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Ian Bogost is an American academic and video game designer. He holds a joint professorship in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication and in Interactive Computing in the College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he is the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts Distinguished Chair in Media Studies.

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Today, all our wives and husbands have Blackberries or iPhones or Android devices or whatever-the progeny of those original 950 and 957 models that put data in our pockets. Now we all check their email (or Twitter, or Facebook, or Instagram, or) compulsively at the dinner table, or the traffic light. Now we all stow our devices on the nightstand before bed, and check them first thing in the morning. We all do. It's not abnormal, and it's not just for business. It's just what people do. Like smoking in 1965, it's just life.

Data, Husband, Husbands, Morning, Today, Traffic

If you stop someone who's talking about something being fun, and say "Well what do you mean?" it's almost impossible to answer.

Answer, Fun, Impossible, Mean, Talking

This willingness to be frank and plain about the way that the world is, is a good first step. But that doesn't mean that you get what you want.

Mean, Step, Want, World

No one wakes up and says, "Yay I get to mow the lawn!" But if I can find meaning there, then there's nowhere I can't find meaning.

Lawn, Lawns, Says, Wake Up, Wakes, Yay

The modern world is very wealthy, it's full of options. It's not like "This is the land I was born on and I have to make the most of it, and these are the people who are near me, and so they will become my family. "

Born, Land, People, World

Normally we think of play as the opposite of work. Work is the thing you have to do, and then there's play, the thing you choose to do.

Choose, Normally, Opposites, Play, Thinking

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

Altogether, Bangs, Extraordinary, Fun, Ordinary

To me, being able to find gratification in more venues, rather than greater gratification in a few, seems like a much more sane way of living.

Able, Gratification, Like, Venues, Way

You allow yourself to discover the things that are already there when you play.

Allow, Already, Discover, Play, Things

There are things about us that make us who we are, personality traits, or capacities that we have, or knowledge we possess or that we don't possess, habits we have that are good or bad.

Habit, Habits, Knowledge, Personality, Who We Are

Fun has to do with habitual activities but then also terrifically novel or unusual ones. It works as a sort of strange milkshake of those concepts.

Fun, Novel, Strange, Unusual

Looking for meaning in the ordinary seems like the most urgent thing that we can do.

Can Do, Looking, Meaning, Ordinary, Thing, Urgent

Even when we tell kids to go play, what do the kids do? They come up with a set of constraints and structures. "Oh, we're gonna build a fort out of clothes, and now that we're in the fort we're going to pretend that we're prisoners," or whatever.

Clothes, Constraints, Kids, Play, Prisoners

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.

Encounters, Finding, Instead, Order, Somehow, Three

Play becomes a distraction, something you don't really need to do. It's not for serious people. They work hard, they don't play hard. Yes, you can say play hard, but that really means, keep working hard, right?

Becomes, Hard Work, Mean, Play Hard, Right, Working

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.

Defined, Manipulating, Operating, Play, Pleasure, World

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.

Clever, Discovering, Materials, Over You, Play, Trick

My lawnmower can't change in the way that my son can or that I can.

Can'T Change, Change, Son, Way

When we think about play and games and the situations in which having fun is seen as an outcome, they often have to do with repetition. You're returning to something again, and even despite that similarity, you squeeze something new out of it.

Fun, Games, Outcome, Play, Situations, Thinking

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.

Dating, People, Swipe, Things, Thinking

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