{"id":58,"date":"2022-10-16T14:01:02","date_gmt":"2022-10-16T14:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lostwolfeslair.com\/TIP\/?p=58"},"modified":"2022-10-17T19:55:10","modified_gmt":"2022-10-17T19:55:10","slug":"the-rules-of-tip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lostwolfeslair.com\/TIP\/2022\/10\/16\/the-rules-of-tip\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rules Of TIP"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Let&#8217;s, very quickly discuss how TIP will work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Rules of Attribution:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Where possible, I will let you know where I found out about a given game<\/strong>. This will include an address that lists all the posts about it.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Rules of Play:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>I DON&#8217;T have to finish a game.<\/strong>  [but I&#8217;ll try my level best to do so.]<\/li><li><strong>I MIGHT have to consult spoilers.<\/strong> I expect that my audience for this blog will start [and likely remain] small. That&#8217;s at least some of what I do on the internet. As a result, as much as I&#8217;d like to have exchanges between me and you, I doubt it&#8217;ll happen at first [or at all] and so, to hedge my bets, I&#8217;m pretty sure I&#8217;m going to have to consult walkthroughs or guides of some persuasion [particularly if I play some adventure games, which I aim to do.]<\/li><li><strong>I WILL play ~6 hours of a game before abandoning it.<\/strong> I feel like 6 hours is a reasonable time frame for me to form an opinion on a game and to know whether or not I&#8217;m going to like it. I don&#8217;t aim to cover MMORPG&#8217;s [or MMO games in general], so the idea that IT GETS GOOD LATER likely doesn&#8217;t apply.<\/li><li><strong>I WILL be CURATING the list of games I play.<\/strong> Much as I appreciate &#8211; for example &#8211; The CRPG Addict&#8217;s slavish devotion to playing EVERY computer RPG, ever, he is made of sterner stuff than I am. Some games are just not in my ambit for various reasons [games that are dexterity tests, horror games that I am simply not into, etc] that there will be some disqualifying reason for me not playing those. So I will be a little choosy with what I do here. Some of this is selfish &#8211; I want it to remain fun for me, too. But some of it is just the nature of the beast, given who I am [and what I&#8217;m capable of and my tastes, in general.]<\/li><li><strong>I WILL NOT necessarily be playing the best version of a game.<\/strong> This is espeically true for some of the older games on this list, where computer technology varied wildly from platform to platform. Some of this is down to what I can get to work, but some of it is also down to ease of use. But also &#8211; and again &#8211; this is likely a little selfish, too. My experiences with computer gaming were mostly shaped around my time with an IBM PC, and as such, my nostalgia is tied to that system in particular.<\/li><li><strong>If I pick up a game, I WILL NOT be 100%&#8217;ing it.<\/strong> I do this for my own amusement with some games. But there&#8217;s only really one way to move this blog along and completing a game in that fashion is likely not it.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Rules of Completion:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Once completed, I WILL attempt to make an after-game post.<\/strong>  These will include my final thoughts and a rating, so that you can have some kind of shorthand by which to measure the game in question. I haven&#8217;t always been a fan of numbers &#8211; I don&#8217;t feel they tell the full story of a game &#8211; that can only be gleaned by reading the preceeding text, but I do recognize that brevity \/can\/ be the soul of wit. And if you just want my quick opinion, numbers will likely do the trick.<\/li><li><strong>I WILL likely talk about my experience in relation to the original blogger&#8217;s experience.<\/strong> Part of this journey is to look into games that other people found curious enough to talk about and then to reflect on their experience as well as mine. I&#8217;m sure that sometimes, that will line up quite well. Sometimes, it just won&#8217;t.<\/li><li><strong>I WILL be keeping a spreadsheet<\/strong> that you can look at with data about the game. Initially, that spreadsheet&#8217;s going to be pretty bare, but we&#8217;ll flesh it out as we go along.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The schedule:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Once this handful of setup posts is out of the way, my aim will be to release a blog post once every second day or so, thus:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Sunday, Monday, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Final Thoughts:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Please do be aware that I ENCOURAGE discussion of the rules on this page. If you find that something is in error, or you have a suggestion for a rule to add to the list, please do so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s, very quickly discuss how TIP will work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[37,38],"class_list":["post-58","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-business","tag-blog-business","tag-schedule"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lostwolfeslair.com\/TIP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lostwolfeslair.com\/TIP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lostwolfeslair.com\/TIP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lostwolfeslair.com\/TIP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lostwolfeslair.com\/TIP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lostwolfeslair.com\/TIP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66,"href":"https:\/\/lostwolfeslair.com\/TIP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions\/66"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lostwolfeslair.com\/TIP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lostwolfeslair.com\/TIP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lostwolfeslair.com\/TIP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}