We have so many choices that it's only always our fault if we're malcontent. — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
If you think of play as being in things, there are things that are playable, then it becomes the work of figuring… — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
If you start the day not really expecting substantial change, but anticipating some small new revelation or some small alteration, then over… — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
No one wakes up and says, "Yay I get to mow the lawn!" But if I can find meaning there, then there's… — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
If you stop someone who's talking about something being fun, and say "Well what do you mean?" it's almost impossible to answer. — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
Be contemporary. Have impact. Strive for it. Be of the world. Move it. Be bold, don’t hold back. Then the moment you… — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
Normally if you're dating, you're looking for compatibility, and then the moment that there's incompatibility, you're like, "Well, swipe left on that,… — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
We have to always spread sugar on top of it in order that we can tolerate swallowing the things we're supposed to… — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
If you think about the contexts in which we talk about things being fun, often there's a certain kind of misery or… — 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… — 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
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
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
When we use this word fun, it sort of bangs up the ordinary and the extraordinary altogether. — Ian Bogost Copy Share
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
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
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
I think a lot of the misery that people experience comes from that sensation of boundlessness, of infinite possibility. — Ian Bogost Copy Share
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
