{"id":165,"date":"2012-03-01T15:40:37","date_gmt":"2012-03-01T14:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/bientotlete\/blog\/?p=165"},"modified":"2012-03-02T12:17:44","modified_gmt":"2012-03-02T11:17:44","slug":"elitist-crap-in-the-age-of-following-and-liking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/bientotlete\/blog\/elitist-crap-in-the-age-of-following-and-liking\/","title":{"rendered":"Elitist Crap in the Age of Following and Liking."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes it feels strange to be working on something that I doubt will find a large audience. It feels wasteful to be spending so much energy on something only a small group will appreciate. Not to mention self-indulgent, self-important.<\/p>\n<p>There seems to be a correlation between popularity and convention. The more popular something is, the more conventional it turns out to be. I&#8217;m not opposed to many conventions. I quite enjoy them, <em>like everybody else<\/em>. But creatively I get impatient with building things that have already been built before, and much better than I ever could.<\/p>\n<p>Some of <a href=\"http:\/\/Tale-of-Tales.com\">our games<\/a> are more popular than others. The ones that sit more comfortably with the conventions of the medium. <em>Bient\u00f4t l&#8217;\u00e9t\u00e9<\/em> will not be one if those.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes I wonder what the point is of making something that only myself and a handful of people will enjoy.<\/p>\n<p>I guess such things contribute to diversity. And I do find diversity important. Especially now, in a time of Following and Liking, when we&#8217;ve all become numbers to each other. Maybe <em>Bient\u00f4t l&#8217;\u00e9t\u00e9<\/em>, simply by existing -even if not many play it-, can function as a reminder of being human. Which is not necessarily something lofty, something grand. But it is more than being a number.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes it feels strange to be working on something that I doubt will find a large audience. It feels wasteful to be spending so much energy on something only a small group will appreciate. Not to mention self-indulgent, self-important. There seems to be a correlation between popularity and convention. The more popular something is, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/bientotlete\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/bientotlete\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/bientotlete\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/bientotlete\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/bientotlete\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/bientotlete\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":199,"href":"https:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/bientotlete\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions\/199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/bientotlete\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/bientotlete\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/bientotlete\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}