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Situationist Gaming

We are bored with the suburbs, the stale imperialist sexist engineering biased corporate game industry, and with new academic ludology that reifies existing superstructures. We are ready to play reality TV off camera. We are frustrated with our governments and the military superstructures that control gamespace. We don’t want to play by rules we never agreed upon in the first place. Anyways, even if we had fun playing those games to begin with, it is now more entertaining to mess them up, or to invent new unsanctioned games inside gamespace. If big players are intervening in gamespace, then it is time for Situationist gaming. (A.M.Schleiner, Dissolving the Magic Circle of Play: Lessons from Situationist Gaming, 2008, in: Homo Ludens Ludens)

Is it so bad to have such a desire?

edamarie:

To have such a want, such a need, to spend the rest of your life with that one person? They may or may not reciprocate your desire, but all you know is that you want to grow old with that person. You want to wake up every single morning, bad or good, with them at your side. You know their bad points, and you’ve seen them at their weakest and ugliest points. Yet, they’re still beautiful to you. So beautiful, in fact, that being away from them is like being away from the very air that you need to breathe. Their mischievous smile, their contagious laugh, their sparkling eyes, their everything draws you in and leaves you breathless. The very thing that’s killing you is the thing that you need most in your life.

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“Reproduction is the biological process by which new “offspring” individual organisms are produced from their “parents”. Reproduction is a fundamental feature of all known life”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reproduction