{"id":1798,"date":"2007-12-28T23:59:11","date_gmt":"2007-12-28T23:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1798"},"modified":"2007-12-28T23:59:11","modified_gmt":"2007-12-28T23:59:11","slug":"kill_kill_kill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1798","title":{"rendered":"Kill, Kill, Kill!"},"content":{"rendered":"

When my brother arrived last weekend, he told me in no uncertain terms that he wanted to spend a week vegging out and playing computer games. Always one to oblige my guests, I downloaded a copy of BioShock<\/i><\/a>. It’s been years since I’ve played a first-person shooter, but comparing this game to earlier<\/a> standards<\/a> of the genre is like comparing a Lamborghini to a Big Wheel. Yes, it’s a shooter and the primary goal is still to blow stuff up, except that you get to blow stuff up in a beautifully realized undersea city with an unfolding story that is equal parts James Bond and 1984. It’s the kind of game that helps me justify the money I poured into my new system. I don’t know if we’ll reach the game’s end before my brother leaves next week, but we’ll have fun trying. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When my brother arrived last weekend, he told me in no uncertain terms that he wanted to spend a week vegging out and playing computer games. Always one to oblige my guests, I downloaded a copy of BioShock. It’s been years since I’ve played a first-person shooter, but comparing this game to earlier standards of […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-t0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}