{"id":192,"date":"2003-01-29T04:28:44","date_gmt":"2003-01-29T04:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sch1auh0s7.site.nfoservers.com\/wp_lew1slau\/?p=192"},"modified":"2022-02-22T04:44:31","modified_gmt":"2022-02-22T04:44:31","slug":"game-console-madness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/2003\/01\/29\/game-console-madness\/","title":{"rendered":"Game Console Madness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"391\" height=\"328\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lewislau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/image.png 391w, https:\/\/lewislau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/image-300x252.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 391px) 100vw, 391px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I realized that lately I am extremely addicted to my PS2. I don&#8217;t even know why I can sit in front of my TV with the controller, and play without thinking&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then I figured it out &#8211; I play a mindless game just to escape the stress and mindless working that I have been doing for the longest time; playing a driving game where I wander around a city with no goal is the EXACT OPPOSITE of what I do every day &#8211; task after task, project after project, trip after trip. I need Mario Bros just so that I am not Lewis, even if it was just for a short hour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking of Mario Bros&#8230; for those who have been somehow linked to a game console or two (or like me, always having one around me since 1983, when my uncle brought home an actual Pac Man coin-op into our living room!), this&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spriters-resource.com\/nes\/supermariobros\/\">link&nbsp;<\/a>is for you &#8211; your own downloadable Mario Bros sprites!!! Somehow these simple characters bring a smile to my face.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The simple pleasures in life, when compared to the complicated issues in my otherwise mirror world, a.k.a. work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I realized that lately I am extremely addicted to my PS2. I don&#8217;t even know why I can sit in front of my TV with the controller, and play without thinking&#8230; Then I figured it out &#8211; I play a mindless game just to escape the stress and mindless working that I have been doing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","wpcat-1-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/image.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":228,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions\/228"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}