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Subject: Nintendo Director Yoshiomi Kurisu talks about detecting Dicks

My brother sent me this increasingly amusing article about the Wii U Miiverse social network's abillity to detect whether or not it's users are sending unsavory pictures to each other, and I thought I should share:
Iwata: I agree. The unique feature of the Miiverse is being able to send drawings, not just text. But since the advent of the internet, there have always been those who have used it for unsavory purposes.

Kurisu: Right, auto-detection of bad words is very simple.

Iwata: Yes, text messages may be easy to moderate; however, drawings are much more difficult.

Yuzawa: (laughs) I think I know where this is going.

Kurisu: Let us get this out of the way then. (laughs) We anticipated that some users would draw

Kato: Can we even say the word?

Iwata: Go ahead. (laughs)

Kurisu: Ahem, uh. Some users would take to drawing -blam!-es.

Everyone: (laughs)

Kurisu: Well, it's true. It seems to be more of a phenomenon found in the west.

Motoyama: Yes, we never had such a problem with our Hatena services. But, when we brought Hatena Flipnote to the West, we were caught off-guard by the amount of -blam!-es drawn by people.

Kurisu: So the team and I had to come up with a way to create a system that auto-detects those types of pictures.

Kato: Kurisu-san suggested we study different types of -blam!-es in order to create figure out the relative shape and size people would draw. We spent a week doing that before we realized that we should have been looking at drawings of -blam!-es rather than real-life pictures. (laughs) We were very embarrassed about that.

Kurisu: My judgement on these types of situations is poor. (laughs)

Motoyama: After a week, we made very good progress on the system. Then we tested the system with Nintendo of America and told them to start drawing. It went horribly.

Kurisu: What we learned is that people enjoy drawing -blam!-es. Multiple ones. (laughs) The system was not prepared to handle that.

Iwata: I do not think your team anticipated how difficult this would get!

Kurisu: No. (laughs)

Yuzawa: I was disheartened myself. We spent a few more weeks trying to get a system working.

Motoyama: Nintendo of America really took the system to its limits.

Yuzawa: You know what surprised me. No one drew a single -blam!-.

Everyone: (laughs)

Iwata: So, in the end, it all worked out?

Kurisu: Yes, we can safely say that we have a very good system to detect -blam!- drawings. Hopefully player's Miiverse experiences will be a fun one!
Now I want a Wii U so I can put the system through it's paces and see just how good Nintendo's engineers are.

Discuss the wonders of modern technology.

  • 11.28.2012 1:43 PM PDT

I am alpha, i am omega.

I am the last of the primes.

*Looks anime in japan*

Rightttttttttt

  • 11.28.2012 1:45 PM PDT
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They studied... actual dicks?

  • 11.28.2012 1:47 PM PDT

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-Sir Winston Churchill

The Secret Society 95% of activity is me, I could use some help.

Why do people like to draw that? seems idiotic to me... Anyway, cool system I can't believe that actually researched reals ones at first, how embarrassing...

  • 11.28.2012 1:47 PM PDT

well... thats awkward.

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  • 11.28.2012 1:48 PM PDT

Well, Im sure Microsoft would like to have a word with Nintendo on that.

There's a lot of em around Live.......Oh wait, you mean just the drawing......

[Edited on 11.28.2012 1:49 PM PST]

  • 11.28.2012 1:48 PM PDT

I dont like where this is going, people will always find a way around this, how they will do it is what scares me.

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  • 11.28.2012 1:49 PM PDT

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A phenomenon that occurs just in the west? Alrighty then Japan...

  • 11.28.2012 1:50 PM PDT

Posted by: BerserkWolf
I dont liek where this is going, people will always find a way around this, how they will do it is what scares me.
Let the Escalation begin!

  • 11.28.2012 1:50 PM PDT

If I ever get AIDS, I'm going to sleep with another AIDS person so my AIDS cancel each other out, or I'm going to make the AIDS I already have worse.

