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Defining Play

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Right - so you'd think that playing is like competing, or engaging, or taking up the rules of the game in a sportsmanlike way. Bernard Suits uses the phrase "lusory attitude", which I liked a lot.

on Play . ( . ). * _. * (') ( (@))_)) (()~\(. (@))===)) A I'm trying to figure out what "playing" is but it's impossible to pin down. E What have you tried? A Well at first I thought it had to do with games... E That makes sense - after all, games are the archetypical object of the verb "play". A Right - so you'd think that playing is like competing, or engaging, or taking up the rules of the game in a sportsmanlike way. Bernard Suits uses the phrase "lusory attitude", which I liked a lot. E So what's wrong? A Well Suits also says that games are fundamentally about constraints - he even calls

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