On the Web: Nintendo Wii is a "load of cock"
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When the mood takes you and you start prancing round the room lets say…bowling - have you considered perhaps leaving the room, going outside, and actually going bowling? For fucks sake. [...]
“But we will get some exercise this way” I hear you say.
Really?
If you want some exercise go and run round a field, climb a mountain, or run a marathon. And throw the wii out the window on your way.
Fuck the Ninendo Wii. It's a load of Cock. donotreadthis.co.uk
Indeed.
As much as I love computers and the good ol' internet, I'm damned glad I grew up before computers and video games were must-have household fixtures. I mean seriously, people … what the fuck is wrong with parents (and society as a whole) when the answer to kids getting exercise is a fucking video game machine? How long will it be until someone comes out with a sensor-enhanced cat tree for the Wii, so kids can pretend to climb trees in the comfort of their own living rooms?! For fuck's sake indeed.
Of course you can say a lot of people don't have a lot of good places available for their kids to play … but poor inner-city kids who don't even have a safe playground to visit are not the kids with brand new Nintendos in their living rooms either. I'm talking about the spoiled middle-class sprogs, with perfectly fucking safe suburban streets to ride bicycles on, and lovely groomed parks with trees to climb in, and parents who are just too fucking busy being middle-class go-getters to notice that their kids are obese and spend 10 hours a day sitting on the couch.
The adult Wii-addicts are even scarier. At least kids raised in lazy-ass households have the excuse of being raised by fuckups, but the adults who'd rather stay in and virtual bowl than actually trek to a bowling alley? Fuck you. Do you also have a RealDoll to save yourself the trouble of fucking a real woman? (I hear soaking them in a hot bath beforehand makes them feel more lifelike … just a tip) And perhaps the female Wii-heads just use a nice vibrating force-feedback controller? Does anyone know if they've already developed a virtual-Wii for SecondLifers? That ought to be just the ticket!
It's not just me then.
Good
:)
3rd January 2008 at 9:27 am | permalink |@andy: Nope, it certainly isn't. :-)
3rd January 2008 at 3:02 pm | permalink |Xbox 360 (gamertag is DavidGX) all the way over here. I had a Wii for a while, super mario galaxy and twilight princess were pretty damn good, not much else. I'll probably buy another one around when super smash bros brawl releases.
4th January 2008 at 5:20 am | permalink |@davidgx: I haven't really been into video game consoles since my family had a Super Nintendo.
Tetris rules! :-)
4th January 2008 at 2:42 pm | permalink |Well, there's times you can't really roll out to the bowling alley to bowl, like say when you want to have a bowl while you bowl, or if you want to get dressed up in your assless chaps and have a bondage bowling party…. (okay, I'll own up to #1, but swear #2 hasn't been done by myself or anyone I know…to the best of my recollection.)
22nd January 2008 at 11:34 am | permalink |@eric: Hmmm … you could always have a bowl *before* you bowl tho'. As for the assless chaps … umm … maybe you could just rent out a local bowling alley for a night, just you and your friends?
I mean really, bowling just ain't bowling without the scary rental shoes, y'know. ;-)
22nd January 2008 at 2:50 pm | permalink |Ever consider the Wii as a machine that can bring friends and family together? I got one last Christmas and everyone from my Grandmother to my Uncles, Aunts, and cousins got into the game. As much are you are going to complain, kids are always going to play video games… the Wii is a way for them to get off the couch and work up a sweat (trust me, you do).
22nd February 2008 at 11:36 pm | permalink |@katie: Yes, kids do get exercise playing Wii, I'm sure. But they'd also get exercise if the family went out bike riding in a park, or swimming at the beach, or any number of other things that kids used to do all the time.
I think it's sad that the answer to kids not exercising because of video games is to make a game that exercises them, instead of finding things for them to do away from the gaming console.
22nd February 2008 at 11:58 pm | permalink |Yeah, but what about the kids who are living in big cities who don't have bike trails and parks to play in? I am going to assume its the city kids who own Wii's… not the country folk.
24th February 2008 at 11:31 pm | permalink |@katie: I was assuming most inner city families don't have the money to buy a Wii … *shrug*
25th February 2008 at 2:38 pm | permalink |