FAIL - to fall short of success or achievement in something expected, attempted, desired, or approved
Or as I see it one of the largest fear based detriments to any success in game or life. In this article I will try to tackle this issue.
This question should be easy for most to answer…… Why play games? BECAUSE THEY ARE FUN AND ENTERTAINING! Now I’d like to extrapolate a bit on that answer and see if we can draw parallels between playing games with “fun” in mind, and the pick-up game. Now lets start by defining game:
For this article I will be drawing the similarities between Video gaming and the Pick-up game. As a reference for this post I will be using the Mystery Method (Pick-up Artist) to draw my conclusions. This one I found pretty fun to dive into being that I love games, and I was interested to find a scarlet thread between the two. It is interesting to find that so many gamers are identified as social failures. I think that is in part the fault of us gamers. In this post I will try to show you that if used correctly, and with a changed outlook that the same skills you use to beat video games are the very same when playing “The Game.”
In the as I like to call it “オタク の じだい” (Otaku no Jidai/Era of the Otaku) more and more people are starting to identify with that term. With the help anime, manga, video games becoming more mainstream, it opens a new door that could very well change the basic stereotypes of a geeks everywhere. I’d like to use myself and a few of my friends as an example to show you the changes that are taking place. In my group of friends we are all anime watching, video game playing, computer tech geeks, but and a BIG but we still find people that are surprised when they find out our interest while talking over cup of coffee or a margarita. I will lay out a few points that I think are some of the biggest stereotypical hurdles that social you will have to deal with or change in people’s minds.