{"id":10397,"date":"2014-05-13T06:47:46","date_gmt":"2014-05-13T06:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/05\/13\/skinnydefenselessheroism-iamthefirechild-24\/"},"modified":"2014-05-13T06:47:46","modified_gmt":"2014-05-13T06:47:46","slug":"skinnydefenselessheroism-iamthefirechild-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/05\/13\/skinnydefenselessheroism-iamthefirechild-24\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

skinnydefenselessheroism<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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iamthefirechild<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Summer sighs nostalgically. \u201cI admit it, I\u2019m shallow \u2014 my other main objection to WoW is that I don\u2019t like the way it looks. It\u2019s not pretty enough.\u201d She laughs at herself. \u201cBut then, my first was City of Heroes, and there was so much about it that\u2019s different than the standard, from the teaming to the complete detachment of appearance from stats.\u201d She scratches Helios\u2019 head and goes on, \u201cMost of the games where accessibility is a problem don\u2019t last long out of beta \u2014 though there\u2019s always Final Fantasy XIV, where they actually scrapped most of the game and started over. But, you know, the thing about the builds and theorycrafting applies to Rift, too, and they\u2019re doing pretty good. Even if they did have to put in autobuilds for stupid people.\u201d It\u2019s obvious she doesn\u2019t think much of players who aren\u2019t into at least some theorycrafting.<\/p>\n

“Theoretically I get the concept about not being able to appear outside your armour type, but it \/still\/ annoys me. The only point in the game where it makes that much difference is PvP, and honestly PvPers who are that anal can suck it. I hate that kind of player. So what difference does it make, in a world-setting with magic, if you make your plate look like leather? Or hell, your mage robe look like plate mail?”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Something in Stiles\u2019 attitude prickles, a little, and his shoulders hunch, spine straightening. They\u2019re almost to the clinic already, but that doesn\u2019t stop him from giving Summer a few glances, sharper in a mild way, like cheddar that\u2019s almost to medium. \u201cHey<\/em>. No. Sometimes it isn\u2019t about stupid. Sometimes it\u2019s about\u2026time, or dedication, or, I don\u2019t know,\u00a0not wanting to have to take a stupid\u00a0Adderall<\/em> to play a\u00a0video game<\/em>, it\u2019s just a\u00a0game<\/em>.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

The vague insult in his attitude fades a little, and he goes back to his normal hunched stance, peering at a light as it goes yellow and he starts to slow for it. \u201cI can\u2019t really get that engaged. My stuff looks like my stuff, it\u2019s not\u2014I mean when I am literally running for my actual life in the woods four days a week I guess my priorities shifted.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Distracted, Summer asks, quietly, “Is it really that bad? I had thought things were getting better … is there any way I can help?” She lifts a hand from around Helios’ middle to put it on Stiles’ knee, a little frown creasing her eyebrows. Helios hunches down into cat-loaf mode, picking up on the mood change. He’s really quite sensitive to that sort of thing, for a cat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

skinnydefenselessheroism: iamthefirechild: Summer sighs nostalgically. \u201cI admit it, I\u2019m shallow \u2014 my other main objection to WoW is that I don\u2019t like the way it looks. It\u2019s not pretty enough.\u201d She laughs at herself. \u201cBut then, my first was City of Heroes, and there was so much about it that\u2019s different than the standard, from … Continue reading <\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10,90,867,21],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10397"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}