They are homes.

They are vantage points.

Local maxima are not fail states.

Each such step may also be known as a structure-preserving transformation.

The goal is a process which at each step enhances dilation of that deep feeling and never loses its way.

The goal is not perfect dilation of that deep feeling.

Just take care with dilation that the deep feeling is not lost to those experiences which have a greater predisposition towards dilatedness but are ultimately wrong.

Dilation is neither virtuous nor sinful.

Dilation defines experience and process determines dilatedness.

In the hierarchy of dilation a subtler feeling can be overshadowed by other feelings more readily dilated.

The infectious nature of fun in that described above does not belie a meaninglessness but originates from its compellingness and very disposition towards dilation rather than any meaningfulness or relevance.

Satisfying mechanisms emerge from systems built upon metaphor or feeling; goals and optimization make them instead games about those "unintentional" mechanics.

Finally I can arrive at the crux of my argument regarding dilation:

A work that shifts the player's focus towards goals and optimization is defining itself by those things.