{"id":2174,"date":"2009-01-04T20:45:11","date_gmt":"2009-01-04T20:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2174"},"modified":"2009-01-04T20:45:11","modified_gmt":"2009-01-04T20:45:11","slug":"avatar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2174","title":{"rendered":"Avatar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I thought this story from The Onion about a videogame where you play someone playing World of Warcraft was kind of cute.<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/content\/video\/warcraft_sequel_lets_gamers_play?utm_source=embedded_video\">&#8216;Warcraft&#8217; Sequel Lets Gamers Play A Character Playing &#8216;Warcraft&#8217;<\/a><br \/>\nIt got me thinking about what it might be like to play a game that lets you control a digital version of myself using the computer. Some of the game&#8217;s instructions might include the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Press Cntrl-M to make Mark impulsively purchase something on iTunes.<\/li>\n<li>Press Alt-Shift-E to make Mark remember that he needs to eat at some point.\n<\/li>\n<li>Press Shift-F6 to make Mark mutter &#8220;Dude!&#8221; whenever he comes across some random bit of geek-related news.<\/li>\n<li>Press Alt-Shift-B to make Mark stop surfing for pictures of women in fishnets and start writing that damn blog entry he&#8217;s been putting off all afternoon. Players may have to press this key combination repeatedly to achieve results.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought this story from The Onion about a videogame where you play someone playing World of Warcraft was kind of cute. &#8216;Warcraft&#8217; Sequel Lets Gamers Play A Character Playing &#8216;Warcraft&#8217; It got me thinking about what it might be like to play a game that lets you control a digital version of myself using <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2174' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/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-2174","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\/s9Iwau-avatar","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2174","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=2174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}