A Wii problem

[shinytoaster]

There was an article in this morning's Metro (and while I was on the subject, is it just me or has Nemi got really sub-par just lately) about some dude in Philadelphia who got a Wii and promptly lost nine pounds on it, and he dropped his waist size from 34 inches to 31 inches. There were before and after pictures, taken in a mirror with a digital camera like so many MySpace profiles.

I have decided I need to have a Wii, as the only exercise I get is walking to and from the station every morning and I am too lazy to join a gym. I did actually once join a gym, but it was the Sussex University one and I could get in for something like £3.00 at the time. And now I am poor and can't afford the £15,284.76 that a month on the treadmill at Holmes Place will set me back. It's depressing, I was poor as a student but now I'm noticing it even more.

I poked my head into HMV in Uxbridge today and the Wiis had all sold out, but the guide price seems to be about £250.

However, I am saving up for other things right now, so I now need to make a decision on what my big purchase this year will be:

1) A laptop, possibly but increasingly unlikelily a Mac.
2) Plane tickets to the US.
3) A Wii.

Option one is sounding good, because then I can buy Warcrack and destroy my social life, saving me lots of money. And it will also mean I can move around the house and not sit at the back of the house where the wireless keeps .......................
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................... cutting out. Option two would ensure the ongoing healthfulness of my social life in terms of seeing friends and maybe doing some cheap shopping and so on and so forth, but I would have to surrender my fingerprints and a DNA sample to the FBI to gain entry. And I am led to believe that option three will give me a hunky gym toned body without any real effort.

Comments

[sofiaviolet]

I need a Wii. The only exercise I get is walking across campus, and to the subway.

[shezan.livejournal.com]

*looks up the wiki*

... it's a GAME CONSOLE?

[pengolodh-sc.livejournal.com]

A game console with a twist. It apparnetly comes shipped with a sports-program, and the handheld controllers have motion sensors - so if you play tennis on the Wii you have to move your hand the same way as when using a real racket, and you have to move about to catch the ball, if you play bowling you have to move as if rolling the ball down the court, etc - apparently quite a lot of movement is involved in playing it. To prevent the control from flying across the room if you loose it, it has a cord that goes around the wrist, but Nintendo had to ship new, sturdier cords to customers as it turned the original cords were too weak to withstand people's gaming.

[pengolodh-sc.livejournal.com]

And it will also mean I can move around the house and not sit at the back of the house where the wireless keeps .......................
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Can the antenna on your computer be moved around any?

[freya]

I think Nemi is currently being written by the same people that call ever single woman under forty 'Bridget Jones'. *wrinkles nose*

[pengolodh-sc.livejournal.com]

If the Nemi in question is the Norwegian comicstrip about a goth girl, Nemi is drawn and written by the same girl (Lise Myhre) today as when she started it.

[freya]

She's not being very good at the moment then. It's been aaaages since she amused me.

[stormwynd.livejournal.com]

I've gotten into many, many arguments with my students about my fondness for the Wii. I give Nintendo credit for trying to do something innovative with their gaming console -- just imagine how cool it would be if LucasArts were to develop a Jedi Light Saber Duel game -- whereas the PS3 has amazingly awesome graphics, but that's about it.

I hadn't heard about people losing weight from Wiiing (is that a word? if not, it should be), but it makes sense. The games make you really move around. It sorta reminds me of a college friend of mine who dropped 30 pounds using Dance Dance Revolution as his primary form of aerobic exercise. He got so into it that he even bought a (used) arcade DDR machine off of eBay, because he got fed up with the Nintendo pad breaking on him.

Anyway, I recommend you buy the Wii, if only so I can live vicariously through you. Besides, hunky gym-toned bodies are overrated....

[amyamy.livejournal.com]

Wow, I can actually comment knowledgeably about all of those options. Although you already know the pros and cons of a laptop, (whee, macs!).

A friend of mine has got a wii, and they are incredibly fun. Also very addictive. Which will help with the poundage. But it's not like a proper work out. You do work seriously hard for some of those games and it's pretty easy to break a sweat and get some cardiovascular going, but it's a fairly limited muscle group. And, since the wii's pretty addictive it has a similar ability to warcrack with the social life destroying. Although it's not nearly as successful as warcrack at that. But then, my beloved warcrack has a serious lack of poundage destroying properties. -scowls at waistline-

[zorac.livejournal.com]

I've been after a Wii since, well, since it came out and I realised that I should have pre-ordered one. Currently availability seems to be "we hope to have some in February" - which probably means that they'll arrive while I'm on holiday and be sold out by the time I get back. Still, I've developed a similar theory about the exercise potential given that I couuld stand to lose a few pounds.

I've thus far cleverly avoided World of Warcrack and have mostly been fighting for the Wehrmacht in Day of Defeat. Ah, the joy of killing those pesky Yanks! (Actually, more like the joy of getting killed by those pesky Yanks, given that I kinda suck...)