{"id":978,"date":"2010-08-10T23:44:07","date_gmt":"2010-08-10T22:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/t-machine.org\/?p=978"},"modified":"2010-08-10T23:44:07","modified_gmt":"2010-08-10T22:44:07","slug":"the-escapist-talks-crap-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/2010\/08\/10\/the-escapist-talks-crap-again\/","title":{"rendered":"The Escapist talks crap &#8230; again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Typical Escapist. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/articles\/view\/issues\/issue_266\/7954-Videogame-Myths-Debunked\">The very first page of their article on &#8220;Videogame mths debunked&#8221; waxes eloquently (and contemptuously) about supposed &#8220;facts&#8221; without much apparent fact-checking<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And then the following pages go off on a personal journey of ignorance and attitude. Nuanced opinion, researched journalism, or even useful commentary &#8230; this is not.<\/p>\n<p>(The only scientificly valid studies I&#8217;ve seen for the brain-training game showed that it DOES have a positive effect. They also suggested that people who otherwise claimed to play it every day were apparently lieing, or blurring their memories of how often they played &#8230; which might explain the failures of some of the other &#8220;studies&#8221;, including the pop-science one that The Escapist bothers to cite)<\/p>\n<p>Apart from Zero Punctuation (a canny acquisition on the editors&#8217; part), TheEscapist seems to continue to be happy as mostly a waste of (internet) space. Sigh. I think EDGE has a lot to answer for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Typical Escapist. The very first page of their article on &#8220;Videogame mths debunked&#8221; waxes eloquently (and contemptuously) about supposed &#8220;facts&#8221; without much apparent fact-checking. And then the following pages go off on a personal journey of ignorance and attitude. Nuanced opinion, researched journalism, or even useful commentary &#8230; this is not. (The only scientificly valid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}