{"id":32074,"date":"2015-04-19T21:06:04","date_gmt":"2015-04-19T21:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/unfortunately-my-friend-is-not-alone-in-his\/"},"modified":"2015-04-19T21:06:04","modified_gmt":"2015-04-19T21:06:04","slug":"unfortunately-my-friend-is-not-alone-in-his","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/unfortunately-my-friend-is-not-alone-in-his\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Unfortunately, my friend is not alone in his thinking, and since the recession, a serious gaming hobby has become less and less of a financial possibility for most. The necessity for an internet connection is but one of many reasons why videogaming on a \u201chardcore\u201d level is a hobby meant solely for the middle and upper classes. Consoles also have a high up-front cost, as do new releases of videogames. Poorer gamers hear about the release of the PS4 and Xbox One this coming November and rather than excitedly place their pre-order, await the ability to finally upgrade to a PS3 or Xbox 360 at reduced cost. The bargain bin\u2014be it on Amazon, eBay or in physical form at Gamestop\u2014is the poor gamer\u2019s friend, along with Gamefly, which is a mailing service for games.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pastemagazine.com\/articles\/2013\/09\/hyper-mode-the-costs-of-being-a-real-gamer.html\">Hyper Mode: The Real Costs of Being A &ldquo;Real&rdquo; Gamer :: Games :: Features :: Paste<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unfortunately, my friend is not alone in his thinking, and since the recession, a serious gaming hobby has become less and less of a financial possibility for most. The necessity for an internet connection is but one of many reasons why videogaming on a \u201chardcore\u201d level is a hobby meant solely for the middle and [&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":[],"tags":[1539],"class_list":["post-32074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","tag-emergent-digital-practices","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-8lk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32074","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=32074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}