July 10, 2010
A Different Approach
The other day, Cole came over to watch me play a vidjeo game.
There’s nothing wrong with that, I suppose. I mean, gods, I watch Let’s Plays all the damn time. It’s not like I don’t know that watching other people play games can be entertaining.
At the same time, whenever I do it, it’s always something that just kind of happens. I don’t make plans to go over to someone’s house and watch them play something. It’s just kind of, hey, I show up, they’re playing the game, I’ll just sit down and watch and chat and give advice, etc. Yet, that’s pretty well what Cole did. We didn’t have any ideas, he came over anyway, and that was the first thing he suggested. That I start playing so he could see Crackdown 2.
It was a good time, it was fun, but it was just weird. Not in a bad way. Just in a… different way. Just in a constant reminder that I have always existed in one very particular social group, and that people outside my group do things differently. I get into such ideas all the time. It’s not like I don’t handle them well.
It’s just different. I keep getting into things that are different.
Different things keep happening.
Yeah.
And I’m someone who tends to, for the most part, not like things to be different. Known quantities are nice. But getting out of my bubble is better. Even little stupid things like that is good for me.
Probably.