And I don’t just mean, like, you play Wordle. I have to say, I just don’t think anyone doesn’t play video games. I’ll have people occasionally telling me that they have no connection to video games, and that they don’t play video games at all. If you look at it, there are so many people that have played games their entire lives, like myself, that don’t necessarily identify themselves as gamers in that sense. I think the idea of the gamer, like the capital-G Gamer, this kind of misogynist dude shouting insults at women, is antiquated and not true. And I think I see gaming as having the possibility to be a profoundly empathetic experience. Both my parents worked at IBM for their entire careers. That actually you can generate these extremely intense and loving relationships through play. This is obviously an unfair characterization, but it felt like this book was in some senses a corrective to that idea. I think some non-gamers believe games have a kind of black hole where their heart should be. There’s a love story at the heart of this book.
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