Jane McGonigal: Massively multi-player... thumb-wrestling?

Translator: Sonja Hoxha Reviewer: Helena Bedalli

Today I am going to teach you

Sot do t'ju mesoj

how to play my favorite game:

si te luani lojen time te preferuar:

massively multiplayer thumb-wrestling.

mundje gishtash me shume lojtare.

It's the only game in the world that I know of

Eshte e vetmja loje ne bote qe njoh

that allows you, the player,

qe te lejon ty, lojtarin,

the opportunity to experience

mundesine te perjetosh

10 positive emotions in 60 seconds or less.

10 emocione pozitive ne 60 sekonda ose me pak.

This is true, so if you play this game with me today

Kjo eshte e vertete, keshtu qe nese luani kete loje me mua sot

for just one single minute,

per vetem nje minute,

you will get to feel joy, relief, love, surprise,

ju do te ndjeni gezim, qetesim, dashuri, befasi,

pride, curiosity, excitement, awe and wonder,

krenari, kuriozitet, emocion, mahnitje dhe mrekullim,

contentment, and creativity,

kenaqesi dhe kreativitet,

all in the span of one minute.

te gjitha brenda nje minute.

So this sounds pretty good, right? Now you're willing to play.

Tingellon bukur, apo jo? Tani ju deshironi te luani.

In order to teach you this game,

Qe t'ju mesoj kete loje,

I'm going to need some volunteers

do te me nevojiten disa vullnetare

to come up onstage really quickly,

qe te vijne siper ne skene shume shpejt,

and we're going to do a little hands-on demo.

dhe do te bejme nje demonstrim te vogel.

While they're coming up, I should let you know,

Nderkohe qe ata po ngjiten, duhet t'ju them qe

this game was invented 10 years ago

kjo loje eshte shpikur 10 vjet me pare

by an artists' collective in Austria named Monochrom.

nga nje kolektiv artistesh ne Austri qe quhet Monochrom.

So thank you, Monochrom.

Falemnderit, Monochrom.

Okay, so most people are familiar

Pra, shumica e njerezve jane mesuar

with traditional, two-person thumb-wrestling.

me mundjen me gishta tradicionale, midis dy personave.

Sunni, let's just remind them.

Sunni, le t'jua kujtojme.

One, two, three, four, I declare a thumb war, and we wrestle,

Nje, dy, tre, kater, Une deklaroj lufte gishtash, dhe ne bejme mundje,

and of course Sunni beats me because she's the best.

dhe sigurisht qe Sunni me mund, sepse ajo eshte me e mira.

Now the first thing about massively multiplayer thumb-wrestling,

Tani, gjeja e pare rreth mundjes me gishta me shume lojtare,

we're the gamer generation.

ne jemi brezi i lojrave.

There are a billion gamers on the planet now,

Jane rreth nje miliarde lojtare ne planet,

so we need more of a challenge.

keshtu qe ne na duhet dicka me sfiduese.

So the first thing we need is more thumbs.

Keshtu qe gjeja e pare qe na duhet jane me shume gishta.

So Eric, come on over.

Eric, bashkohu me ne.

So we could get three thumbs together,

Ne kete menyre ne mund te bashkojme tre gishta,

and Peter could join us.

dhe Peter mund te bashkohet me ne.

We could even have four thumbs together,

Ne mundet madje te bashkojme kater gishta,

and the way you win

dhe ti fiton ne qofte se

is you're the first person to pin someone else's thumb.

je i pari qe bllokon gishtin e dikujt tjeter.

This is really important. You can't, like,

Kjo eshte shume e rendesishme. Ti s'mund

wait while they fight it out and then swoop in at the last minute.

te presesh nderkohe qe te tjeret bejne mundje dhe pastaj te shfaqesh ne minuten e fundit.

That is not how you win.

Nuk mund te fitosh keshtu.

Ah, who did that? Eric you did that.

Ah, kush veproi keshtu? Eric, ti veprove keshtu.

So Eric would have won. He was the first person to pin my thumb.

Eric do te kishte fituar. Ai ishte i pari qe bllokoi gishtin tim.

