## Metadata - Author: [[Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet.]] - Full Title:: Role Played - Category:: #🗞️Articles - URL:: https://tedium.co/2025/09/26/modern-gaming-later-in-life/ - Read date:: [[2025-11-01]] ## Highlights > Gradually, I’m starting to realize, in a world where chaos tends to overwhelm all too easily, getting lost in someone else’s story is an essential reprieve. Whereas I might have found that in blogging or writing, I now find it in getting lost in a game made by someone whose skill set is really storytelling and presentation, not high-end coding. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01k8z4qwgcy8m0bas9gwxc1jbc)) > That was the part I was missing with my rigid stance against modern games—the fact that the result doesn’t have to feel hollow and soul-crushing like the MMORPG at the center of *Mythic Quest*. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01k8z4s0wfapqjymam7yb1yqk5)) > I think as one gets older, they fade in and out of things that they really loved at earlier times in their life. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01k8z4z48y9vyq0jzak5e3hbdr))