Coherence and meaning. Real life is messy, arbitrary, and nonsensical. Stupid shit like who you know matters. You might, after twenty years of ceaseless toil

Coherence and meaning. Real life is messy, arbitrary, and nonsensical. Stupid shit like who you know matters. You might, after twenty years of ceaseless toil and sacrifice, be on the verge of proving P=NP, and then die of an aneurysm, your work lost to the world, with none to mourn you. #whysoserious Games are more approachable, more tackleable. They can be hard---even very hard, like Dark Souls or high-level Starcraft 2---but they are not unfair, and life very much is. The thing that RL has over gaming, aside from a nutty RNG and an absurdly complex/capricious ruleset, is that you live in it.