{"id":79,"date":"2007-12-20T06:09:22","date_gmt":"2007-12-19T22:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/angelafardo.com\/?p=79"},"modified":"2010-08-30T02:53:32","modified_gmt":"2010-08-29T21:53:32","slug":"gaming-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/angelafardo.com\/?p=79","title":{"rendered":"Gaming Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<address>Ok, so I can\u2019t help it.  Sometimes I just have to get my game on&#8230;<\/address>\n<p>So I haven\u2019t blogged in a while&#8230;..  Work is making me crazy and the only thing I can think about when I walk in the door is getting my game on.  I\u2019ve fragged, role played, become a professional drummer in a Rock Band and in general played my happy little behind off every time I\u2019ve hit the door of the apartment.  <!--more-->Nothing in the world gives me any more bliss than the lovely feeling of immersing myself in world made up of bits and bytes.  I can do everything I can\u2019t do in the real world and remain anonymous in the process.  For me that\u2019s a good thing.  I become happier than normal.  Now for some&#8230;.becoming more of yourself is a scary prospect indeed.  This is something I have learned the hard way in the gaming world.  People are who they really are when they think no one is looking.  I\u2019ve ran into guys jerking off into web cams during Uno games.  I\u2019m still scarred.  I\u2019ve seen people lie to the degree you wouldn\u2019t believe, when they don\u2019t realize there\u2019s a chat bot running on the guild chat network.  I\u2019ve seen men act like boys, girls act like prostitutes and boys act more primal than a cro magnon man.  It\u2019s scary&#8230;..but I can think of no better social experiment.  It\u2019s like group therapy times ten.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, so I can\u2019t help it. Sometimes I just have to get my game on&#8230; So I haven\u2019t blogged in a while&#8230;.. Work is making me crazy and the only thing I can think about when I walk in the door is getting my game on. I\u2019ve fragged, role played, become a professional drummer in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[128,24],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/angelafardo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/angelafardo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/angelafardo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angelafardo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angelafardo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/angelafardo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83,"href":"https:\/\/angelafardo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions\/83"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/angelafardo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angelafardo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angelafardo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}