Hack & Slash or Patience?

Over the weekend, while I still spellbound by my new PS3 and the awesomeness of God Of War 3 in pure HD, a close friend of mine uttered 5 words that I will never ever forget. “Can we play something else?” While I was obviously taken aback, I decided to actually give in this time and try out something else for the night. Somewhere in the wee hours of the morning, Metal Gear Solid was popped into the PS3. Now don’t get me wrong, it’s a beautiful game, but then again you gotta have a lot of patience to play it. There is about 10 mins of gameplay and then an hour of cut scenes, at some point I admit, I was BORED. Which got me thinking..dating…is it all just a game of hack & slash or just a matter of following the cut scenes with patience in an attempt to achieve the greater good?

Lets face it, in today’s world a lot of people out there would like to cut through all the bullshit and just purely enjoy some hack and slash. It gives you instant pleasure, there is lot less that goes into it in terms of skill and leaves you feeling all happy, even if it is momentary. Met the guy/girl a couple of times ( or even once in some cases ), some texting and wham! Plain and simple. Considering we all lead very heavy lives in which we are bombarded with work and cranky cabbies who do not want to go ANYWHERE, a hack and slash in some ways is a way to better functioning. A smile plastered on your face the next day, work seems better, your crappy boss is suddenly a sweetheart and you seem to like the fact that you have the freedom to get out of this so called whatever relationship that it is whenever you want to. Translate: Hack & Slash= Fuck Buddies. Our generation ( I actually hate using that word coz it makes me sound like such a grandmom!) is full of this. No matter where you go, chances are 6 out of 10 men/women will want a hack and slash. Kill one boss and then move on to the next one.

And then there is Metal Gear Solid. It’s a pretty amazing game no doubt but requires a goddamn load of patience. Patience to actually go through the cut scenes, wait for them to finish and then make sense of it. Very very story oriented. Every man/woman has his/her own story. The question is : do you want to be patient and follow through the cut scenes? There are crazy chicks with issues, there are hot chicks, there are nerds and then there are of course straight up men. Everyone has baggage and we wish the small robot that Sunny and Snake’s brother made in MGS to follow Snake around was there in our little lives too. Why? Because it gave Snake his set of cool weapons and a freaking cool Solid Eye! The people who have the patience of following through the cut scenes generally end up in long term relationships- good or bad. Its got its own charm and a whole lot more than just a couple of booty calls or text messages go into it. Would most of us choose this path? We would want to, but not necessarily that we choose to. Am still trying to figure out the want and the choosing ….more on that later.

In the end to this post, in conclusion…what if you get stuck in the middle? Do you play a game like Unchartered: Drake’s Fortune which somehow gives you the idea that it is the best of both or would you rather listen to Deadmau5’s “Sometimes things get complicated?”

Think about it.

Tough Luck.

As a woman who is very proud to call herself a geek for the last 6 years, let me start of by saying – Dating in today’s world is TOUGH. Tougher than beating Zeus in God of War 3 or trying to hack your own iPhone all the while praying that it doesn’t turn into a brick. Not hard because there is not enough of the good stuff floating around, but the minute you are on a date and you whip out your trusty phone to do a little googling on the current topic in conversation, you are immediately termed as a chick who has way too much attitude. And surprisingly in some cases, even called a PRUDE. I mean WTF? Man, are you just pissed off that the www is bigger than your damn ego or are you pissed off that you just lied your ass off in an attempt to get into my pants, and Google saved me? In the end, everyone says that nothing really matters. I say fuck that, unless that cute guy on the other side of the bar does not give you his BBM pin, he is NOT going to call you again. Simply because of 2 reasons .

1. Most men think it is the most earth shatteringly difficult thing to ACTUALLY store the number of the cute chick they talked to last night. Most men also know that keying in those 10 digits into their phone would probably be the only action that they would get that night, so they prefer to just shrug and play Brickbreaker instead. More moves.
2. Then they Facebook stalk you. I used to think that only women do this, but surprisingly men have major FB stalking genes. Check mutual friends( hopefully ex is not a mutual friend), look through photos and even when everything seems fine, NOT send you a FB request. Instead wait for you to send one, so that he can take your number in a private message. The level of layered insanity in this is astounding.

Now its also unfair to say that women don’t do this, but then again, WE ADMIT TO FB STALKING.

As I said before- Dating in today’s world is hard. Technology helps. Atleast you can block that ugly guy that you met last night who called himself “hopesh” on your Gchat right?