{"id":1564,"date":"2007-06-23T11:18:04","date_gmt":"2007-06-23T16:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/im-not-psychotic-but-i-play-a-psychotic-on-xbox\/"},"modified":"2007-06-23T11:18:04","modified_gmt":"2007-06-23T16:18:04","slug":"im-not-psychotic-but-i-play-a-psychotic-on-xbox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/im-not-psychotic-but-i-play-a-psychotic-on-xbox","title":{"rendered":"I’m not psychotic, but I play a psychotic on Xbox"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I used to play video games, I never got into survival horror or first person shooters. I was much more interested in turn-based strategy games on the computer (think Civ<\/a>) and whatever the best NBA game<\/a> was on a console. I also spent a bunch of time with my Sims<\/a>, because it was like being an interior decorator for very sophisticated Tamagotchi<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Which is to say, I’m not much of a gamer. But I did enjoy this article about psychopathology in video games<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I used to play video games, I never got into survival horror or first person shooters. I was much more interested in turn-based strategy games on the computer (think Civ) and whatever the best NBA game was on a console. I also spent a bunch of time with my Sims, because it was like … <\/p>\n

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