{"id":334,"date":"2008-03-15T22:32:43","date_gmt":"2008-03-15T20:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/?p=955"},"modified":"2008-03-15T22:32:43","modified_gmt":"2008-03-15T20:32:43","slug":"arg-the-value-of-reviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/arg-the-value-of-reviews\/","title":{"rendered":"ARG! The value of reviews."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve made four attempts at learning Esperanto, but lacking any good reason to do so I&#8217;ve always given it up after a few days. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelostring.com\/index.htm\">The Lost Ring<\/a> might be the motivation that I need to pick it up again. The Lost Ring is an <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alternate_reality_gam\">Alternative Reality Game<\/a> just unveiled, and it&#8217;s the task of all players to uncover the lost event of the Olympic Games.<\/p>\n<p>Lost Ring is a worldwide ARG, and it looks to be really interesting. There are a bunch of blogs and wikis set up already, with translators standing at the ready to assist the playing community &#8211; go check it out: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelostring.com\/index.htm\">thelostring.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>ARGs have a tremendous potential; they can be used to solve actual problems, be purely entertaining or used as promotional tools for companies (these are the most common, since it takes a lot of money and resources to pull this crap together) and the more we blend everyday reality with a fable or mystery, the better. Warping your mind can be a good thing, although those with paranoid tendencies might want to take a pill before engaging &#8211; pretty soon you&#8217;ll suspect everyone of being part of the game and wear tinfoil clothing.<\/p>\n<p><img src='https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/blog_uploads\/2008\/03\/sparta_review.gif' alt='Sparta review' \/><\/p>\n<p>I saw a trailer for the movie Meet the Spartans, a pastiche of <em>300<\/em>, and started downloading a screener of it. I&#8217;ve seen a few awful movies lately (I would advise you to stay away from the latest Rambo) and thought I&#8217;d hit www.rottentomatoes.com for some info. The movie had a rating of <em>3%<\/em>. No-one had anything good to say about it, and I subsequently canceled the download. The comments are a hoot to read though: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/m\/meet_the_spartans\/\">Rotten Tomatoe review<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve made four attempts at learning Esperanto, but lacking any good reason to do so I&#8217;ve always given it up after a few days. The Lost Ring might be the motivation that I need to pick it up again. The Lost Ring is an Alternative Reality Game just unveiled, and it&#8217;s the task of all &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/arg-the-value-of-reviews\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">ARG! The value of reviews.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doodles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}