There is greater satisfaction in playing a "game" evolved through generations of nonconsensual struggle than one designed by people
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This occurred to me while riding my kick scooter through the challenging, uneven streets of Harvard Square to get to work this morning
It was physically challenging to maneuver safely. Messing up bore the risk of minor injury or not making it to work on time
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Those stakes cannot be reproduced in a "game" without introducing a large "arbitrariness/artificiality" penalty
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"Why would I be injured?" "Because the game would injure you in response to playing poorly"
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"Why would I be late?" "Because the game would disallow quitting and starting work until you'd completed the course"
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What doesn't seem right is to say that thus, riding one's scooter to work is therefore the ideal way to get there
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Something about challenges that "feel right" makes it difficult to imagine better ones. Perhaps because they mustn't feel constructed
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Related: Man argues that allowing controller mods in competitive melee would promote wrong set of arbitrary skillshttps://youtu.be/-BU6FCK0ayU
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"We'd get to a point where I don't really know if I'd recognize the game we play anymore"
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"Maybe the game is balanced around the inconsistencies of the gamecube controller because it's the only one available to us"
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This discourse surrounding an actual game is a poignant allegory for "games"
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