Humor + Positive Support?

rut roh...... care for some popcorn?

I think anyone that comes this forum and tries to be funny should be shot. With bacon.

For far too long, players of games have tended to describe games they like as fun. This may not strike you immediately as a huge problem. “What’s wrong with fun?” I can hear people saying. Answer: Nothing, necessarily. There are many many things in the world that are fun, and for a thing to be fun is completely acceptable and a fine thing to desire. I know I’m treading on thin ice here, as there’s certainly credible arguments to be made about how rehabilitating the term “fun” is desperately needed. So be it – quite frankly I agree.

However, the derivative nature of describing games as “fun”, or using questions like “how fun is this game?”, ultimately hurts the quality of future games. Not only does it maintain the societal discourse wherein games are perceived as adolescent (because criticism is patently useless) but it also severely hampers the ability of games to do more than entertain. I, however, think that games ought to be about more than fun, or fleeting pleasure. Rather, as they hold the potential to open us up to a myriad of experiences, we ought to value games as connecting us in these wide-ranging possibilities. In other words, fun is only one of multiple ways for us to experience games, and should not be used as a way to overdetermine the entire experience.