{"id":13566,"date":"2010-09-07T14:17:47","date_gmt":"2010-09-07T20:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/?p=13566"},"modified":"2010-09-07T14:17:47","modified_gmt":"2010-09-07T20:17:47","slug":"today-in-star-wars-mattstaggs-investigates-tie-fighter-and-why-youll-never-play-it-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2010\/09\/today-in-star-wars-mattstaggs-investigates-tie-fighter-and-why-youll-never-play-it-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Today in Star Wars: @MattStaggs Investigates TIE Fighter and Why You’ll Never Play It Again"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I loved everything about the TIE fighter: the whine of the twin ion engines and the BLAT BLAT BLAT of its weaponry, the cool pilot\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s uniform and the very design aesthetic of the craft itself \u00e2\u20ac\u201c not a thought toward air resistance (obviously useless in space) or even a perfunctory nod toward resembling anything organic. While piloting the fighters was a blast, TIE Fighter <\/em>was no mere simulation:<\/a> –Matt Staggs <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Sadly, we never had a chance to play TIE Fighter<\/em><\/a>. X-Wing <\/a>was our game of choice<\/a>. It was also the only game our college friends had on their personal computing device.<\/p>\n

Read SUVUDU<\/a> for Staggs<\/a>‘ full memory lane.<\/p>\n

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And besides, the Empire are the bad guys. The Big Bad. The Black Hats. Who would ever want to play the villains in a game<\/a>?<\/p>\n

via suvudu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I loved everything about the TIE fighter: the whine of the twin ion engines and the BLAT BLAT BLAT of its weaponry, the cool pilot\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s uniform and the very design aesthetic of the craft itself \u00e2\u20ac\u201c not a thought toward air resistance (obviously useless in space) or even a perfunctory nod toward resembling anything organic. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[1009,31,375,3247,1156,2249],"class_list":["post-13566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games","tag-1990s","tag-culture","tag-nostalgia","tag-star-wars-tie-fighter","tag-the-games-we-play","tag-today-in-star-wars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13566"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13570,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13566\/revisions\/13570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}