{"id":671,"date":"2007-06-02T14:52:08","date_gmt":"2007-06-02T18:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2007\/06\/02\/aging-gracefully\/"},"modified":"2008-02-18T03:21:57","modified_gmt":"2008-02-18T07:21:57","slug":"aging-gracefully","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2007\/06\/02\/aging-gracefully\/","title":{"rendered":"Aging Gracefully?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first game I bought for my Xbox 360 was <em>MLB 2K7<\/em>. The local used CD shop had it on sale and baseball is the best game. I really love my management sims, so the chance to relive my action sports days with my Washington Nationals is very appealing.<\/p>\n<p>Boy do I suck.<\/p>\n<p>Part of it is the number of things I have to deal with on the controller. Bumpers. Joysticks. Triggers. D-pad. Four buttons. Instead of pushing a button to swing, I have to time the release of one of the sticks. I lost my exhibitions game 11-1, finally scoring in the 9th inning and striking out 12 times.<\/p>\n<p>I am hoping that some of this incompetence is due to basic unfamiliarity with when I am supposed to do what. I fear, however, that a lot of it is because my action-y reflexes have atrophied to such an extent that death and failure will be my lot with a console heavy on twitch\/timing\/vertigo gameplay. Have I gotten to the point where I&#8217;m just too old for today&#8217;s biggest games? <\/p>\n<p>(My Live name, by the way, is <strong>troysg<\/strong>. I may put a gamecard here on the sidebar.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first game I bought for my Xbox 360 was MLB 2K7. The local used CD shop had it on sale and baseball is the best game. I really love my management sims, so the chance to relive my action sports days with my Washington Nationals is very appealing. Boy do I suck. Part of [&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":[21],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-aP","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671"}],"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=671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}