{"id":213,"date":"2007-04-04T11:48:52","date_gmt":"2007-04-04T11:48:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/random-average.com\/?p=213"},"modified":"2007-04-04T11:48:52","modified_gmt":"2007-04-04T11:48:52","slug":"tells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/2007\/04\/tells\/","title":{"rendered":"Tells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a title=\"random average: I totally stole this from Knife Fight\" href=\"http:\/\/random.average-bear.com\/archive\/009297.html\">this post<\/a>, I wrote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I don&#8217;t think I have too many &#8216;headspace&#8217; or &#8216;immersive&#8217; characters to begin with. Of those, it&#8217;s unusual for me to have one that&#8217;s notably opposite from myself &#8212; in the cases where that&#8217;s happened (and I can think of three) they reflected some strong negative emotion I was feeling toward the game itself.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That actually provides me with a very strong indicator that I can use to analyze myself when I&#8217;m making up a character for a game &#8212; if I&#8217;m making up someone who&#8217;s really a negative of myself, it would seem to indicate that I&#8217;m reflecting some negative thing in myself out on the paper, which in turn indicates that I&#8217;m feeling some kind of negative emotion toward the game in question, apparently subconsciously.<br \/>\nRecognizing that, I can stop and figure out what that is, and maybe do something about it.<br \/>\n(Granted, this is a hypothetical practice\/benefit at this point.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this post, I wrote: I don&#8217;t think I have too many &#8216;headspace&#8217; or &#8216;immersive&#8217; characters to begin with. Of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}