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Wii out of box, two more kittens

It is quite impressive that the Wii (which was bought about 2 weeks ago) remained under the Christmas Tree until today. I operate a system with my children whereby as soon as they can count sufficiently they get a present budget. My 6 year old decided as part of her budget to buy an electronic kitten that purs and moves its head. I must admit that I much prefer the real kitten that we got via Freecycle about 9 months ago. I also noticed a new kitten eating dinner with our other cats. It is quite interesting how quickly cats find free sources of food. I presume one of our neighbours have a kitten that has wandered a bit.

The general feeling is that real cats are far better than robot cats. I did suggest, however, that the next enhancement to gaming might be to develop physical models of the games in the Wii such as getting a real wooden table tennis top and real bats and try that rather waving around the Wii wands. This, however, did not get the same level of support domestically as the thesis that real cats are better than robot cats.

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Anonymous said…
My brother's got a Wii on order, but that's not going to be here for ages.

Are you getting sick of dreadful Wii-based puns in your family? Wii are getting so Wiivolted by the Wiipetitive use of a Wiilly awful joke, that Wii are seriously considering having my brother's Wii Wiivoked, ie. Wiimoving it from him.

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