{"id":5332,"date":"2015-08-19T16:16:53","date_gmt":"2015-08-19T21:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=5332"},"modified":"2015-08-19T16:18:14","modified_gmt":"2015-08-19T21:18:14","slug":"smash-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=5332","title":{"rendered":"Smash Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8qxVDOc-oV8\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The above video is about the competitive side of Super Smash Bros. I don&#8217;t really care for\u00a0said scene\u00a0myself, as I am a much more casual Smasher (I play with items <em>on<\/em> sometimes. Gasp!), but I thought that this video was fascinating.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s certainly worth a watch regardless of who you are. It&#8217;s very accessible, and does a very good job of explaining why people are so passionate about the game, and draws excellent parallels to traditional sports that can help people who don&#8217;t give a flying fig about video games understand.<\/p>\n<p>I love Smash, and I absolutely appreciate how complex and malleable it is, but I still mostly just like it because it lets me beat up Bowser as Shulk. Or because I can play as Lucina outside of a tactical strategy game. You know, stuff like that. I&#8217;ll never understand why people cling so desperately to Melee, but that doesn&#8217;t especially interest me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The above video is about the competitive side of Super Smash Bros. I don&#8217;t really care for\u00a0said scene\u00a0myself, as I am a much more casual Smasher (I play with items on sometimes. Gasp!), but I thought that this video was fascinating. It&#8217;s certainly worth a watch regardless of who you are. It&#8217;s very accessible, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=5332\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Smash Love<\/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":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5332","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=5332"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5334,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5332\/revisions\/5334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}