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Moni Talks Tech (and other things) is a show hosted by Monika Rabensteiner, a weird Austrian lady, who went on the journey to start her own business and is now here to tell the tale. But not only that: she will be caressing your earbuds with tips and tricks around tech tools and design - everything you need to make your online business work smarter not harder - and look better in the process.
Welcome to Moni Talks Tech and Other Things, the podcast where service based business owners and coaches like you can walk away with simple tips and tricks to level up your business and defeat the ultimate end boss, your dreaded tech set up. Are you ready for this then? Let's go.
Hello. Hello, and welcome to another episode of Moni Talks Tech. And this week we are talking about something that maybe not a lot of people have interest in, but on the other hand, I think you should continue to listen because I'm giving you great insights into nerdom and how video games are not just evil as everybody says they are. I know when people think about video games, they often think of loners that are really nerdy, that don't wash themselves, that don't have any friends, and that all they do is play shooty shooty bang bang things and it's gonna ruin society because everybody wants to shooty shooty bang something.
But let me tell you how much not true that is. I don't think I've ever really properly played a shooty shooty bang bang game in my life. Well, it's not technically, true that I never played one, but at the same time, it's not my type of game. I'm not really into it. I'm also really, really bad at it, shockingly. But to be fair, I'm really bad at most video games, but I play them because I think they're really fun. And I also think like every form of media, they bring something really special. And they're also a lot of different genres out there that are really interesting. And I actually think that there is a game for everyone. Even if you think you're not a gamer, there is a game that you probably will enjoy and therefore I think video gaming is for everyone.
But the games I play, are mostly either some story-based games where I'm really diving into a story and I'm really playing a character, which is often like watching a movie. But not only that, I'm not only watching a movie and I'm just participating passively with it. I'm actually part of the story. So story-based games are incredible to get different kind of views on different kind of things or different experiences in, that you are not experiencing because you are not like, say, a minority group or you are not a straight white dude or you're not a gay woman or whatever. Those are all things that you can experience in different kinds of video games through different kinds of platforms. And I think that has a real educational part of it. I always say, and I always think that media has a a big responsibility.
Yes, we do learn a lot in school, but about life, we learn in life and there are so many things that we based on where we're living, based on where we are, are unable to experience ourselves. So we experience things through media. We experience things by watching a movie and seeing a gay couple in it. We are experiencing things by playing a video game, which also means it's really important that the people who write these stories are actually people who experience these stories. And if you've seen movies in the last, I don't know, 20 or 30 years, they are mostly written by straight white men who don't know much about the experience of women in the world or don't know much the experience of black people in the world or, minority genders in the world or whatever. So we need people who have experiences like this to write stories, but like this, but I digress, through video games, there is, it is a different kind of experience when you play a story aside from watching a story because you have to make decisions.
You are not just watching decisions being made, you are actively in it, which makes you be even more into the story sometimes than just by experiencing it passively. And there are a lot of games that do that really well. Like the Last of Us that has a TV show coming out now. There is a lot of what is right and wrong in this story and a lot about morals in this story. And you need to make the decisions based off of that or some other games that actively deal with mental health issues and try to transport what it's like to experience psychosis like Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice. That's one that's really trying to get that across. But the thing that I also love to play that are not that deep but really help me in my business are often puzzle games because I need to train my brain or I'm trained by playing puzzle games.
I'm training my brain to problem solve, which means I'm training it to think creatively to get to a solution, which means I'm constantly engaging my brain in, in solving issues, which helps me in my work and solving tech issues for people or solving issues in general wherever they are. Um, because my brain tries to do that for fun as well. It's, it's a way of, of training my brain to do even more problem solving and to maybe find more creative ways to get to a solution. And that's why I really love, and I really enjoy some tiny little indie games that don't look like much, but really, really engage your brain and really need you to think creatively to get to the solution and to conquer the game. And then there are obviously other games like platformers where you just need to jump around, which in all honesty, is really testing anyone's patience.
I don't know how we made it through the nineties with just playing Mario all the time because right now if I will play that I would just throw my control. And I never did when I was was a kid. So maybe I was more patient back then, even though I would assume I'm more patient now. But yeah, there are just other, there are just so, so many different kinds of games that help you in a lot of ways. And when you say and assume that people who play video games are really all just lonely people and they don't have any friends, then this is really also not true. Ever since video gaming started, it was something that I did with people. I even played Tetris with a friend. So we sat there with our old little first generation gameboys with a cable connecting to both of them, and we both did those sorting the blocks into something.
And by the way, right, Tetris is the thing. I can pack a suitcase and my boot, or trunk for the US people in a way that nobody else can because I know how to fold stuff into tiny little pieces and make it fit right. So , it's not that that that video games don't teach you anything and they're just a waste of time. They can help you in so many different ways. And as I said, playing with friends something, I do video gaming most of the time now to play with friends. I sometimes barely have time to play for myself and play by myself. So I do it when there is a community day with a community that I'm part of and we play together and it's so much fun and we just shout at each other in the friendliest ways possible, obviously .
And we just have a great time. And even if there are a lot of games that can only be played by yourself, you connect with other people over the shared interest of said game. So even if it's a single player game that it's a story-based game that you only play alone because there is no multiplayer option. You still, when you fall in love with it, there are still a lot of other people that are also in love with it and you connect based off of that shared interest like you do in life with so many other things, right? So don't underestimate the power of video games, not only for you as a person, for you and your brain to train whatever you want to train with it. Is it problem solving? Is it puzzling? Is it learning? Is it experiencing stories? Is it communicating with other people in the multiplayer game to get to a shared goal?
Those are all things that you need in your business every day. You need to solve problems probably on a daily basis when you work for yourself. You need to communicate with other people on a daily basis and you need to communicate well to be as efficient as possible. And that's sometimes what video games also teach you. So don't underestimate the power of them. They are really fucking great and not at all just a thing for nerds that don't wash themselves. And I say that even though I started this podcast because I didn't want to shower every time to show my face on social media, this is not true. I'm very clean . But aside from that, again, video games are great for enjoyment, for fun, for relaxation, for all of the things. And if you need a suggestion on what to start out with or if you want to do something specific, don't mind and hit me up on Instagram at MoniRocksYourSocks, or check up my website at monirocksyoursocks.com. Let's have a chat and let me know the things that you love to play the most. And if you don't, what do you do for for fun times? Let me know as well. I can't wait to hear from you and see you again next week or hear you again next week because you don't see my face for another great episode of Moni Talks Tech. Bye.