Seeing Through a Different Lens
(Left to right: joo keng, me and novia)
We started learning about viewing things through a different lens. To experiment with this, I chose a popular online game from Singapore to conclude the results. The game “AuditionSea” is a multiplayer dance-battle game originated from Korea and now widely played by Singaporeans (http://www.auditionsea.com/). Anyone from all around the world enjoys this game no matter what gender, class, race and environmentalism it is. That is why I’m going to use what I experienced throughout the game to explain the differences through a different lens.
Boys, like me enjoy this game due to competition against each other. By this, we have fun and obtain some feeling of accomplishment (though it’s not really much to accomplish). Usually Singaporeans who play are Chinese, and Chinese are so-called having pride, so that’s why we hate losing and we flame about small incidents. Since there is not much to relate to environmentalism, I’ll talk about class instead. The game requires you to earn up in-game currency to buy items inside the game. Some who are lazy to do that can rather buy credit using real currency to acquire in-game items. Adding on to that, those credits are high on prices. As I don’t exist from a loaded family (which I have no complaints about whatsoever) have no possibility to afford such credits, furthermore, I strongly consider that is worthless. Environmentalism affects the game on how smoothly the game runs. Malaysia isn’t really caring about the environment; they care about sophisticated technology and hope it would reach their goal in 2020. Therefore, high quality computers were created and people used it here to play the game.
On the other hand, gender wise, girls are more likely to play to socialize, getting to know new friends and maybe, flirting. As I said before, people scattered all around the globe likes to have fun in this game, therefore, confusion may arise when we speak in communicate differently. For example, I have encountered a few Spanish speakers and Vietnamese speakers; slowly, we apart from each other. Most players in “AuditionSea” suspects Vietnamese players are hackers (a group of people that violates the law of the game to gain what they want in-game). Time zones are different in each area too, so we have to compromise with each other. As for class, some are riches and some are poor. Some the riches don’t play with the poor because they think they’re not fun to play with since they obviously have different opinions about things. They see if a certain player uses credit to determine their class. These players are sometimes considered jerks and brats as they tend to release they’re rage on others when they’re mad. To preserve the environment, countries develop less sophisticated computers to ensure the existence of a good environment. By doing that, those who use lower grade computers to play the game will encounter lags and game resets. When this happens, it affects all the gamers playing with them.