Okay, so that's the first rule,

Pra, ky eshte rregulli i pare,

and we can see that three or four

dhe mund te shohim qe tre ose kater

is kind of the typical number of thumbs in a node,

eshte numri tipik i gishtave ne nje nyje,

but if you feel ambitious, you don't have to hold back.

por ne qofte se ndiheni ambicioz, nuk keni pse permbaheni.

We can really go for it.

Mund te guxojme akoma me shume.

So you can see up here.

Mund te shihni ketu siper.

Now the only other rule you need to remember is,

I vetmi rregull qe duhet te kujtoni eshte,

gamer generation, we like a challenge.

si brez lojtaresh, ne na pelqejne sfidat.

I happen to notice you all have

Ve re qe ju te gjithe keni

some thumbs you're not using.

disa gishta qe s'po i perdorni.

So I think we should kind of get some more involved.

Keshtu qe mendoj qe duhet te perfshijme disa te tjere.

And if we had just four people,

Dhe ne qofte se do te kishim vetem kater veta,

we would do it just like this,

do te vepronim pikerisht ne kete menyre,

and we would try and wrestle

dhe do perpiqeshim dhe do benim mundje

both thumbs at the same time.

me te dy gishtat ne te njejten kohe.

Perfect.

Perfekte.

Now, if we had more people in the room,

Tani, sikur te kishim me shume njerez ne salle,

instead of just wrestling in a closed node,

ne vend te mundjes brenda nje nyjeje te mbyllur,

we might reach out and try and grab some other people.

ne mund te zgjateshim dhe te kapnim persona te tjere.

And in fact, that's what we're going to do right now.

Dhe kjo eshte pikerisht ajo qe do te bejme tani.

We're going to try and get all, something like,

Do perpiqemi te perfshijme te gjithe, dicka si,

I don't know, 1,500 thumbs in this room

s'e di, 1,500 gishtat ne kete salle

connected in a single node.

te lidhur ne nje nyje te vetme.

And we have to connect both levels,

Dhe duhet te lidhim te dy nivelet,

so if you're up there, you're going to be

keshtu qe, ne qofte se jeni aty lart, do t'ju duhet

reaching down and reaching up.

te zgjasni nje dore lart dhe nje dore poshte.

Now — (Laughter) —

Tani - (Te qeshura) -

before we get started --

perpara se te fillojme --

This is great. You're excited to play. —

Kjo eshte e forte. Ju mezi po prisni te luani. -

before we get started, can I have the slides back up here really quick,

para se te fillojme, mund te me shfaqni slidet serish shume shpejt,

because if you get good at this game,

sepse ne qofte se permiresoheni shume ne kete loje,

I want you to know there are some advanced levels.

dua te dini qe ekzistojne disa nivele te avancuara.

So this is the kind of simple level, right?

Ky eshte nje nivel i nje lloji te thjeshte, apo jo?

But there are advanced configurations.

Por ekzistojne edhe konfiguracione te avancuara.

This is called the Death Star Configuration.

Ky quhet Konfiguracioni i Yllit te Vdekjes.

Any Star Wars fans?

Kemi ketu fansa te "Star Wars"?

And this one's called the Möbius Strip.

Dhe ky ketu quhet Rripi Mobius.

Any science geeks, you get that one.

Te apasionuarit pas shkences, ju mund ta kuptoni.

This is the hardest level. This is the extreme.

Ky eshte niveli me i veshtire. Ky eshte ekstremi.

So we'll stick with the normal one for now,

Tani per tani do i permbahemi nivelit normal,

and I'm going to give you 30 seconds,

dhe keni 30 sekonda,

every thumb into the node,

cdo gisht ne nyje,

connect the upper and the lower levels,

lidhni nivelin e siperm me te poshtmin,

you guys go on down there.

ju djema vazhdoni poshte.

Thirty seconds. Into the network. Make the node.

Tridhjete sekonda. Ne rrjet. Krijoni nyjen.

Stand up! It's easier if you stand up.

Ngrihuni ne kembe! Eshte me e thjeshte nese ngriheni ne kembe.

Everybody, up up up up up!

Te gjithe, cohuni, cohuni, cohuni.

Stand up, my friends.

Ngrihuni ne kembe, miqte e mi.

All right.

Ne rregull.

Don't start wrestling yet.

Mos e filloni mundjen akoma.

