That all makes sense to me! I am really enjoying how you 4 freely ideate and contradict and argue with each other across your posts. There is certainly a grain (or many grains) of truth in this post but it’s also true that there is a meta-game to every game with infinite resolution.

Yeah! I think the responses to this post are really good and they kind of point out the problem with my specific examples. Videogames are part of the real world, so they don’t actually have a resolution problem. You can speed run a game, or you can mod it, or you can decompile the source and find unused assets, etc. etc. etc. I think multiplayer fits into this category, maybe we can call it meta-game.

So I think what I am talking about is that the “intended reading” or a game tends to be pretty shallow. In particular, “exploring” in a videogame is an obvious place where you run out of interesting artifacts way earlier than you would “exploring” outside. I still stand by the statement that “videogames are a great hobby, but maybe any particular videogame is not a great hobby”, but I also think I was a little too harsh in the wording of this post.

Unrelatedly, I wonder how multiplayer games interact with the resolution problem? In a sense, having another player in a game with you increases its resolution to include all the detail of the other player(s) (that can be expressed through the game).