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Games are a kind of art, aswell as porn. Look at a picture of an island in a school textbook. It probably won't be presented very interestingly, 'education' is the focus. But an island created by graphics... there is just something about the way, say a strategy game's, 'place', looks like that fills, me anyway, with excitement. You know what you can expect - acessibility of exploraing a world removed from reality, doing things yourself, changing things and creating things, acessibly - or can't expect. It doesn't look like reality, it has a spin towards messy destruction or unnerving morbidity or exotic strangeness and it's framed and it's there for you to plunder with your mind. Or your brain, rather, in the case of a computer game.