You ask Pinehurst why an artist’s creative vision could not include interactivity. Surely, you reason, a capable video game developer, knowing that the game that he or she produced would one day be played by others, would design the game in such a way that the interactivity inherent to the medium added to the overall aesthetic experience, as opposed to subtracting from it.

Pinehurst contemplates this for a moment. After a moment, he says, “Huh. I need to think about that for a while.” He walks back to the door through which he earlier entered the room. “Get back to work, you two,” he says before exiting.

As he leaves, you notice that the video game cartridge is still in his hand.

The End