“Any phrase that suggests play is this domain that's the opposite of work, or the thing that you do when you're done working, should trouble us. Because it means that play is always relegated to the exhaust of life. It's the thing that you do after you do the important stuff, it's what you do on your own time.” ShouldMeanImportantDonePlayStuffTroubleOppositesPhrasesDomain Author:Ian Bogost
“I think this dichotomy or opposition between work and play, between leisure and serious stuff, is definitely a bad way of thinking about the useful insights that play provides.” ThinkingWayPlayStuffSeriousInsightOppositionLeisureWay Of ThinkingDichotomyWork And Play Author:Ian Bogost
“I think the most important thing to realize about play is that it's this thing that's in stuff, it's not in you.” ThinkingImportantPlayStuffRealizingImportant Things Author:Ian Bogost
“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, let's just keep looking." In some ways I think the same lessons apply to people that apply to objects. It's just much easier to see that lesson in things because they're these fixed intangible lumps of stuff. People are not. They can change.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayWellsMomentsLeftStuffObjectsEasierLessonsDatingFixedLumpsIntangibleCompatibilityIncompatibility Author:Ian Bogost
“We're stuck in these situations with other people and our stuff and our jobs, and thinking that we can extract ourselves from those seems doomed to me. Instead, how can we live within those systems of constraints? We don't have to enjoy them, exactly, but at least acknowledge that those boundaries are real and that they structure our response to the world. And then once you do that, you allow yourself to say "I did my best given the circumstances."” PeopleThinkingWorldRealSeemsJobsGivenStuffEnjoySituationCircumstancesStructureResponseStuckBoundariesAcknowledgeDoomedConstraints Author:Ian Bogost
