{"id":2223,"date":"2014-01-09T09:55:12","date_gmt":"2014-01-09T09:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2014\/01\/09\/i-think-my-favourite-aspect-of-it-though-is-that\/"},"modified":"2015-01-04T17:06:55","modified_gmt":"2015-01-04T16:06:55","slug":"i-think-my-favourite-aspect-of-it-though-is-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2014\/01\/09\/i-think-my-favourite-aspect-of-it-though-is-that\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>I think my favourite aspect of it, though, is that at times, watching the bots play together is a little like magic. The first time I saw them talk to each other, cover each other whilst reloading, help each other up after a Boomer attacked, I felt a little (only a little, mind) like a proud father. They\u2019re dumb as a sack of hammers, but they look convincing, and that was the real goal. It\u2019s fun to watch them fight the horde amidst all my other friends on Twitter.<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"attribution\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/infovore.org\/archives\/2008\/12\/29\/twit-4-dead\/\">Infovore\u00a0\u00bb Twit 4 Dead: more silly nonsense with Twitter bots.<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p>Digging up some old work by Tom after encountering a talk on Left 4 Dead\u2019s AI.<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think my favourite aspect of it, though, is that at times, watching the bots play together is a little like magic. The first time I saw them talk to each other, cover each other whilst reloading, help each other up after a Boomer attacked, I felt a little (only a little, mind) like a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2014\/01\/09\/i-think-my-favourite-aspect-of-it-though-is-that\/\" 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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[983],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2223","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\/2223","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=2223"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2542,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2223\/revisions\/2542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}