{"id":5485,"date":"2010-09-23T08:58:32","date_gmt":"2010-09-23T12:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=5485"},"modified":"2010-09-23T08:58:32","modified_gmt":"2010-09-23T12:58:32","slug":"meh-civ-v-isnt-that-addictive-is-it-really-2am","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/09\/23\/meh-civ-v-isnt-that-addictive-is-it-really-2am\/","title":{"rendered":"Meh. <em>Civ V<\/em> isn&#8217;t that addictive . . . is it really 2am?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I received my copy of <em>Civilization V<\/em> from Amazon.ca yesterday, but I was in town all evening, so I didn&#8217;t sit down to start installing it until 10:30. I figured I could install it, twiddle about with the new UI, and still get to sleep by midnight. I probably could have, except you can&#8217;t play <em>Civ V<\/em> without registering an account with <em>Steam<\/em>. After creating the account, you apparently have to download the whole game (no idea why, as there&#8217;s a DVD-ROM in the package), and because I was online at peak hour for west coast gamers, the connection speed left more than a bit to be desired.<\/p>\n<p>At around 11:30, the game finished downloading and I was able to actually start. &#8220;Oh,&#8221; I said to myself, &#8220;they&#8217;ve included tutorials. That&#8217;s nice of them. I guess that&#8217;ll cover the changed UI elements. I&#8217;ll try &#8217;em.&#8221; I spent the next two hours just playing the tutorial scenarios.<\/p>\n<p>It certainly does have the &#8220;gotta play just one more turn&#8221; thing down pat. It&#8217;ll do nicely to cover the gap until <em>Guild Wars 2<\/em> is released.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I received my copy of Civilization V from Amazon.ca yesterday, but I was in town all evening, so I didn&#8217;t sit down to start installing it until 10:30. I figured I could install it, twiddle about with the new UI, and still get to sleep by midnight. I probably could have, except you can&#8217;t play [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,73,15],"tags":[495,58],"class_list":["post-5485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming","category-randomness","category-technology","tag-civilization","tag-internet"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-1qt","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5485"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5487,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5485\/revisions\/5487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}