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WiiFit: You're fat.
Post Date: May 19, 2008
Category: Games
Nintendo has apologised for the WiiFit calling people fat.

Apparently people have taken offense to their 'game' calling them fat, after it's calculated their BMI (body mass index).

The Daily Mail has published a news story about it, which is no surprise, and found here.

Anyone with half an ounce of sense knows the BMI is going to be wrong in any number of cases, and it even explains the BMI system in the manual. How people are taking this the wrong way, I don't know.

It looks like a 'waahmbulance' moment, to me.

What're your thoughts?
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    lol You know your fat when your friends call you fat , and if your only friends are your video games and they're even calling you fat well i think its time to hit the gym
    05.19.08 10:54 pm
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      Worrying is about as effective as chewing gum to solve algebra

      Hahaha, yeah.

      It's really quite bad when a piece of code with no personal agenda (Unless Nintendo have started buying gyms?) calls you fat. Most definitely a reason to hit the gym.
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      05.20.08 6:44 am
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