If you have a free thumb, wave it around,

Nese keni nje gisht te lire, tundeni

make sure it gets connected.

dhe siguroheni qe ta lidhni me te tjere.

Okay. We need to do a last-minute thumb check.

OK. Duhet te bejme nje kontroll te minutes se fundit per gishtat.

If you have a free thumb, wave it around to make sure.

Ne qofte se keni nje gisht te lire, tundeni ne ajer qe te siguroheni.

Grab that thumb!

Kape ate gisht!

Reach behind you. There you go.

Zgjatu prapa. Aty.

Any other thumbs?

Gishta te tjere?

Okay, on the count of three, you're going to go.

Ne rregull, kur te them tre, do filloni.

Try to keep track. Grab, grab, grab it.

Perpiquni te mos mbeteni prapa. Kape, kape, kape.

Okay? One, two, three, go!

Ne rregull? Nje, dy, tre, fillo!

(Laughter)

(Te qeshura)

Did you win? You got it? You got it? Excellent!

Fitove? E kape? E kape? Shkelqyeshem!

(Applause)

(Duartrokitje)

Well done. Thank you. Thank you very much.

Ju lumte. Faleminderit. Shume faleminderit.

All right.

Ne rregull.

While you are basking in the glow

Nderkohe qe ju lumturoheni

of having won your first

qe keni fituar lojen tuaj te pare

massively multiplayer thumb-wrestling game,

te mundjes me gishta me shume lojtare,

let's do a quick recap on the positive emotions.

le te bejme nje permbledhje te shpejte te emocioneve pozitive.

So curiosity.

Pra kurioziteti.

I said "massively multiplayer thumb-wrestling."

Une thashe "mundje gishtash me shume lojtare".

You were like, "What the hell is she talking about?"

Dhe ju thate me vete, "Per cfare dreqin po flet ajo?"

So I provoked a little curiosity.

Pra, une nxita pak kuriozitet.

Creativity: it took creativity to solve the problem

Kreativitet: u desh kreativitet per te zgjidhur problemin

of getting all the thumbs into the node.

e perfshirjes se te gjithe gishtave ne nje nyje.

I'm reaching around and I'm reaching up.

Une zgjatem perreth dhe zgjatem lart.

So you used creativity. That was great.

Pra ju perdoret kreativitetin. Shkelqyeshem.

How about surprise? The actual feeling

Po rreth befasise? Pikerisht ndjenja

of trying to wrestle two thumbs at once is pretty surprising.

e perpjekjes per te bere mundje me dy gishta njekohesisht ishte vertet befasuese.

You heard that sound go up in the room.

Ju e degjuat gumezhimen ne dhome.

We had excitement. As you started to wrestle,

Kishim emocion. Kur ju niset mundjen,

maybe you're starting to win or this person's, like, really into it,

ndoshta ishit duke fituar, ose personi tjeter ishte shume i perfshire nga loja

so you kind of get the excitement going.

ne kete menyre rritej emocioni.

We have relief. You got to stand up.

Kishim lehtesimin. Juve ju desh te ngriheshit ne kembe.

You've been sitting for awhile, so the physical relief,

Kishit qene ulur per ca kohe, keshtu qe lehtesimi fizik,

getting to shake it out.

te cmpiheshe.

We had joy. You were laughing, smiling. Look at your faces. This room is full of joy.

Ne kishim gezim. Ju po qeshnit, po buzeqeshnit. Shikoni fytyrat tuaja. Kjo dhome eshte plot gezim.

We had some contentment.

Kishim edhe pak kenaqesi.

I didn't see anybody sending text messages or checking their email while we were playing,

Une nuk pashe asnje te dergonte mesazhe me celular ose te kontrollonte posten elektronike nderkohe qe luante,

so you were totally content to be playing.

keshtu qe ju po kenaqeshit duke luajtur.

The most important three emotions,

Tre emocionet me te rendesishme,

awe and wonder, we had everybody connected physically for a minute.

mahnitja dhe mrekullimi, ne u lidhem te gjithe me njeri-tjetrin fizikisht per nje minute.

When was the last time you were at TED

Kur ishte hera e fundit qe ju keni qene ne TED

and you got to connect physically with every single person in the room?

dhe ju desh te lidheshit fizikisht me cdo person te vetem ne salle?

And it's truly awesome and wondrous.

