Today is my best friend’s birthday. YAY! Happy birthday, beloved!

There’s been Wii ads on the TV lately. I’m thinking more and more that they just did not think that system through. I mean, I understand what they were trying to do, right, they wanted you to be engaged, to really interact with the games…to actually get the gamer off their ass and get them to move a bit, while, and this is the important bit for a company, still using their product. The problem is, that if a game only lasts for an hour or so, that’s a short game. Most games have a play time of several hours, if not days. Who the fuck wants to stand and wave your arms around frantically for the 60 or so hours it takes to play, say, an RPG? And, yes, I know, you generally don’t play those 60 hours consecutively, but see, a good RPG is engaging, and can easily suck away an entire afternoon without you noticing. Which is why its a sit-down sport.

I’m not even going to start on the stupid kids who will think being good at Wii-swordplay is the same as being good at real-swordplay, and then get their fool arm sliced off. PEOPLE ARE STUPID, NINTENDO. THAT’S WHY HAIRDRYERS COME WITH “DO NOT USE IN SHOWER” LABELS.

So. Yeah. Anyway. Attempting to find a DS cheap on eBay? Not so easy. Of course, I have a different idea of cheap than most people. And its made worse by the fact that I have only recently come to actually be interested in the damn thing, and so am not terribly willing to pay anything for it at all. And I’m color-picky. Which is dumb, with all the skins available at Decal Girl, but there you have it.

Frighteningly? I actually kind of like the pale pink one. o.O O.O O.o