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Handheld and mobile gaming

Most consoles tried to make a mobile version

Nintendo was the first and had a head start

Sony, while not the first to incorporate TV, made their handheld more of a small media center.

Many games started being developed for the mobile phone market




Lan Party

Games could be played online, but due to internet speeds and connectivity issues the Lan party was created

Sleep overs where everyone brought their PCs and connected via a local network bypassing the internet

Jolt cola and Doritos

This is often seen as part of what created a gaming subculture




Gaming culture

Online games where people spend most of their time interacting with others and really become their characters(have little life outside of the game)

Slang terminology (noob, pwn) Leetspeak = 13375P34K




Issues in gaming

Violence narrative (violent video games cause people to be violent, but studies actually say the exact opposite )

Gender and sexuality in gaming

Ownership of games (making fan games that continue unfinished stories) (Companies want to change agreements to be that you don’t own a physical copy)



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Welcome back to Geek Time advanced. How are you doing Lulu?


Hi, Brad.


So I thought we'd get back into gaming culture.


Yes. So last time we shared with you all these basically the history of the game console and also this different types of games that we play or we used to play. Now I want to start today's episode by exploring a little bit about gaming culture.


Last time you mostly focused on the console and that is you know you're holding some sort of controller like I don't know what those are called 那个手柄


Just controllers.


Controllers. So you have the controllers in which is very different from nowadays when you just use your phone to play like mobile gaming, how is that like different? Is it like people who played the console games? Or They just naturally they automatically switch to mobile games or are they just different people, people who favored handheld consoles in controllers or people who favored mobile gaming?


I think basically what happened was in probably about 10 years ago or so, a whole new group of kids just start growing up with handheld games like the Nintendo handheld or the Sony handheld.


And they kind of grew up with these. And then as mobile phones got better, they just kind of made the transition to games on mobile phones.


And so there are the first handheld games. I remember I had like a Sega handheld in a Nintendo and Nintendo Game Boy (是由任天堂公司在1989年发售的第一代便携式掌上游戏机,它拥有多种标准机型,包括原版Game Boy,尺寸更小的Game Boy Pocket(GBP),和带背光功能的Game Boy Light(GBL)。Game Boy是掌上游戏机历史上非常成功的一款设备,它的销量达到了1亿1869万台(包含Game Boy Color)).


And Basically, they were just mobile versions of the actual system games.


Oh, when you say handheld, it's actually those it's not even console, it's like 掌机, it's like a little thing on your hand you can hold in your hand, right?


Yeah, right right. So it's basically as if you took the Nintendo and shrunk it down and put it in your hand you could carry it around. You have those types of games, and then Sony kind of created something very similar, but they tried to make it into more of like  a game that was actually a media center and try to make it a little bit more powerful and robust.


Yeah.


And then they kind of got into a little bit of a war where Nintendo, what they did for a lot of their newer systems as they made it.


So you could actually carry around the bigger system like the switch, right? You do not... you can play it almost anywhere you go, you hook up to your TV or you can play it on the go. Whereas like my PlayStation Four, I need to have a monitor. (True)I actually have a portable monitor for it now, but yeah.


Yes, but still it's a lot more troublesome. So Brad, you're now living in Japan. We know that Japan has a very big ACG(Animation, Comic, Game ) culture. But what kind of games do people actually play? I don't mean game types, but are they more into sort of console games, online games, computer games, or mobile games?


I think it really depends, It's not really... I think they're all really popular, but some people like having consoles, some people like having computers, and some people just only play mobile games, right? Like a handheld system.


I actually was on the subway not too long ago and I saw a few older people playing on like one of the older Nintendo handheld games.


