I think the digital qualification does need to be unpacked.

On one hand it affords us access to people we would otherwise never know/meet and hence can broaden our access to different others. On the other hand, that relationship is different and can be less intimate (but not necessarily so). It also doesn’t affect our lives as immediately or urgently as the physical neighbor or colleague…. Which gives us many choices of how far to deepen and sustain it vs in real life where you can’t always control that. All of this is about relationships and not even digital games. I wanna reflect some more on the potential of these games…