I’m very darned sensitive to mono no aware at the change of seasons. I sometimes burst out crying just looking out a train window.
I didn’t answer your question about video games because, it’s a bit embarrassing to tell, the last TV console game I played was my Atari 2600. I don’t know about anything after that, just the names. I played the Sims and a few games I can’t remember the names of on my computers, but none of the 3-D TV games.
I love that Apple seems to be sensitive, too. Not particularly about change and passing, but about the delicate details of experience. You can almost imagine the building’s designers planning, “now when the leaves and rain start to fall on Shinsaibashi, some of them will stick to the stainless just so.”
Yeah, the 2600, with faux wood paneling! We had a Sears clone at home. To play Chopper Command, I’d build a cockpit out of pillows from the sofa.
The Sims is fun and hilarious, but I also found it stressful. Get a job, buy furniture, eat dinner, go to the bathroom, make conversation — don’t I play video games to get away from those things? Now I prefer shallower but well-crafted games that I don’t have to become too absorbed in.
Hard to think of a more poetic image of an Apple Store.
I’m very darned sensitive to mono no aware at the change of seasons. I sometimes burst out crying just looking out a train window.
I didn’t answer your question about video games because, it’s a bit embarrassing to tell, the last TV console game I played was my Atari 2600. I don’t know about anything after that, just the names. I played the Sims and a few games I can’t remember the names of on my computers, but none of the 3-D TV games.
I love that Apple seems to be sensitive, too. Not particularly about change and passing, but about the delicate details of experience. You can almost imagine the building’s designers planning, “now when the leaves and rain start to fall on Shinsaibashi, some of them will stick to the stainless just so.”
Yeah, the 2600, with faux wood paneling! We had a Sears clone at home. To play Chopper Command, I’d build a cockpit out of pillows from the sofa.
The Sims is fun and hilarious, but I also found it stressful. Get a job, buy furniture, eat dinner, go to the bathroom, make conversation — don’t I play video games to get away from those things? Now I prefer shallower but well-crafted games that I don’t have to become too absorbed in.
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