{"id":914,"date":"2007-01-30T17:00:24","date_gmt":"2007-01-30T22:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=914"},"modified":"2007-01-30T17:00:26","modified_gmt":"2007-01-30T22:00:26","slug":"do-you-do-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=914","title":{"rendered":"Do you do this?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once in a while I run into &#8220;interactive ads&#8221; on ad-heavy websites.  Places like MySpace will often have a game where you try to play some simple mini-game.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orbitzgames.com\/\">Orbitz<\/a> has done this sort of thing so much over the years that they&#8217;ve created a website dedicated to their various golf-putting, skeet-shooting, baseball-hitting, basketball-shooting games.  <\/p>\n<p>The trick is that these games are fun to look at, and amusing for about ten seconds.  However, playing them usually triggers a popup ad or opens a new page.  <\/p>\n<p>Lots of games now are things like &#8220;cick this button repeatedly as fast as you can&#8221; to play tug-of-war, punch an annoying celebrity, or whatever.  You click as fast as you can, and the instant you win you get an ad. <\/p>\n<p>So I play these games until the moment just before I win, then I stop clicking and let it go.  I do this all the time.  It&#8217;s silly.  I thought I was the only person that did this, until by brother (Skeeve the Impossible) told me he did it.  Now I wonder if this is common behavior?  Are millions of people clicking away, and then stopping short of the moment of victory and letting the &#8220;bad guy&#8221; win?  I have no idea, but it makes me laugh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once in a while I run into &#8220;interactive ads&#8221; on ad-heavy websites. Places like MySpace will often have a game where you try to play some simple mini-game. Orbitz has done this sort of thing so much over the years that they&#8217;ve created a website dedicated to their various golf-putting, skeet-shooting, baseball-hitting, basketball-shooting games. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nerd-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914","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=914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}