{"id":2538,"date":"2009-03-14T08:00:58","date_gmt":"2009-03-14T12:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=2538"},"modified":"2009-03-13T23:44:24","modified_gmt":"2009-03-14T03:44:24","slug":"are-violent-videogames-preparing-children-for-the-apocalypse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=2538","title":{"rendered":"Are Violent Videogames Preparing Children For The Apocalypse?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/videos\/view\/unskippable\/599-Run-Like-Hell\">Unskippable<\/a> featured no Stephen Blum, bringing their overall Blum content down to a disappointing 37%.  (Although I did recognize the voice of Admiral Hackett from Mass Effect, who is voiced by Lance Henriksen.)<\/p>\n<p>So instead of Unskippable this week, let&#8217;s look at an issue that affects our children.  <\/p>\n<p><center><code><object width=\"480\" height=\"430\"><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/content\/themes\/common\/assets\/onn_embed\/embedded_player.swf?image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theonion.com%2Fcontent%2Ffiles%2Fimages%2FPOST_APOCALYPTIC_article.jpg&amp;videoid=93495&#038;title=Are%20Violent%20Video%20Games%20Adequately%20Preparing%20Children%20For%20The%20Apocalypse%3F\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/content\/themes\/common\/assets\/onn_embed\/embedded_player.swf\"type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"480\" height=\"430\"flashvars=\"image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theonion.com%2Fcontent%2Ffiles%2Fimages%2FPOST_APOCALYPTIC_article.jpg&#038;videoid=93495&#038;title=Are%20Violent%20Video%20Games%20Adequately%20Preparing%20Children%20For%20The%20Apocalypse%3F\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/content\/video\/are_violent_video_games\">Are Violent Video Games Adequately Preparing Children For The Apocalypse?<\/a><\/code><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I stopped reading The Onion a few years ago when it felt like they were in a rut.  This new (to me) video thing has really made the humor fresh again.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s Unskippable featured no Stephen Blum, bringing their overall Blum content down to a disappointing 37%. (Although I did recognize the voice of Admiral Hackett from Mass Effect, who is voiced by Lance Henriksen.) So instead of Unskippable this week, let&#8217;s look at an issue that affects our children. Are Violent Video Games Adequately [&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-2538","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\/2538","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=2538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}