{"id":6946,"date":"2004-11-24T08:21:23","date_gmt":"2004-11-24T15:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2004\/11\/24\/playing-games-with-my-head.html"},"modified":"2004-11-24T08:21:23","modified_gmt":"2004-11-24T15:21:23","slug":"playing_games_w","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/11\/24\/playing_games_w.html","title":{"rendered":"Playing games with my head"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A set of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.selfesteemgames.mcgill.ca\/research\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">online Flash games from McGill U.<\/a> that are designed to promote self-esteem, largely by rewarding you for noticing folks smiling approvingly at you, or for responding to self-referential info (your name, your birthdate).  Interesting, and mildly entertaining, though I don&#8217;t know that I feel any better about myself after having played them.  <\/p>\n<p>(Katherine might like the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.selfesteemgames.mcgill.ca\/games\/chigame.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Grow Your Chi<\/a> one).<\/p>\n<p><small>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/j-walkblog.com\/blog\/index\/P17720\/\" target=\"_blank\">J-Walk<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A set of online Flash games from McGill U. that are designed to promote self-esteem, largely by rewarding you for noticing folks smiling approvingly at you, or for responding to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[38,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-drink","category-science"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":133479,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/05\/15\/grinding.html","url_meta":{"origin":6946,"position":0},"title":"Grinding","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 15-May-17 7:02am","format":false,"excerpt":"So true.There are games I've played (stop playing) where grinding (repetitive busywork necessary to advance a character but in place to slow progress and therefore slow advancement and consumption of expensive writing resources) was so bad that I just dropped it. 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