Not quite Otaku

So if you find that you're in a state of video game hyper-activity, bouncing from game to game and never settling down, then perhaps a dose of World of Warcraft may be the solution. As I just emailed to a friend:

WoW is like the video game equivalent of a Mack Bolan adventure or a romance novel. You sit down and enjoy it and waste some time, but you really get nothing out of it in the end since it's nothing new.

And that is exactly was it is, an opiate for the video game masses.

Now Brain Age for the Nintendo DS is the exact opposite.

Fun little mini-games that work on improving memory and quick thinking results in a small amount of entertainment (we're talking 10 to 15 minutes) that gets the mind working better.

So my recommendation for yourown personal Brain Training: Watch an episode of Robot Chicken - Sunday nights on the Cartoon Network - wait an hour, and try and recall the entire episode. That's real brain training.