Games are ‘a safe substitute for life’ because they don't involve any risk! This statement doesn't immediately make any sense to us because, when we're playing a game, we perceive it to be the case that games are all about...
Two basic situations exist: one is where whatever it is that is happening gets to happen freely, gets to happen unimpededly, without us having to have any plan or purpose, and the other way is where what is happening gets...