{"id":9950,"date":"2010-11-12T17:47:56","date_gmt":"2010-11-12T22:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=9950"},"modified":"2010-11-12T17:47:56","modified_gmt":"2010-11-12T22:47:56","slug":"experienced-points-know-your-gaming-roots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=9950","title":{"rendered":"Experienced Points: Know Your Gaming Roots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/articles\/view\/columns\/experienced-points\/8320-Experienced-Points-Know-Your-Gaming-Roots\">Here is another column<\/a> that was spawned in the comments on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=9866&#038;cpage=1#comment-174056\">this very site<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I predict 90% of the comments will be: &#8220;I can&#8217;t believe you left out X! They were an important company!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If I wrote a 10,000 word essay on this, I would still get this response.<\/p>\n<p>If I wrote a <em>book<\/em> on this, I would still get this response.<\/p>\n<p>It was educational for myself as well. I wasn&#8217;t planning on including Activision in the list, but when I ran into their story I just had to put them in. It&#8217;s a great example of how <em>anything<\/em> can happen in business. A little upstart like Microsoft can paste a giant like IBM. AOL could buy out Time\/Warner. AT&#038;T could break up. You never know. <\/p>\n<p>Kind of scary when you apply this thinking to something like Google. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is another column that was spawned in the comments on this very site. I predict 90% of the comments will be: &#8220;I can&#8217;t believe you left out X! They were an important company!&#8221; If I wrote a 10,000 word essay on this, I would still get this response. If I wrote a book on [&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-9950","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\/9950","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=9950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}