{"id":988,"date":"2008-07-06T14:02:41","date_gmt":"2008-07-06T18:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2008\/07\/06\/its-not-just-a-game\/"},"modified":"2008-07-06T14:02:41","modified_gmt":"2008-07-06T18:02:41","slug":"its-not-just-a-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2008\/07\/06\/its-not-just-a-game\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Not &#8220;Just a Game&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t usually read Kotaku anymore, just scan the headlines that <a href=\"http:\/\/evotab.com\">Evotab<\/a> puts out. And most of the time, I don&#8217;t bother clicking.<\/p>\n<p>So I missed <a href=\"http:\/\/kotaku.com\/5018822\/industry-apologetics-its-not-just-a-game\">Leigh Alexander&#8217;s June 23rd essay<\/a> about how saying that something is &#8220;just a game&#8221; as a response to social or political criticism is a cop out that does more harm to the pastime than good. It stifles debate and reduces games to just what their detractors claim they are &#8211; ephemera with no more social meaning or value than a doodle.<\/p>\n<p>Well worth a read, and I may have to start reading Kotaku again. And thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/rockpapershotgun.com\">RPS<\/a> for pointing it out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t usually read Kotaku anymore, just scan the headlines that Evotab puts out. And most of the time, I don&#8217;t bother clicking. So I missed Leigh Alexander&#8217;s June 23rd essay about how saying that something is &#8220;just a game&#8221; as a response to social or political criticism is a cop out that does more [&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":[14],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-fW","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988"}],"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=988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}