{"id":1598,"date":"2005-12-09T09:36:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-09T15:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/?p=1598"},"modified":"2005-12-09T09:36:00","modified_gmt":"2005-12-09T15:36:00","slug":"principles-and-video-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/?p=1598","title":{"rendered":"Principles and video games"},"content":{"rendered":"

Okay, so Blizzard<\/a> makes kickass games. But in that wikipedia article, it also points out that they a) are owned by a giant conglomerate and b) actively snoop through your computer contents looking for signs of hacking software. They only look for that, they’re not transmitting anything from your computer but whether you have game hacking software loaded, but still… I wonder if ffxi does anything equally obnoxious. <\/p>\n

Of course, it’s an arms race. I’m sure the hackers realize that all they have to do is figure out what the process is sending when no bad juju is going on, and replicate that, while shutting down the snooper process. <\/p>\n

I wonder if there’s an open-source diablo clone to go with the open source Warcraft-esque<\/a> game. It’s not as good graphically, or I suspect in terms of game design, but it’d probably run better on my preferred operating systems anyway. I’d really like a gpl’ed mmorpg. They are out there<\/a>. Graphics are, of course, an issue. But I’m also not all that impressed with the game structures<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Okay, so Blizzard makes kickass games. But in that wikipedia article, it also points out that they a) are owned by a giant conglomerate and b) actively snoop through your computer contents looking for signs of hacking software. They only look for that, they’re not transmitting anything from your computer but whether you have game … Continue reading “Principles and video games”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}