{"id":422,"date":"2005-07-21T16:21:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-21T20:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/?p=422"},"modified":"2005-07-21T16:21:00","modified_gmt":"2005-07-21T20:21:00","slug":"this-one-might-drop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/?p=422","title":{"rendered":"This one might drop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Picked up <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Tiger Woods 2004<\/span> this weekend, which has unsurprisingly dominated my life since.  Gameplay is pretty much the same as the &#8217;03 version, but a big addition was made with character customization.  There&#8217;s the <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">EA Sports Game Face<\/span>, which ought to be called<span style=\"font-style: italic;\"> EA Sports Try To Make Something Look Like You, Get Frustrated And Give Up Face<\/span>, and a veritable stripmall&#8217;s-worth of clothes.  Now, the clothes serve a purpose in making money via sponsorships, but we all know they&#8217;re so you can play dress-up.  This brings up <a href=\"http:\/\/bastart.blogspot.com\/2005\/05\/ultima.html\">the age-old issue of the digital avatar<\/a>.  When faced with the requirement to make a character for yourself, what do you do?  Make him look like you?  Similar to you but cooler?  Something funny?  Something completely different?<\/p>\n<p>No matter what you do, it&#8217;s going to be embarrassing, especially when your wife catches you shopping for digital golf duds.  You know what she&#8217;s thinking when that happens?  &#8220;How is this more interesting than hanging out with me?  You&#8217;d think he could find the time to&#8230; ooh! The salmon one with the stripes!  Make me!  Make me!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Picked up Tiger Woods 2004 this weekend, which has unsurprisingly dominated my life since. Gameplay is pretty much the same as the &#8217;03 version, but a big addition was made with character customization. There&#8217;s the EA Sports Game Face, which ought to be called EA Sports Try To Make Something Look Like You, Get Frustrated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}