{"id":254,"date":"2007-09-09T11:44:33","date_gmt":"2007-09-09T18:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/?p=254"},"modified":"2007-09-09T12:02:31","modified_gmt":"2007-09-09T19:02:31","slug":"ok-lets-tackle-ignorance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/?p=254","title":{"rendered":"OK, let&#8217;s tackle gamer ignorance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wow. Reading the comments <a href=\"http:\/\/kotaku.com\/gaming\/first%21\/shes-beaten-halo-3-and-you-havent-297889.php\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, gamers are as passionate and quick to judge as they are completely wrong. <em>OXM <\/em>is biased, <em>OXM <\/em>is on the take, <em>OXM <\/em>has to give <em>Halo 3<\/em> high marks or else they&#8217;re out of a job&#8230;same old allegations, absolutely no rational thought. I particularly liked the guy who said having <em>OXM <\/em>review <em>Halo 3<\/em> is like having Cookie Monster review cookies. What, we should ignore it?<\/p>\n<p>Of course, many of the dim-witted comments come from people who will proudly tell you that they don&#8217;t read <em>OXM<\/em>. Like, they see the scores on GameRankings, and that&#8217;s all they need to jump to a conclusion; never mind the words that explain the number, right? When they cite negative sources, they&#8217;re often outdated (stop barking about incremental 100-point scores, people, we gave them up in 2005). They read it when <em>Halo 2<\/em> came out and didn&#8217;t like it, and surely nothing changes over a two-year period. When actual readers pipe up with complaints or comments or improvements or rants, I listen a lot more attentively. But if you boast that you don&#8217;t read the magazine, your smack-talk lacks smack.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, if you don&#8217;t want to think for yourself, at least shut the fuck up. Sheep shouldn&#8217;t make this much noise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow. Reading the comments here, gamers are as passionate and quick to judge as they are completely wrong. OXM is biased, OXM is on the take, OXM has to give Halo 3 high marks or else they&#8217;re out of a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/?p=254\">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":[1,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254"}],"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=254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}