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A fun movie is something that is pleasurable without being demanding, you don't have to think too hard.

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Ian Bogost
Age: 47
Born: 1976
Born: December 30
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The problem with fun is we really don't know what fun means at all.
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If you think about the contexts in which we talk about things being fun, often there's a certain kind of misery or effort that's involved with it. The difficulty of travel, getting all your bags packed and your work done and navigating the airports and all that. That sort of struggle.
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We don't like to think of ourselves as subject to the forces of the world, we like to think of ourselves as exerting that force.
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When we use this word fun, it sort of bangs up the ordinary and the extraordinary altogether.
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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.
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You allow yourself to discover the things that are already there when you play.
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The playful perspective is not meant to turn your life into a game or a jungle gym. It's rather that the activity is looking outside of yourself.
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If you start the day not really expecting substantial change, but anticipating some small new revelation or some small alteration, then over time you're able to find them in more places.
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If you stop someone who's talking about something being fun, and say Well what do you mean? it's almost impossible to answer.
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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.
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God will not speak to me and tell me to mow my lawn today.
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The actual effort that you can exert upon the universe is fairly limited.
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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.
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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.
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I think the most important way to understand play is that it's this property that's in things. Like there's play in a mechanism. For example, there's some play in the steering column before it engages as you're turning the wheel.
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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.
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For me, what fun means is finding novelty in the suffocating familiarity of ordinary life.
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If you think of play as being in things, there are things that are playable, then it becomes the work of figuring out what a thing can do.
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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.
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