Followers of this blog might know that I’m a Wii fanatic. I love using gestures and pointing at the screen as if I’m actually doing what the on-screen characters are doing, and I love the goofy type of games that the system attracts. Mostly I love making Miis.
After a month or so of fashioning Mii caricatures and posting them on the Check Mii Out Channel, I found myself looking at people and contemplating which features I would use from the exquisitely limited Mii palette. One lady’s eyes could be a perfect match for those really angular ones on the second page, or some guy’s hair could be decent with that pompadour-ish ‘do. (When I realized I should spend more energy drawing the specific angle of a nose than trying to find a close approximation on the Wii, I started the Celebrity Saturday series.)
I submit Miis to the weekly Check Mii Out contests (the people at Nintendo chose a theme, the people at home try to match it, and then judge which characters are the best fit). I obsess over how my little guys are doing on the Posting Plaza (the people at home toss up their best creations, and then give thumbs ups to the ones they like).
Well dudes, after a year of toiling in agony and obscurity, I’ve finally made the A List; I’m the Number 83 Mii Artisan. If I haven’t made myself clear enough, this is at least as good as discovering your high school lacrosse team is ranked among the Top 50 nationwide. It’s probably even as good as producing a movie that wins the Oscar for Best Sound Editing.
But that’s not all! Doo-oods, my Sarah Palin is tenth in the nation!!!!!!!! That’s like…! fuckin…I don’t know, say, winning six Gold Medals at the Olympics, o-kay?? [Actually, it was eight. -Precise Pat]
For realz:
