{"id":2023,"date":"2008-12-05T07:00:50","date_gmt":"2008-12-05T12:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=2023"},"modified":"2008-12-05T07:13:23","modified_gmt":"2008-12-05T12:13:23","slug":"sesslers-soapbox-innovation-vs-numeration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=2023","title":{"rendered":"Sessler&#8217;s Soapbox: Innovation Vs. Numeration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Adam Sessler of G4TV has a regular video op-ed titled &#8220;Sessler&#8217;s Soapbox&#8221;.  He&#8217;s a reviewer who is obliged to give numeric scores to games, and here he clearly comes out against them.  <\/p>\n<p><center><code><object width=\"480\" height=\"418\" id=\"VideoPlayer\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.g4tv.com\/lv3\/35298\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.g4tv.com\/lv3\/35298\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" name=\"VideoPlayer\" width=\"480\" height=\"418\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/code><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.g4tv.com\/thepile\/videos\/35298\/Sesslers_Soapbox_Innovation_Vs_Numeration.html\">G4TV.com<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>But what really caught my attention was the part at the beginning where he talks about the difficulty of a game and how it does (or doesn&#8217;t) figure in to a review score.  This is one of those subjects that calls for a thousand words or none, and I don&#8217;t have time for a thousand words.  The best I can manage right now is to gesture wildly in Adam&#8217;s direction and say, &#8220;What he has said is significant.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adam Sessler of G4TV has a regular video op-ed titled &#8220;Sessler&#8217;s Soapbox&#8221;. He&#8217;s a reviewer who is obliged to give numeric scores to games, and here he clearly comes out against them. G4TV.com But what really caught my attention was the part at the beginning where he talks about the difficulty of a game and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dream-cast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023","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=2023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}