If you are going out tonight, I highly advise that you watch where you step as you walk. It is expected that roughly 22% of pedestrians this evening may be injured by tripping over a flailing Twilight fangirl lying on the sidewalk. Visit brownhairbrowneyes.blogspot.com to learn what you can do to protect yourself. (The entry will be up very quickly after that blog owner reads this, I'm sure.)
In other news, visited with my friends for the first time in months last evening. I don't know about them but I personally had a fantastic time. Thanks J & R, you guys are the best.
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I've done my best. We can only pray a few souls might be spared.
Yeah, I had fun last night and I think J did too. I'm going to rent the actual DVD of the show instead of the one they aired on tv. I'm sure it's much funnier. I just hope it doesn't have much more of Bubba J. He's really not that funny.
Personally, I'm holding a grudge against the wiiFit atm. LOL You know it's going to give you a pretty bad guilt trip next time you come over.
At what point did Nintendo decide that engineering their software with automated nagging protocols was a good idea?
I always hated when Dr. Kawashima's disembodied head would wail miserably if I hadn't touched Brain Age in a few days. By now, I'm certain he's committed a cephalic version of seppuku.
Nintendogs punished gamers as well. Leave the pooch alone two days, and you'll be greeted with a flea-infested mongrel all too content to snap your fingers off. I bought a virtual dog so I wouldn't have to obsess over it daily.
I can't even imagine what their fitness program has in store for anyone who dares to slack. I wouldn't have put it past Nintendo for the bedamned thing to screech alarms and Wiimail one's entire contact list to encourage them to pester the player about his weight.
It's cultural design, though. Watch some of those zany Japanese game shows--they have an unabashed fetish for humiliation. And pain.
Oh yes, dear, I recall the YouTube videos quite clearly. One stands out: The show where they strap you into a chair and, if you miss a question, they inch a real living human man's bare hindquarters closer and closer to your face.
The way the Simpsons put it: "In America, you reward knowledge. In Japan, we punish ignorance!" Or something like that. I don't think the quote is exact, but the meaning is there.
And yes, Randi, I agree. I think Jeff just needs to torch Bubba J. Like, at the stake. Burn him at the stake. Worst part of his routine by miles. You can *actually hear* his whole audience forcing laughs out collectively. Like, "We paid money to laugh, and we're going to sit here and laugh at the jokes, even if they aren't funny." That kind of forcing.
As for WiiFit, I want to own one. Even if I don't do the routines, I know that just the weight measurement and BMI tracking tools would be of extreme benefit to a guy like me. Also--and I hate to admit this, but here goes--I'm the kind of guy who does better when someone is cracking a whip on my back to keep going.
Funny. Every time I try to "crack the whip" (no, not literally, you sickos), you get indignant and say I'm not your mother. :P
So the impartial behest of a video game does a better job at motivating you than me? *grin*
I'm sure knowing that he can turn off the game and not his wife has a bit to do with that. lol
There's also a way to track your workout through the game that you do on your own. Even still, some of the games are fun and are quite a workout without realizing it.
Actually that's a lot to do with it. I can't get irritable or grouchy with the WiiFit. It's a piece of technology and wholly uninterested in my opinions on anything. It has a function and it does it.
Jessica, on the other hand, is a human being whom I can argue with, plead with, reason with, divert, or any number of other things to "talk away" the pounds.
I have a really strong lazy reflex. It's why I'm in this position in the first place. It's like my brain would rather get into an argument with my wife than go to the gym, because one requires less fuel than the other. It's ridiculous and it's something I'm trying to figure out a way out of, have been for a while. That's why I'm eyeballing this device so closely now.
Oh, don't worry. A man can always turn off his wife. In fact, I'd say that has far more dire consequences.
Of course, a game can't praise either. It can't reward, really beyond a few sprays of graphic glitter and a cheesy fanfare.
One must be careful how reliant on machines he becomes, lest he end up lodging in the living room with them. *evil grin*
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