{"id":35484,"date":"2016-11-15T06:00:18","date_gmt":"2016-11-15T10:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=35484"},"modified":"2016-11-15T04:42:15","modified_gmt":"2016-11-15T08:42:15","slug":"this-dumb-industry-all-these-dumb-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=35484","title":{"rendered":"This Dumb Industry:  All These Dumb Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My column this week was going to be an extra-long explanation on why Twitter is cultural poison that&#8217;s turning everyone into insane hateful assholes. On one hand, I really do think that Twitter has some nasty emergent properties when combined with human nature<span class='snote' title='1'>On top of the usual problems we see on other social media platforms like Facebook.<\/span><span class='snote' title='2'>And no, this isn&#8217;t just a re-hash of the C.G.P. Grey video on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rE3j_RHkqJc\">Anger Germs<\/a>.<\/span>. On the other hand, I&#8217;ve just gone through a solid week of watching people be shitty to each other and I&#8217;m basically out of emotional stamina at this point. I want to get as far from controversial topics as I can get.<\/p>\n<p>So maybe I&#8217;ll put a pin in the Twitter rant for now. <\/p>\n<p>Since I don&#8217;t have a column, let&#8217;s have a conversation&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m working on my end-of-year series (which will probably run in this space in late December) and I&#8217;m wondering what I&#8217;ve missed and what I&#8217;ll be able to play before the year wraps up.<\/p>\n<p>Given the sheer volume of retro remakes, remakes, homages, indies, AAA titles, reboots, mobile stuff, and good old games for cheap, we&#8217;re positively <em>swimming<\/em> in games. The number of available titles keeps going up, but (assuming you didn&#8217;t just retire or lose your job) the supply of gaming hours hasn&#8217;t. With that in mind: What are you playing these days? New stuff? If you&#8217;re playing old stuff, are you exploring stuff you missed when it was new, or revisiting an old favorite? What&#8217;s really standing out for you this year? Have you played (or avoided) anything specifically because we talked about it here on the site?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My column this week was going to be an extra-long explanation on why Twitter is cultural poison that&#8217;s turning everyone into insane hateful assholes. On one hand, I really do think that Twitter has some nasty emergent properties when combined with human natureOn top of the usual problems we see on other social media platforms [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35484","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\/35484","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=35484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}