Game Night.

We just got back from Game night. I love game night. Tonight I was thinking that I love game night because it gives me new ways to think about the world. Each game we play is a different abstraction of the world, and it only describes specific subset of interactions: but to be believable it describes them abnormally well. I’ve found that the interactions are then often able to be extrapolated out to the real world more often then you might think, and so by strategizing in a game and learning to play it, you are learning more than just how to win the game: you’re learning new tools that you can use to win at life. I like having the most diverse set of ways of thinking about situations I can, I like being able to “figure things out.” As such, Game night is a boon, because it gives me a new way to think about things almost every time I go: and the interactions I have with the other people there are a whole new way of applying those things that I learn. Its interactive, its iterative, it is never boring and we have fun: its everything I like in a good experience. That’s why I keep going back.

Yeah for Game night, and the skills that may (or may not) come in handy in the real world.

Dom