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Now it’s late and you head downstairs
’Cause you just can’t sleep so you make some tea
And the doll disapprovingly asks
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Since the new year I’ve been working out pretty regularly. I have EA Sports Active, I restarted kung fu (that’s a topic for another post!), and I got Wii Fit Plus for Christmas. So I’ve been mixing it up, doing something different each day.
EA Sports Active asks you what activities you’ve been doing, wanting to know that if you didn’t use the game, you at least did something, and they praise you for it. However, when you don’t do the Wii Fit every day, it starts to get uppity. The day after I’ve sweated in kung fu, and my muscles are rubber from drills we’ve done, the game disapprovingly says it noticed that I didn’t work out yesterday, and how I should work out every day.
And I’m thinking, “No, you passive aggressive fuck, I did not turn you on yesterday to PRETEND TO BE A PENGUIN AND CATCH FISH, I was actually running, jumping, holding a low horse stance till my thighs screamed, and doing forms over and over again.” But it’s just a program. So I try to move past those screens and get to the yoga and useful things.
When we got the Fit, the Pink Tornado was very excited and interested in it, so we made her a profile and she played around with it. She hasn’t picked it up since, deciding instead to play Pokemon or read or run around. Today, the Wii Fit asked me if i’d seen her around. I said yes. Then they asked me how she looked. Getting uncomfortable with this gossipy aspect of it, I looked to see if there was an opt out, but there were only four choices. Did she look: slimmer? heavier? Rounder? Or about the same?
I checked about the same. My daughter is 7 years old, healthy, active, and was slim before this controlling bastard entered our home. The game then registered surprise and said that MAYBE I WASN’T PAYING ATTENTION.
Then it said that if I get active with my pet, we can bond more.
I’m surprised it didn’t give me advice on my marriage.
Seriously, Wii Fit Plus programmers, I appreciate the need for encouragement, but I can do without the parenting and pet owner comments. Lay off.
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Amen, my sister!
I know just how you feel. We ended up with profiles for the neighbor kids and so it hassles me about them as well.
HAHAHAHAHA!
Sorry for shouting, but I cackled out loud as I read your post. I’ve been known to flip the thing off when the Girlie isn’t in the room. I hate when it asks you to come up with reasons for the weight gain.
We got a Wii Fit + for xmas too… and I’ve a coworker who said when her youngest did it late at night it asked where his mom was and shouldn’t he be in bed. It also does that disturbing little semi-sexually satisfied “ohhhh” when you step on the balance board… and I hate hearing the condescending tone when it says “oh, that’s Obese” when it measures my weight (I’m over 6’2″ for crying out loud, 238 IS heavy, but it’s not like they’re about to give me my own show on TLC).
That said… I’ve used it every day since we set it up (8 days ago)… and there is an outside activity thing in one of the menus (My Wii Fit Plus I think) where you can put in the amount of non-wii fit time you exercise (ours has encouraged me to do so… but I don’t figure “sitting on my ass at work” time counts for much).
Sounds like a bit of a cultural disconnect between Japan, where those features were originally designed, and the US. Although I’m sure there are some people in Japan who are just as unhappy with it as you are, and some people in the USA who think a nosy game-system is just fine.
Congrats on getting back into your routine, no matter what your Wii thinks!
Aww, I think the little board is cute.
Oh, well, maybe I’m just narcissistic enough to be pleased whenever anyone asks about me, even if it’s a video game.
My husband bought me the ‘Fitness Coach’ game for the Wii – I have to say, it definitely makes me work harder, although I sometimes wish it would integrate the board a little more so I could get more feedback from the game.
He doesn’t like the animated board. And my sister says it’s creepy. But my autistic step-son will play cheerfully in WiiFit, and we’re pleased to have found an active game that he actually likes to play.
My family received the WiiFit Plus board for Christmas along with the Wii Active game from EA Sports. I highly recommend Wii Active. I’ve worked out 4 days in a row with it now and end up sweating. That is a good thing.
The WiiFit Plus game CD seems to be just full of games to me so far. I do like the yoga. I do use that set of exercises. The prompting does stink. The WiiFit Plus games, so far, seem like novelty games rather than something designed to make you work out.
This seems to be a Nintendo thing; it reminds me of Animal Crossing. My favorite part of AC was turning it off without saving properly because the next time you turned it on you would get this character lecturing you on the proper way to turn off your device. I thought it was funny
. However, I can imagine the same lecturing would be annoying when it is related to your weight, a subject that most people are already sensitive about.