Week 1 was brutal folks, my fatness precedes me yet again. Thursday was day nine of owning the Wii Fit- I know this because the thing reminds me every time I log in: “You’re on day 9. You haven’t worked out in 4 days! Here’s how much you’ve gained since last time. You’re overweight.” Thanks, I think I’ve got it now!

Yes it’s true I hadn’t worked out in 4 days. I really had planned on doing it every day but I went from *nothing* to working out 5 times in the last 9 days- I consider that a bit of progress. Yes, it’s also true I’ve gained weight every time… except today - I believe I lost .02 pounds from my last weigh-in. Nice…

Now, I’m no scientist, but a little bit of math tells me that if I continue to lose .02 pounds every 4 days I should hit my mark in just under 11 years. Not too shabby. I’m starting to think that if I had just continued being lazy I would have seen better weight loss results through muscle atrophy.
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And so it seems the overwhelming urge to amplify my opinion has outweighed the turmoil of depressive realization that nothing I say ever really matters…

This blog has been, for the most part, inactive for a while. The initial cease of posts came about when humbled by the genius of a podcast called Radio Lab. A friend strongly recommended I check it out, and I urge all to do the same. This interrupt- the time I took listening to all the back-episodes of the show, impacted a number of my habits: gaming, podcasts, reading. I actually quit World of Warcraft and went without gaming for several weeks (I did manage to check out Assassin’s Creed on PC in DX 10 and SSB Brawl for Wii somewhere in there).

That all said, during my hiatus I DID manage to gain a good amount of weight, and start drinking some very nice beer (blog to come); then by chance today, I picked up a shiny new object called the Wii Fit.

I showed up to a Best Buy in northern New Jersey twenty minutes before the store opened, six people were ahead of me in line. By the time they opened the doors, there were probably an additional fifteen or twenty people lined up behind me all waiting for the Fit.

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The time is upon us, ladies and gents - 2008 awaits with glorious, enticing new titles abound. This may be, dare I say, the year of the Wii!

Maybe a bit late, after all, Nintendo Wii has been out in the U.S. since November of ‘06 - but we have been waiting *patiently* for an influx of good titles. I’m not talking about crappy ports from other systems, I’m talking about the meat and potatoes, the REAL reason we all live, breathe and die video games- the good stuff. If it has to come in the form of Wii-exclusivity, so be it, we’re better off I say; the only way good games are going to be made for Wii is if developers truly focus on design and interactivity for the individualistic nature of the system. I have been very content with Wii Sports and Super Mario Galaxy, and I’ve heard great things about a few other titles (Metroid Prime 3: Corruption, MOH Heroes 2 come to mind); however, it is now time for the fastest selling console to catch up with the expansive list of titles from the competitors. This is a great time to be a gamer, and an even better time to own a Wii - so much so, that even this disgruntled, sad sack (yours truly) can only bask in the sunshine and gumdrops of the year to come…and it almost makes me ill to be this happy! So yes, this is the post where I squeal like a whiny fanboy… more anger to come at a later date.
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Well folks, Nintendo launched the ‘Check Mii Out’ channel on November 11. Meanwhile, I’m still scratching my head trying to figure out how the hell to use the Mii Parade. What is this crap? I don’t understand any of this anyway- I thought there was some way to get my mii to wander around a plaza and mingle with other people’s miis…then I could turn on my Wii and interrupt some kind of sick, twisted, ritualistic mii pagan gathering. Well, Nintendo…?

I haven’t taken the time to sit down with ‘Check Mii Out’ yet, but someone over at Nintedo Wii Fanboy did and (*surprise*) liked it. Based on what I read, I’m not dropping everything to go waste my time there- not just yet, anyhow. People are still looking for a way to effectively, efficiently share their miis and this *may* be the place to make that happen, but currently the channel features no more than a mii gallery and a single contest. Hopefully we’ll see some sort of an online tie to this exhibition–where Wii triumphs in gameplay, it truly lacks in social interactivity and has some major ground to cover behind XBOX Live.