The Sickness and Wii
I’ve been fighting the death rattle of sickness for the last three weeks. By all rational standards I should be better, but it the throws of this life ending disease some call a cold, I can no longer distinguish reality from fiction. Winston Churchill has been visiting me in my dreams, and asking me to carry on the legacy…and since I’m unfamiliar with his visual representation, he looks only like Alfred Hitchcock, speaks roughly the same, and smells like Beefeater. Needless to say I am a little slow, and the Codine cough syrup dreams are starting to take their toll on me.
This is frustrating, of course, because I also am now the proud owner of a bouncing baby Wii. Normal “non-nerds” read no further…be satisfied at this point with the fact Liberals leadership is stupid and self-serving, and our country may be taken over by savage wombats (or is it wahabists) due to Democratic narrow-minded interpretations of blah blah blah…satisfied?
Nerds…I love my Wii, and am not afraid to say so. If I were in better health, I would be pushing this system to it’s arm jerking limits. For those of you who don’t know (who by all rational standards should have stopped reading last paragraph), the Nintendo Wii is exhausting. It’s not your typical controller-in-the-hand move-your-thumb type of system. For instance, if you play a baseball game, you use the controller as a bat. If you’re boxing, you actually make punching motions with the controllers, one in each hand, and sensors and doohickeys make the characters on screen simulate those movements.
Games are energy consuming, and after about two hours, your arms hurt. Goodbye to inactivity, you will be missed sorely…sorely…HA!
I’m reminded of my mom playing Contra back in the 80’s, her body moving as an extension of the controller, which was just an extension of the gun toting hero on screen, which resulted in her avoiding side scrolling 2-D missiles with real world dodging and ducking. Am I going to be relegated to the “I remember when” status of our elders? The modern equivalent of “Back when I was a kid, Pacman….”. I’m already there with music and cartoons (yes, cartoons were better during the hey-day of Ren and Stimpy)…so it was only a matter of time before I use the word doohickey while referencing a video game system.
Must keep up…
Cannot become obsolete…
Damn technology…the more they shove at me the consumer, the more neglected the wife feels.
I love technology,
But not as much as you you see.
UPDATE: Added to the collective consciousness of the Vast Right Wing conspiracy via Woman Honor Thyself’s open trackback.
erm..me bein one of da nerds who have no earthly idea what it is..but enjoy!..lol
Congratulations on the Wii. My only concern is how are we going to continue to raise an obese generation of young gamers if we teach them that video games require some physical effort. If the next generation becomes healthier then it will take that much longer to bankrupt Medicare and so we will never see any true reform. As conservatives, we should fight against the Wii in order to bring about real change. My part of this war against Medicare will be that when Smart-Lass starts making more money with her blog, she is going to buy me a PS3. By that time, they will be available without the bullet fragmant accessories.
Don’t worry, I will compensate by handing out Nutter Butters and Almond Joys to every child daily on my block…I will keep the balance of the Universe in check…no need to worry. I’m not about to change the status quo.
“Damn technology…the more they shove at me the consumer, the more neglected the wife feels.”
Hey, consumerism is part of capitalism. Were you to not buy the latest and greatest technological dohick— er… advancement, I dare say that you would have let the terrorists win. Does your wife want that on her conscience??? ;)
Best wishes getting better. Don’t let it get the better of you.
Only a matter of time, actual motion integrated into a game console…get jiggy with it!!! No muss, no fuss…eh!?
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