{"id":7352,"date":"2023-01-21T16:34:36","date_gmt":"2023-01-22T00:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/?p=7352"},"modified":"2023-01-27T12:30:53","modified_gmt":"2023-01-27T20:30:53","slug":"well-that-was-a-nice-refreshing-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/archives\/7352","title":{"rendered":"Well that was a nice refreshing break"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK, it&#8217;s been a solid two months since my last post. That happens. I&#8217;ve been blogging since 2007, but not steadily; there have been entire years when I&#8217;ve made barely any posts at all. Sometimes I&#8217;m just not in the mood, and one of the nice things about this blog, from my perspective, is that I&#8217;m not under any real obligation to do it. But the decline of Twitter has led some to try to create a new golden age of blogging, and I feel like this means I should at least try to get back into it.<\/p>\n<p>We left off <em>Wizardry V<\/em> just as I was beginning to explore the fifth dungeon level &#8212; something I had done just enough to be intimidated by its size and complexity. A two-month hiatus is a pretty clear indication that my desire to make maps, which was the primary motivation I had for pulling out the <em>Wizardry<\/em> series in the first place, has been sated for the moment. I do intend to get back to it sooner than later, before the state information completely leaves my brain, but first, I have an outstanding request (from several months ago) to finally finish <em>Deus Ex<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>(I had some notion that I was going to write about the games I bought in the 2022 holiday sales, but at this point it&#8217;s pretty clear that&#8217;s not happening. Maybe I&#8217;ll drop a post about <em>Loop Hero<\/em> when I&#8217;ve solidified my thoughts about it.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, it&#8217;s been a solid two months since my last post. That happens. I&#8217;ve been blogging since 2007, but not steadily; there have been entire years when I&#8217;ve made barely any posts at all. Sometimes I&#8217;m just not in the mood, and one of the nice things about this blog, from my perspective, is that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7352","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=7352"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7362,"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7352\/revisions\/7362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}