#balance board

[kidodidos]

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[body-health-outlet]

Balance Board Unleashing Potential

Balance board is a multifaceted fitness apparatus crafted to augment equilibrium, coordination, and overall steadiness. However It encompasses a flat, robust surface that oscillates or teeters, challenging your body’s balance. Whether you are a fitness aficionado, an athlete, or someone striving to enhance your balance, a board can be an invaluable adjunct to your routine. The Significance of…

[acceberv]

My home gym is a Wii, a Balance Board, a Wiimote with Motion Plus and Nunchuck, Wii Fit Plus and Wii Sports Resort

[iloveabunchofgames]

1/15/23 - Week In Review

#JakeReviewsItch Week In Review Archives

This week’s reviews: 🧡🤍🤍🤍🤍 6 pack of craft games 🧡🧡🤍🤍🤍 8 Bit Space (ZX Spectrum Inspired Platformer) 🧡🧡🧡🤍🤍 9 Till Void 🧡🧡🤍🤍🤍 10 Flights of Ballooning 🧡🧡🤍🤍🤍 10 in 1 game-a-week bundle! 🧡🧡🤍🤍🤍 10mg: Sealed Estate 🧡🧡🧡🧡🤍 10mg: SNAAAK

Game of the Week

I spent most of the week feeling confident that 9 Till Void wouldn't be topped, and then this sneaky little fellow wriggled into my heart.

It's only been a day since I wrote about 10mg: SNAAAK, and my thoughts haven't changed. As a short experience—a proof of concept—it's magnificent. What I want is for this to be extended to a full game, but if I can't get that, this little taste will do. The current asking price of $1.99 is too steep for me to recommend. There just isn't enough there. It's also in the complete 10mg bundle, but given my other 10mg experience, I wouldn't suggest gambling $10 on that, either. Which brings me to the topic absolutely no one wants to discuss ever again: What's the purpose of review scores? The debates have raged for as long as we've had reviews, and no one has ever emerged with a satisfying answer. I've written a guide to deciphering my scores, and I still struggle every day. 10mg: SNAAAK is something special. I enjoyed it. I think others would enjoy it. It has value. I rated it 4/5. And my advice is, "Don't buy it." Which is why context matters. Money changed hands, but I did not purchase this game with consideration and intent. It showed up in my life, and I ignored it until self-imposed obligation pushed me to give it a fair shake. Would this be a 4/5 if I'd spent months reading previews, studying screenshots and trailers until the day I could finally type in my credit card number and begin the download? Not a chance. Something to keep in mind when you see a gulf between the way critics and audiences respond to media.

When I'm not Itching...

If I see a Wii game for a dollar, I'm probably going to buy it. If it proudly advertises its compatibility with the Wii Balance Board, I'm definitely going to buy it.

Take a look at the cover of Ubisoft's Gold's Gym Cardio Workout. It's 2009. Wii Fit is past its peak, but still hot. Ubisoft, still a few months away striking gold with Just Dance, is scooping up publishing rights for anything they think could catch the eye of the newly expanded Wii and DS audience. Quality is not a top concern. Look at that cover. Picture the game. Do you see cutesy anime people guiding rhythmic boxing routines?

Image taken from some YouTube review. (Not an endorsement; I just scrubbed through the video with the sound off until I found a usable image because there aren't any good screenshots of this game and I didn't feel like setting up my capture card.)

Does that format—left and right punching icons coming up from the bottom of the screen in time to music—look familiar?

I looked up Gold's Gym: Cardio Workout developer, Rocket Company, and wouldn't you know it? They were absorbed by parent company Imagineer in 2016, the very name behind 2018's Fitness Boxing, 2020's Fitness Boxing 2: Rhythm & Exercise, and the upcoming Fitness Boxing: Fist of the North Star. Imagineer is self-publishing the slightly bonkers-looking Fist of the North Star spinoff, while the first two Fitness Boxing Switch games were published in the Americas by none other than Nintendo and sold for $50 a pop.

And that's why I'll take a chance on a buck on any Wii game I can find, no batter what it looks like on the cover. The Switch sequels are, I'm sure, the superior pieces of software, but I'm sweating just as much with a couple Wii remotes in my hand. But that's not the real reason I wanted to share this curious bit of video game. No, let me tell you of my greatest discovery. Ubisoft and Rocket Company followed up Gold's Gym: Cardio Workout with Gold's Gym: Dance Workout. The YouTube trailer isn't especially interesting, except for one detail: It was uploaded by the Just Dance channel. Now that Ubisoft was developing the world's most successful dance series in-house, I suspect they didn't feel much need to continue importing rhythm/exercise games from Japan. The Ubisoft/Gold's Gym/Rocket Company partnership ended after just two games. In Japan, however, the シェイプボクシング (Shape Boxing) series got a third entry, which leads us to the greatest video game commercial of all time. Enjoy.

