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Constraints Quote by Ian Bogost

“The whole idea of play is in finding, acknowledging, and then working with the natural constraints and limitations that you find in the world.” quote by Ian Bogost — Download Open image

“The whole idea of play is in finding, acknowledging, and then working with the natural constraints and limitations that you find in the world.”

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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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Style is the outcome of constraint.

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Every event has a cause-that is ... for every event e1 there exists an event e2 (or a class of events e2, e3 ...) which precedes e1 and of which e1 is a necessary consequence… If we assent to this statement then your "choice" to do A rather than B, whatever may have been at the time your sensation of…

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The natural world is not only a set of constraints but of contexts within which we can more fully realize our dreams.

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Bird taxonomy is a difficult field because of the severe anatomical constraints imposed by flight. There are only so many ways to design a bird capable, say, of catching insects in mid-air, with the result that birds of similar habitats tend to have very similar anatomies, whatever their ancestry. For example, American vultures look and behave much like Old World…

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If you give a little credit to the concept of the artist, I think you ought to indulge excesses a bit, because that reflects the personality of the writer. Now if a joke is in bad taste or it's not funny, okay, that's awhole different thing, but how you craft a joke is really what the writer's job is, and…

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