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News Room Contributor  Posts: 1863 Joined: 19 Aug 2006     | |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 884 Joined: 19 Sep 2008     | Wow. Some people's stupidity is incredible. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1083 Joined: 11 May 2008     | That made my morning... |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1181 Joined: 24 Apr 2008    | lol! I heard this on Screwattack some days ago! Hilarious! Eh, some people... I'm surpirsd she even figures how to eat, drink, sleep, breath properly! Omfg, I think I'm getting angry from this stupidity! Gonna go to disembowel some enemies in God Of War... |
Press Junketeer  Posts: 393 Joined: 7 Feb 2008     | Old news. |
Developer Emeritus  Posts: 1572 Joined: 5 Aug 2003     | Tried not once, nor twice... BUT THREE TIMES. If it doesn't work the first two times... Amazing. |
Muckraker  Posts: 272 Joined: 14 Dec 2008  | The first sign of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, expecting a different result every time. In fairness to the daft old bag, it does kinda look like a credit card slot. In the same way that a lion kinda looks like a cute little kitten. |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 800 Joined: 25 Nov 2008  | So stupid. Wasn't there a thread about this a week or two back? |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 3385 Joined: 28 Jun 2008   | What? It's only for disks? Oh ho ho, I beg to differ. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 3552 Joined: 8 Dec 2007 | I do think that anyone who reads about this can take comfort in the fact that they are not this woman and will most likely never do something so stupid. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1075 Joined: 25 May 2008   | Well you know what they say. Three is the magic number... |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 58 Joined: 27 Oct 2008     | I thought that last sentence before reading it. ^^ Three credit cards.. oh boy. xD |
Paperboy Posts: 30 Joined: 25 Jul 2008   | People like that are the reason you have 'Caution, Contents May Be Hot' written on McDonalds coffee cups. It seems being incapable of rational though it not preventative to a successful career though. There are people in my office with very senior jobs who still haven't got their heads around the fact that we're now using a new printer with a different name. I sent an e-mail round explaining how to make the new printer the default, yet still had to go and actually do it anyway for a bunch of overpaid numpties. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 3587 Joined: 6 Aug 2008  | *feels superior* But seriously, she put a credit card in? Not a terrible idea for a console but still very stupid. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2210 Joined: 16 Aug 2008 | no matter how many times i read it i always laugh |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 3887 Joined: 7 Nov 2007  | 3rd time lucky (!) |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 114 Joined: 24 Dec 2008 | Fucking lol |
BANNED  Posts: 819 Joined: 22 Dec 2008    | wow, this person must be stupider than my mom. she thought our wii was going to blow up when we first hooked it up to the internet and it started to glow blue and told us we had a system update... |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 3266 Joined: 1 Nov 2007     | Wow...I saw this a few weeks ago and thought it was an urban myth. Clever really, just heep trying, its bound to work eventually... |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 3617 Joined: 7 Aug 2008  |
I like the idea that machine moonlight as other things. Or even better, turn into masked super-machines and fight crime in the night. |
BANNED  Posts: 3486 Joined: 25 Aug 2008   |
Screw that, it made my entire week. This is astonishingly brainless. User was banned for: The Second Annual Escapist Election: Part 1: Presidential Primaries. (Permanent) |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1905 Joined: 24 Jan 2008   | this is how you know Nintendo aimed at the wrong demographic. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2776 Joined: 20 Jul 2008     | Could one of the female members of this board please find this woman and give her a slap to back of her head Gibb's style please? |
BANNED  Posts: 2505 Joined: 19 Aug 2008 | Wasn't there another thread about this somewhere on here? I think Indigo posted it. User was banned for: Poll: Round 5 - Field of Four - (1) Turbine vs (1) Nintendo. (Permanent) |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 974 Joined: 22 May 2008    | I know you put money into arcade games, but this is ridiculous. |
Press Junketeer  Posts: 432 Joined: 18 Apr 2008 | hard core facepalm Sadly I see my mom doing this if I ever am not around to run the cuboid. |
Press Junketeer  Posts: 484 Joined: 5 Feb 2008  | Hahaha, very funny. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1400 Joined: 3 Apr 2008    |
