Though I think Raina Lee's columns for VH1 Game Break are a bit short sometimes, I liked the latest one, named 'Gamers Are Lovely People', because of its sunny disposition - something I might even share at times.

Lee explains: "In this anonymous city, I'm always surprised at how quickly New Yorkers are willing to warm up to strangers given the right opportunity... It can be a floppy-eared puppy that can send strangers cooing. It can be an amazing vintage handbag noticed by a fellow fashion fiend. For me, at least today, the icebreaker was the PSP dangling from my wrist."

How so? "With standing room only on the Downtown 6 train, I lean against a pole while attempting to play the latest Mizuguchi gem, Every Extra Extend. After three stops, a burly middle-aged man asks what I’m "playing in there" with a smile. (Since when do New Yorkers smile? It's the video games I think.) I tell him, and he says he's playing baseball on his PSP." More sunniness ensues.