{"id":30,"date":"2008-06-01T22:33:14","date_gmt":"2008-06-01T22:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp\/?p=30"},"modified":"2008-06-01T22:33:14","modified_gmt":"2008-06-01T22:33:14","slug":"video_games_are_for_faggots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/2008\/06\/video_games_are_for_faggots\/","title":{"rendered":"Video Games Are for Faggots"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"justify\">by guest blogger <a href=\"http:\/\/www.automaticheartbreak.com\/\">Corey Dargel<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"LibertyNYC.gif\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/LibertyNYC.gif\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" height=\"313\" width=\"500\" \/><\/span>A couple of friends of mine did voice-over work for <i>Grand Theft Auto IV<\/i>, so I&#8217;ve been playing it quite a bit lately.&nbsp; Apparently, they played very minor characters which means that in order to find them I&#8217;ll probably have to explore every nook and cranny of Liberty City.<\/p>\n<p>In my most recent round of gaming, I managed to chase down and murder two drug dealers while Terry Riley&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jVKzpkueTIQ\">A Rainbow in Curved Air<\/a>&#8221; was playing on the radio station in the car I stole.&nbsp; Liberty City has several different internet caf\u00c3\u00a9s where I can check my email and explore the internets.&nbsp; The internet caf\u00c3\u00a9s tend to play music by Philip Glass.<\/p>\n<p>Alas, Niko (the main character) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mtv.com\/news\/articles\/1586708\/20080501\/id_0.jhtml\">has no mp3-player<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/matthewj\/sets\/72157604988911230\/\">Here&#8217;s a fun page<\/a> where you can look at photographs of New York City and compare them to scenes from the game.&nbsp; Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/tweeg.net\/bio.html\">Jim<\/a> for pointing it out to me.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by guest blogger Corey Dargel A couple of friends of mine did voice-over work for Grand Theft Auto IV, so I&#8217;ve been playing it quite a bit lately.&nbsp; Apparently, they played very minor characters which means that in order to find them I&#8217;ll probably have to explore every nook and cranny of Liberty City. In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-30","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}