i remember when video games first came out, and they've come a loooooong way. i hadn't played any in a long time, then i sat down with pac-man's world on PS. i was getting nauseous and worried about falling off the edge of the spinning wheels on the circus board. then, i figured out how to find extra life pieces. once i had 40 or 50 lives built up, i didn't worry about falling off the edge of the spinning wheels. that's what i mean about 'desensitizing'.