I maintain that doing some things the weird way that makes no sense is often a lot more fun and rewarding than doing it the "correct" way to get the popular res

I maintain that doing some things the weird way that makes no sense is often a lot more fun and rewarding than doing it the "correct" way to get the popular result. For example, there is one player of Lord of the Rings Online who baked pies to reach level cap. That's it. No combat. No quests. Just pies. Many, many pies. They had a blast in the process. Some people see building an innovative, ground-breaking product, making a billion dollars, and selling at the perfect time as winning. Meanwhile, I'm over here doing work that's been done before a million times, solving problems that are pretty mundane by comparison, and I'm enjoying myself. I don't need or want to "win." The game I'm playing has rules that I wrote - and continue to change.