{"id":1995,"date":"2007-04-01T23:59:18","date_gmt":"2007-04-02T04:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=1995"},"modified":"2012-03-28T14:58:44","modified_gmt":"2012-03-28T19:58:44","slug":"euphorea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=1995","title":{"rendered":"Euphorea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While it&#8217;s been fun arguing over consoles that have been obsolete for like ten years now (maybe next time we&#8217;ll go over which version of the Atari was the best), everything&#8217;s gotta come to a close eventually. Of course, like 97% of arguments, it was completely irrelevant because every point hinged entirely on opinion, and for the sake of this particular disagreement, opinions cannot be wrong, they can only conflict.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.torrentialequilibrium.net\/images\/ESRBE.png\" alt=\"\" align=\"right\" \/>One little note before I go though, is something that always gets on my nerves. Just because a game has an E rating and blood isn&#8217;t a consequence of every possible action, doesn&#8217;t mean it&#8217;s for children. If it&#8217;s got Teletubbies on the cover, yeah, maybe it is, but for the most part, that E is an accurate representation that <em>everyone<\/em> should be able to enjoy the game. If you think you can&#8217;t enjoy a game because it&#8217;s colourful and not overly violent, then <em>you<\/em> have some growing up to do. Taking a perfectly random example, Kingdom Hearts was not only rated E and stuffed with cute and colourful characters, but it also carried nearly every Disney licence seen in the past 70-odd years. Yet if you actually play the game rather than blowing it off at the sight of Mickey Mouse, you&#8217;ll see that it would take someone who&#8217;s at the very least around fifteen years old to truly appreciate the game. Its sequel was even deeper, and most of the things that make it a truly fantastic game would be completely lost on children.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t like to get riled up about silly things, but when people will deny the worth of something because it doesn&#8217;t feature anything that might spark some kind of controversy, it drives me bananas. In that way, I envy non-Americanized culture because they can appreciate things that aren&#8217;t drenched in violence. Don&#8217;t get me wrong, though. I loves me some violence (especially when zombies are involved), I just don&#8217;t believe it&#8217;s a requisite for quality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While it&#8217;s been fun arguing over consoles that have been obsolete for like ten years now (maybe next time we&#8217;ll go over which version of the Atari was the best), everything&#8217;s gotta come to a close eventually. Of course, like 97% of arguments, it was completely irrelevant because every point hinged entirely on opinion, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=1995\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Euphorea<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-m-for-mature","category-video-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1995"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1996,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1995\/revisions\/1996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}