{"id":172,"date":"2005-06-24T20:43:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-25T00:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/?p=172"},"modified":"2006-08-19T19:56:07","modified_gmt":"2006-08-19T23:56:07","slug":"best-game-writers-in-the-business-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2005\/06\/24\/best-game-writers-in-the-business-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Game Writers in the Business Here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, <a href=\"http:\/\/biz.gamedaily.com\/industry\/media\/?id=9908=\">here<\/a>. Except for the ridiculous nod to &#8220;<i>Game Informer <\/i>staff&#8221; (Come on, guys. Put your name down. Stand up for your opinions. Afraid of backing up those scores divided into .25 increments?), I have no real problems with the list. Well, two.<\/p>\n<p>First, putting Scott Kurtz in the same game-writing category as Jerry &#8220;Tycho&#8221; Holkins is puzzling since <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pvponline.com\">PvP<\/a> has become more a traditional (but still funny) workplace comedy more than a game or gamer satire. (Check out his archives for how much more frequent the game humor was at the beginning.) As hit or miss as the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.penny-arcade.com\">Penny Arcade<\/a> comics can sometimes be, the commentary is always worthwhile.<\/p>\n<p>Second, I didn&#8217;t make the list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, here. Except for the ridiculous nod to &#8220;Game Informer staff&#8221; (Come on, guys. Put your name down. Stand up for your opinions. Afraid of backing up those scores divided into .25 increments?), I have no real problems with the list. Well, two. First, putting Scott Kurtz in the same game-writing category as Jerry &#8220;Tycho&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-2M","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}