The Finitude of Infinity

[droqen]

Re: tegiminis'
"The Finitude of Infinity"

[droqen]

[AB]

[droqen]

We play No Man's Sky not because we have the goal of reaching the center of the universe (hopefully), but because we wish to learn how the universe is made.

i relate to this, but it brings to mind an additional question- if this is what we wish to know, what purpose is there in ever gating progress? the universe applies friction and obstacle to the player's movement, frustrating passage. we wish to learn how this universe is made... what relationship does such friction have to the learning? do we only want to know how the universe is made because we were made to live through the friction?

[droqen]

Our obsession with the concept of an infinite game stems, perhaps, from our desire to lose ourselves in another place.

Games have always been a form of escape.

i am not okay with this. i of course understand it, but there was something i said a while back, i'm not sure if i remember it exactly, it was something like,

"why are we so okay with living in a world that everybody wants to escape?"

[droqen]

There is only one truly infinite game. Everything else is just pretending.