{"id":273,"date":"2007-10-09T11:33:22","date_gmt":"2007-10-09T18:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/?p=273"},"modified":"2007-10-09T11:33:22","modified_gmt":"2007-10-09T18:33:22","slug":"end-of-a-gamepro-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/?p=273","title":{"rendered":"End of a GamePro era"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>GamePro <\/em>has finally dumped the tradition of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamepro.com\/gamepro\/international\/games\/features\/138848.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">personas<\/a>. Writers will now work under their real names.<\/p>\n<p>This is a good thing, and long overdue. I enjoyed being <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wired.com\/games\/2007\/02\/check_out_what_.html\" target=\"_blank\">Dan Elektro<\/a> and Bad Hare, but it was harder to be a cartoon character as gaming itself aged up. The industry got more sophisticated, gamers grew with their hobby&#8230;and I was still a naked silver guy. I kind of thought that with the advent of Gamertags, the nicknames made sense &#8212; it&#8217;s what the whole gamer community does; everybody has a handle or a nickname. And seriously, should you be forced to take shit about not writing under your own name from a guy named GokuSaiyan1984?<\/p>\n<p>But the time had come. I have seen both sides of this one over the years, but it&#8217;s a liability now in our snark-filled gaming world, and I&#8217;m glad they can move beyond it at last.<\/p>\n<p>That said, I still have some Dan Elektro and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.figurerealm.com\/actionfigure.php?FID=20150&amp;figure=missspell\" target=\"_blank\">Miss Spell<\/a> action figures in my garage. Mint on card!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GamePro has finally dumped the tradition of personas. Writers will now work under their real names. This is a good thing, and long overdue. I enjoyed being Dan Elektro and Bad Hare, but it was harder to be a cartoon &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/?p=273\">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\/273"}],"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=273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}