{"id":216,"date":"2007-11-13T15:20:16","date_gmt":"2007-11-13T22:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/archives\/216"},"modified":"2007-11-13T15:20:16","modified_gmt":"2007-11-13T22:20:16","slug":"check-mii-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/archives\/216","title":{"rendered":"Check Mii Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s the name of the new channel available on Wii.  I gotta say, it&#8217;s much better than the other channels we&#8217;ve been getting.  After you download the channel (from the Shop channel), go in and look at all the &#8220;Popular&#8221; Mii&#8217;s.   It&#8217;s pretty amazing what some people can do with the limited Mii palette.  Moles are mouths.  Sunglasses are cheeks.  Eyes are eyebrows.  Eyebrows are horns.  Characters that you wouldn&#8217;t think were possible have been done.  There&#8217;s also a contest aspect to this channel.  The first contest is to create Mario without his cap.  After seeing what others could do, I spent quite a bit of time getting my Mario submission just right.  Oh god, I spent a long time (over an hour, I think) making a Mario Mii&#8230;. help me.  The channel might not be revolutionary, but it&#8217;s kinda fun.  \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>And, of course, the contest seems to be a way Nintendo is promoting their latest game: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metacritic.com\/games\/platforms\/wii\/supermariogalaxy\">Super Mario Galaxy<\/a> ships today.  It is being dubbed the <em>spiritual successor<\/em> of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metacritic.com\/games\/platforms\/n64\/supermario64\">Super Mario 64<\/a> (which you should have either on N64 or Virtual Console) and is pretty much unanimously the best Wii game.  Get it.  Now.<\/p>\n<p><em>Steven runs out the door.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s the name of the new channel available on Wii. I gotta say, it&#8217;s much better than the other channels we&#8217;ve been getting. After you download the channel (from the Shop channel), go in and look at all the &#8220;Popular&#8221; Mii&#8217;s. It&#8217;s pretty amazing what some people can do with the limited Mii palette. Moles&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/archives\/216\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Check Mii Out<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[24,5,22,21,25,23,20],"class_list":["post-216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek","category-general","tag-check-mii-out","tag-games","tag-mario","tag-mii","tag-nintendo","tag-super-mario-galaxy","tag-wii","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4jEMb-3u","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}