{"id":3359,"date":"2007-03-07T20:29:53","date_gmt":"2007-03-08T03:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/?p=3359"},"modified":"2007-03-07T20:29:53","modified_gmt":"2007-03-08T03:29:53","slug":"avoid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/2007\/03\/07\/avoid\/","title":{"rendered":"AVOID"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you see this, walk briskly in the opposite direction:<\/p>\n<div align='center'><a href='http:\/\/popcap.com\/launchpage.php?theGame=peggle&#038;installtag=Peggle_header'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/182\/415221418_f70b536827.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Peggle\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>A friend of mine recently got a job at <a href='http:\/\/popcap.com\/'>PopCap<\/a>.   About a week ago she wrote to tell me that they had released a new game called <a href='http:\/\/popcap.com\/launchpage.php?theGame=peggle&#038;installtag=Peggle_header'>Peggle<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve played a few PopCap titles in the past, but only the demos&#8211;I&#8217;m a notorious skinflint when it comes to shelling out cash for computer games.  Still, I wanted to support my friend in her new endeavor, so I bought this one.<\/p>\n<p>DO NOT DO THIS!!  This game is to free time what whales are to krill.  Even now, as I type this, I am trying to resist the urge to go play a few rounds (and my resolve has already faltered a few times since I wrote the first paragraph).<\/p>\n<p>If this game were half as addictive, I would urge you to buy a copy;  as it stands, I&#8217;m afraid I cannot, in good conscience, recommend Peggle to anyone who has a spouse, a child, a friend, a job, or reservations about wearing astronaut diapers to avoid ever having to leave the PC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you see this, walk briskly in the opposite direction: A friend of mine recently got a job at PopCap. About a week ago she wrote to tell me that they had released a new game called Peggle. I&#8217;ve played a few PopCap titles in the past, but only the demos&#8211;I&#8217;m a notorious skinflint when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}