 PM on December 21, 2006 [2 favorites]

One of their systems caught an early sniff of this comment, but was shut down with a smurf.
posted by luftmensch at 9:20 PM on December 21, 2006

"How is it done? By selecting each letter, or mimicking writing with the wiimote?"

The latter. It's just like writing your name with a sparkler in the dark on the Fourth of July.
posted by mr_crash_davis at 9:34 PM on December 21, 2006

Wiicha.
posted by loiseau at 9:35 PM on December 21, 2006

The latter. It's just like writing your name with a sparkler in the dark on the Fourth of July.

Wii remotes are going to cause searing burns on the flesh? Excellent.
posted by eriko at 9:41 PM on December 21, 2006

MeWii

(say out loud)
posted by edgeways at 9:44 PM on December 21, 2006

Well, as it turns out, posting to Metafilter using opera on the wii is a massive pain in the ass. But it works, as this clearly shows.

Grr, bah humbug, etc.

I'm going to go and queue for one today - was 9th in the queue for the seven that arrived in Game in Victoria Station yesterday. I'm told they have a dozen coming in today so will be first in the queue at 8am when they open...
posted by greycap at 10:00 PM on December 21, 2006

My dear old grizzlyadams-esque, bearded, long-haired, substance-abusing friend and partner in crime during the time I lived for a few years in Whistler BC had a few unbreakable personal rules about life. One of them was that, while skiing in particular, one should avoid at all costs going 'Wheeee'.
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posted by weapons-grade pandemonium at 10:52 PM on December 21, 2006

wii i am posting from my wii. opera has word completion but it's kind of weak at times. nintendo definitely needs a bluetooth keyboard.
posted by twiggy at 12:13 AM on December 22, 2006

I transmitted this comment over the Sub-Etha.
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posted by bob sarabia at 1:44 AM on December 22, 2006

I'm posting this comment from the Gamma Quadrant in the year 2365. I input it on my comm-PADD and then transmitted it via subspace particle beam through the Bajoran wormhole, then through the Guardian of Forever which sent it back in time to Earth in the year 2006, where it was received directly by mathowie's cerebral implants.
posted by Faint of Butt at 4:17 AM on December 22, 2006

Yeah, logging in was a bit of a hassle, but this predictive text stuff is keen. Wiiiiiiiiiiiii!!!!!!!
posted by robocop is bleeding at 4:22 AM on December 22, 2006

Also, 0987 2885 7506 1526. Drop me a line if'n you're adding!
posted by robocop is bleeding at 4:37 AM on December 22, 2006

This comment is encrypted in ROT26.
posted by signal at 4:48 AM on December 22, 2006

I originally wrote this post scrawled in the blood of a thousand Wii fans and using their ground bones as a quill, but Matt deleted it.
posted by loquacious at 6:04 AM on December 22, 2006

"This comment is encrypted in ROT26."

How are we supposed to read it?
posted by mr_crash_davis at 6:41 AM on December 22, 2006

BTW, I recommend using the cellphone style keyboard rather than the QWERTY as the buttons are bigger, and I just found it a lot less frustrating (fewer errors).

NOT typed on my Wii. Some of us have to work sometimes...
posted by Xoder at 7:04 AM on December 22, 2006

"This comment is encrypted in ROT26."
> How are we supposed to read it?

Simple, run it through a ROT39 twice. Duh.
posted by signal at 8:12 AM on December 22, 2006

This was recorded on sticky tape and rust.
posted by hoborg at 9:20 AM on December 22, 2006

/rot39x2 HAH! Faint of Butt is a big Trekkie!

/normaltext Still waiting for We Wii, by Rebecca Blood
posted by Sparx at 9:57 AM on December 22, 2006

I can't seem to log in to Mefi, but the rest of the properties work fine.

(via Wii!)
posted by sequential at 11:12 AM on December 22, 2006

Weird, it's just the front page.
posted by sequential at 11:17 AM on December 22, 2006 [1 favorite]

mr_crash_davis writes "The latter. It's just like writing your name with a sparkler in the dark on the Fourth of July."

Or writing your name in the snow I guess...
posted by clevershark at 11:59 AM on December 22, 2006

So, Faint of Butt, is there still a MetaFilter in the year 2365?
posted by languagehat at 12:35 PM on December 22, 2006

i don't know, languagehat, zager and evans didn't go back that far
posted by pyramid termite at 2:10 PM on December 22, 2006

I wrote this post on coding forms, submitted it to the I/O centre for keypunching onto 80 column cards, collected my deck the next day, used a 12-key hand punch to replace three cards where the KPO had misread some of my I's as 1's, ran the deck through an EBCDIC to ASCII converter and punched a 7-hole paper tape backup in case the JRun server died again, and still had it in before Christmas.

You ROT13 whippersnappers have it easy.
posted by flabdablet at 6:33 AM on December 23, 2006

Not to be left out, this comment was posted from the browser on my PS3.
posted by jonson at 9:27 PM on December 28, 2006

What's a PS3?

;)
posted by Effigy2000 at 5:50 PM on January 13, 2007