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Gaming Communiteas

Play, something all of us participate in from time-to-time. Play gives us an opportunity to use our imaginations, enter a dystopian reality, unlike our day-to-day lives. Games provide people with an escape from their reality. Games come in many different styles and formats including console, mobile, and even real-life sports, however, I will be discussing the communities and the social aspect of the gaming culture. 

‘Playing a game and belonging to a community are two very important factors in someone’s life. If people fall in love with something, such as Mario Kart, they can go online and find communities where there are weekly races against other community members all through their online servers. This can occur in many games! People make friends and meet new people through the video-game chat or talking about their games to an individual. I’ve certainly met a lot more people in the “Sims Elite” group on Facebook where we all share our Sims experiences, it’s really cool! 

Another community in the gaming industry is for sports teams. Joining a community of other people your age that have the same passion for something – meeting up every week for training and competing (either socially or really competitively. Socially is much more fun) and making new friends along the way! Digitally, gaming unites people in ways that the internet has never been able to before. The beauty of meeting someone through a video game is the anonymity that can come alongside the game. 

While playing a role-play style game, where you are transformed into a character or an avatar of yourself, you become the person you ideally want to be based around the game and the conditions surrounding you. For example: in Fortnite, you might want to come across as this bad-ass 360-no-scope daredevil where in reality you’re just sick of taking the train to work every day; or in Animal Crossing, where you work hard as a mayor in your town to make it the most incredible town you can design, while investing your life-savings into Tom Nook to build the perfect house (and by life-savings I mean Bells (in-game currency), not real money. 

I am so extremely fascinated about video game culture, and game culture in general, and how people use it like you do a movie or book – however, have that interaction in the middle where for once, you are still yourself, but you have developed that character into hours of dedicated hard work that gives you that escape from reality for a couple of hours, or days….or weeks. 

Now, I have a lot of Nintendo Switch games sitting there collecting dust, I think it’s playtime! 

And that’s the tea. 

Tea of the Week: T2′s Sticky Honey Chai. Enough Said. 

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Digiteas review

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Tea of Light: white peach, almond oolong, ginger, strawberry accents

When I first opened the bag it smelled delicious - a very strong nutty aroma mixed with the smell of peaches and strawberries. After brewing the smell was still there but much more delicate, which I liked (In the bag it's a little too strong to be the Tea of Light) It's a very light and mellow tea, with a peachy aftertaste. I think the only thing is that I couldn't taste any ginger, idk what do you guys think? I could up the ginger ratio.

Tea of Hope: vanilla oolong, spiced apple chai, toasted sesame, coconut

I was little put off by the smell at first - it's very strong and I think most of it came from the spiced apple chai. After brewing the smell was much nicer, but I wasn't sure about the flavor until I added a little agave sweetener and almond milk, and then everything really came together. I'd suggest steeping this tea longer than Adagio suggests and adding cream and sugar for the full effect. I've also seen some Adagio customers say they enjoy brewing their chais in milk.

All in all not bad for our first time blending teas! (And I'm a fan of how the teas look in general: pink strawberries for Kari and white coconut like Angemon's feathers for TK)

(Reminder: if you'd like to buy some tea from Adagio and it's your first time we can send you a coupon!)

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Original Posts:  Matt & Sora   Tai & Izzy   Joe & Mimi   TK & Kari