{"id":3797,"date":"2018-02-21T19:47:26","date_gmt":"2018-02-21T19:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/?p=3797"},"modified":"2018-02-21T19:49:20","modified_gmt":"2018-02-21T19:49:20","slug":"digital-blood-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/?p=3797","title":{"rendered":"Digital Blood sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In less than 3 days the Second Life effect has kicked in.\u00a0 Playing The Division as a 4 player squad commits you in a different way than any single player game ever could.\u00a0 Firstly, there is the session commitment where it would not good form to quit unexpectedly.\u00a0 Unfortunately, this is often the case if you pay attention to your physical life and a 2-3 hour session is broken in the middle of a mission so you can bath the cat WTF.<\/p>\n<h4>Skill level<\/h4>\n<p>A strong feeling of \u2018must do better\u2019 strokes your ego as you seek to improve your abilities and skills so you can bring a brilliant experience to the team.<\/p>\n<h4>Enough is enough<\/h4>\n<p>Knowing when to stop as a team without bad feelings is key as well as actually playing with like-minded people.\u00a0 Of course, this just relates to titles where you have full voice chat enabled.<\/p>\n<h4>Lost in the crowd<\/h4>\n<p>Titles like Star Wars BattleFront give you the mass experience when 20+ players can jump in and out of games without it really getting too personal.<\/p>\n<h4>Warping space and time<\/h4>\n<p>There\u2019s a real distortion of your physical world and you could easily miss important events like Weddings and such.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3788\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3788\" style=\"width: 525px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Fallout-4_20180216233611.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3788 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Fallout-4_20180216233611-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Fallout-4_20180216233611-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Fallout-4_20180216233611-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Fallout-4_20180216233611-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Fallout-4_20180216233611.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3788\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Heading back to my safehouses<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>For now, I&#8217;m deleting The Division to focus on more self-paced titles.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>Slept in the daytime, no meds today<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In less than 3 days the Second Life effect has kicked in.\u00a0 Playing The Division as a 4 player squad commits you in a different way than any single player game ever could.\u00a0 Firstly, there is the session commitment where it would not good form to quit unexpectedly.\u00a0 Unfortunately, this is often the case if &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/?p=3797\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Digital Blood sports&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,58],"tags":[91,92],"class_list":["post-3797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming","category-twitching","tag-fools-gold","tag-patience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3797"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3800,"href":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3797\/revisions\/3800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}