notes dump 2026

what i want from vgames is very faint, very hard to put my finger on, it's a desire, but i'm not sure for what. and this thing i want from games seems to be hidden inside the format: it's not whatever games imagine they're about. so to see it you have to sift for it, through all the other stuff - the layers the format drapes around itself to make sure anyone who wants to see what it has to first…