“A lot of the perceived rewards of expressing something as a game are extrinsic rewards from the culture that’s sprung up around gaming, and rather than chase those rewards in all cases, it’s better/more rewarding to pursue the intrinsic reward of successfully expressing something on a case-by-case basis, in whatever medium fits that idea best. [...] Buying into the idea that validation can/should/will come from a given culture is way more nourishing to that culture than it is to you.”

– Rob Dubbin, via Darius Kazemi’s “Fuck Videogames“