Nintendo Smashed My Hopes

On Friday the 12^th of September, something wonderful happened. It was amazing. It was really happening. I was going to get a chance to play Super Smash Brothers for the 3DS. Well a demo but, hey I wasn't complaining. Yes, Nintendo had released a demo for their latest 3DS game in England and I was ecstatic. I had been waiting to get a taste of this game since it was announced all the way back in 2011 and this was my chance. You should have seen the glee on my face. You would have been lucky to see it as my glee quickly transformed into annoyance. I soon found out that the demo was only available to platinum Nintendo Club members. The rest of us had to wait until the 19^th. My dreams were dashed.

Now I know what you’re thinking right now, ‘get yourself together, it’s only a week’. Now I will admit, that is the logical way to look at this, it is only a week. But if I can, I’m going to throw logic out the window for a minute. For someone like me who has been waiting to play this game for years, watching eagerly as they announce each veteran and newcomer, this was heart-breaking. Seeing that news link on my daily Smash Brothers news update was a huge deal. Well it was until I clicked on the link and found out I would be waiting another week for the demo because I hadn't registered enough of my Nintendo games on the club website.

However, the worst was still to come. People who had received the codes received three extra codes to do with what they please. People started to give them away online (and also sell them but those people are jerks and I don’t want to talk about them) and I was left camping out at my laptop, seeing if I could get hold of one (yes I’m that sad). After a while, I accepted my fate, I would be waiting another week to get a chance to play the game I wanted more than Charlie wanted that golden ticket to the chocolate factory. It was a nice gesture Nintendo but for those of us left in the cold, it sucks.  I want to play this game Nintendo and I want to play it now. But I guess I’ll just have to wait a week.

Cue the Bleep

As children, many of our thoughts and opinions are formed by what other people believe, the most evident of this being our parents. In short, we have an inability to form our own opinions as we often believe that what our parents believe is what’s right. It took me a while to figure out that sometimes, their opinions aren't what everyone agrees with, including me a lot of the time. One such subject that I was brought up believing was wrong because of what my parents told me is swearing. Growing up I was constantly made to believe that swearing was a punishable sin and that every time I had an accidental slip of the tongue, I had done something terrible (ironically it was my parents I learnt most of these words from, but that’s beside the point). Yes, for the first years of my life, I despised swearing but eventually I went through the natural transition of teenage-dom, which helped me realise, hey, maybe swearing isn't that bad.

Nowadays, I swear most days. It’s gotten to the point that I couldn't imagine going a day without relieving some of my stress with a good swear word. For me, swearing is something that stops me throwing things across the room in a momentary fit of anger (I cannot tell you how many Wii remotes have been saved because of this) or during a stressful piece of work that I believe will never end. The point I am trying to make here is that swearing has become part of who I am. Should I cut down, probably, but am I going to, probably not. Not because I don’t want to but because I would find it an impossible task.

I will now end this by letting everyone know; swearing is not as bad as you might think. The so called ‘swear words’ are just like any other word, they have just managed to gain negative connotations over the years. If someone had said the words ‘fuck’ or ‘bitch’ around you, without you knowing they were swear words, you wouldn't even bat an eye. Swear words are just words that have gained a bad reputation. Keep that in mind the next time you berate someone because they say one of these ‘naughty words’.