the perfect back to school thread....wow though how do ya mistake disk slot for credit card? you put the number into the tihng...... |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1809 Joined: 8 Apr 2008    | In HER defense, he could've worded it a lot better than "you put your credit card in when prompted." However, even then she manages to reach a whole new level of techno-tarded. Doesn't the Wii Shop channel give specific instructions on entering the credit card number? EDIT: You know, I wonder how much money this woman would waste on a defective vending machine before giving up? |
Beat Writer  Posts: 135 Joined: 6 Oct 2008  | This scares me. I fear the day that she gets a computer. I'm sure tech support all around the world does too. To imagine her on a computer, all i have to do is imagine my mom on a computer, and multiply by 10. Every time something pops up, she screams apocalypse. Mom- "Jacob! Something just popped up! It says 'AVG Antivirus, click OK to update', what should i do!? WHY DOES SHE ALWAYS TRY THE COMPUTER WHEN IM ABSORBED WITH SOMETHING FUN ON MY COMPUTER? Although, if you think about it, that poor credit card lady would make for some really funny tech support call logs, like the ones i enjoy reading all the time. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1473 Joined: 6 Feb 2008 | Stupid as it sounds (as well as amusing) I can perhaps understand why someone who had never used a console/ordered online before might take "put the creditcard in" too literally. Dunno if this woman fit that criteria. |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 615 Joined: 13 Jul 2006   | "Put in your credit card" sounds a lot like physically putting in your credit card. The lady was clearly ignorant of technology, but the person giving the instructions used a very vague and odd way to mean "enter your credit card information". I wouldn't call the woman stupid, just mind bogglingly unfamiliar with mainstream technology. This ranks up there with the cup holder fiasco when CD drives were first introduced to PCs. ;-) And don't get me started on the seeming convenience of fridge magnets to hold 5 ¼" disks to the side of the PC's chassis. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1010 Joined: 5 Jan 2009 | ... How? I mean I know some people aren't knowledgeable when it comes to technology but this is an almost unbelievable level of ignorance. I thought this was a wind up at first but I got a good laugh out of it. Perfect thing to lighten up my Monday :D |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1151 Joined: 7 Dec 2008 | The woman is trying to get the neighbor to pay for the damage? Really? She has destroyed my faith in humanity. |
Honorable Mention: Escapist Film Festival  Posts: 342 Joined: 11 Nov 2008   | Wow, this is the third time this article has been a thread. |
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Wii Slot For Discs, Not Credit Cards
Moms might be tempted to buy Nintendo's latest console, but they should probably take a common sense test before trying to buy from the Wii's Virtual Console.
One would think that the difference between a DVD player or game console and a cash register would be nearly universally understood at this point in history. Yet the story of how one mom lost three credit cards inside her Wii console proves that one should never assume that the customer knows how to properly use the equipment he or she is buying.
The neighbors of one NeoGAF forum-goer, a couple with young kids, decided to purchase a Wii for the family for Christmas. Failing to buy anything other than a Classic controller and carrying case, "HUELEN10" recommended the family try Animal Crossing: City Folk with Wii Speak and some Virtual Console titles, downloadable games for the Wii.
When the mother of the family asked HUELEN10 how the Virtual Console worked, he explained, "I told her that all she needed to do was put in her credit card when prompted on the Shop Channel, and get the amount of points she wanted."
Somehow these directions were misconstrued and taken far too literally, as shortly thereafter, HUELEN10 received a call revealing, in his words, "SHE PHYSICALLY PUT 3 CREDIT CARDS INTO THE DISC SLOT. HOW STUPID DO YOU HAVE TO BE?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!"
Indeed, this woman believed that her videogaming machine doubled as a credit terminal by night.
"I told her she has to cancel her cards and call Nintendo for a $75 repair, and now she expects ME to pay for this," ranted HUELEN10. "Seriously, she put in 1, and thought that that one could not be accepted, so she kept putting them in and they will not come out. I might try to remove them tomorrow with her hubby while she is away on a business trip."
If there is anything to learn from this bizarre experience, it's the some people will never quite understand modern technology and yet, somehow, these same people are intelligent enough to have careers that offer business trips.
Source: NintendoWiiFanboy
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