Somebody understands me too well.<\/a> Guest starring the highly underrated Peter Cetera, just so I’m sure how incredibly uncool I will appear to my children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With my obsessive nature, I sometimes find myself lost in loops of repetitive gameplay. In fact, to my mind, the video game industry had encouraged this throughout my youth. Recently, however, they discovered their new medium, led by Squaresoft. The new medium? No gameplay at all. 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