{"id":2400,"date":"2012-08-06T05:33:36","date_gmt":"2012-08-06T12:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/?p=2400"},"modified":"2012-08-06T11:02:34","modified_gmt":"2012-08-06T18:02:34","slug":"reasons-for-silence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/archives\/2400","title":{"rendered":"Reasons for Silence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, I&#8217;ve fallen silent again. My <a href=\"\/stack\/archives\/2397\">last post<\/a>, on the ending of <em>Advent Rising<\/em>, was a week ago, and it was about a week late &#8212; I had actually finished the game sometime the previous weekend. In truth, my attention has been occupied lately with first looking for a new place to live, then arranging to move, and most recently with packing. I&#8217;ve been playing various games all the while, of course &#8212; this is the first Steam Summer Sale I&#8217;ve been through without the strictures of the <a href=\"\/stack\/the-oath\">Oath<\/a>, so I predictably splurged &#8212; but they haven&#8217;t been in <a href=\"\/stack\/archives\/2360\">alphabetical order<\/a>, so I haven&#8217;t been posting about them.<\/p>\n<p>But that&#8217;s too prosaic. So let&#8217;s say instead that the last two weeks have been dedicated to the secret, forbidden letter between A and B. Do you doubt there is such a thing? I say the gap between First and Rest, like that between unity and plurality, is too great to simply pass over without something occult lurking unobserved in the interstice. A game starting with this letter-that-is-not-a-letter would be subtle enough that one wouldn&#8217;t necessarily even notice that one was playing it. And naturally one could not post about it afterward, because how would you even type its title? It starts with a letter whose Unicode code point is at best fractional, and quite likely something exotic out of the fever-dreams of <a href=\"http:\/\/mathworld.wolfram.com\/SurrealNumber.html\">John Conway<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I&#8217;ll be moving on to B soon. But first, I think I have another post about an A game coming on, similar to <a href=\"\/stack\/archives\/2384\">how I proceeded after <em>80 Days<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, I&#8217;ve fallen silent again. My last post, on the ending of Advent Rising, was a week ago, and it was about a week late &#8212; I had actually finished the game sometime the previous weekend. In truth, my attention has been occupied lately with first looking for a new place to live, then arranging [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2400"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2403,"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2400\/revisions\/2403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}