Last week, I came accross this definition by Gavin Eisenbeisz, the guy that made Choo-Choo Charles:

Entertainment is a zero risk shortcut that leads to gratification of one or more survival instincts. […]. At a fundamental level, entertainment is anything that makes a shortcut based on minimal input from your body (minimal energy expenditure) that gets you as quickly as possible towards instinctual gratification Source: Scientia Ludos “What ACTUALLY is entertainment?”

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