Wii...
Yes. I did it.
I bought the Wii.
There it was at best buy. Shinny and clean and contained and begging to be bought: and I went with it. Then, today, I bought two Wii games and another Wiimote too.
And then I bought a new Laptop so I can play games.
It's a dangerous thing this 'new media'.
I blame all of you if I become a game addled addict.
Now it sits by my TV, and I'm thinking about if its good, or if it's wrong. Isn't it wrong to spend money on toys when you are a poor grad student? Shouldn't I be saving for something like all of the emergencies that pop up all the time? Or save for that trip? I feel authenticity guilt I think. Most days I watch Mark P. flinch at least once at the mention of authenticity. Having had many conversations with him on this topic I tend to agree that authenticity is constructed, and that it is a method of control, and that it's a little classist... part of me still feels like there are other things I could have bought, things more real. But I want to find out what this is. I want to understand what it means to think along with a machine.
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If you write a paper on
If you write a paper on Remediation and the Wii will it make it feel like a more authentic purchase? I can think of a boatload of projects involving the Wii right off the bat, now if I can just find the time to write a few of them I'll be good!
As for the laptop you clearly are going to need that to write your dissertation and it just so happens that you can also play games...or you can write a dissertation on the remediation of D&D in computer RPGs.
Authentic enough for you?
Sam is right
Do you remember when Pat had lunch with us last year? She said that Joy Santee was the most well-adjusted grad student in the program because she has a hobby. And if I remember correctly, Joy's dissertation has something to do with bicycling and maps. So it's perfectly fine to have interests outside of academia, and if you are able to bring those interests into your studies somehow, that's OK too. That's what I tell myself when I work on my nerdy hobbies, anyway.
games are less addling than
games are less addling than some things.
plus, now you can bowl whenever you want to! how can that be a bad thing?