Ian Bogost Quotes
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The modern world is very wealthy, it's full of options. It's not like "This is the land I was born on and I have to make the most of it, and these are the people who are near me, and so they will become my family."
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This willingness to be frank and plain about the way that the world is, is a good first step. But that doesn't mean that you get what you want.
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You don't want to be told, "Hey, do whatever you want." That's what we think of when we think of play. It's the thing where you get to do whatever you come up with in your own mind, all bets are off, there's no boundaries.
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The actual effort that you can exert upon the universe is fairly limited.
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Even when we tell kids to go play, what do the kids do? They come up with a set of constraints and structures. "Oh, we're gonna build a fort out of clothes, and now that we're in the fort we're going to pretend that we're prisoners," or whatever.
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To me, being able to find gratification in more venues, rather than greater gratification in a few, seems like a much more sane way of living.
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Play becomes a distraction, something you don't really need to do. It's not for serious people. They work hard, they don't play hard. Yes, you can say play hard, but that really means, keep working hard, right?
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Generally speaking, when people use the word fun, it's like a placeholder. You know, "How was your evening?" "Oh it was fun."