{"id":287,"date":"2005-09-27T07:03:11","date_gmt":"2005-09-27T13:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp\/2005\/09\/a-few-snatched-hours\/"},"modified":"2005-09-27T07:03:11","modified_gmt":"2005-09-27T13:03:11","slug":"a-few-snatched-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/2005\/09\/a-few-snatched-hours.html","title":{"rendered":"A few snatched hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure my situation is directly analogous to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=4865321\">using video games for pain management<\/a>, but I was very happy to have a few minutes to grab in Paragon last night.<br \/>\nFirst, a brief SK for <strong>Amethyst Crown<\/strong> in Kings Row with a level 19 Ice Controller fighting Abominations and other mid-range Vahz.  Given how sketchy AC&#8217;s attack chain is (Hack.  Slice.  Punch.  Punch.  Punch.  Punch.) it was both alarming and gratifying to be thanked by him for contributing my &#8220;higher DPS.&#8221;<br \/>\nThen a quick adventure with <strong>Fazenda <\/strong>and <strong>Araware <\/strong>wherein we discovered that running at Rugged wasn&#8217;t all that bad, even if there was a distinct orange cast to all those Skulls &#8230;<br \/>\nFought a fire, briefly, just by the Steel Canyon Yellow Line.  Discovered (a) hey, those <s>Outcasts<\/s> <em>Hellions<\/em> try to keep you from it!  (b) unslotted Hover is sooooooo slooooooooooow, and (c) I dunno what happened, but no badge or award or anything.<br \/>\nOh, and (d) squirting Skulls in a later mission with your still-present fire extinguisher pack doesn&#8217;t really do anything to them.<br \/>\nNothing special, but needed fun nonetheless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure my situation is directly analogous to using video games for pain management, but I was very happy to have a few minutes to grab in Paragon last night. First, a brief SK for Amethyst Crown in Kings Row with a level 19 Ice Controller fighting Abominations and other mid-range Vahz. Given how &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/2005\/09\/a-few-snatched-hours.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A few snatched hours&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gameplay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}