Avant Game .blogspot ---to z0605 virtual z ... saved by 37 other people ... 9 min ago
blogger's current featured blog - seen this, J Mcdonigal before - not marked? - ah dlwwJan - dn mark this or her main site avantgame.com [sidebar: alrdy have pretty gd record of th thinking & writing & designing & talking that I do]
dlww 1/4/06: jane-mcgonigal-excels-at-such-deep-and --- to z0605 virtual a ... just posted whdoIthink re life as play?projects.projection (H).~Amilee,You&Me&Ev,JSFoer-obv a list I'm negtv twd//see endofthispost-dBtreatgworldobjstobemanipulatd// dlcs note re avntgm.com "realise belatedly th live real world,can interact"-mashedpotatoe
------------what do I think about life as play? projects. projection (H). e.g. roll cookies~Amilee, You and Me and Everybody We Know, JSFoer's projects- what did dB say? treating the world as objects to be manipulated. --- is there anything wrong with that? (like) world-relation of manic mood. extreme enthusiasm. extreme agency.
at least some if not most of negative feeling arises reading other people's raves 'j mcd excels at such deep and...' but maybe just listening to jsfoer talk about own projects has same effect as hearing other people exuberantly compliment -- it disheartens me -- ? -- not bcs as mashedpotatoe's note on dlcs 'geeky' or is it the same and that's not what I wld say? maybe what means by geeky is actually sth I don't like, I just think of geeky as sth else ~ smart ~ wh I do like - but maybe he~ means sth like jaime re 'dork' - sth off ~offensive in relation to world - not just estranged but compensating in ugly way --well avant game does not seem ugly only offensive personally as way of life depressing to me -- bcs to me like geared twd undepressing? like I dont want real life to need fabrication to feel real -so sort of like mashedpotatoe's comment --this is relevant to me as about realise yes live yes real yes world yes. ~no hard feelings twd this as 'belated' ~maybe hard feelings twd no sadness about that - celebration of real-ness, agency, enthusiam if not also grief than still feels unreal to me, I'm lost.