“For me, what fun means is finding novelty in the suffocating familiarity of ordinary life.” MeanFunFindingsOrdinaryNoveltyFamiliarityOrdinary LifeSuffocating Author: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.” WorldIdeasPlayWholeNaturalFindingsLimitationConstraints Author:Ian Bogost
“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 what you want. It's the process of working with the materials that you find and discovering what's possible with them.” WayWantPlayProcessMaterialsFindingsMiseryWhat You WantCleverTricksOver YouDiscoveringCoveringPersuading Author:Ian Bogost
“We have to always spread sugar on top of it in order that we can tolerate swallowing the things we're supposed to do, which is an incredibly depressing way of thinking about living your life. Not just that your work or your home life would be so miserable that you have to slather sugar on it, but then the sugar is all you're tasting. If that's the only way that I'm finding meaning, then we have this sort of mental diabetes that we're descending into.” IfsThinkingWayHomeWould BeOrderFindingsSpreadMiserableSugarTolerateDepressingLive Your LifeWay Of ThinkingDiabetesTastingDescendingSwallowingHome Life Author:Ian Bogost
“It's not even that finding laundry pleasurable or delightful should be our goal rather than finding television delightful. It's that both laundry and television can be delightful.” ShouldGoalTelevisionFindingsDelightfulLaundry Author:Ian Bogost
“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 are only these three things where pleasure and delight are possible. Like oh, it's television and socialization and work, and then everything else is the smoke I have to somehow choke my way through in order to get to the good parts.” WayMightOrderThreePleasurePossibilityTelevisionFindingsAssumingDelightSmokeMy WayEncountersThree ThingsChokeSocialization Author:Ian Bogost
