Topic: How worried should we be?

The problem was the usual problem with gaming news: there isn't much journalistic integrity. Very little accountability or responsible reporting can be found in the vast majority of high-profile gaming blogs and news sites online. No offense to NL, of course, because the original stories here are mostly interviews with developers and so forth, which don't have this sort of problem. But sites like Kotaku (probably the worst I can think of for this sort of thing), Joystiq, and all the other little gaming blogs everyone links will take any story and blow it out of proportion with a misleading headline, all in order to get hits and flame wars going. I wouldn't trust a single thing you read from any of the above, without researching it yourself to see how much they've exaggerated and skewed the facts of the matter. You'd do better picking up a random tabloid in the grocery line.

I hate the internet sometimes. Even the tiniest of things, like you said, become sensationalised.

"OMG. Metroid Prime looks worse on Wii than GC! OMG!!!"

... because gamers don't naturally blow stuff like this waaaaaay out of proportion anyway, whether they choose to use homebrew or not... :/ Considering there was a fix for homebrew like the next day (or really soon after it hit, either way), why would the hacking/modding community have to do anything but sit back and laugh as everyone else worked themselves into fits over it? Most people who choose to mod their Wiis (or any other piece of technology) have a basic knowledge of computer-ish stuff anyway, up to and including the fact that when something is 'updating', you leave it the heck alone until it's done doing what needs doing. :3

Mine did not brick - but then Nintendo likes me

A lot.

(See I figure if Nintendo is capable of hating and scorning certain gamers, they are also capable of 'liking' - or even loving - them!)

Why not mii?

I still didn't update.