{"id":2743,"date":"2009-03-26T08:00:01","date_gmt":"2009-03-26T12:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=2743"},"modified":"2009-03-26T03:53:29","modified_gmt":"2009-03-26T07:53:29","slug":"left-4-dead-server-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=2743","title":{"rendered":"Left 4 Dead Server Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The feedback I&#8217;m getting is that the Twenty Sided Left 4 Dead server is in some way providing people with entertainment. Lacking the ability to play myself, I am at least happy that others are enjoying the game. We have MrTact to thank for that. If you see him in game, do try to keep from shooting him, since he&#8217;s paying the rent.  <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s traditional to have a forum to go with a server or a group like this, but my first instinct is that providing one would be poisonous to the community that has arisen here.  A forum would take some of the conversation and move it into a walled-off area, and suddenly there would be two &#8220;classes&#8221; of readers.  It could have the side effect of causing the comment threads to wither, and I am keenly aware of the value they add to the site.  If anything, I&#8217;d like this new thing to add to the site in some way, even for people who never play the game.  Barring that, I want to make sure we don&#8217;t upset this rare mix of thoughtfulness and civility.  <\/p>\n<p>But sometimes you need a way to communicate asynchronously with the group.  So perhaps I&#8217;ll do a weekly gaming thread.  People can say whatever needs to be said about in-game events, or report problems, post their Zoey \/ Francis romantic fanficion, or whatever.  I guess we can consider this post one such thread.  <\/p>\n<p>And just to satisfy my curiosity:<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s your preferred game mode?  Normal, Expert, and Versus seem to be three distinct experiences, and I&#8217;m curious what the break down is among players.  Normal seems to be the most popular, but it may be that&#8217;s it&#8217;s simply a neutral middle ground between Expert and Versus players.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The feedback I&#8217;m getting is that the Twenty Sided Left 4 Dead server is in some way providing people with entertainment. Lacking the ability to play myself, I am at least happy that others are enjoying the game. We have MrTact to thank for that. If you see him in game, do try to keep [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[111],"tags":[166],"class_list":["post-2743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notices","tag-left-4-dead"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2743","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=2743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}