In the article Why We play has examples that playing video games, is an outlet for people from their daily life, a way to escape. In doing that, people become happy and for a moment they have their fantasy turn into a reality. In contrast to the video that we watched in class, Jane McGonigal describes in her lecture 5 regrets that people that have when their on their death bed. One of those regrets included having not been actively in contact with their peers and friends. I'm getting at video games brought people together and friendships together. People escape together especially in games that have teams such as Call of Duty and Halo. You have to actively interact with your friends and teammates.
Another similarity between the lecture and the article would be the fact that playing video games helps people set goals and achieving them even if its to go to the next level on a game. Achieve your goals helps people feel better knowing they completed the task. Jane also designed video games for the purpose of making people feel better by getting power ups and completing the level. Especially after what she went through, she wanted to create an outlet so people can feel better, and she did just that.

Between the video of "Say yes to the Dress" and the "Lavish Weddings" paper, one thing stood out in common, White is the way to go. In the video there was one woman that initially wanted to get a black dress, but her mother didn't want that for her daughter because it wasn't pure and white. So the woman ended up getting the white dress because it was more pure and the mother thought she was more beautiful in that dress. Another connection from the video to the reading was the "Bigger the Better" type of ordeal. A certain women wanted her dress to be very big and glamorous versus a simple (not to mention least expensive dress) because her dress was $11000! 

I think the whole idea behind sports is overrated. Sports is something that should be a hobby, not something that people depend their life on. One reason I believe people rely heavy on sports is because of the parents. Parents of students that participate in sports anticipate that sports is the way to go to live a complete and successful life, instead of having sports being something that they love. 

Coaches are also a big part of sports being overrated. Why? Coaches depend too much on their students to take their team to the top and be the best. In order to do that, they overwork the kids and over practice them, when sports is supposed to be something they love. It's almost like coaches have a bigger ego than the students that are performing well. It actually saddens me because coaches can make students fall out of love with what they want to do because of being overworked and that's not fair to the student because they just want to play. But then again, students do sign up to play sports so that is their decision at they end of they day.