{"id":4100,"date":"2022-07-27T20:22:06","date_gmt":"2022-07-27T20:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/27\/random-gq-calls-video-game-patches-laziness-and-people-are-not-impressed\/"},"modified":"2022-07-27T20:22:06","modified_gmt":"2022-07-27T20:22:06","slug":"random-gq-calls-video-game-patches-laziness-and-people-are-not-impressed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/27\/random-gq-calls-video-game-patches-laziness-and-people-are-not-impressed\/","title":{"rendered":"Random: GQ Calls Video Game Patches &#8220;Laziness&#8221;, And People Are Not Impressed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Kids these days, with their patches and their bug fixes.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The recent topic of film hot takes has been the news that pulpy Netflix horror show <strong>Stranger Things<\/strong> has been retconned in post-release edits, with the directors admitting to tweaking older episodes to keep everything plot-hole free.<\/p>\n<p>An <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gq-magazine.co.uk\/culture\/article\/stranger-things-netflix-retroactively-editing\">article on British GQ<\/a> tackled the topic by <em>immediately<\/em> throwing video games under the bus, as the most egregious users of post-release patches:<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/07\/random-gq-calls-video-game-patches-laziness-and-people-are-not-impressed\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[#item_image]Random: GQ Calls Video Game Patches &#8220;Laziness&#8221;, And People Are Not Impressed<!-- wp:html --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Kids these days, with their patches and their bug fixes.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The recent topic of film hot takes has been the news that pulpy Netflix horror show <strong>Stranger Things<\/strong> has been retconned in post-release edits, with the directors admitting to tweaking older episodes to keep everything plot-hole free.<\/p>\n<p>An <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gq-magazine.co.uk\/culture\/article\/stranger-things-netflix-retroactively-editing\">article on British GQ<\/a> tackled the topic by <em>immediately<\/em> throwing video games under the bus, as the most egregious users of post-release patches:<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/07\/random-gq-calls-video-game-patches-laziness-and-people-are-not-impressed\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:html --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4101,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4100"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}