By the way, Ubisoft is an awful company, responsible for just about every kind of abuse you can imagine, and the rot runs all the way to the top. Yes, good people do good work there. No, that is no excuse for enabling systemic abuse. Buying an old game from a retro game shop? I don't see a problem. Buying new Ubisoft games or making in-game purchases results supports a company that protects predators and thrives on abuse. Despite apologetic PR statements, they have made no meaningful effort to be better. Video games are fun. Human lives are more important.

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[ratatatastic]

"A little chirpin' going on here from Tkachuk. He's still yelling at the bench, 'Hey, that's what you get! That's what you get!' And it was Hagel who got wacked along the wall, and it was Hagel that he was yelling at for the most part. [...] Yep! There's Tkachuk, he is loving it. This is his kind-of game." "Hagel obviously leaking over there on the Lightning bench. He laid a big hit on Barkov in the opening minutes of this one."

"Welp, they got the upper hand right now and Tkachuk being who he is, he's taking advantage of that. But that sets the table for tommorow night, and he dun care about that. He will be more than happy to have it go that way. See, he's still—" Matthew: That's what you get! All of that! [?] "He's talking about how sorry you're gonna be. He's talking to Guentzel and a couple other guys. Just setting the table for tommorow." "Oh, man! He is not letting up down there is he?" "Nope!"

"That's what you fucking get. That! (referring to the Kuli on Hagel hit that caused Hagel to go to the bench) That's what you fucking get."

florida panthers @ tampa bay lightning | 12.22.24

[3ksensory]

⏳ the youthful naturalist (fallen london) self-indulgent ⅰ ⅱ ⅲ / ⅳ ⅴ ⅵ / ⅶ ⅷ ⅸ ⏱️ link this post if using my edited gifs

[chimerafeathers]

[ on youtube ]

a concept for the type of OP i'd love to see for the second season of Dungeon Meshi! both s1 OPs are great, but i'm really hoping for one that captures both the "dangerous fantasy adventure" and "comedic cooking adventure" aspects of the series in equal measure, because it's the integration of those two concepts that makes the series special to me. the joyous whimsy and the dramatic horrors are equally important!!

[akfamilyhome]

"You just passed the Pool of Blood!" ~Wii Balance Board, Wii Fit U (2013)

[aristocrating]

nursey: *gets the yoga high score in wii fit by stitting perfectly still on the balance board for 5 minutes* dex, whose eyelid is twitching just from watching: hey i hate this game?

[studentbyday]

2025.

Please be good.

[kidodidos]

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[tongues--and--teeth]

Putting those old men in situations once more

The sinister jester praying on your downfall

[fisheito]

i love how eiden pauses at every outfit reveal with a . hotboy synopsis like clan member: *steps out of the changing room* eiden: and now, if i can have ur attention--- FEAST your eyes on this MARVELOUS hunk of grade AAAAAA+++++ prime meat..,, his accessories perfectly accentuate his finest features...! His fit ! is flawless!! BREATHTAKING. REVOLUTIONARY!!!!!!!!! and yet!? one can't help but get excited... for what lies UNDERNEATH that BREATHTAKING attire ( ͡• ͜ʖ ͡• )

[the-awful-falafel]

tfw it's going to be even harder for me to write/draw spooky fake peppino moments after this update comedically defanged him for a scene, even though:

1) it's a movie Noise wrote / directed / paid off the bosses for, and FP being scared off by yelling could easily be tied to that context (either because he was indeed treating it like a game and therefore was less persistent / more easily startled, or because he was asked to be more of a wimp, or both)

2) it's implied to take place a decent while postgame since Pizzahead and Vigilante are in the same room together and Vigi isn't trying to apprehend him like the credits implied he was going to do, so FP could have just mellowed out more in that time and/or Noise also could have gotten used to him. like FP seems pretty relaxed and just a little confused in the ending scene too, he's chill

there's a lot of ways you can interpret this shitposty joke moment so I'm a little bothered the immediate go-to for most of the fanbase is "fake peppino is a sweet baby who was never creepy". I personally read it as FP nervously retreating like "why are you yelling at me I did as you asked :/"

[terabyte-teddybear]

some real world/modern taz balance outfits! you can probably guess who they all are lol but in order: taako, magnus, merle, lup, lucretia