Sacre....blonde?!??

I'm not quite sure when exactly it happened, but somewhere in the course of the last two or three weeks, I think I can reasonably say that I lost the last of my marbles (They were black, of course. So very easy to lose in my generally colorless environment.) My spontaneous ideas have become rather detrimentally Mad Hatter-ish. The Scheme of the Week this time involved me bleaching my hair as a sort of melodramatic overcompensation for managing to rip out my eyebrow piercing on Thursday.

I'll spare you the long rant on that last bit. *sigh*

Thankfully, the hair turned out quite well. I look less the weather-worn midwesterner at the very least, but none of you really care about that. That's probably for the best.

And lookie, it's Monday. It's time for another Top Five list. This week it's my Top Five Reasons Why I Hate the Wii (the Yes, I Judge You Edition):

1.) No HD: Seriously, in this generation of digital media (on the whole, not just in regards to gaming) high definition is and should standard. The Wii is fantastic if you want to play it on your shoddy CRT, but plunk it down in someone's home theatre setup that sports an Xbox 360 or a PS3, and the difference will be painful.

2.) It's white: Okay, this is just a personal preference, and I know I could just buy a damn skin for it. Still, ew.

3.) Marketing: Nintendo, when did your demographic turn into tweens and the elderly? I don't care how great your Mario game is when all I can see are fat kids doing jumping jacks, and nursing home "Wii Sessions".

4.) Games: I'm a semi-hardcore gamer than enjoys the casual game or two. That said, I can only think of about five games that I'd want on the Wii, and they don't include a balance board. Nintendo has some incredible franchises, but they get lost amidst the mounds of make-a-quick-buck shovelware.

5.) Motion controls: I hate them. I feel ridiculous waving around a plastic stick. In all fairness, this no longer applies solely to the Wii. I'm equally as put off by the Playstation Move, and only slightly less so by Natal.

/hate