Posted on 12/10/2008 2:48:44 AM PST by SvenWaring
Wow! With Wii Community Service, it's almost like you're really helping.
With community service mandates for high school and college in the works, Nintendo is developing "Wii Community Service."
Benny Haha, the developer in charge of the Wii Community Service project, said the popular home video console that detects movements and reproduces those movements virtually is a 21st century approach to forced volunteerism.
"The youth who so passionately backed the change of Barack Obama now must contemplate the mandates on community service, which may mean they will be forced to unsatisfying things, like work in the elements and, like, lift stuff," said Haha. "Nintendo is creating this product so they can stay in their disheveled bedrooms and still participate in change and hope."
(Excerpt) Read more at dotpenn.com ...
Satire by the way...
Why who wouldn’t want to work on Obama’s chain gang?
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