{"id":747,"date":"2007-08-27T16:19:44","date_gmt":"2007-08-27T20:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2007\/08\/27\/unnecessary-warnings\/"},"modified":"2007-12-06T15:03:26","modified_gmt":"2007-12-06T19:03:26","slug":"unnecessary-warnings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2007\/08\/27\/unnecessary-warnings\/","title":{"rendered":"Unnecessary Warnings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not a doctor. Or at least not the kind of doctor that can do you any good.<\/p>\n<p>So maybe there is a legitimate reason why <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&#038;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FGuns-August-World-War-1914-1918%2Fdp%2FB000UL067Q%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Dvideogames%26qid%3D1188244641%26sr%3D1-1&#038;tag=flaofste-20&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325\">Guns of August<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=flaofste-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/><\/em> has an epilepsy warning.<\/p>\n<p>It seems like a very unlikely game to cause seizures, though. Especially since the warning cites &#8220;strong, flashing lights&#8221; as a trigger. <em>Guns of August<\/em> has very few flashing anythings.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve only just gotten around to trying it out, but it looks like this is &#8220;read the manual first&#8221; game. I&#8217;ve been staring at the UI for a while completely unsure of what I am supposed to be doing. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamesquad.com\/index.php?option=com_articles&#038;id=8&#038;aid=164\">It&#8217;s been getting good buzz<\/a> and it does fit that World War I gap in my strategy gaming diet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not a doctor. Or at least not the kind of doctor that can do you any good. So maybe there is a legitimate reason why Guns of August has an epilepsy warning. It seems like a very unlikely game to cause seizures, though. Especially since the warning cites &#8220;strong, flashing lights&#8221; as a trigger. [&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":[78,99],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-c3","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747"}],"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=747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}