{"id":1258,"date":"2016-01-22T10:41:06","date_gmt":"2016-01-22T15:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/playing-at-leadership\/?p=1258"},"modified":"2016-01-22T10:41:57","modified_gmt":"2016-01-22T15:41:57","slug":"1258","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/playing-at-leadership\/2016\/01\/22\/1258\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Weeds: A Catching-Up Post"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s been one heck of a week, despite the fact that we had Monday off and today is an impending snowpocalypse. I could do without more weeks like that one.<\/p>\n

In gaming related news, Anita Sarkeesian made another episode of Tropes vs. Women in videogames that is apparently about butts. I haven’t watched it yet, but I’m already dubious (not because I think her videos are bad, but because “butts? Really?”).<\/p>\n

In catching-up news, last week I posted about Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes<\/i>\u00a0over on NPC Gamer<\/i><\/a>. It’s a fun little Steam game that is surprisingly addicting and weirdly fun at parties, despite the fact that only two people can really play at any given time.<\/p>\n

Today’s NPC Gamer <\/i>post is about the problem of neoliberalism and how it relates to why we love games<\/a>. It’s much less lighthearted than last week’s post and contains Big Thoughts.<\/p>\n

Next week there will be more Rise of the Tomb Raider<\/i>\u00a0over on TLF. And hopefully a post about the Tropes vs. Women episode…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s been one heck of a week, despite the fact that we had Monday off and today is an impending snowpocalypse. I could do without more weeks like that one. In gaming related news, Anita Sarkeesian made another episode of … Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1710,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9130,9156],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-criticism","category-npcgamer"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s6XN03-1258","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/playing-at-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/playing-at-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/playing-at-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/playing-at-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1710"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/playing-at-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/playing-at-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/playing-at-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/playing-at-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/playing-at-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}