The massive gift-exchange that was the entire month of December ended with a few new additions to the household — most notably, a Nintendo Wii system. Many are familiar with the interactive system, and most embrace the innovation of technological entertainment and physical activity that mark the Wii as perhaps the most universally appreciated gaming system currently on the market.

But let me tell you something, Wii. If I’m enjoying “playing” tennis or bowling for a while or spending more than a half hour using Wii Fit, I don’t need you suggesting that maybe I should take a break and go outside for a while. I’m moving around pretty well inside the confines of my own home, so why don’t you get off your high horse and let me be. Seriously, where does my VIDEO GAME SYSTEM get the nerve to tell me that maybe I could use some time outdoors? Plenty of alternative sources exist for that advice to be doled out: girlfriends, parents, wives, your whiny kids who want a turn.

Video games should not shun the fat, pale, lazy kids that have turned their industry into the booming financial success it has become. The Wii shouldn’t recommend you go outside for a while for the same reason a Wal-Mart employee should not tell someone who walks into the store with a hundred dollar bill they got for Christmas that maybe they should take it to the bank. It seems innovative, but it’s actually terrible business.

So, Nintendo Wii, I’m going to play you, but you’re just going to have to accept the fact that someone paid $200 so that I can enjoy the very leisure activities from the comfort of my own home rather than go out and sprain my ankle because the local tennis court is in terrible condition because the city doesn’t have the money to maintain public recreational facilities.