{"id":949,"date":"2008-11-11T01:20:09","date_gmt":"2008-11-11T06:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zibland.com\/blog\/?p=949"},"modified":"2008-11-11T01:20:09","modified_gmt":"2008-11-11T06:20:09","slug":"oh-the-irony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/?p=949","title":{"rendered":"Oh, the Irony&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, I am writing a third post about LittleBigPlanet. Yes, I promise I&#8217;ll keep it short. No, it&#8217;s not good news. I just unlocked a mini-game level in the game (no, I&#8217;m not quite finished yet, but I&#8217;m almost there) called &#8220;Spline Rider&#8221;. When I saw the title, I died a little on the inside, but when I loaded it up and found myself on a toboggan riding down an environment constructed completely of straight lines, I got angry.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the level is fun. It&#8217;s tricky to get the sled to balance right so you don&#8217;t flip over. <strong>However<\/strong>, this level is an exact replica of the extremely popular flash game, <a href=\"http:\/\/linerider.com\/en\/node\/365244\">Line Rider<\/a> (so popular, in fact, that it has been bastardized into a <a href=\"http:\/\/linerider.com\/\">soulless console game<\/a>). The hypocrisy is unbelievable, that Sony and MediaMolecule will remove fan-made levels that infringe on copyrights, while there is an official level obviously meant to emulate another commercial game.<\/p>\n<p>On the plus side, I checked the published levels again, and I realized that the Mirror&#8217;s Edge and Tetris levels have not been removed (yet), so please, <strong>go play them while you still can<\/strong>. I sincerely hope that the Tetris level is not removed, because it is pure genius, and really fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, I am writing a third post about LittleBigPlanet. Yes, I promise I&#8217;ll keep it short. No, it&#8217;s not good news. I just unlocked a mini-game level in the game (no, I&#8217;m not quite finished yet, but I&#8217;m almost there) called &#8220;Spline Rider&#8221;. When I saw the title, I died a little on the inside, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[48,34,5,8],"class_list":["post-949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-in-general","tag-life-in-general","tag-ps3","tag-rants","tag-video-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}