I must study long running card games. How their designers keep walking circles around the same space, encountering the same ideas in different combinations, how you can only express so much in this narrow subset of a few lines of text, its like poetry really
Play is solemnity, not silliness. Adults who try to โrecapture their childhoodโ often do so by trying to capture the whimsy of childhood. But play is serious for children, not whimsical. Itโs whimsical for adults to watch, so the wires get crossed. They are โrecapturingโ the feeling of watching themselves watch children, watching their own memories, not of being a child. To recapture your childhood energy, take something incredibly seriously.