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Nintendo DS Hurts The Children!

Posted by Zonk on from the hilarious-reporting-in-action dept.

GameSetWatch has a humorous lampoon of an ABC-6 Action News report on the dangers your child can face in the seedy world of Mario Kart. From the article: "We've been struggling in trying to figure out how kids can be 'lured into dangerous chat rooms' while using the Nintendo DS, considering that the DS's chat program, PictoChat, can not be used over the internet, and also keeping in mind that the only way to interact with a living being over the internet through your Nintendo DS is to do so through a game that supports Nintendo WiFi Connection, all of which require both parties to input 'friend codes' before they can play with each other."

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  1. Re:The report hasn't actually happened yet. by SetupWeasel · · Score: 4, Informative

    Oh yeah, here is the offending ABC 6 website.

    I love the picture of the evil pink DS with the subliminal dollar sign.

  2. So here's the actual article ... by EvilCabbage · · Score: 2, Informative

    Again, how about posting a direct link to the article making crackpot claims instead of somebodys blog?

    ABC News "report" here

    They are indeed claiming the Nintendo DS is some kind of perverse tool of evil, they completely ignore the differences between the ad-hoc network capability and the online play and use the word "claim" to downplay Nintendos technical explaination.

  3. Complaint form by Omega697 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Go here: http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=stationi nfo&id=3293957 To file a complaint. I did. We need to hold these reporters' feet to the fire. Insiste they cease their fearmongering and shoddy journalism.

  4. Incorrect statement by 77Punker · · Score: 2, Informative

    Mario Kart DS does not require a friend code to play online. A friend code is only required to play against a friend. Of course, there's still no threat to the children. The worst that could happen is somebody draws a penis for his logo. The one that could be a threat since it has a chat function, Animal Crossing, does require a friend code to play a game so you're damn sure whose DS and game cartridge combination you're playing against.

  5. Re:Where is the video? by MasaMuneCyrus · · Score: 2, Informative

    Through a bunch of fancy work, I got a firefox-working link.

    http://ww2.wpvi.com/global/video/popup/pop_playerL aunch.asp?clipid1=682347&at1=News&vt1=v&h1=Nintend o+DS+System+Warning&d1=210267&redirUrl=www.WPVI.co m&activePane=info&LaunchPageAdTag=homepage

    For me, it tries and fails to load a popup window, and then the actual video loads in Windows Media Player -- the non webbrowser one.

  6. Re:Understandable. by LoverOfJoy · · Score: 2, Informative

    lol how did the parent get modded Informative? Instead you moderators should be modding me off-topic. :)