Originally published at: What makes 'true fun' and how to spot 'fake fun' | Boing Boing
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BTW I have a lot of back pain, my stomach can’t even handle caffeine and I have musical anhedonia.
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I tried to have fun once. It was awful.
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It is difficult when you have a brain the size of a planet.
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Btw, TED talks is mostly fake smart.
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There is no such thing as True Fun or Fake Fun. My friend The Computer is quite clear there is only Hot Fun and Cold Fun.
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Corporate HR departments have helped develop a whole industry around fake fun and also made participation mandatory.
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Where does “BoingBoing BBS comments” fall in the fake/real fun taxonomy?
Well I genuinely enjoy many of the interesting and enlightening conversations I get to have here with a great group of folks, so that’s real fun. 
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What if I binge watch the show for four hours and then feel perfectly fine with that? Some days are for resting after all.
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Yes, as I refer to as the Morale Suppression Initiative, very popular in some workspaces
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I call that “mandatory fun”.
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Fake in the sense of Ersatz or in the sense of I thought it was funny when I read it first but later I realised it wasn’t?
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