{"id":2158,"date":"2014-02-27T09:16:05","date_gmt":"2014-02-27T09:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2014\/02\/27\/when-we-ask-ourselves-whether-the-xbox-one-or-ps4\/"},"modified":"2015-01-04T17:06:51","modified_gmt":"2015-01-04T16:06:51","slug":"when-we-ask-ourselves-whether-the-xbox-one-or-ps4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2014\/02\/27\/when-we-ask-ourselves-whether-the-xbox-one-or-ps4\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>When we ask ourselves whether the Xbox One or PS4 version of Call of Duty is better, we\u2019re choosing not to ask ourselves why we\u2019re even still playing a game like Call of Duty long after the series stopped trying to be culturally or politically relevant. When we focus on the amount of pixels that are being used to render Lara Croft, we overlook the implicit creepiness of the game industry\u2019s androcentric obsession with creating such an \u201cobsessively detailed\u201d version of someone like Lara Croft in the first place. And if we continue to nitpick over just how \u201cobsessively detailed\u201d this young woman\u2019s virtual body is, we forget that the real controversy of the new Tomb Raider came from its uncomfortable participation in rape culture. To borrow a quote from Evgeny Morozov, work like this refuses \u201cto evaluate solutions to problems based on criteria other than efficiency.\u201d<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"attribution\"><a href=\"http:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/blog\/resolutiongate-video-games-mainstream-respect\">Obsessions Like \u201cResolutionGate\u201d Are Why Video Games Don\u2019t Get Enough Respect in Pop Culture | Motherboard<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we ask ourselves whether the Xbox One or PS4 version of Call of Duty is better, we\u2019re choosing not to ask ourselves why we\u2019re even still playing a game like Call of Duty long after the series stopped trying to be culturally or politically relevant. When we focus on the amount of pixels that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2014\/02\/27\/when-we-ask-ourselves-whether-the-xbox-one-or-ps4\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_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_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[983],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-tumblr","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2494,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2158\/revisions\/2494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}