"Striving play: pursuing winning for the sake of the struggle and the intrinsic act of playing the game itself.

Two clear parts:

In order to engage ourselves in striving play, I must be able to take on a disposable end that is treated as final. It builds the capacity to submerge ourselves in narrowed agential modes.

Being unable to do this leads to th... See more

Games remain necessities of life today. For one thing, they’re fun. They activate and satisfy psychological desires. Pleasure derives from immersing oneself in games’ worlds, or in improving one’s skills, or in benefiting from their systems of chance. The real world may from time to time offer us a chance to solve an elegant problem, and the satisf

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