half-baked: people play at all times the most fun game they know how to play. if you see someone doing something that looks ridiculously unfun to you assume it is because they literally don’t know how to play a more fun game than what they’re playing
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Weird angle not sure how it relates--
In acting school, one of the requirements for choosing an "Action" (a short phrase describing what your character is pursuing from the other character onstage) was that it be "Fun."
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But here, "Fun" was specifically and explicitly defined as not just joyful, not just lighthearted, but something more like juicy. Alive, vibrant, "wakes you up in the gut."
ACTOR fun-- which is close to masochistic but not when done right-- makes you feel ALIVE.
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ooh that is actually a fairly different notion of fun than what i have in mind here, but the difference is interesting to look at i think
the notion of fun i have in mind needs to include “comfortable, predictable, familiar” or the model doesn’t really work
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Oh interesting. Like....safety? Is it like, they are playing the most good game they can play while keeping certain safety feelings/remaining okay? That might be a weird angular misinterpretation lol
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yeah something like that sounds right to me!
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Oh cool!
That's interesting that we had here
Fun = safety (familiarity?)
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Fun = aliveness (unfamiliarity?)
I definitely believe felt internal safety is a prerequisite to pursuing aliveness (regardless of whether we want it to be or not).
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yes! been true in my experience at least
btw if you wanted to do like Stuff I Learned From Acting threads i bet twitter would be super into it 👍
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