And so you can see like different groups of people playing different types of systems. And I think it's not necessarily one is more popular than the other. I think it just depends on if here's a word you might not hear very often, but some people are called casuals(在游戏文化中,“casual” 这个词通常指的是“休闲玩家”,也就是那些玩游戏主要是为了放松和娱乐,而不是追求高排名、竞技或精通游戏技巧的玩家。在某些竞技性较强的游戏社区中,一些追求更高水平的玩家可能会用“casual”这个词来指代那些技巧或投入程度不如他们的玩家,这时可能会带有一点不太友好的意味。).


Casual?


They play games casually and it's almost a derogatory term.


So you're not a professional. I get it like you're not really like hugely into the gaming culture. Then you are a casual, is that what you mean? Then I'm a casual.


Yeah, and so I think it just depends on what kind of gamer you are, like I'm into simulators. And so I need to have a really powerful computer. I also like games like Grand Theft Auto《侠盗猎车手》, so I can just play that on my PlayStation. So it just depends on what kinds of games you like. And that just kind of determines what kind of system you have.


Yeah. By the way. You know when you watch things like Big Bang Theory, you see the guys the geeks they get together have their computer and they spend the night just playing just forming a team, playing in one game, is that very popular in like the gaming culture?


Oh yeah, definitely, it's probably what started gaming culture to begin with was what we called a “LAN party”.(局域网聚会:一种多人通过局域网(LAN)连接在一起进行电子游戏比赛的活动。)


A LAN part?


Yeah LAN. It's kind of like the internet but just in a local area, so local area network, but so called a LAN party. So when the internet wasn't very good, what people would do is they would all carry their computers to one of their friends' houses. And they would all connect with the router or another type of switching device.


And so everyone would connect together and that way the speeds were good enough to play together because if you tried to connect to the internet, if there was any internet problems or slower speeds, the games just were not very good to play.


I see.


But if you went together, you could play very good.


Yeah, you know in China, I think this culture is slightly different. I've seen guys just go to like an internet cafe, one of the better equipped, or they just do it online that in Chinese they call it 开黑. It's basically a bunch of people they would either have face to face or online audio communication while they play the same game usually on the same team. That's the same idea, isn't it?


It's the same idea. And there were some really small scale versions of internet cafes in the US and like gaming stores. But they weren't really, very popular because it was expensive for the store to have a gaming system and several of them in fact, most people just would have a computer at home so they would just take it to their friends house and play. So it was much cheaper that way at least.


So do you guys play like overnight, stay up overnight, having sleep overs or just stay up overs?


Basically, what people would do is we go out... I think most people know Mountain Dew(激浪), right?

Mountain Dew is quite popular like soft drink, but when I was a kid, we had something called Jolt Cola and Jolt Cola was like the strongest...had like the most caffeine. And So you would drink this all night long.

Why don't you just pump like coffees into your system? Just drink black coffee and Red Bull(红牛).


I think coffee was one of those things that parents didn't really want their kids drinking.


So you drink soft drinks.


But Jolt Cola was perfectly fine and most parents didn't know how much caffeine was in a Jolt Cola.


I see, I see. Okay, now getting a little bit more into gaming culture, we were talking about LARPing(Live Action Role-Playing, 是指参与真人角色扮演游戏。在这种游戏中,参与者会穿上特定的服装,扮演某个角色,并在现实世界中实时演绎一个虚构的场景或故事。) before, right?


People who really liked the characters, maybe not game character, maybe like the sort of anime or manga characters. There are also gamers who are really into it. They just kind of start to lose connection with the world, right? Escapism.


Yes, when we talk about like the MMORPGs , Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games (abbr. 大型多人在线角色扮演游戏), right, people will create a character and sometimes they'll chat with other people. They might have friends, or they might just have people they know on the game. And that's all they talk to, right? That's the only people they talk to. They don't really have a life outside of the game.


And I think it is easier when you feel powerless in life again I don't want to make a blanket statement (一种谬误,指在没有足够证据的情况下从归纳推理中得出结论的一种错误概括) but it is like for me it's the same when I feel like I'm quite disappointed in whatever happens in real life, I tend to find an escape space in games in like virtual reality.


