{"id":452,"date":"2006-10-03T15:56:39","date_gmt":"2006-10-03T19:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2006\/10\/03\/why-is-this-news\/"},"modified":"2006-10-03T16:49:05","modified_gmt":"2006-10-03T20:49:05","slug":"why-is-this-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2006\/10\/03\/why-is-this-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is this news?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/today.reuters.com\/news\/articlenews.aspx?type=internetNews&#038;storyid=2006-09-30T141007Z_01_RON037445_RTRUKOC_0_US-SECURITY-IRAN-GAME.xml&#038;src=rss&#038;rpc=22\">Reuters reports<\/a> that Iranian gamers can now pretend they are blocking the Strait of Hormuz by sinking a tanker.<\/p>\n<p>In my long life as a gamer, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobygames.com\/game\/dos\/patriot\">I have invaded Iraq<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobygames.com\/game\/win3x\/harpoon-classic\">sunk supply convoys running troops to a Europe under attack<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobygames.com\/game\/dos\/night-hawk-f-117a-stealth-fighter-20\">bombed nuclear facilities<\/a> (and missed, killing villagers instead), and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobygames.com\/game\/dos\/lhx-attack-chopper\">sometimes shot camels just for the hell of it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve played as the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobygames.com\/game\/windows\/blitzkrieg\">Wehrmacht<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobygames.com\/game\/windows\/shogun-total-war-the-mongol-invasion\">the Mongol hordes<\/a>. I&#8217;ve <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobygames.com\/game\/dos\/v-for-victory-gold-juno-sword\">stormed Juno beach<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobygames.com\/game\/windows\/sid-meiers-civilization-iii-conquests\">sacrificed prisoners to raise my culture rating<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I find it a little silly to get too concerned that some Iranian teenager roleplays stopping our oil supply. So long as he&#8217;s not trying to figure out his role in a larger plan to destroy Israel, I&#8217;m not worried or even interested.<\/p>\n<p>Though, not long ago, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobygames.com\/game\/windows\/operational-art-of-war-iii\">I was driving the Israeli army out the West Bank and Golan Heights<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters reports that Iranian gamers can now pretend they are blocking the Strait of Hormuz by sinking a tanker. In my long life as a gamer, I have invaded Iraq, sunk supply convoys running troops to a Europe under attack, bombed nuclear facilities (and missed, killing villagers instead), and sometimes shot camels just for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-7i","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452"}],"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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}