{"id":7522,"date":"2010-03-19T08:40:19","date_gmt":"2010-03-19T13:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=7522"},"modified":"2010-03-19T08:40:19","modified_gmt":"2010-03-19T13:40:19","slug":"stolen-pixels-178-after-curfew-episode-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=7522","title":{"rendered":"Stolen Pixels #178: After Curfew, Episode 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/articles\/view\/comics\/stolen-pixels\/7311-Stolen-Pixels-178-After-Curfew-Episode-7\">Hopefully I managed to play this one right<\/a>.  I&#8217;m making fun of the F.A.G.S. controversy, and a misfire could mean I&#8217;d repeat <a href=\"http:\/\/kotaku.com\/5394595\/infinity-ward-removes-modern-warfare-2-fags-video\">Infinity Ward&#8217;s error<\/a> instead of lampooning it. <\/p>\n<p>The other story is more serious, as I think it&#8217;s a lot more likely to be harmful to Activision employees and possibly the industry as a whole. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/news\/view\/98461-Bobby-Kotick-Doesnt-Mean-to-Come-Off-as-a-Dick\">Last month<\/a> Activision president Bobby Kotick complained that perhaps his reputation as an industry villain was unfair.  But this is the same Activision that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joystiq.com\/2009\/06\/04\/activision-sues-double-fine-over-brutal-legend\/\">tried to stop the release of Brutal Legend<\/a>. Then we have him <a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/news\/view\/98761-Rumor-Security-Locks-Down-Infinity-Ward-Ousts-Studio-Head-UPDATE\">suing his golden goose<\/a> in a very public display of power over some very vague charges, the side effect of which will be that his company isn&#8217;t going to be paying bonuses to Infinity Ward for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/news\/view\/97446-Modern-Warfare-2-Breaks-1-Billion\">biggest selling game, ever<\/a>.  And then he <a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/news\/view\/99196-Game-Lawyer-Calls-Bobby-Kotick-Emperor-Palpatine\">promises to lower employee morale<\/a> (although he phrases it differently) because, I suppose, there are still some people in the world who don&#8217;t completely hate the sight of him? <\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know Bob.  Why <em>are<\/em> people so eager to see you as the villain? You tell me. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hopefully I managed to play this one right. I&#8217;m making fun of the F.A.G.S. controversy, and a misfire could mean I&#8217;d repeat Infinity Ward&#8217;s error instead of lampooning it. The other story is more serious, as I think it&#8217;s a lot more likely to be harmful to Activision employees and possibly the industry as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7522","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\/7522","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=7522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}