{"id":9645,"date":"2010-10-12T08:50:32","date_gmt":"2010-10-12T13:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=9645"},"modified":"2010-10-12T10:13:32","modified_gmt":"2010-10-12T15:13:32","slug":"stolen-pixels-234-digdigdig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=9645","title":{"rendered":"Stolen Pixels #234: Digdigdig"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone makes jokes about how addictive their favorite game is.  Which is fine.  90% of humor is about looking at the truth from unexpected angles.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/articles\/view\/comics\/stolen-pixels\/8197-Stolen-Pixels-234-Digdigdig\">Here is that joke again, for Minecraft<\/a>. I know I actually made the joke recently, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/articles\/view\/comics\/stolen-pixels\/8104-Stolen-Pixels-226-Chime-Chime-Chime\">about Chime<\/a>.  I&#8217;m actually sorry I did that, because that fling with Chime was <em>nothing<\/em> compared to Minecraft. <\/p>\n<p>How do we measure the addictiveness of games? Maybe we need some sort of unit of measure. Like pong.<\/p>\n<p>Pong has 1 pong worth of addiction strength.<\/p>\n<p>Space invaders has an addictive rating of 10 pong.<\/p>\n<p>Your average browser game has between 10 and 100 pong of addictiveness. <\/p>\n<p>Tetris is a kilopong.<\/p>\n<p>Chime is a few kilopong. <\/p>\n<p>Starcraft is a megapong.<\/p>\n<p>World of Warcraft is about 10 megapong. <\/p>\n<p>Minecraft may be the first game that scores a gigapong. (Perhaps Dwarf Fortress took that honor. I wisely avoided DF.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone makes jokes about how addictive their favorite game is. Which is fine. 90% of humor is about looking at the truth from unexpected angles. Here is that joke again, for Minecraft. I know I actually made the joke recently, about Chime. I&#8217;m actually sorry I did that, because that fling with Chime was nothing [&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-9645","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\/9645","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=9645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}