In a way that is also a type of virtual reality, right? So I thought we can end this episode with talking about a few, since we're already on reduced human contact, real life, real world connection, I thought we also talked about a few concerns about the gaming culture or in the world of gaming. The first is definitely the violence part. The violent narrative.


if you listen to any politicians in America talking about like violence and things like that in schools and they always point to video games. Video games are like the culprit. But it's actually very interesting because any of the actual studies that go and look at violence in video games, they find that people who play video games end up being less violent than the people who don't play violent video games. It mean it's actually other people who are creating or causing most of the violence. And so having a violent outlet sometimes actually reduces the need for violence in real life.


I mean I can see it from both perspectives. I think people who worry about these violent games are gonna provoke violent behaviors.They're thinking you learn these behaviors, especially if you're very young and impressionable, you learn these behaviors and you want to... you sort of blurred the line between real life and fantasy, and you start, for example, hurting real people.


But what you're saying is that the gaming realm really is a realm for people to sort of release these frustration or violence in a healthy way. It’s like get a healthy space.


Of course there might be very few anecdotal stories about how people who played violent games were violent. And it's just so few. And far between that, it doesn't really make sense to blame video games. There has to be something else (exactly).


Because when you look at the whole world, there are lots of countries that have violent video games and people playing those games and they don't have the same level of violence, right? And so like, it's definitely if you look at the whole thing, it's not really violence in video games. That is like the big thing.


Yeah, at least it's not a causal link (因果关系:两个事物之间的关系,其中一个事物引起另一个事物). There might be some correlations, but it's not a definitive causal link.


The other big thing is gender, sexuality, and also potential sort of like sexism. For example, there are new games coming out and then immediately there are people saying that it’s disrespectful to women or like the women character in it. They've been sexualized or whatever, so these type of things. What do you think in gaming.


When it comes to gaming, I don't think it's very much different from any type of media, whether it's movies or TV shows, books. You see the same type of problems coming out like people are mad about a gender stereotype.


It's kind of hard to see this, but I think one big problem when it comes to gaming is there's a bunch of guys who this is a very general stereotype as well. There's a bunch of guys who play games together. And as soon as like a girl joins, they're like, are you a girl? And they go crazy.


There's a fair bit of either sexism or harassment going on, but then again in terms of that, in terms of the whole gender thing, I have my own theory. I understand there has long been sexism, harassment in the whole mostly male dominated gaming space.


But then like I said, for example like the girl oriented, the female oriented, like Otome games, it's also creating a female fantasy and I always remember the CEO of that company, the founder of that company says of that Otome game that I'm playing, that the founder of the company who made this said that people often say girls don't play games, but that's not true. It's just that in the traditional or conventional gaming culture, there's no games that girls would really gravitate towards.


Mhm.


So I think that's like a bigger issue when things like Otome game comes out, then is it also objectification of men, for example, right ?


Yeah. I think when video games first started coming out, I think I don't know if it was something that was generally pushed towards boys or if it was just something that boys gravitated to. But I think because of where it started, that's kind of like the direction it went. And so like when you look at anything like in the racing world, there's a lot of nowadays you see more and more girls joining races and working on cars. Whereas in the past it was more of a male dominated sport and you never saw girls doing it, but yeah, I think more and more the... when it comes to any type of sport or...


The big context,


It's becoming more... it's changing, right? More girls are getting into these hobbies.


And so I think we do have to change things a little bit to be more inclusive. (it is true )


I think just kind of I don't think we should attack it as what it used to be, but just try to change it for what it is or to be something new.


Yeah, okay. And on that note, I think we're gonna wrap up advanced episode about gaming and thank you, Brad, for coming to studio, so allowing me this opportunity to talk about games. I usually don't get chance to talk about it.


Very good.


Thank you. So leave us a comment in the comment section and tell us what games you play or have played or what is your view on gaming?


And we'll see you next time.


See you in the next episode.


Bye.


bye, everybody.



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