{"id":1707,"date":"2008-06-12T16:00:33","date_gmt":"2008-06-12T21:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=1707"},"modified":"2008-06-12T21:28:53","modified_gmt":"2008-06-13T02:28:53","slug":"guild-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=1707","title":{"rendered":"Guild Wars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A friend loaned me his Guild Wars account. (And now that I think of it, maybe this violates the TOS.  In which case <strong>I purchased a completely new Guild Wars account and I have no friends<\/strong>.)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be trying it out tonight.  I do have to be very careful with these games.  I don&#8217;t talk about it here much, but aside from my day job and the hours I spend writing the endlessly spooling miles of text on this site, I&#8217;m also a Dad and I have to make sure I do Dad stuff regularly so my kids don&#8217;t grow up while I&#8217;m not looking.  <\/p>\n<p>So, this will be my first real MMO since about 2001.  We&#8217;ll see how it goes.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE<\/strong>: Not everyone with &#8220;Shamus&#8221; in their name is me, but everyone that&#8217;s me has &#8220;Shamus&#8221; in their name.  <\/p>\n<p>This game looks fantastic.  It&#8217;s a good thing, since I&#8217;m wandering around, lost and confused, but greatly enjoying the scenery.  <\/p>\n<p>You can click on someone&#8217;s name to whisper to them. This game REALLY needs to make it just as easy to mute people.  It only takes a few idiots to really make a hash of the chat window.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend loaned me his Guild Wars account. (And now that I think of it, maybe this violates the TOS. In which case I purchased a completely new Guild Wars account and I have no friends.) I&#8217;ll be trying it out tonight. I do have to be very careful with these games. I don&#8217;t talk [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}