Patrick Lising Interview #2

Unknown Speaker  0:02   Hello, my name is Zack Benke,  I am with the social media team interviewing Mr. Patrick Albert, Lising. Why don't you Introduce yourself? Unknown Speaker  0:12   Hi, my name is Patrick. I am a fourth year here at San Jose State majoring in communication. Unknown Speaker  0:20   Lets see if the team wants to introduce themselves as well. Unknown Speaker  0:23   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. Unknown Speaker  0:35   Nice meet you too. Unknown Speaker  0:38   I'm mellie Rose, and I'm also in my fourth year and a communications major. Unknown Speaker  0:44   All right, let's get this interview underway. So, how is  being a communication studies major going for you, Patrick. Unknown Speaker  0:51   It's going really well. I love every minute that I'm a part of, or that I'm doing communication. I'm in 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 a graduate program, but we'll see. Unknown Speaker  1:19   Alright, 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? Unknown Speaker  1:33   I do. Yeah. So I played 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 in high school. But I recently got more into gaming within the pandemic. Unknown Speaker  1:53   Sort of rekindled your love for video games a little bit. Unknown Speaker  1:57   Yeah, like, I don't know why I stopped. I think I just got really busy. I loved gaming, and I'm excited to game more. I recently just built a PC within the last couple of months. So that kind of expanded more and more opportunities within gaming. Unknown Speaker  2:17   Nice. So what games are you currently playing? Like? What platforms besides pc? Do you play on any consoles? Unknown Speaker  2:26   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. I'm looking at getting a PS five. Unknown Speaker  2:41 Unknown Speaker  2:41   I have heard the horror stories. Again, one of those scalpers stuff going on. Unknown Speaker  2:47   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 wanting to kind of start your Yeah, reimagining of the video game world? Unknown Speaker  3:03   Yeah, so I think it really started again, when I started college, when I had a little more free time, it really started probably within the pandemic, even though I had free time, I'm still working part time with school full time. So I didn't really have a lot of time to do so. But I bought my, Nintendo Switch, probably at the end of 2018, early 2019. So I had it for a little bit, playing a few games here and there. But it really started at the beginning of the pandemic, when I had the most free time I've ever had. So it was very convenient, because I was really looking forward to Animal Cro...