{"id":6700,"date":"2008-04-14T10:49:43","date_gmt":"2008-04-14T16:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dreamdawn.com\/sh\/post_view.php?index=6700"},"modified":"2015-08-04T15:26:21","modified_gmt":"2015-08-04T15:26:21","slug":"some-resident-evil-5-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horror.dreamdawn.com\/?p=6700","title":{"rendered":"Some Resident Evil 5 Perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MTV&#8217;s Multiplayer blog has an excellent series of articles about <a href=\"http:\/\/multiplayerblog.mtv.com\/category\/black-professionals-in-games\/\">black professionals in the game industry.<\/a>  The entire series is a really interesting, and I recommend that you read the whole thing.  I decided to post about the series because one of the topics that is discussed is the <a href = \"?p=10600000\">Resident Evil 5<\/a> trailer, which, as <a href=\"?p=6132\">we&#8217;ve discussed before<\/a>, ended up offending a lot of people.  What&#8217;s so fantastic about the series is that the diverse opinions that are expressed are coming from people who are authorities on video games.  Unlike many other discussions about this topic that popped up on the net, there&#8217;s no confusion about what games are about or who they are for; the topic is not diluted by general misinformation about video games as a medium.  Also, all of the people interviewed for the series explain their perspectives with extreme clarity and articulacy.<\/p>\n<p>I wanted to post a couple of quotes about Resident Evil 5, but if I did that people would probably take them out of context and respond without reading the article as a whole.  So instead, I&#8217;ll just leave you with this quote by Newsweeks&#8217; N&#8217;Gai Croal that I found really insightful and well-stated:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nI&#8217;m saying people don&#8217;t realize how colonized their minds are by stereotypes.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Go.  <a href=\"http:\/\/multiplayerblog.mtv.com\/category\/black-professionals-in-games\/\">Read the whole series.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MTV&#8217;s Multiplayer blog has an excellent series of articles about black professionals in the game industry. The entire series is a really interesting, and I recommend that you read the whole thing. I decided to post about the series because one of the topics that is discussed is the Resident Evil 5 trailer, which, as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-design","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horror.dreamdawn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horror.dreamdawn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horror.dreamdawn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horror.dreamdawn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horror.dreamdawn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6700"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/horror.dreamdawn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14800027,"href":"https:\/\/horror.dreamdawn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6700\/revisions\/14800027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horror.dreamdawn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horror.dreamdawn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horror.dreamdawn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}