在保持社交距离期间，玩游戏可能会让你保持理智

在保持社交距离期间，玩游戏可能会让你保持理智

For a brief and wonderful two hours the other night, the weight on my chest lifted, and I could breathe regularly again for the first time in about 10 days.

有一天晚上，在短暂而美妙的两个小时里，我胸部的重量减轻了，在大约10天的时间里，我第一次可以正常呼吸了。

I have been struggling with the question facing many of my mentally anguished cohorts in this time of uncertainty: Is my inability to get a deep breath a result of anxiety?

在这个充满不确定性的时代，我一直在努力解决我的许多精神上痛苦的同伴所面临的问题：我无法深呼吸是因为焦虑吗?

The answer to my silent question was crystal clear as I rode a Jaxi through the Sand Kingdom in "Super Mario Odyssey." I was not thinking about coronavirus. I was focused purely on where I was going to get my next Power Moon -- and I could breathe.

当我在《超级马里奥奥德赛》中乘坐Jaxi穿越沙漠王国时，这个沉默的问题的答案就像水晶般清晰。我不是在想冠状病毒。我完全专注于如何得到我的下一个动力月球——我可以呼吸了。

My relationship with video games was, until this pandemic, sort of like the one you have with that distant cousin who you're friends with on Facebook but haven't seen in person since you were both really into Leonardo DiCaprio circa the "Titanic" years.

在这场流行病之前，我和电子游戏的关系就像你和一个在Facebook上是好友的远房表亲的关系，但自从你们在《泰坦尼克号》那几年都非常喜欢莱昂纳多·迪卡普里奥之后就再也没有见过面。

I liked video games just fine, but I didn't seek out a connection with them, especially anything that came out after Super Nintendo. I haven't owned a gaming system since I was a child, leaving me mostly in the dark about the entire generation of games and gaming that came after it.

我很喜欢电子游戏，但我并没有刻意去和它们建立联系，尤其是在超级任天堂之后出现的任何游戏。我从孩提时代起就没有拥有过游戏系统，这让我对整整一代游戏和其后的游戏都一无所知。

That changed two weeks ago when my husband and I began practicing social distancing, and he bought us a Nintendo Switch to help us pass the time. It's been the best decision he could have made for us.

两周前，当我丈夫和我开始保持社交距离时，情况发生了变化。他给我们买了一个任天堂游戏机来打发时间。这是他为我们所做的最好的决定。

I'm not alone. Video games are being played at record levels, for good reason.

我并不孤单。玩电子游戏的机率正达到创纪录水平，这是有充分理由的。

"During this time of self-distancing, we can see a revisiting of video games as a pastime for some who have not had the affordance of time to engage with this rich medium," Kristopher Alexander, a professor of video games: design, broadcasting, & esports infrastructure at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada told CNN. "Video games can be a positive activity during this time of self distancing if we can take the time to discover the types of games that are best for you."

加拿大多伦多瑞森大学电子游戏设计、广播和电子竞技基础设施教授克里斯托弗·亚历山大对美国有线电视新闻网说：“在这段自我隔离的时期，我们可以看到，对一些没有时间接触这种丰富媒体的人来说，重新体验电子游戏是一种消遣。”如果我们能花时间去发现最适合你的游戏类型，那么在这种自我隔离的时间里，电子游戏将是一项积极的活动。”

But if you're new to the landscape or returning after a long absence like myself, gaming can seem like a mysterious beast.

但如果你是新手，或者像我一样久别故地，游戏就像一头神秘的野兽。

For that reason, Josh Boykin, founder of gaming community Intelligame, recommends talking to your friends even before consulting the internet, which can be hit or miss.

基于这个原因，游戏社区Intelligame的创始人乔什·博伊金建议在上网之前就和你的朋友聊聊天，这是成败之道。

"If you've got friends who you think have a similar style or similar taste, reach out to them and ask, 'Hey, you know, what do you think I would like?' It's like getting a book recommendation from a friend," he said.

“如果你有一些朋友，你认为他们(跟你)有相似的风格或相似的品味，那就去问他们，‘嘿，你知道，你觉得我喜欢什么?’就像朋推荐一本书一样。”

"There's just such a broad world of games right now in terms of the stories that are being told, the environments that you can explore, the gameplay styles," he said. "It can sometimes be hard to find out about those kinds of experiences from some of the larger [streamers] or from some of the larger viewer bases."

他说:“就游戏所讲述的故事、你可以探索的环境以及游戏风格而言，现在的游戏世界非常广阔。”“有时候从一些更大的视频发布者或更大的观众群体中很难找到这样的体验。”