{"id":25848,"date":"2015-02-03T16:29:29","date_gmt":"2015-02-03T21:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=25848"},"modified":"2015-02-05T08:37:30","modified_gmt":"2015-02-05T13:37:30","slug":"experienced-points-what-is-the-future-of-video-game-journalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=25848","title":{"rendered":"Experienced Points: What Is the Future of Video Game Journalism?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/articles\/view\/video-games\/columns\/experienced-points\/12934-Video-Game-Journalism-The-Past-Present-and-Future\">This column was really tough to write<\/a>. The whole time I felt like there was this pull drawing me towards talking about #GamerGate, like playing pool on a crooked table.<\/p>\n<p>But I really don&#8217;t want to talk about #GamerGate. And I also don&#8217;t want to moderate a discussion with other people talking about it. (Hint, hint.) It&#8217;s just that it&#8217;s pretty dang hard to talk about games journalism without talking about GG. Do your best!<\/p>\n<p>And in response to the question I posed in the column: I don&#8217;t care if you call me a journalist or not. I usually call myself a &#8220;pundit&#8221; to sidestep this very issue.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Edit: Two days later. Well, we weren&#8217;t supposed to talk about it, but that was probably the calmest and most civil conversation on #GamerGate that&#8217;s ever taken place. Thanks to all of you for being so cool. I&#8217;ve closed the comments. I think now is a good time to move on. You folks are awesome.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This column was really tough to write. The whole time I felt like there was this pull drawing me towards talking about #GamerGate, like playing pool on a crooked table. But I really don&#8217;t want to talk about #GamerGate. And I also don&#8217;t want to moderate a discussion with other people talking about it. (Hint, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-column"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25848","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=25848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}