Comments on: Ma!!! Oh gosh!! Ma!!!

By: MotaMan

MotaMan — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 23:36:52 +0000

“Fun tip, you can set fire to stuff totally by accident if you take one of the Fresnel screens off an old big screen and lean it up somewhere direct sunlight can get to it.”

Thanks,

I’ll file that useful tid-bit under “Insurance Fraud”

By: GetSmart

GetSmart — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 06:31:41 +0000

Yep, a 36 inch CRT is a genuine nut buster. Especially Sony’s, musta been 250 lbs of glass in those suckers. These LCD and plasma sets need a 3mm or so piece of clear acrylic velcro’ed to the front like they used to do for the easily damaged Fresnel screens of the old style rear projection big screens. Lots cheaper than buying a whole new TV. Fun tip, you can set fire to stuff totally by accident if you take one of the Fresnel screens off an old big screen and lean it up somewhere direct sunlight can get to it.

By: Kanjy

Kanjy — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 01:22:30 +0000

The funniest thing is that it was the final throw of what would have been a 300 game.

Next time, he should play using a Wii Remote Jacket:
http://www.nintendo.com/consumer/jacket/jacketrequest.jsp

By: hhopper

hhopper — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 00:07:44 +0000

He was recording a 300 game.

By: MurDog

MurDog — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 23:39:18 +0000

He sounds Russian or at least former eastern bloc to me.

The bigger question is, who goes to the trouble of setting up a camera to film himself play Wii bowling unless he intends to do something “Funny”…

Either way, entertaining.

By: JimR

JimR — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 23:25:44 +0000

I distinctly heard him say “Pushna!” which means “Creator!” in Punjabi and “Jesus fucking Christ!” in Canadian English.

By: Miguel

Miguel — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 19:44:22 +0000

#22

Not necessarily. CRTs are bulky because of the electron gun that had to be a certain distance away from the screen, and all that glass had to be in a vacuum, and so had to be thicker the bigger the screen.

What I mean is that TFTs and Plasmas could (I think) have some protective layer, maybe half an inch or an inch, I dunno, of strong glass (bulletproof? . That would make the set heavier, of course, perhaps much heavier, so I don’t know if that’s not being done just because it’s not feasible or because of marketing considerations – thinner is better.

By: GregA

GregA — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 13:41:08 +0000

#21

Because then they would be heavy big and ugly like old style TV’s. You ever see the monstrosity that is a 42″ CRT?

By: Miguel

Miguel — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 11:18:11 +0000

Why can’t they make TFTs/Plasmas sturdy as old CRTs?

By: eyeofthetiger

eyeofthetiger — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 07:12:18 +0000

Almost like real bowling.

By: waltersobchack

waltersobchack — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 06:46:07 +0000

Listen at 29 seconds.

The game says “Perfect!”

So at least he still had his perfect game going for himself. Which is nice.

It would have been better if he was using a real bowling ball. Maybe people playing Wii should use the old school CRT televisions.

By: Zybch

Zybch — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 06:11:05 +0000

So this stupid jerk thought the strap was only there to make the Wiimote look cool I guess…
Serves him right, him and his stupid miniature xmas tree.

By: OC Technophile

OC Technophile — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 06:05:36 +0000

More LCD and plasma screens have been hurt with idiot Wii bowlers than any other game. Idiot though.

By: onomontapeia

onomontapeia — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 05:19:28 +0000

Poor guy my ass, no strap, no sense, no sorrow! Idiot.

By: soundwash

soundwash — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 04:04:53 +0000

rofl… oh man… that sucks…

personally, i think i would have screamed a bit..

(note to self, no eating fried chicken
before Wii time..)

must be a plasma..*shrug* i’ve come across
many LCD’s with object oriented cracks in them that still show the picture regardless of significant damage..(never worked on plasma)

-s