{"id":285,"date":"2013-09-16T05:39:35","date_gmt":"2013-09-16T05:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gantercourses.net\/fall13engl214\/?p=285"},"modified":"2013-09-17T02:00:13","modified_gmt":"2013-09-17T02:00:13","slug":"285","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gantercourses.net\/fall13engl214\/2013\/09\/16\/285\/","title":{"rendered":"oh tell me more about your Italy trip, Trip"},"content":{"rendered":"

so, in the hour I had to play around with\u00a0Facade<\/em>, I tried out three strategies:<\/p>\n

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  1. Touch and provoke my hosts as frequently as possible.\u00a0<\/strong>Because when do I get to act on these sociopathic urges in real life?
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  2. Honestly try to invest serious effort with a tragically mismatched couple.\u00a0<\/strong>As other players may have pointed out, trying to steer conversation into a new direction is usually met with the kind of \u201cuhhs\u201d and \u201chehes\u201d that dissolve so many real life conversations(that much had a certain pang of truth to it..). \u00a0A common criticism seems to point out the lack of meaningful dialogue possible between the player and the hosts, but I guess a sneaky justification for the flat AI is this: Grace and Trip are simply not all that interested in what you have to say. You\u2019re boring. Good intentioned or not, both want to manipulate you into validating their view, and any material you throw out of your keyboard mouth that doesn\u2019t support one or the other in a direct way will be smoothly ignored so they can keep the spotlight and spend more time protecting their reputations. And hey, that\u2019s cool too. So as in life, I passively sat back and watched these two pathetics \u201ctalk it out\u201d.\u00a0I\u2019ll point out that although my sympathy for these computer people was low (Trip\u00a0definitely <\/em>hits\u00a0his wife), Grace brought enough civility into the interactions to make me at least want to stick around to see how this playthrough ends (i.e. me getting ejected from apartment, again).<\/li>\n
  3. Taking a less ambitious approach.\u00a0<\/strong>This third time I decided to experiment by opening my trap as infrequently as possible, and only to coax out more dialogue layers from my hosts. Although using simple command phrases like \u201cDRINK\u201d and \u201cWHY?\u201d made me feel more primate than engaging house guest, it at least got Trace (that\u2019s their special couples name) talking a bit more with the addition of attempted neutrality on my part.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I was Facade-ing at a friend\u2019s place because I couldn\u2019t install it properly on my own computer, so unfortunately I could only play so long before his girlfriend came over and I was asked to leave.<\/p>\n

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    so, in the hour I had to play around with\u00a0Facade, I tried out three strategies: Touch and provoke my hosts as frequently as possible.\u00a0Because when do I get to act on these sociopathic urges in real life? Honestly try to invest serious effort with a tragically mismatched couple.\u00a0As other players may have pointed out, trying […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":233,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_links_to":"","_links_to_type":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-course-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gantercourses.net\/fall13engl214\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gantercourses.net\/fall13engl214\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gantercourses.net\/fall13engl214\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gantercourses.net\/fall13engl214\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gantercourses.net\/fall13engl214\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/gantercourses.net\/fall13engl214\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329,"href":"http:\/\/gantercourses.net\/fall13engl214\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions\/329"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gantercourses.net\/fall13engl214\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gantercourses.net\/fall13engl214\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gantercourses.net\/fall13engl214\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gantercourses.net\/fall13engl214\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}