{"id":163,"date":"2007-04-30T16:27:47","date_gmt":"2007-04-30T23:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/?p=163"},"modified":"2007-04-30T16:27:47","modified_gmt":"2007-04-30T23:27:47","slug":"on-gaming-with-dead-goats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/?p=163","title":{"rendered":"On gaming with dead goats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know, I&#8217;ve said that I just don&#8217;t understand Sony&#8217;s approach to things lately. Lots of their decisions, both business and creative, have come under fire, and it&#8217;s fair to say that it&#8217;s been a case of kicking Sony when it&#8217;s down. It&#8217;s hard to resist a good &#8220;oh how the mighty have fallen&#8221; story, and gamers are a notoriously fickle lot anyway. They love to scream and yell about every injustice, real or perceived.<\/p>\n<p>But seriously? Nobody thought that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/pages\/live\/articles\/news\/news.html?in_article_id=451414&amp;in_page_id=1770&amp;ct=5\" target=\"_blank\">a slaughtered goat<\/a> would, you know, be a bad PR move?<\/p>\n<p>Now, by contrast, that doesn&#8217;t appear to be the whole story. Kotaku has asked Sony for <a href=\"http:\/\/kotaku.com\/gaming\/meat-soup\/goatgate-sonys-side-of-the-story-256325.php\" target=\"_blank\">its side of the story<\/a>, and hey, I&#8217;m not surprised to see that things were taken out of context. Fair enough.<\/p>\n<p>Still&#8230;by all accounts, <em>God of War II<\/em> is a stunner in its own right. Do you need a dead goat to promote?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know, I&#8217;ve said that I just don&#8217;t understand Sony&#8217;s approach to things lately. Lots of their decisions, both business and creative, have come under fire, and it&#8217;s fair to say that it&#8217;s been a case of kicking Sony when &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/?p=163\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}