Posted on 12/13/2008 2:11:12 PM PST by neverdem
What face should the military--whose job is to kill people and blow up things--show? The baking cookies with the enemy face, or the singing Kumbaya around the campfire with the terrorists face?
Interesting. I have tried the google image “game”. I didn’t find it to be much fun but a co-worker loves it.
and the author is the associate editor for the National Review..
The military is just a place for the undereducated to find employment. Didn’t Jon Karry teach you anything?
VerBruggen appears to be another of the Ivy League Cliff notes idiots that does zero research before writing and publishing.
Video game systems that require moving around and waving your arms are going to result in less juvenile obesity than the current systems, not more. Ole’ Robert doesn’t get that connection between more exercise and better health, evidently.
The Wii is about the only thing that will get my mother-in-law of her fat lazy a$$. It’s OK with me.
We have a Wii with the Wii Fit thingy. Very cool, and motivational.
The Wii is an odd ball in the video game universe.
It's primarily targeted to young(er) children and their families. (This isn't a knock against the system, merely an acknowledgment of a difference. I think Nintendo was brilliant to target this market.) I mean, come on, bowling?
Video games are also evolving. Some of today's "games" include: Guitar Hero, Electroplankton, World of Goo, and Spore.
The stock image of the pimply-faced, pale skinned, teenager playing a FPS until 3AM has a sepia tone, nowadays. They still exist and will continue to, but the world has changed.
In-game advertising is another new trend.
Which is nearly universally hated.
While it may have a place in some games (real billboards in the Grand Theft Auto series, for example), ads in games are generally out of place and annoy the user.
The kicker here is who’s buying these ads. In the lead-up to the 2008 election, Barack Obama’s campaign ponied up cash
He had money to burn and wanted the PR?
Video game systems that require moving around and waving your arms are going to result in less juvenile obesity than the current systems, not more. Ole’ Robert doesn’t get that connection between more exercise and better health, evidently.
Doctors use Wii games for rehab therapy
"You can certainly make a case that some form of endurance related to strength and flexibility and balance and cardio would be challenged when you play the Wii," but hard scientific proof is needed to prove it, Oddsson said.Meantime, Dr. Julio Bonis of Madrid says he has proof that playing Wii games can have physical effects of another kind.
Bonis calls it acute "Wiiitis" - a condition he says he developed last year after spending several hours playing the Wii tennis game.
P.S. I entered Wii rehabilitation medicine neverdem into Yahoo's engine to find my old thread.
It's Alive! (CROWS - common remotely operated weapon stations)
Amazing AF video about Future MAV's - Micro Air Vehicles video link with good audio
Tech Special!
I live by Lake Texoma in northern Texas.
This is largely a retirement area and the Wii is selling very well here to the elderly, who use them to play golf and tennis games.
Like watching professional sports?
I have been a serious WII user for 6 months. I have the balance board and regularly follow a course of yoga and fittness exercises. I could never have believed that at 66 I could become a yoga fan. I am and the results are ammazing. I have regained lots of agility and can pick stuff at my feet by bending from the waist. I can get down on the floor and back up with ease.
I also ski the giant slalom course pretty regular. As a skier, I’m amazed at the reality of the WII exercise. If you don’t ski, you don’t do well. You must move as on the slopes to attain speed and manuver through the gates. My skill has iimproved as I have regained agility and balance.
WII allows you to create a MII. My MII is a portly, gray haired bespeckeled bert that can tear up the slalom course and achieve expert on the advanced course setting. I ski the course now in 1 minute or less and feel the stress in my legs and torso. Although you are pretty much stationary, your body is stressed if you really get into it.
WII tracks your progress and helps set and maintain goals. It measures your fitness progres by virtual age. When I began iwould be 60 something or even 79. My virtual age was 48 the last session.
My wife also exercises and has also improved her ability to just move about. She uses a completely different set of exercises. She likes to go jiking on the virtual island.
You might be interested with this story and links in comment# 10.
The Wii seems to be the hot system around here, perhaps not least because of its lower price, but basically, it’s more of a whole-family system. It’s either sold out at Sam’s and Costco, or kept locked up somewhere so one has to ask for it. The XBox and PS3 systems are in great piles out on the floor.
What this tells me is that if I want to find an image on the web, I should try to think like your coworker and not like you.
Based on the type of person I imagine would enjoy the game, that is a somewhat unsettling thought. It means that image surfing on the net is designed to work best for people who are [adjective describing your coworker here].
I make some killer chocolate chip cookies! How about the killer cookie face?
Thanks for the fascinating link to the M.A.V.’s
Thanks for the ping. I’m a bit behind the curve so I’ll read this later.
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