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Defined Quote by Ian Bogost

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“Play is this process of operating the world, of manipulating things. It's related to experimentation, and it's related to pleasure, but not defined by it.”

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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…

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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…

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Our ideas of happiness, gratification, contentment, satisfaction, all demand that those feelings come from within us. If you flip that on its head and…

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When we use this word fun, it sort of bangs up the ordinary and the extraordinary altogether.

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We think we want enjoyment, and that enjoyment is incompatible with work, and somehow we have to import the pleasure into these miserable experiences.…

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Actually a lot of the supposedly serious and meaningful and worthwhile content on the podcast or on the television is no more or less…

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I think a lot of the misery that people experience comes from that sensation of boundlessness, of infinite possibility.

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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…

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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."

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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…

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