{"id":1060,"date":"2006-10-19T13:30:46","date_gmt":"2006-10-19T17:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=1060"},"modified":"2006-10-27T21:30:23","modified_gmt":"2006-10-28T01:30:23","slug":"lifes-missing-progress-bar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=1060","title":{"rendered":"Life&#8217;s Missing Progress Bar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via a <a href=\"http:\/\/terranova.blogs.com\/terra_nova\/2006\/10\/blurring_bounda.html\">post on Terra Nova (Link)<\/a> comes word of <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?s=Nick+Yee\">Nick Yee<\/a>&#8216;s relatively recent talk at Stanford titled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.parc.xerox.com\/cms\/get_article.php?id=569\">&#8220;The Blurring Boundaries of Play: Labor, Genocide, and Addiction&#8221; (Link to audio and video)<\/a>. It&#8217;s an excellent lecture and well worth the time to watch it. His point that many people play MMO&#8217;s because they like the structured environment might explain why so many people are turned off by an open-ended virtual world like <a href=\"http:\/\/secondlife.com\/\">Second Life<\/a>. I may not understand the mindset, but it sounds like an opportunity to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via a post on Terra Nova (Link) comes word of Nick Yee&#8216;s relatively recent talk at Stanford titled &#8220;The Blurring Boundaries of Play: Labor, Genocide, and Addiction&#8221; (Link to audio and video). It&#8217;s an excellent lecture and well worth the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=1060\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administrative"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}