{"id":2797,"date":"2010-10-10T11:02:28","date_gmt":"2010-10-10T19:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=2797"},"modified":"2010-10-10T11:03:52","modified_gmt":"2010-10-10T19:03:52","slug":"chutes-to-gehenna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2010\/10\/10\/chutes-to-gehenna","title":{"rendered":"Chutes To Gehenna"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"chutes<\/a>I believe I have iden\u00adti\u00adfied my least favorite part of par\u00adent\u00ading: play\u00ading Chutes and Lad\u00adders<\/em>. My epiphany came about as I was play\u00ading the longest round that I\u2019ve ever seen. It was all chutes and no lad\u00adders. Play\u00ading was like watch\u00ading crabs in a sty\u00adro\u00adfoam cool\u00ader: as soon as one char\u00adac\u00adter was close to escap\u00ading it was sent tum\u00adbling back down to the bot\u00adtom.<\/p>\n

While that most recent round was par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar\u00adly tedious, I don\u2019t like the game even when it takes ten min\u00adutes because it\u2019s a game with no skill com\u00adpo\u00adnent what\u00adso\u00adev\u00ader. I will con\u00adfess to think\u00ading \u2014 often \u2014 that we could deter\u00admine vic\u00adto\u00adry by flip\u00adping a coin instead of through the inter\u00adminable process of mov\u00ading the game pieces in accor\u00addance with the dic\u00adtates of the spin\u00adner and the require\u00adments of the board. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s bad enough, but there is one more fac\u00adtor that evokes dread in my soul when asked to play. It is this: chil\u00addren young enough to tru\u00adly enjoy the game are usu\u00adal\u00adly unable to move their char\u00adac\u00adters prop\u00ader\u00adly, so I have to do it for them. This means I am play\u00ading the game against myself. A game I don\u2019t like. A game whose two-play\u00ader ver\u00adsion is log\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly indis\u00adtin\u00adguish\u00adable from a coin toss yet which has the poten\u00adtial to endure until the heat death of the uni\u00adverse. Even if I win, I lose. I lost as soon as I took the box down from the shelf.<\/p>\n

And yet I will play today and I know I will play again tomor\u00adrow. It\u2019s like a tor\u00adment from a Greek myth. Aaargh!<\/p>\n

My heart goes out to thor\u00adough\u00adgo\u00ading deter\u00admin\u00adists who nec\u00ades\u00adsar\u00adi\u00adly regard all of life as a com\u00adpli\u00adcat\u00aded ver\u00adsion of Chutes and Lad\u00adders. If that\u2019s you, I sug\u00adgest you arrange to be fat\u00aded not to think about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I believe I have iden\u00adti\u00adfied my least favorite part of par\u00adent\u00ading: play\u00ading Chutes and Lad\u00adders. My epiphany came about as I was play\u00ading the longest round that I\u2019ve ever seen. It was all chutes and no lad\u00adders. Play\u00ading was like watch\u00ading crabs in a sty\u00adro\u00adfoam cool\u00ader: as soon as one char\u00adac\u00adter was close to escap\u00ading \u2026 Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading \u201cChutes To Gehen\u00adna\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rants-opinions-and-general-contrariness"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-J7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2797"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2822,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2797\/revisions\/2822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}