In life … heaviness means the absence of present meaning, a hopeless entanglement in senseless casual connections … a plodding on, an inability to liberate oneself from the bonds of sheer brutal materiality.—Georg Lukács, The Theory of the Novel When we play video games, we make a series of actions, which reveal a set of consequences, to which we then must respond, and so on. From text-based games like
Great post!
I'm seeing a newsletter focused on Journey in the near future! :)