This weekend the tenth edition of the DAU Festival, dedicated to games, and servant is excited to participate in it. You see, the good thing about picking up a hobby after a few years is that you can fall in love with it again as if it were the first time. To me it happened to me during the pandemic with board games, not with those of chance; that luckily they don’t tempt me. I was without role playing for almost three decades, but like many former players, the forced socialization by telematic means of confinement led me to recover a ‘hobby’ that many of us leave due to lack of time or because of the physical distance with other fans, two obstacles that videoconferencing has helped to overcome.
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Play – role-playing, board games, or even the much more ‘mainstream’ videogames– It still has a vague connotation of a suspicious pastime, not because of distant echoes of the sensationalism with which they were treated in the past, but because the idea that playing, if you are an adult – and even more so, if you are an adult woman – survives. a not very respectable activity because has no direct practical utility: In his classic essay ‘Homo Ludens’, Johannes Huizinga says that play “is a free and meaningful activity, done for the pleasure of doing it, and is spatially and temporally segregated from the demands of practical life, with its own rules & rdquor; . Eye, although games are often used as a pedagogical tool and they can address political or moral issues, that is not their main mission. As, on the other hand, it is not required to do so to the cinema, the theater or literature.
Freshly awakened from this playful hibernation, I also find that many women have become fans in this hiatus, and that they also edit, design and write; So what the perspective and the issues they address are now much more diverse and rich. Society has changed and games with it, and they have done it for the better. A ray of optimism to treasure in a world that has forgotten the pleasure of simply playing for the sake of playing.
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