Regarding TheNewPoetLawyerette's
"ADOPTING THE POSTURE WILL MAKE YOU FEEL THE POEM IN YOUR BODY" (https://www.reddit.com/r/collectiveworks/comments/ga9mrq/contiguity_posturing_and_the_associative_cascade/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf)
* It's one of the headers further down
QuoteTo feel a poem to its greatest extent, read it out loud, in a contiguous mental state, or a contiguous place. Read love poems when you are in love. If you find a poem about being in the woods, make a trip to the woods and read it again.
Videogame mechanics with friction and gamefeel provide a texture, a medium in which to enter this 'contiguous state': the videogame that immerses is a poem which provides its own 'contiguous place'.
Sometimes, I think, I resent that. It is a false place. I'd rather have you read my love poem while in love than play my game while it spins a construct of love for you to feel.
But it is fantastically powerful.
Also: videogames that seek to posture, that is to do the INVERSE of emersion, will often suffer from the relatively low portability of computers... poems are much more portable.
This isn't a problem to be solved, just a fact to be considered and played with.