{"id":120,"date":"2007-02-26T19:51:18","date_gmt":"2007-02-27T02:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/?p=120"},"modified":"2007-02-26T19:51:18","modified_gmt":"2007-02-27T02:51:18","slug":"the-only-gaming-television-you-need-to-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/?p=120","title":{"rendered":"The only gaming television you need to watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a standing grudge about television and video games. TV rarely seems to &#8220;get&#8221; it &#8212; they always wind up insulting me by saying &#8220;If we show some gameplay footage and put some boobs in there, the little boys with their little toys will be distracted and crank the ratings.&#8221; Far more than the standard sins of simply being boring and ill-informed, TV coverage of games almost never feels genuine to me as a gamer. And I say this as someone who is sometimes interviewed as part of the coverage! It&#8217;s just too slick, too packaged, too fake to be respected. I just want to take everyone in television who sees gaming as a demographic, grab by the lapels, shake them, and scream, <em>&#8220;Stop selling me and be a real person for once in your goddamned life.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I think that&#8217;s why I am so happy to have found <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/cbs13.com\/video\/?id=3252@kovr.dayport.com\">this clip<\/a>, which is the first time I&#8217;ve seen gaming accurately, properly, joyfully, and <em>genuinely <\/em>illustrated on television.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a standing grudge about television and video games. TV rarely seems to &#8220;get&#8221; it &#8212; they always wind up insulting me by saying &#8220;If we show some gameplay footage and put some boobs in there, the little boys &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/?p=120\">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":[2,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}