LIVE - A Debate!

[resonantblue]

Who: Silence and YOU!
Where: Hotel Lobby
When: Day 83, Evening

[this fin member is standing in the hotel lobby, and looking right into the camera as she speaks. there's not an ounce of uncertainty in her flat, but firm, voice... no, there's something passionate about it this time?]

Reporting live, once more, with Silence. This just in: it seems there is something to debate: "fun."

In her three days of existing here, Silence has not experienced "fun" or found enjoyment in anything. Yet, the populace is finding enjoyment and fun in unusual places. Unitmates are hosting "sleepovers." Others are throwing snowballs. What is the deal with having fun?

It goes to note that this is not a problem. Continue. Have this fun.

However! [her voice softens] I am interested in learning... I seem to be unable to grasp the concept. It is confusing, and it is confusing to experience confusion, and it is also confusing to explain what seems to be missing when I do not understand what I am missing in the first place.

So! Debate this subject with me. Argue its necessity with me or—or show me how to have fun! Please.

Comments

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

What's something you would do even though it has no practical value?

[resonantblue]

Perhaps... people watching. However, even that can have practical value.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

And why would you choose that activity over others?

[resonantblue]

It is an easy way to learn about social behaviors. Individual behaviors are interesting to study, too. Silence can learn a lot from watching others from a distance.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

So if it's not informative, then you stop watching?

[resonantblue]

[taps her chin, realization setting in]

...no. I do not. There is something... entertaining about some people. Could that be fun?

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

That could be the start. How have people been explaining fun to you anyway?

[resonantblue]

Nobody has explained it to me.

I heard from a member of BARiTONEs that fun is subjective; that it will take trying many new things to find what I could find fun.

When I described it as "a strike of warmth and an appreciation for smaller things" in the moment, Shine confirmed that it sounded right.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Well, the dictionary definition would be something along the lines of providing entertainment, amusement, or enjoyment.

But they're right to say that fun is different for everyone. So what's fun for you might not be fun with me. And you might find fun in smaller mundane things than things of larger scope.