Ian Bogost Quotes
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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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When we think about play and games and the situations in which having fun is seen as an outcome, they often have to do with repetition. You're returning to something again, and even despite that similarity, you squeeze something new out of it.
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We have so many choices that it's only always our fault if we're malcontent.
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My wife, there's certain kinds of housework that she just doesn't see as necessary to do in the way that I do. Things like the state of our closet or where things are in the kitchen. I have this almost unhealthily obsessive desire to have things in their place and she just totally doesn't. And this is a potential point of conflict, of course.
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The actual effort that you can exert upon the universe is fairly limited.
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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."