Eshte vertet mahnitese dhe e mrekullueshme.

And speaking of physical connection,

Dhe duke folur per lidhje fizike,

you guys know I love the hormone oxytocin,

ju e dini sa e dua une hormonin oksitocine,

you release oxytocin, you feel bonded to everyone in the room.

you clironi oksitocine, ju ndiheni te lidhur me te gjithe ne salle.

You guys know that the best way to release oxytocin quickly

Ju e dini qe menyra me e mire per te leshuar oksitocine shpejt

is to hold someone else's hand for at least six seconds.

eshte te kapesh duart me dike per te pakten gjashte sekonda.

You guys were all holding hands for way more than six seconds,

Ju i kishit te gjithe duart e kapura per shume me gjate se gjashte sekonda,

so we are all now biochemically primed

keshtu qe tani ne te gjithe jemi biokimikisht gati per

to love each other. That is great.

te dashur njeri-tjetrin. Eshte gjigande.

And the last emotion of pride.

Dhe emocioni i fundit eshte krenaria.

How many people are like me. Just admit it.

Sa njerez jane si une. Thjesht pranojeni.

You lost both your thumbs.

Ju i humbet te dy gishtat.

It just didn't work out for you.

Nuk funksionoi per ju.

That's okay, because you learned a new skill today.

S'ka problem, sepse ju mesuat nje aftesi te re sot.

You learned, from scratch, a game you never knew before.

Ju mesuat, duke filluar nga zero, nje loje qe nuk e njihnit me pare.

Now you know how to play it. You can teach other people.

Tani dini si ta luani. Mund t'ua mesoni edhe te tjereve.

So congratulations.

Keshtu qe urime.

How many of you won just won thumb?

Sa prej jush fituan vetem nje gisht?

All right. I have very good news for you.

Ne rregull. Kam lajme shume te mira per ju.

According to the official rules

Sipas rregullave zyrtare

of massively multiplayer thumb-wrestling,

te mundjes me gishta me shume lojtare,

this makes you a grandmaster of the game.

kjo ju ben nje kryemjeshter te lojes.

Because there aren't that many people who know how to play,

Duke qene se nuk ka shume njerez qe dine te luajne,

we have to kind of accelerate the program

na duhet ta shpejtojme programin

more than a game like chess.

me shume se te nje loje si shahu.

So congratulations, grandmasters.

Keshtu qe urime, kryemjeshter.

Win one thumb once, you will become a grandmaster.

FIto nje gisht nje here, dhe do te behesh kryemjeshter.

Did anybody win both their thumbs?

I fitoi ndonjeri te dy gishtat?

Yes. Awesome. Okay.

Po. E mrekullueshme. Ne rregull.

Get ready to update your Twitter or Facebook status.

Behuni gati ta beni status ne Twitter ose ne Facebook.

You guys, according to the rules,

Ju djema, sipas rregullave,

are legendary grandmasters, so congratulations.

jeni kryemjeshter legjendare, keshtu qe urime.

I will just leave you with this tip, if you want to play again.

Do ju le me nje keshille te vogel, ne qofte se doni te luani serish.

The best way to become a legendary grandmaster,

Menyra me e mire per t'u bere nje kryemjeshter legjendar,

you've got your two nodes going on.

kur je perfshire ne dy nyje te ndryshme.

Pick off the one that looks easiest.

Zgjidh ate qe duket me e thjeshte.

They're not paying attention. They look kind of weak.

Te tjeret nuk po i kushtojne vemendje. Ata duken te dobet.

Focus on that one and do something crazy

Fokusohu te ajo dhe bej dicka te cmendur

with this arm.

me kete krah.

As soon as you win, suddenly stop.

Sapo te fitosh, ndalo papritur.

Everybody is thrown off. You go in for the kill.

Te gjithe do shmangen. Atehere sulmo ti.

That's how you become a legendary grandmaster of massively multiplayer thumb-wrestling.

Ja si te behesh nje kryemjeshter legjendar ne mundjen me gishta me shume lojtare.

Thank you for letting me teach you my favorite game.

Faleminderit qe me lejuat t'ju mesoj lojen time te preferuar.

Wooo! (Applause)

Uuuuu! (Duartrokitje)

Thank you. (Applause)

Faleminderit. (Duartrokitje)