{"id":8866,"date":"2014-06-09T17:57:52","date_gmt":"2014-06-09T17:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/random-average.com\/index.php\/2014\/06\/why-i-havent-blogged-about-wildstar-yet-2\/"},"modified":"2014-09-20T00:24:32","modified_gmt":"2014-09-20T00:24:32","slug":"why-i-havent-blogged-about-wildstar-yet-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/2014\/06\/why-i-havent-blogged-about-wildstar-yet-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I haven't Blogged about Wildstar Yet"},"content":{"rendered":"

… as explained by Tycho at PA. (See link and disregard first paragraph, which is mostly about something else.)<\/p>\n

"When I try to write about Wildstar, I get stuck in a sort of spiral. I don’t really know where to start, because everything refers to some other part. It’s interlaced in a way that reinforces everything. […] So where do I even start? At what point of the spiral do I bring you in, and begin to chart it? Maybe I’ll figure it out if I log in and play this <\/i>instant<\/i><\/b>."<\/i><\/p>\n

Yeah. It's pretty much like that.<\/p>\n

For me, Wildstar has created one of those vanishingly rare situations where, if I have a question about how something works, I would rather log in and spend two hours playing with that thing to figure it out… than take twenty seconds looking up an answer.<\/p>\n

I'm still looking for the element or aspect of play – a class, a path, a trade, something – that I can point at and say "There. I do not enjoy that. I would not want to play a character with that as a core facet."<\/p>\n

I have eight 'main' characters because so far, I haven't found it.<\/p>\n

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… as explained by Tycho at PA. (See link and disregard first paragraph, which is mostly about something else.) "When<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[53,115],"class_list":["post-8866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musing","tag-gaming","tag-google"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8866"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8871,"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8866\/revisions\/8871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}