{"id":979,"date":"2007-11-20T08:33:06","date_gmt":"2007-11-20T13:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2007\/11\/20\/playing-games-too-much\/"},"modified":"2007-11-20T08:33:06","modified_gmt":"2007-11-20T13:33:06","slug":"playing-games-too-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2007\/11\/20\/playing-games-too-much\/","title":{"rendered":"Playing Games Too Much"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I guess it might be a sign that you&#8217;re playing games too much when your dreams at night adopt the control scheme of the game you were playing that day.<\/p>\n<p>Like how last night, all my dreams were set in a pseudo-3D isometric grid with Final Fantasy Tactics style controls.<\/p>\n<p>Hey, at least it wasn&#8217;t a First Person Shooter &#8211; dreaming in those games makes me dizzy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I guess it might be a sign that you&#8217;re playing games too much when your dreams at night adopt the control scheme of the game you were playing that day. Like how last night, all my dreams were set in a pseudo-3D isometric grid with Final Fantasy Tactics style controls. Hey, at least it wasn&#8217;t&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2007\/11\/20\/playing-games-too-much\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Playing Games Too Much<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pimUj-fN","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":584,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2005\/07\/30\/bunny-games\/","url_meta":{"origin":979,"position":0},"title":"Bunny Games","author":"Keith Survell","date":"July 30, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"I've got quite a few videos of Gussy playing his games, but most are too big to put here on my blog. 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