Today's empty, time-sucking gaming does not hold a candle to the way we used to play with intention, because they are designed expressly to distract us from the real-time events of our lives.
White linen, crystal, attentive service - you'll feel like a million bucks even if you've emptied your wallet at the gaming tables.
But you know and I know: mere winners are not true leaders — not just because gaming broken systems is nothing but an empty charade of living; but because life is not a game.
The character on the box is both fascinatingly unlike gaming avatars before it, and immediately an empty vessel for the player's own personality.
Not only does this utilize empty space, but it may also keep guests on the gaming floor longer, if they are not taking an extended break to go eat at one of the higher-end dining establishments.
Despite the fact that both the Mario and Zelda franchises had successfully shifted to 3-D, going as far as to define 3-D gaming, people were skeptical that Metroid Prime wouldn't just become an empty, futuristic, brown-and-gray FPS.
After months of speculation, a £550m deal was announced yesterday that would see the empty dome in Greenwich, south-east London, reinvent itself as a gambler's paradise with gaming tables, 900 slot machines and a 600-bed hotel.
Cosimo III left a Tuscany one of the poorest nations in Europe; the treasury empty and the people weary of religious bigotry, the state itself was reduced to a gaming chip in European affairs.
THAT LIVED-IN LOOK In painting scenes of luxurious empty rooms, the early 1900s artist Walter Gay made sure that playing cards were visibly fanned out on gaming tables, bookmarks tucked into leather-bound tomes and ashes still glowing in marble fireplaces.
