Patrick Lising Interview

Zach: Hello, my name is Zach Behnke, I am with the social media team interviewing Mr. Patrick Albert Lising, uh, why don't you introduce yourself. Patrick: Hi. My name is Patrick. I am a fourth year here at San Jose State majoring in communication... is there anything else I should introduce myself about? Zach: Uh, no, I think that's uh, mostly it, uh, anyone else on the team want to introduce themselves as well? Bruno: Hello, my name is Bruno Gallelli, I'm also a fourth year at San Jose State. And I am also a communications major. So it's nice to have someone who is also... you know, within the same major, so nice to meet you, Patrick. Patrick: Nice meet you too. Meli: I'm Meli Rose, and I'm also in my fourth year and a communications major. Nice to meet you, Patrick. Patrick: Nice to meet you too. Gabby: (Gabby gets cut off here) also a communications major. Zach: You kind of got cut off, but uh, Gabby: (adjusts audio) how's that? that better? Zach: Yeah. Okay. So your communications major, or Communication Studies major as well. They were all communication studies majors in here. Patrick: Cool. Zach: Okay so... alright, let's get this interview underway. So, uh we already covered what's your name, how old you are, all that jazz, what your major is- how's being a communication studies major going for you, Patrick? Patrick: It's going really well. I love every minute that I'm a part of, or that I'm doing communication. And yeah, I'm I mean, I mean, my last semester, so kind of excited, also sad at the same time. But yeah, I love communication. I loved everything. I loved everything that I've learned so far. And I'm excited to learn more, as much as I can before I graduate. Maybe that'll take me somewhere else, maybe your graduate program, but we'll see. Zach: All right. It's good to hear. So, the point of this interview is that we're going to be asking you what your thoughts are on video games and how they've been helping people throughout the pandemic. So, first question to get out of the way. Do you play video games? Patrick: I do. Yeah. So I played - uh - I played a lot when I was growing up a lot of video games, like I had like the Gameboy Color, Gameboy Advance, A lot of that, and then I stopped for a little bit when I got into like Middle School and High school. But I recently got more into gaming within the pandemic, so yeah. Zach: It sort of rekindled your love for video games a little bit. Patrick: Yeah, definitely. I was... I... Yeah. Like, I don't know why I stopped. I think I just got really busy. But I love. I love gaming, and I'm excited to gain more. I recently just built a PC. Zach: Oh yeah? Patrick: Yeah, within the last couple of months. So that kind of expanded more... more opportunities within gaming. Yeah. Zach: Nice, so what games are you currently playing? Like? What platforms besides pc? Do you play on any consoles? Patrick: I have a Nintendo Switch. So I've been playing a lot on that. I don't really have any other consoles besides that. But I definitely do want to, again, expand more on that. So let's hope that within the next like, couple months or like in the next year or so that I can. I'm looking at getting a PS5. So yeah. Zach: I have heard the horror stories about getting one of those, all the scalpers stuff going on. Patrick: Yeah, so I'm definitely like waiting out for a little bit. Whenever that comes down, and then I'll buy one. Zach: So anyone else want to ask him a question? Bruno: So would you say that the pandemic exclusively brought that rekindling back or were you kind of dancing around with it in your college years or, like wanted to kind of start your reimagining of the video game world. Patrick: Yeah, so I think it really started again, when I started college when I had a little more free time...