Finally someone gets that I am an existentialist! (Seriously.) The Myth of Sisyphus is my bible.http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/currency/2013/09/when-work-is-a-game-who-wins.html …
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@avantgame That is seriously the most beautiful description of gaming I've ever heard. -
@csgeorge aww. thanks.
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@avantgame I feel like that should be written on the blackboard as everyone walks into class on day 1 of game design school -
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@kevinallenjr@avantgame Fuck learning to love the task. Break it up. Make a better one. Know that you can walk away. -
@hannahnicklin@avantgame I agree with your sentiment, but I think your getting tangled up in the metaphor. We're all waving the same flag -
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@kevinallenjr don't agree. Find an instrumental approach to games dangerous; when set out to 'produce' which is the McGonigal rhetoric.
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Great Definition! MT
@avantgame: .Gaming is the art of imagining Sisyphus happy. Every game is a rock we CHOOSE to roll up a hill.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@avantgame: Gaming is the art of imagining Sisyphus happy. Every game is a rock we CHOOSE to roll up a hill.”#levelupED#stuchoiceThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@avantgame Oh man, I love that quote. That sums up so many things so well.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@avantgame@drewmmichaels Sisyphus had to toil alone, but there is an echo in MMORPG grinding that feels a bit like like rock rolling -
@sleepylemur@avantgame Right, and that's where you get into Žižek and how you're both always and never alone when you're part of a network.
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@avantgame@therealcliffyb@drewmmichaels A nice analogyThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@avantgame Corollary: if you're not happy, find a different rock?Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@avantgame: Gaming is the art of imagining Sisyphus happy. Every game is a rock we CHOOSE to roll up a hill.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@avantgame@drewmmichaels Yup. Gorgeous.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@avantgame I love that Rock of Ages literally has you play as Sisyphus. I once told@theACETeam so. Carlos thought I was overthinking it. :PThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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