Look in the mirror and repeat this three times: 'I'm not going to be a professional gamer, and that's OK.'
. But being entirely ignorant about your ability, as I was as a kid, could only have happened during a time when the internet was just background noise. Today, fed on leaderboards and YouTube clips, we know our tawdry little island inwith its sad weeds and aimless paths, cannot compare to someone’s sprawling paradise of stately mansions and. Your kill/death ratio is less than ideal, and you know it. In fact, everyone knows it. It's never been so obvious how average we are at games.
There’s an element of nostalgia here that transcends games, namely that having access to masses of information about our hobbies renders those hobbies less mysterious. Gaming folklore like finding the Ice Key inused to spread by word of mouth or magazine; now you can find it on your phone. There is a direct line between this change and the competitive, consumerist spirit fueled by the internet . Just as a quick surf of the web can imbue us with a toxic blend of envy and ambition—people's outfits on Instagram, their achievements on Linkedin—certain games pit us in a ruthless, semi-public performance. In his bookCandy Crush Saga
, he points out that all achievements are tracked and ranked: Players are assigned a numerical score, a rating on a three-star system, and their performance is plotted on a leaderboard, linked to their Facebook. On social media, the player can earn extra lives by recruiting and interacting with other players.
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