In retrospect a big part of the wonder of the ‘90s was that even trivial vidya entertainments would be, like, part of a competition between Peter Molyneux and Will Wright and Richard Garriott and Sid Meier to create the most accurate simulation of the entire world according to their own personal theories of the underlying metaphysics

played skyrim

played too much skyrim

played so much skyrim

i fell asleep and dreamed

i was playing dwarf fortress

in skyrim

i was like “shit, gotta dig this drainage system”

and craft and install and lock these doors

so i can flood this floor

to create mud

to grow leeks.

then i woke up to pee and was like

gotta get back to that dream, and do all those things

but luckily part of me was like

‘no, gotta NOT get back to that dream, to NOT do all those things’