{"id":106,"date":"2004-10-04T10:18:00","date_gmt":"2004-10-04T04:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/?p=106"},"modified":"2021-01-02T13:25:56","modified_gmt":"2021-01-02T07:55:56","slug":"the-games-people-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/2004\/10\/04\/the-games-people-play\/","title":{"rendered":"The games people Play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family:courier new;\">Monopoly, yup, the board game alright. One of my fave games ever, though there are some uncharitable people who call it a game that gets you bored. A couple of months back, i had bought the computer version of the game, and have been addicted since. this weekend, i finished the 15th and final level, so i thought i had to write a post on it, thereby slightly altering the &#8216;introspection&#8217; scheme of things to the &#8216;my diary&#8217; kind&#8230;but let me assure you that its only a temporary aberration, which shall be rectified in this post itself&#8230;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family:courier new;\">hmm, back to monopoly, for those who are regulars, the comp version is slightly different coz there are different levels, with each level having a different objective. also some things like having to own all locations of the same color before starting construction have been bypassed, which actually makes it much better. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family:courier new;\">as with all the games i play, i tried to find a link between me, the person, and the game i am playing&#8230;. monopoly allows you to completely destroy your opponent, using whatever cheap trick (read strategy) that you can think of, it allows you to toy with your opponent&#8217;s future and plans, and if you are real good at the game, put him in situations that will make him do exactly what you want him to do&#8230; all of which are things that get done in today&#8217;s world&#8230;.but fortunately or unfortunately not the things i could bring myself to do in my current &#8216;love and peace to all&#8217; avtar (which looks to be more and more a permanent state of affairs)..hehe&#8230;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family:courier new;\">and so, do i like games like monopoly, delta force, unreal etc coz they allow me to be someone i am not, manifest myself in a form that i cannot be &#8216;really&#8217;&#8230; and so again, is it possible for all of us to find our own games, take out the rage , frustration, deviousness etc on the game, so that we can stop playing games on other people??<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family:courier new;\">until next time, keep playing<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monopoly, yup, the board game alright. One of my fave games ever, though there are some uncharitable people who call it a game that gets you bored. A couple of months back, i had bought the computer version of the game, and have been addicted since. this weekend, i finished the 15th and final level, <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/2004\/10\/04\/the-games-people-play\/\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[412],"tags":[879,866],"class_list":["post-106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-games","tag-monopoly"],"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15184,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions\/15184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}