Alex's Pop Culture Blog

People are driven to video games due to several factors, one of these reasons is the idea of challenge and mastery. This is explored in the reading as it is explained how people tend to stick with the objectives presented in video games, and are willing to finish it all the way through. In real life people are easy to give up and change their direction. If people could keep this level of dedication in the real world than many would be able to exceed in many real world aspects. In the video It is explained that this dedication in games could be used to transfer that dedication into solving real world problems. Many people who play games enjoy the social aspects of it. Social contact is nesecary for humans and video games provide that. They offer opportunity's for people to play with their friends and interact with ne people. In Why We play it Jane McGonigal talks about the millions of World of Warcraft players who interact with each other daily throughout the game, giving them the...

A common theme in both the reading and the article and the video where the methods of transportation for sports. Modern day almost all athletes are transported by school bus. This is shown in the video with the various school buses on the school grounds. This methods keeps the teams organized and together. They used other methods of transportation such as trains. They also usually only played teams close to each other. Rules were needed once far distance games became common place. They are require to maintain a common ground to traveling teams. This creates a common ruleset that is easy to follow and keeps everyone on the same page. This can ensure the quality of the game throughout the playable regions. These universal rules are needed as demonstrated in the video and the reading to maintain a common ground.

The video and the readings have several connections. The first one is the ideals of men needs to be masculine. The video explores this by men examining how they have to throw out the girly features and assume a more masculine feel. It compares how men have been overshadowed by women's positive body imagines that men have been adapting a body confident lifestyle. The reading discusses how men's shopping habits have increase substantially 5% more per year. The same rate as female rates. The video and reading explore how metrosexuals are men who are extremely obsessed with their self image. both explore how they spend significantly more on grooming and clothing products in order to increase how they view themselves, either through their own eyes or their ideas of what the world views them as. The reading says that the battle is already over saying that metrosexuals are the normal in society now. The reading says that men can often use laughter as a defense mechanism. The video...