Someone should get him to work on the Black Ops 2 emblem system ;_;

  • 11.28.2012 1:51 PM PDT


Posted by: omg a bannana
Someone should get him to work on the Black Ops 2 emblem system ;_;


Or black ops 1 as well, I saw so many people making emblems with male genitalaia or female genitalia that it wasnt funny.

  • 11.28.2012 1:52 PM PDT
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Posted by: Safran888
They studied... actual dicks?

  • 11.28.2012 1:54 PM PDT

There goes my only ever reason to buy any Nintendo console.

Now where will I go to fulfil my dick-drawing needs?

  • 11.28.2012 1:55 PM PDT

real gamertag is mvyorkie009

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yorkie

why does it needed to be covered up? they paid for it so they should be able to use it how they want. i dont understand why people try to censor -blam!- its dumb as -blam!-.
yorkie

  • 11.28.2012 1:55 PM PDT


Posted by: Jet Lockheed
There goes my only ever reason to buy any Nintendo console.

Now where will I go to fulfil my dick-drawing needs?


Draw Something on Ipad perhaps?

  • 11.28.2012 1:56 PM PDT

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yorkie


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Posted by: omg a bannana
Someone should get him to work on the Black Ops 2 emblem system ;_;


Or black ops 1 as well, I saw so many people making emblems with male genitalaia or female genitalia that it wasnt funny.


hehe mine was both...it was a bone with white coral coming off of it in a hand going onto an egg...you should see my blops 2 one even worse hehehehehe.
yorkie

  • 11.28.2012 1:56 PM PDT


Posted by: BerserkWolf

Posted by: Jet Lockheed
There goes my only ever reason to buy any Nintendo console.

Now where will I go to fulfil my dick-drawing needs?


Draw Something on Ipad perhaps?


too expensive

I want my dicks to be seen all over the world

  • 11.28.2012 1:57 PM PDT


Posted by: mvyorkie009

Posted by: BerserkWolf

Posted by: omg a bannana
Someone should get him to work on the Black Ops 2 emblem system ;_;


Or black ops 1 as well, I saw so many people making emblems with male genitalaia or female genitalia that it wasnt funny.


hehe mine was both...it was a bone with white coral coming off of it in a hand going onto an egg...you should see my blops 2 one even worse hehehehehe.
yorkie


Yeah.. no

  • 11.28.2012 1:57 PM PDT
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Posted by: BerserkWolf

Posted by: omg a bannana
Someone should get him to work on the Black Ops 2 emblem system ;_;


Or black ops 1 as well, I saw so many people making emblems with male genitalaia or female genitalia that it wasnt funny.

This.

Not to mention remove the grenade and fading bar from the halo games. Pretty funny story though. Although, they forget about pronz in general. It's gonna happen, trust me.

  • 11.28.2012 1:59 PM PDT

Posted by: Jet Lockheed
There goes my only ever reason to buy any Nintendo console.

Now where will I go to fulfil my dick-drawing needs?
You're just upset that dick-drawing takes skill now.

  • 11.28.2012 2:00 PM PDT
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  • 11.28.2012 2:00 PM PDT

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this was the best line in the whole article

You know what surprised me. No one drew a single -blam!-.
yorkie

  • 11.28.2012 2:02 PM PDT

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Posted by: Jiggleslinky
Anyway, cool system I can't believe that actually researched reals ones at first, how embarrassing...
My thought as well. I mean really, this is I'm assuming a skilled and experienced team of programmers and/or engineers, how did no one realize that pictures =/= drawings on day one of the project.

  • 11.28.2012 2:03 PM PDT

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Oh dear. Here comes more cyber pr0nz. But now it's via console. EEEEE-blam!-!!

  • 11.28.2012 2:03 PM PDT

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It's a fake but it's funny nonetheless.
The website makes up parody Iwata Asks etc.
You should read the Kaz Hirai one.

  • 11.28.2012 2:18 PM PDT

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