{"id":968,"date":"2007-02-19T07:00:50","date_gmt":"2007-02-19T12:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=968"},"modified":"2007-02-19T07:00:58","modified_gmt":"2007-02-19T12:00:58","slug":"player-hater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=968","title":{"rendered":"Player Hater"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jaquandor quotes me, and then has <a href=\"http:\/\/byzantiumshores.blogspot.com\/2007\/02\/sentential-links-86_12.html\">this to say<\/a>:<\/p>\n<div class=\"quote\">I have got to stop reading Shamus&#8217;s blog, because every day I read him I feel my resistance to allowing computer games in the home to slip a little. <\/div>\n<p>I see this in the comments as well.  People say things like, &#8220;I don&#8217;t play computer games, but reading your site makes me wish I did.&#8221;  I can&#8217;t explain this.  Most of my posts are long, nitpicky rants that enumerate the various flaws of a game in obsessive detail.  The more I hate a game, the more I write about it.  My favorite game of the past year was Rollercoaster Tycoon 3, and I haven&#8217;t done a single post on it.   My least favorite was Neverwinter Nights 2, and I won&#8217;t shut up about it.  I&#8217;m like the anti-fanboy.  My hobby isn&#8217;t videogames, my hobby is <em>complaining about<\/em> video games.  <\/p>\n<p>Still, I&#8217;m glad my painstakingly cultivated neurosis is a source of entertainment to others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jaquandor quotes me, and then has this to say: I have got to stop reading Shamus&#8217;s blog, because every day I read him I feel my resistance to allowing computer games in the home to slip a little. I see this in the comments as well. People say things like, &#8220;I don&#8217;t play computer games, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968","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=968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}