RULE NUMBER ONE: JUMPING FROM GAME TO GAME

what fucks me up is when im switching from one game to the next, like seven million games came out last holiday season. i was on tour wearing a left 4 dead hat doing zombie jokes, everyone was asking me if i'd played yet. i hadnt, i was on the road and i was unable to play anything. i could just look at magazines, download reviews online. i was seriously jonesin. 

cut to me now with six games maybe seven, some of them not even out of their plastic. i started with fallout 3, then i moved to tomb raider, then i went to dead space, then i went to left 4 dead, then gears of war 2 and back to l4d. 

i find that when you switch back and forth with games like this, you want attributes in one game, or interface, or anything really from the last game to crossover to the next. but they dont. you dont have telekinesis in l4d, even though it would rule ass. you might even find yourself, hitting buttons from one game while you play another because the last game is so branded into your brain.

 

THIS IS LIKE LIFE:

i've had to move around a lot, moving for jobs, moving for tour, i had a different roommate almost every semester in college. what i found is the last location's rules hardly ever apply to the new location. i'd always have to adapt and stay loose. pay attention to how things were done and then do as the romans. sounds kinda like a mindless zombie move, but i feel like you get more out of every new place if you try to be a apart of it, melt into it like mgs4. 

when i was in atlanta i was talking about how improv in nyc was more adventurous and how everything was so awesome and so much better than the south. now i'm back in brooklyn pining for little five points. instead of bitching about a lack of long form, the nyc/chicago style, i could've been mastering atl's short form, adding a new asset to my arsenal. it's great that you got that experience from your last locale, but just let it be that, experience, keep it in the past, in your head, and to yourself. 

what's the new game? what are the new rules? you'll win the faster you forget about the last game, what the buttons meant and how they've switched and how it was better before. fuck all that. learn the new layout, learn the new construct, master it, defeat it. the more you carry with you the more you won't let go. you're less open to new experience. and you dont want to waste time wishing you had telekinesis. cuz who knows how long the game will last?