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January 16, 2008
Slowly I turned...
...step by step...
Actually, I'm a little on the spastic side when it comes to playing Lego Stars Wars The Complete Saga on our Wii. I am improving, however. I find that I really, really don't care for the "high places" in the game ie ledges outside of buildings..in the rain..slippery you know. I also don't like walking on high narrow ledges...my character can't seem to walk a straight line so he just walks off the edge most of the time. Thank goodness I have "invincibility"! I don't mind jumping through lava pits - it's just frustrating when I fall in but I don't get the shakes as I do when I'm up high, as I also do in real life I might add.
So I ask you...if a grown adult with lots of real life experience can be reduced to a quivering mass of jello over what is actually only a flat screen display (cartoon at that)and experience the nausea that comes with fear of heights...what does it do to kids? If they go flipping through these games leaping and double flipping to run faster and jump higher without a care do they then NOT get trained to fear heights? What about the violent nature of some of these other games? Can we then make a case for young kids also not being trained in the reality of violence when exposed to many of these games?
Just a thought....if you can follow my drift that is...
Obviously I am getting caught up in my games again. Last night I only dreamed about where the canisters and red brick are that I LOST when the game froze while I was playing. I have to go back and do it all over again. At least it wasn't the lava pit - it took me over 2 hours to get through the lava pit....;-D However I lost over 100,000 studs as well and I needed 250,000 more to buy my stud x2 brick...geesh - don't you understand? Heheheh..
What was that In a name thing that said I tend to do something intently for short periods of time? That would be me.
Have a fine day all......
Posted by frani at January 16, 2008 01:32 PM
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