{"id":58,"date":"2006-11-11T11:45:50","date_gmt":"2006-11-11T18:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/?p=58"},"modified":"2006-11-11T11:45:50","modified_gmt":"2006-11-11T18:45:50","slug":"why-do-i-suck-at-geometry-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/?p=58","title":{"rendered":"Why do I suck at Geometry Wars?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a Robotron fanatic. I like a good game of Total Carnage. This twin joystick thing does not befuddle me. So why is everybody else a better player than I am? Seriously&#8211;I looked at my top 10 friends leaderboard and I&#8217;m simply not on it. Wat, Shoe, Will Smith, all near the top of the list with 600K. Then there&#8217;s tier two, where cracking 200K gets you noticed&#8211;Gabe, Rob Smith (twice, with two different gamertags), Gary Cribb, Norman Chan&#8230;these are my peeps. I should be among them. But no&#8211;I&#8217;m still stuck down in newbie hell, a year after this game came out. It was literally the first thing I bought on Xbox Live Marketplace&#8211;for me it was a killer app on launch day, since I never bought <em>PGR2<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I need to stop sucking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a Robotron fanatic. I like a good game of Total Carnage. This twin joystick thing does not befuddle me. So why is everybody else a better player than I am? Seriously&#8211;I looked at my top 10 friends leaderboard and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/?p=58\">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\/58"}],"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=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}