{"id":8,"date":"2004-08-24T17:54:14","date_gmt":"2004-08-24T17:54:14","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2004-08-24T17:54:14","modified_gmt":"2004-08-24T17:54:14","slug":"ratings-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2004\/08\/24\/ratings-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Ratings System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think we all knew that I could not make it very long without spouting off about this, that, and the other.  As I have said elsewhere, lack of an opinion and things to write about was never an issue.  Instead I grew weary of the current format \u2013 detailed, unbiased content is one thing, but I no longer have the time or desire to write reviews that are so damn long that your head starts to spin half-way home.<\/p>\n<p>For now, whenever I feel like writing about videogames and whatnot, the following will be my overly simple rating system:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/cgblog\/nucleus\/images\/reviews\/ratings\/rating_buy.gif\" alt=\"Buy\"\/> \u2013 Buy; worth spending your hard-earned duckets on this product.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/cgblog\/nucleus\/images\/reviews\/ratings\/rating_rent.gif\" alt=\"Rent\"\/> \u2013 Rent; a cheap \u201clook-see\u201d is a good idea because your cash may be better spent on something else.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/cgblog\/nucleus\/images\/reviews\/ratings\/rating_dud.gif\" alt=\"Dud\"\/> \u2013 Dud; a can of beans on the discount rack is a better buy then this steaming pile of sh^+.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think we all knew that I could not make it very long without spouting off about this, that, and the other. As I have said elsewhere, lack of an opinion and things to write about was never an issue. Instead I grew weary of the current format \u2013 detailed, unbiased content is one thing, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2004\/08\/24\/ratings-system\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ratings System<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}