{"id":1633,"date":"2008-12-10T15:46:10","date_gmt":"2008-12-10T21:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamingwithchildren.com\/?p=1633"},"modified":"2008-12-10T15:46:10","modified_gmt":"2008-12-10T21:46:10","slug":"still-left-4-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/10\/still-left-4-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Still Left 4 Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>\"\"<\/a>My house is filled with moaning, groaning, pale creatures spewing noxious yellow bile everywhere… Oh and I’m playing Left 4 Dead a lot too. RIMSHOT\u00a0See, the Bubs have the stomach flu. Maggie has been curled up with her Cooking Mama, Henry has been dominating on Mario Party 8 on the big screen, GamerMom has been working herself to a frenzy, it’s Christmastime, snowing daily, and we’re all really, really sick. Sounds like a great time to talk a bit about using videogames to help heal.<\/p>\n

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During the 4 months or so of constant pain from my surgery, I learned this to be true. It’s no mystery, videogames distract. Just as specific pain can be relieved with a hot shower, a game can take you away from the very worst thing about being sick or an extended hospital stay – and thats boredom. I’ve been taking care of the kids and when they go to bed, I kiss GamerMom goodnight and I’m on Steam’s servers with my pals Louis, Zoey and Francis and we’re just trying to survive together.\u00a0 My problem is, I don’t know those other three and even though I’m finding the Xbox Live and Steam communities VERY cool to play with (no cussing, no racism, so far) I’d like to play with some of you.<\/p>\n

Who wants to fight the horde, work together, and survive the zombie apocalypse with me? Lets deck the halls.<\/p>\n

Gamertag TheGamerDad\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Steam GamerDad<\/p>\n

PLEASE NOTE the game is M-mature. Kids shouldn’t be playing it. If you play with me and are a kid, don’t tell me, okay? I’ll just assume your parents know what you’re doing. The screaming is a dead giveaway afterall.<\/p>\n

Photo of “Bub the Zombie” from George Romero’s Dawn of the Dead<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My house is filled with moaning, groaning, pale creatures spewing noxious yellow bile everywhere… Oh and I’m playing Left 4 Dead a lot too. RIMSHOT\u00a0See, the Bubs have the stomach flu. Maggie has been curled up with her Cooking Mama, Henry has been dominating on Mario Party 8 on the big screen, GamerMom has been […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}