{"id":1783,"date":"2008-07-25T07:42:52","date_gmt":"2008-07-25T12:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=1783"},"modified":"2008-09-19T20:42:55","modified_gmt":"2008-09-20T01:42:55","slug":"stolen-pixels-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=1783","title":{"rendered":"Stolen Pixels #6:<br\/>Beware the Quest Giver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It took me a while to get used to the comments on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/articles\/view\/comics\/stolen-pixels\">Stolen Pixels<\/a>.  It&#8217;s sort of disorienting when a discussion about <a href=\"?p=1779\">DRM and IP law<\/a> generates a hundred responses and a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/articles\/view\/comics\/stolen-pixels\/5063-Stolen-Pixels-5-Every-Shade-of-Brown\">joke about boobies<\/a> only nets us 25.  Am I on the wrong internet?  <\/p>\n<p>But of course you have to register to comment on SP, which creates a natural barrier.  (Not that I think this is a bad thing.  The Escapist is <em>many<\/em> times larger and busier than this humble site and at some point you <em>need<\/em> registration for spam filtering and crowd control.)  I just need to get used to this whole new professional&#8230; magazine&#8230; publishing <em>thing<\/em>.   Also note that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/videos\/view\/zero-punctuation\/37-Mailbag-Showdown\">Mailbag Showdown<\/a>, my favorite* installment of Zero Punctuation, has 1,157 comments even <em>despite<\/em> the registration barrier.   Without registration, it would be unmanageable and unreadable.  So registration is a good thing, even if it hurts my fragile self-esteem by keeping people from leaving me comments saying &#8220;LOL&#8221; and &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FR0o17RSwo8\">your a fag<\/a>&#8220;.  <\/p>\n<p>Where was I? <\/p>\n<p>Oh right! The <em>current<\/em> comic.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/articles\/view\/comics\/stolen-pixels\/5074-Stolen-Pixels-6-Beware-the-Quest-Giver\">It&#8217;s up<\/a>.  Thus begins my series on World of Warcraft.  On one hand, I&#8217;m pretty much the last person on Earth to make fun of this game.  On the other hand, this game is just <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/articles\/view\/comics\/stolen-pixels\/5074-Stolen-Pixels-6-Beware-the-Quest-Giver\">begging for it<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><small>* We always love things which reinforce our own beliefs.  I played SSBB with friends and found it to be a seizure-inducing clusterfarg of arbitrary mayhem and randomness.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It took me a while to get used to the comments on Stolen Pixels. It&#8217;s sort of disorienting when a discussion about DRM and IP law generates a hundred responses and a joke about boobies only nets us 25. Am I on the wrong internet? But of course you have to register to comment on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[525],"class_list":["post-1783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-column","tag-stolen-pixels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1783","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=1783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}