With sports and games, you have fun despite working very hard, even despite failing repeatedly. Even the fun of a night out, you have to get somewhere and do all the conversational, social work of being out. There's effort involved.… — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
I think the most important way to understand play is that it's this property that's in things. Like there's play in a mechanism. For… — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
Once you get yourself on that path where you're willing to find something delightful in laundry and in dishwashers, it means that you train… — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
Our ideas of happiness, gratification, contentment, satisfaction, all demand that those feelings come from within us. If you flip that on its head and… — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
When we use this word fun, it sort of bangs up the ordinary and the extraordinary altogether. — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
We think we want enjoyment, and that enjoyment is incompatible with work, and somehow we have to import the pleasure into these miserable experiences.… — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
You can experience play at work, not because you're messing around or wasting time or something, but because you're looking really deeply and seriously… — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
Actually a lot of the supposedly serious and meaningful and worthwhile content on the podcast or on the television is no more or less… — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
I think a lot of the misery that people experience comes from that sensation of boundlessness, of infinite possibility. — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
There's just an enormous vast universe of possible intrigue out there and why not pay attention to it? Because then you're not burdened with… — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
Generally speaking, when people use the word fun, it's like a placeholder. You know, "How was your evening?" "Oh it was fun." — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
Wouldn't we all rather have the possibility of finding pleasure and delight in literally anything we might encounter? Instead of assuming that actually there… — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
Fun has to do with habitual activities but then also terrifically novel or unusual ones. It works as a sort of strange milkshake of… — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
“Irony keeps reality at a distance. It has become our primary method for combatting the external world’s incompatibility with our own desires. Today’s irony… — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
Play isn't you being clever, or finding a trick, or finding a way of covering over your own misery, or persuading someone to do… — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
To me, being able to find gratification in more venues, rather than greater gratification in a few, seems like a much more sane way… — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
