{"id":18413,"date":"2014-01-09T14:29:50","date_gmt":"2014-01-09T14:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/i-think-my-favourite-aspect-of-it-though-is-that\/"},"modified":"2014-01-09T14:29:50","modified_gmt":"2014-01-09T14:29:50","slug":"i-think-my-favourite-aspect-of-it-though-is-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/i-think-my-favourite-aspect-of-it-though-is-that\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I think my favourite aspect of it, though, is that at times, watching the bots play together is a little like magic. The first time I saw them talk to each other, cover each other whilst reloading, help each other up after a Boomer attacked, I felt a little (only a little, mind) like a proud father. They\u2019re dumb as a sack of hammers, but they look convincing, and that was the real goal. It\u2019s fun to watch them fight the horde amidst all my other friends on Twitter.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/infovore.org\/archives\/2008\/12\/29\/twit-4-dead\/\">Infovore\u00a0\u00bb Twit 4 Dead: more silly nonsense with Twitter bots.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Digging up some old work by Tom after encountering a talk on Left 4 Dead\u2019s AI.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/tumblr.leapfrog.nl\/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">karsalfrink<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think my favourite aspect of it, though, is that at times, watching the bots play together is a little like magic. The first time I saw them talk to each other, cover each other whilst reloading, help each other up after a Boomer attacked, I felt a little (only a little, mind) like a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-4MZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}