{"id":873,"date":"2008-11-22T13:02:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-22T18:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/?p=873"},"modified":"2008-11-22T13:02:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-22T18:02:00","slug":"only-a-matter-of-time-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/?p=873","title":{"rendered":"Only a Matter of Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_hU3PO1VZHQA\/SShNblQmIzI\/AAAAAAAAAOM\/1hVniJjaHhU\/s1600-h\/pa.jpg\" onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5271548500090692402\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_hU3PO1VZHQA\/SShNblQmIzI\/AAAAAAAAAOM\/1hVniJjaHhU\/s200\/pa.jpg\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 111px; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; width: 108px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">For some time now, my brothers have been my pathway to true geekiness.  For example:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It was my desire to understand their ways that introduced me to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wizards.com\/magic\/\">Magic: The Gathering<\/a>, with long-lasting results.  <\/li>\n<li>Pete gave me his copy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kadokawa.co.jp\/sp\/200410-04\/\">Record of Lodoss War<\/a>, which was a first for me in many respects &#8212; first time owning a full TV series, first anime in my collection and the first with subtitles.  <\/li>\n<li>It was at Morgan&#8217;s apartment that I played my first round of 8-man <a href=\"http:\/\/bastart.blogspot.com\/search?q=halo\">Halo<\/a>, prompting me to buy the Xbox and leading  to a few of the geekiest things I&#8217;ve ever done, including holding a video game tourney as fund-raiser, manning Halo at a bachelor party, and participating in a game-inspired improv show.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It should come as no surprise, then, that when I learned that Pete is currently playing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldofwarcraft.com\/splash-wrathlaunch2.htm\">World of Warcraft<\/a>, I decided to try out the demo.  We&#8217;re not really letter-writers, but we are certainly gamers &#8212; perhaps this will give us a chance to hang out, right?<\/p>\n<p>Well, let me tell you this.  PA has it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.penny-arcade.com\/comic\/2008\/11\/14\/\">right <\/a>once again.  From what I can tell so far, the game is mainly a steady stream of tasks involving killing X number of Y monsters.  Snooze.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I assume that once the tedium of grinding is done and you actually team up with people, some coolness can occur.  Except that people are a pain in the ass.  So, we&#8217;ll see.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For some time now, my brothers have been my pathway to true geekiness. For example: It was my desire to understand their ways that introduced me to Magic: The Gathering, with long-lasting results. Pete gave me his copy of Record of Lodoss War, which was a first for me in many respects &#8212; first time [&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-873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873","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=873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}