Gaming

Now I have to admit, I play quite a few games. I own the headset for my xbox (used once(however in my defense that was to comically abuse another player(note: silly voice was used and nothing ACTUALLY abusive was said))) and do use MW2 for relaxation purposes after a stressful day. But I'm not a 'proper' gamer, the type that is noctural and has stopped buying lightbulbs because if you dont have a home cinema system on the go, in the dark with a face painted camoflague then you are just not doing it properly.

You have to love the gaming industry though. How long did they ask the question? So how can we not have to make a controller? 
Cost saving is epically important these days when you're only making $89million a year on one console.... 

Darn this economic climate

But you almost have to be impressed with the sheer pointlessness of Kinect (project natal to hardcore gamers (only because that was it's original name and once you have complained about it on a forum (that no-one cares about) you're not going to call it something else) or the posh eyetoy as i call it.

Eee I loved the eyetoy for PS2, the only hardware that could combine Geroge Formby's music and raving about as if someone has fired a champagne cork at your rear end into an hour of family fun that teaches kids that cleaning windows is an acceptable career choice.

In terms of Kinect, I don't understand the point as I may have already eluded to. I don't know if I am a bit old fashioned and think you call a spade a spade, but I would feel ripped off that my console doesn't have a controller. Its like (insert own geniusly related metaphor here, I can't think of one). Yeah like that. And the games just feel demeaning like they have tried to make you as much like a drunken octopus as they can.


I mean the best they can do at the minute is a sport based game, now i can understand the bowling, but the running has been making us look 'special' since the Wii got hold of the motion plus. In fact i am being unfair, my old friend the eyetoy beat nintendo to it, only difference is the 'running' technique for that game was more of an impression of a pirate on a pogo stick.
But you have to give credit to the game makers for Kinect, you have made us stoop pretty low.... well for a volleyball but still, stooping is required.

The premise for games like this is to get us enjoy a game with exercise. It used to be called going outside but hey, technology these days... Is there anything it can't simulate? 


But to me it doesn't work really. Being the fair, balanced minded person I am, I have only used one once and I am hardly the voice of reason on these things. 

I mean I like the Wii as a gaming console...

Technology and Me

Now i dont think i am that bad at using technology, i couldn't explain why uPnP on your modem is important but i thought technogoly and I could happily go for a pint and not end the day fighting.

Some technology is just plain annoying

Now food shopping at the best of times is usually nothing more than a tedium (and the more chunky person's weekly exercise) but I am lost to understand the purpose of self service check outs....

What is the point? You take a person from behind the tills to replace it with a mahcine only to have it supervised by a person! Thats like automating making breakfast for you to have to place all the ingredients in, watch it be cooked and then still have to take the pans off the stove...
And why do they take the world's most annoying person, wait for them to have a heady cold and wake them up in the middle of the night before doing the recordings? They could not be any more irritating.

I do have some sympathy for the person because the only thing I can think of worse than hearing them is having to record them. Why do they have to be so patronising?


If you want to play along hold your nose say the following phrases, see how long before you want to punch yourself in the face


"Please scan the first Item"
"Please Put the item in the bagging area"
"Please Scan the next Item" 
Repeat from top x far too many times

If you haven't got a black eye right now then you're probably not holding your nose tight enough

But it gets worse, I was recently in a very green coloured supermarket using the self service (because I like to inflict pain on myself like that) and was paying using my card. Now i can understand that some people might be thick enough to try to pay with their card without putting the card in the machine, but does it really really need to tell me 'Please put the card ALL the way into the reader?' What does it think Im going to do? Flirt with the reader by putting the card and taking it out several times over? Or just balance it on top hoping that somehow it can read the pin? I really don't understand the purpose

THE SINGLE MOST ANNOYING THING THOUGH
is it is probably quicker. 

Even if you want to unplug it and lick the socket after use.....