So, in this past week, I finally took up an MMO (no, it's not WoW). The game attracted me mostly for it's music and "2.5D" graphics, and taking into consideration the effect I get with every online game, the drive to just want to be better than everyone else. I can't really tell if there's anything else hooking me into the game, but in the first day, the time I spent grinding was a little bit pathetic. I realized that if I was really going to get addicted to such repetitive, single-click movements, I need it to mean something. I devised my own little set-up: perched my laptop at the top of my trusty gaming cabinet, with my Wii sitting below. I'm going to be honest here: not a fan, AT ALL, for the Wii. There's one game I've been addicted to, though, and that's Wii Fit.
I've gotta say, I can totally understand that good ol' exercise is way better than Wii Fit, but Wii Fit is just more comfortable to me because I can jog for two hours on the thing without feeling tired at all. If I hit the treadmill or track, 30 minutes and 4 miles later that's it for me. So, I feel in the long run, the Wii is a better choice for me physically.
I don't do anything other than the Aerobics exercises on Wii Fit, and my favorite is the 30 minute island run. I've ran it 22 times in the past week (about 3 times a day for a total of 11 hours). It's so simple - just keep moving, and make sure you keep getting the knees up and a foot off the ground. Running in place is such a simple task to me.
So now I've explained how I'm addicted to two games. What would Jesus do? Both, at the same time of course. The last four days I've been grinding and exercising for just a little a day. A sum of 6 hours, 31 levels, and -.34 on my BMI, and I'm still having fun. I don't get tired - an hour and a half of running in place isn't a difficult task to accomplish. I'm much more focused - I'm in the zone when I exercise and I have yet to die from mob encounters. And, the best part, I'm killing two birds with one stone without hardly realizing it. The set-up is great, and it's a chill way to make sure I can still enjoy grinding without the feeling that I'm wasting my life away.
Is there any stories familiar to this? You pump that dumbell while capping fools on Team Fortress 2? Maybe do squats and make Ryu unleash a hadouken on Ken in Street Fighter IV? Are you bench pressing 350 while laughing at Tak's schemantics in Tak and The Power of the Juju? Or is it just you, couch growin' out the back of your head and everything?
I've gotta say, I can totally understand that good ol' exercise is way better than Wii Fit, but Wii Fit is just more comfortable to me because I can jog for two hours on the thing without feeling tired at all. If I hit the treadmill or track, 30 minutes and 4 miles later that's it for me. So, I feel in the long run, the Wii is a better choice for me physically.
I don't do anything other than the Aerobics exercises on Wii Fit, and my favorite is the 30 minute island run. I've ran it 22 times in the past week (about 3 times a day for a total of 11 hours). It's so simple - just keep moving, and make sure you keep getting the knees up and a foot off the ground. Running in place is such a simple task to me.
So now I've explained how I'm addicted to two games. What would Jesus do? Both, at the same time of course. The last four days I've been grinding and exercising for just a little a day. A sum of 6 hours, 31 levels, and -.34 on my BMI, and I'm still having fun. I don't get tired - an hour and a half of running in place isn't a difficult task to accomplish. I'm much more focused - I'm in the zone when I exercise and I have yet to die from mob encounters. And, the best part, I'm killing two birds with one stone without hardly realizing it. The set-up is great, and it's a chill way to make sure I can still enjoy grinding without the feeling that I'm wasting my life away.
Is there any stories familiar to this? You pump that dumbell while capping fools on Team Fortress 2? Maybe do squats and make Ryu unleash a hadouken on Ken in Street Fighter IV? Are you bench pressing 350 while laughing at Tak's schemantics in Tak and The Power of the Juju? Or is it just you, couch growin' out the back of your head and everything?
