“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.” WorldPlayProcessPleasureDefinedRelatedExperimentation Author:Ian Bogost
“Fun doesn't have anything to do with pleasure, necessarily. I think this will be terrifically unintuitive for people.” PeopleThinkingFunPleasure Author:Ian Bogost
“We're used to thinking of fun as a sort of synonym for light pleasure.” ThinkingLightUsedFunPleasureSynonym Author:Ian Bogost
“We think we want enjoyment, and that enjoyment is incompatible with work, and somehow we have to import the pleasure into these miserable experiences. That takes for granted that there's not fun or play to be found in the work itself.” ThinkingWantPlayFoundFunPleasureGrantedMiserableEnjoymentImports Author:Ian Bogost
“Actually a lot of the supposedly serious and meaningful and worthwhile content on the podcast or on the television is no more or less meaningful than the clothes in the laundry basket or the dishes in the sink. It's more a matter of the attention you're willing to bring to them, where you're willing to allow meaning and pleasure and the light to escape.” MatterLightPleasureAttentionTelevisionWillingSeriousClothesMeaningfulWorthwhileDishesBasketsLaundry 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
