a video game is a kind of box that lives inside a computer into which you deposit a moderate proportion of mental effort (and some physical effort) and receive in return stimuli that can provoke intellectual or emotional responses. like how in mario, you press a button, for which you receive a funny italian man jumping up, which provokes a joyful response, or how in planescape torment, where you click on a sphere and in return receive a series of words that twist your gut into a knot and forces you to examine all the tiny cruelties you have committed in your life. i like em