Even When You’re Not Playing, You’re Playing: On “Critical Hits” — Cleveland Review of Books
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Even When You’re Not Playing, You’re Playing: On “Critical Hits” — Cleveland Review of Books
What, after all, is a video game’s subtextual preoccupation if not the erasure of mortality?
Gabrielle Zevin • Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow: A novel
I think we need to stop moralizing and medicalizing and saying, "Well, you playing video games, that's bad, but me watching football, that's okay." It's a pastime and it's a luxury, again, putting it into historical context. It's a luxury that people have this much time on their hands to puss around with video games and Netflix, because that means ... See more
Nir Eyal • Are We Really Addicted?
In truth, the game is pathetic. It’s two-dimensional—no smell, no touch, no taste, no feel. It’s tiny and grainy, with a world model as simplistic as Genesis.