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Mister announced tonight that WoW is having a referral special. If he refers someone and gets them to sign up for 2 months, then he gets some special limited offer pixel crack. He eyed me suggestively as he told me this. At first I was figuring it would be worth the subscription if it keeps him happy, which then leaves me free to get my blogging fix. But then, later in the evening as he was talking to one of our silly little game friends, he said that he can get all sorts of experience if he refers someone and they play together for 90 days. Hold on a minute here. I have to actually play the game now?

Let me tell you something: I am not a gamer. I never understood the fascination with Super Mario Bros. when it came out, and my friends would play for hours on end. And as for playing the game itself, I didn’t get it. I mean, I understood the objective and all, but I didn’t get why it was fun. Never mind the fact that I have no controller-thumb coordination. We did have an Atari 2600 when I was a kid. I never really got into playing it much - Pac Man and Chopper Command bored me. I did like playing the ET - The Extra Terrestrial game. Just so you all can get a little perspective, Listverse dubbed ET the #1 lousiest video game that should never have been made. Yes, I was the only person in the country that liked playing this game - over and over and over again.

For those of you who still like me, let me tell you what this means: it means that I know, from past experience with games, that I am not going to have fun playing WoW. In fact, I am not going to have so much fun that I will be constantly distracted, leaving my character in areas where it will be killed mercilessly ad infinitum. Can you get a negative level in WoW? I might be the first person to do that.

Mister tries to counter my protests by reminding me that I liked the Wii when we played it over at the MonkeyHouse. Yes, I liked the Wii. It might even be going on my Christmas list. But there’s something different about Wii. On Wii, I’m not playing silly little games and questing and getting killed. We played Wii sports, which was fun. I got to go bowling, kick ass at it, and I didn’t end up with a shoulder injury. I got to play baseball without getting a sunburn or getting stuck in right field. And there are only two buttons to press, so it was really easy (though I still had a bit of trouble from time to time). I also checked out some other sports on the website like skiing and hula hoop, which are available on the Wii Fit. I might even be interested in the Mario Cart. See, the Wii lets you move around a bit, so you get to exercise more than your thumbs. The games’ movements stimulate real life activities, and the relatively primitive graphics are, IMO, ridiculously cute. So yes, I like the Wii. But I am so not interested in playing WoW. Mister has been playing it forever, so I’ve been exposed to it ever since I’ve known him, and other than walking by and randomly hitting the space bar to make the characters jump, I don’t have any interest in it.

So if you’re ever online and come across a downtrodden character at Level -2,948,520, that would be me.