{"id":295,"date":"2026-07-30T04:57:54","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T04:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spooky.punchingrobots.com\/public\/?p=295"},"modified":"2026-07-30T04:57:54","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T04:57:54","slug":"line-go-up-unwinnable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spooky.punchingrobots.com\/public\/line-go-up-unwinnable\/","title":{"rendered":"Line Go Up (Unwinnable)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At some point in the distant human past, someone traded something they did not want for something they did. The person they traded with likely didn\u2019t want the thing they traded away as much as they wanted the thing they didn\u2019t have. This may have been the most colossal error humanity has made.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The ever excellent Unwinnable here with <a href=\"https:\/\/unwinnable.com\/2026\/07\/29\/line-go-up\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/unwinnable.com\/2026\/07\/29\/line-go-up\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a potted history of rot culture<\/a> and how it relates to videogames and unfortunately, just about everything else in the year of our Molyneux 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s prime \u201cknow your enemy\u201d stuff that lets nobody off the hook for the shitshow we all find ourselves in now but makes its <em>systemic<\/em> nature abundantly clear to all. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I suspect there\u2019ll be nothing new in it for quite a few people but it\u2019s going to be one of those pieces it\u2019ll be super handy to link to when I need to save myself some time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At some point in the distant human past, someone traded something they did not want for something they did. The person they traded with likely didn\u2019t want the thing they traded away as much as they wanted the thing they didn\u2019t have. This may have been the most colossal error humanity has made. The ever [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","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_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[21,26],"tags":[83,82],"class_list":["post-295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","category-videogames","tag-business","tag-unwinnable"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spooky.punchingrobots.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spooky.punchingrobots.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spooky.punchingrobots.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spooky.punchingrobots.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spooky.punchingrobots.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spooky.punchingrobots.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":296,"href":"https:\/\/spooky.punchingrobots.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions\/296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spooky.punchingrobots.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spooky.punchingrobots.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spooky.punchingrobots.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}