re: ADOPTING THE POSTURE (poetry)

[droqen]

Regarding TheNewPoetLawyerette's
"ADOPTING THE POSTURE WILL MAKE YOU FEEL THE POEM IN YOUR BODY"
* It's one of the headers further down

[droqen]

To 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.

[droqen]

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.