Hooray for Fat Sweaty Gamer Nerds!

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Your constant whining about how great video games are has finally yielded respect within the medical community.

Not only good for the body, but good for the mind. No doubt this all stems from those games introduced by Nintendo (if you are playing an Xbox or playstation, you are still a fat, sweaty, nerdling, who also probably has no friends- zing!). The Wii simulates all those favorite athletic (see next bracket) pastimes like boxing, tennis, baseball, golf, bowling (thats the order more to less likely they will burn calories). Only bowlers think bowling is a sport, but you really need to have a defense for it to be a sport (baseball is stretching that a bit thin as well). Boxing is all well and good on the Wii but if you stand to close you will punch someone, probably in the eye as most people box like one of those old 'boxing nun' puppets. Nintendo looks to up the ante with the release of the WiiFit next year which will show those DDR nerds who's boss with an exercise board. Yeah thats right, a board for jumping on. Super-cool.

However, if you don't feel like moving any muscle you can always exercise that mushy thing in your skull(not your eyeball), the your head-heart, more colloquially known as the brain. Brain Age and Big Brain Academy (the better one) have you running tasks that range from boring (counting blocks) to interesting (solving mazes) to idiotic (doing sudoku puzzles- yeah you heard me I said it. Sudoku is stupid. And it's name is pretentious, so pretentious its first name should be Wadsworth. So to you Mr. Wadsworth Fannywinkle Sudoku III, esq. I say good day!)

Remember though that there is always a risk in anything you do, especially if you are severely out of shape. Wiitis, a less common video-game related illness than say, can'tgetadate-itis, or allmyfriendsareonline-itis. But nevertheless it is still a concern. So for god sakes be careful! We wouldn't want anybody hurting themselves and suing Nintendo. Instead you should sue people for dropping the price of their hardware.