Oatmeal Agitante

There is greater satisfaction in playing a "game" evolved through generations of nonconsensual struggle than one designed by people

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

Those stakes cannot be reproduced in a "game" without introducing a large "arbitrariness/artificiality" penalty

"Why would I be injured?" "Because the game would injure you in response to playing poorly"

"Why would I be late?" "Because the game would disallow quitting and starting work until you'd completed the course"

What doesn't seem right is to say that thus, riding one's scooter to work is therefore the ideal way to get there

Something about challenges that "feel right" makes it difficult to imagine better ones. Perhaps because they mustn't feel constructed