{"id":1967,"date":"2018-05-19T10:27:13","date_gmt":"2018-05-19T18:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_puck\/?p=1967"},"modified":"2018-05-19T10:27:13","modified_gmt":"2018-05-19T18:27:13","slug":"are-you-ready-player-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_puck\/2018\/05\/are-you-ready-player-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Are you Ready Player 2?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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(Originally written May 19, 2015<\/em>)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

If you were a child of the console generations which began in the mid-1980s you emerged into a new world; you were raised as a gamer.\u00a0 You are part of a shared experience and perhaps bonded with your brothers and sisters as you took turns jumping, shooting, and running across the digital landscape.\u00a0 These memories are part of a cultural gestalt which defines us just as sports, music, film, and books create a shared consciousness.<\/p>\n

My twins were born into a two player co-op experience.\u00a0 Since the beginning they have walked side by side in life and into the digital wilderness experiencing joys, beauty, and frustrations together.\u00a0 They laugh and scream and jump without ever being in doubt that there will always be someone at the other controller to share this life.<\/p>\n

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In contrast our toddler, Emerson, is a singleton and was born alone.\u00a0 From the sidelines he watched his brothers revel in their play without being able to join.\u00a0 It was clear that he wanted a chance to walk into the frontier he saw before him but how?\u00a0 It was a puzzle that needed an answer.<\/p>\n

One evening he made his move as the twins were pulled away from a still warm console for a break.\u00a0 Emerson dashed to the controllers, grabbed one and then looked around.\u00a0 When I walked over he turned up to me and unexpectedly placed a controller in my hand with a look that was clear in meaning.\u00a0 Are you ready player 2?\u00a0 Then he grabbed his own controller and struggled to see what effect he could produce on the screen before him.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In that moment crystallized in a singularly perfect gaze of toddler hope was every father and son since the beginning of time.\u00a0 Will you be with me?\u00a0 Can we do this together?\u00a0 Daddy, will you be my player 2?\u00a0 It was a question filled with hope, trust, love, and uncertainty.<\/p>\n

Yes, buddy I’ll try.<\/p>\n

Select 2-player mode.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Originally written May 19, 2015) If you were a child of the console generations which began in the mid-1980s you emerged into a new world; you were raised as a gamer.\u00a0 You are part of a shared experience and perhaps bonded with your brothers and sisters as you took turns jumping, shooting, and running across […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_puck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1967"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_puck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_puck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_puck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_puck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1967"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_puck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1982,"href":"https:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_puck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1967\/revisions\/1982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_puck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_puck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_puck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}