{"id":261,"date":"2005-02-22T19:21:46","date_gmt":"2005-02-23T00:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/wordpress\/in_which_someone_who_wishes_to_sue_a_video_game_ma"},"modified":"2005-02-22T19:21:46","modified_gmt":"2005-02-23T00:21:46","slug":"in_which_someone_who_wishes_to_sue_a_video_game_ma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/2005\/02\/in_which_someone_who_wishes_to_sue_a_video_game_ma.html","title":{"rendered":"In Which Someone Who Wishes to Sue a Video Game Manufacturer Has Something to Teach Us, After All"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>evan.goer: Sam?<\/p>\n<p>slamfu: yes?<\/p>\n<p>evan.goer: I have found a Stupid Warrior Forum Post that completely blows away all Stupid Rogue Forum Posts I have seen to date, added together.<\/p>\n<p>evan.goer: <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.worldofwarcraft.com\/thread.aspx?fn=wow-warrior&amp;t=109439&amp;p=1&#038;tmp=1#post109439\">http:\/\/forums.worldofwarcraft.com\/thread.aspx?fn=wow-warrior&#038;t=109439&#038;p=1&#038;tmp=1#post109439<\/a><\/p>\n<p>slamfu: bring it on, did I write it? \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>slamfu: Oh&#8230;the shrillness<\/p>\n<p>slamfu: I saw that post earlier and my lamedar warned me off.<\/p>\n<p>evan.goer: At first I thought we was kidding, but reading further in the thread, it looks like he is not.<\/p>\n<p>slamfu: it is to weep<\/p>\n<p>evan.goer: I cannot understand how all these people manage to survive in a complex, 21st century society.<\/p>\n<p>evan.goer: How do they pay their taxes?<\/p>\n<p>evan.goer: How do they balance their checkbooks?<\/p>\n<p>evan.goer: I am seriously confused on this point.<\/p>\n<p>slamfu: because its easy. Not like we gotta watch for lions after dark.&#160; Sometimes I miss those lions.<\/p>\n<p>evan.goer: Dude, okay, bringing back the lions would be bad for guys like me.<\/p>\n<p>evan.goer: I can run very fast, but I&#8217;m not THAT fast.<\/p>\n<p>slamfu: you&#8217;re faster than plenty :)&#160;and thats all that matters.<\/p>\n<p>evan.goer: Oh that is true, you don&#8217;t have to be faster than the *lion*!<\/p>\n<p>evan.goer: good point.<\/p>\n<p>slamfu: Yup!<\/p>\n<p>evan.goer: Well now I feel much better about Caveman Goer&#8217;s survival chances then.<\/p>\n<p>evan.goer: Also Caveman Goer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/2003\/Feb\/index.html#26\">is rarely sick<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>slamfu: You might not get to ever have sex, but at least you wont get eaten.<\/p>\n<p>evan.goer: yup, cannot carry the girl back to the cave, she is too heavy.<\/p>\n<p>slamfu: Nor could you defeat <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0425005\/\">The Rock<\/a> in single combat<\/p>\n<p>evan.goer: Well, sure I could. &#8220;Look over there, a lion&#8221; (throws rock)<\/p>\n<p>slamfu: The Rock would never fall for such foolishness.<\/p>\n<p>slamfu: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0001855\/\">Biff<\/a> maybe.<\/p>\n<p>evan.goer: Well not the Rock, he is a pretty smart guy. But Biff, yes.<\/p>\n<p>slamfu: In fact, The Rock is likely to have a few such moves himself.<\/p>\n<p>evan.goer: Well, then I am in trouble. My only hope<\/p>\n<p>evan.goer: is to use my political skills to convince Biff to fight The Rock while I run off with the girl.<\/p>\n<p>slamfu: is to build a stable society in which intelligence and discipline are held in high regard even if it means those who wish to sue over games are also allowed to live?<\/p>\n<p>evan.goer: YES!!! Even better!<\/p>\n<p>slamfu: or that.<\/p>\n<p>slamfu: well you&#8217;d better get to work, cuz only the second part of that exists now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>slamfu: &#8230; Not like we gotta watch for lions after dark.&#160; Sometimes I miss those lions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}