What is the purpose of gaming? Why do we a (when we’re allowed) sit around a table and fuddle with mechanisms? Why are more and more people being drawn to something so wilfully analogue, so wilfully last century? It’s because we are an outward looking species, we need others to define ourselves and so much of our lives are facsimiles of interaction, mediated through LEDs. We thrive through simply being in rooms with others and if we didn’t know this before, the pandemic has rammed this reality down our throats (along with all those biscuits).
Yet there is a struggle, we are being sent mixed messages. Social media doesn’t want us to rip ourselves from the screen. It wants us to stay fixed in a silicone world, to look ever more into ourselves until we see the void at the centre of our beings and scramble to fill that void with the things they want to sell us.