{"id":960,"date":"2009-09-29T11:15:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-29T11:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=960"},"modified":"2009-09-29T11:15:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-29T11:15:00","slug":"bioshock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=960","title":{"rendered":"Bioshock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_h8lco0yxl-k\/SsHtOOR2U8I\/AAAAAAAAEMY\/pzFnf2oy7HY\/s1600-h\/bioshock-big-daddy.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_h8lco0yxl-k\/SsHtOOR2U8I\/AAAAAAAAEMY\/pzFnf2oy7HY\/s400\/bioshock-big-daddy.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/a><br \/>I bought a copy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bioshockgame.com\/enter.html\">this<\/a> from ebay a couple of months ago, and have now managed to finish it (twice). I&#8217;ve been really impressed with it, principally the way that the narrative functions within the game, the moral complexity that is possible, and the way in which it functions as a commentary on Ayn Rand and the implications of her philosophy. My imagination now has thoughts of Splicers and plasmids flitting through it unbidden&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>I hadn&#8217;t played a proper PC game for many years, so this &#8211; even though it is now two years old &#8211; really raised my eyebrows. Highly recommended, if you like this sort of thing.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I bought a copy of this from ebay a couple of months ago, and have now managed to finish it (twice). I&#8217;ve been really impressed with it, principally the way that the narrative functions within the game, the moral complexity &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=960\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[20,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-video-games"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s3npsc-bioshock","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}