7/3

i'm thankful for how much fun d is having playing the new assassin's creed game, which is set in ancient egypt. i'm thankful she has been having so much fun she plays it on her lunch break and is playing it now, after breakfast and before work (i'm thankful to remember when i did that for games when we first got our ps4 and i was working at the university). i'm thankful for how much fun i am having watching her, since normally when she plays games, they're not the sort of games i would play, and so watching i don't have a frame of reference, a way of understanding the game and how i might play it if i were playing (since i never would), whereas this is an open world action game of the type i normally play and so the text is rich with meaning for me. i'm thankful for the defamiliarizing effect of seeing how she moves through the world and experiences it, what she chooses to do and prioritize, what is pleasurable, what she finds difficult and how she engages with that difficulty. i'm thankful for her devotion to tidying up the corpses she leaves in her wake by putting them in tall grass. i'm thankful for the pleasure of completing objectives.