Tuesday, February 20, 2007

Wii

The new Nintendo- I know I have noted before the artificial scarcity ruse of corporations to sell overpriced products but the Wii is taking it too far. There are none available unless you order them from Germany or conversely from main stockists where the price is helpfully around £250. If you try harder you can see them advertised at their long term price of £179 but guess what, these are not available. Wait or pay.

Anyway if you pay you will get "the most advanced home game console ever" except you only get one numchuk (WTF is a numchuk and where did they get the word from- did they name it after the inventor or the name he gave to his penis?) so you can only play alone and must buy an additional bit of kit for the attendant siblings or solo playing will further erode off-springs personality. I am assuming here that it has been purchased for off-spring and that the buyer is not one of those idiot peter pan twenty-somethings with only a moderate grip on reality those destined never to make adulthood or sustain a meaningful relationship - er present company excepted of course.

There is something about bloggers that indicates to me that they (we?) are the retaionship-o-phobes who can express themselves on the interblog but not to our nearest and dearest ....

You will get fit chucking yer numchuk around the room hoping the wi-fi works and giving the kids the idea that they are exercising while playing computer games afterall. Yeah right .

Prepare for a spate of press reports no doubt heralded in the "Daily Mail" (UK shit paper for our overseas reader(s)), of num-chuckers elbow or "Nintendo's should come with a health warning that game play can harm your elbows (not to mention you ability to communicate with your peers, personal development, mental health and the size of your arse).

Prepare for a spate of teenagers with one enormous bicep over-developed beyond the usual w******s grip from too long clutching the num-chuck.

Your £250 toy comes with one game as standard (Numchuck sports or some such) which the little gits will tire of in under a week and will then revert to requesting gang-war-prostitute- battering-car thieving-mugger training games at the princely sum of £40 each.

So when you've bought your console, your spare num-chuck, and your new game, exercised the kids for half a day and instilled in them the full couch potato philosophy that is making UK children the fattest, laziest and least socially adept of the modern world you can ask yourself- who is the fekkin num-chuck now?

Go on treat yourself. I will.

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Blogger Patrick Dodds said...

And, of course, there's this:

http://www.davekoss.com/index.html

4:40 AM  

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