{"id":4336,"date":"2018-07-30T07:11:03","date_gmt":"2018-07-30T07:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/?p=4336"},"modified":"2018-07-30T07:17:10","modified_gmt":"2018-07-30T07:17:10","slug":"re-inventing-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/?p=4336","title":{"rendered":"Re-inventing yourself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The serious business of Gaming has not gone unnoticed by the global powerhouses like Microsoft.\u00a0 Gaming is one of the six massive investment areas that the tech giant is focusing on and it makes me laugh when individuals jab at my lifelong indulgence on this \u201cnot so niche\u201d area of computing.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4335\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4335\" style=\"width: 770px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4335\" src=\"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/sixcoreareasmicrosoft.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"770\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/sixcoreareasmicrosoft.jpg 770w, https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/sixcoreareasmicrosoft-300x154.jpg 300w, https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/sixcoreareasmicrosoft-768x395.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4335\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Microsoft<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In the meantime, this weekend I took some time to level up my 3<sup>rd<\/sup> character in readiness for the next Global Event in The Division. It\u2019s always fun starting from scratch and it gives me a good excuse to opt-out of real life.\u00a0 I was joined by a few friends along the way and avoided toxic or youth gamers.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4333\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4333\" style=\"width: 525px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Tom-Clancys-The-Division&#x2122;_20180730065544.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4333 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Tom-Clancys-The-Division&#x2122;_20180730065544-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4333\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tom Clancy&#8217;s The Division &#8211; Ready for the Global Event<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In a way, I guess we re-invent ourselves in real life to suit the situation and our personal goals all the time.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The serious business of Gaming has not gone unnoticed by the global powerhouses like Microsoft.\u00a0 Gaming is one of the six massive investment areas that the tech giant is focusing on and it makes me laugh when individuals jab at my lifelong indulgence on this \u201cnot so niche\u201d area of computing. In the meantime, this &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/?p=4336\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Re-inventing yourself&#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":[14,60],"tags":[123,124,131],"class_list":["post-4336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming","category-manhood","tag-adept","tag-balanced","tag-disciplined"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4336","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=4336"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4342,"href":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4336\/revisions\/4342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}