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I played a video game today, ha ha, what fun it was.

I smiled as I turned on my branded console and booted up the DLC.

I thought about the TOP 10 REASONS video games are fun, and I realized:

1. they are enjoyable
2. it is fun to go on adventures
3. challenge
4. skill
5. sound
6. controls
7. setting
8. gameplay
9. story
10. overall

are all great reason why i love video games. These are really the things I love about games.

unfortunately, as I was playing Nintendo Switch, I got a little bored. idk it just seemed like the game i used to love, Mario and Zelda, for example, now seemed bland, watered-down, facile, inane, and, if we are being honest, pointless.

so I'm reading the Divine Comedy, and I'm reading about Hell, and Dante's got this crazy ass hellscape, with this insane place, the Malebolgia, locked deep in the bowls of the Inferno.

this Malebolge (evil pocket) is filled with blood, tar, shit, dismemberment, devils, and all kinds of really horrible stuff. It's a pretty intense book, but overall I'd say its pretty good. Anyway, life's kind of like that--at least the Fraud part that Dante's super concerned with.

the thing that sticks with me is that fraud doesn't come at you like a monster, it comes with a smile and an honest face. wait why was i talking about this? got sidetracked: video games used to be fun but lately they have felt like a fraud? is that it?

maybe i'm thinking too hard: it's just Mario and Zelda, right?