{"id":7043,"date":"2017-09-01T16:12:22","date_gmt":"2017-09-01T16:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/?p=7043"},"modified":"2017-08-15T16:13:35","modified_gmt":"2017-08-15T16:13:35","slug":"linked-hedging-sonic-the-hedgehog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2017\/09\/01\/linked-hedging-sonic-the-hedgehog\/","title":{"rendered":"Linked: &#8220;Hedging Sonic the Hedgehog&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/500ish.com\/hedging-sonic-the-hedgehog-71a4a819a3c9\">via 500ish<\/a> (A medium blog):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>So, again unlike Super Mario Run, Sega has opted to let users download these games for free. And you can play them for free\u200a\u2014\u200aas long as you\u2019re willing to sit through some truly annoying and invasive ads. We\u2019re talking interstitials, video ads, long ads, short ads. No format will go untested here. The only commonality is that they\u2019re dreadful.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sonic the Hedgehog was one of the first iOS games I bought. It was $5. Worth it. I\u2019m legitimately annoyed glancing over seeing my girlfriend playing a freemium game with a huge banner ad taking up half the screen. I\u2019ve literally thrown a dollar bill at her saying \u201cplease just spend the $1 to disable advertisements. I\u2019m begging you\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"via 500ish (A medium blog): So, again unlike Super Mario Run, Sega has opted to let users download&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","apple_news_api_created_at":"2017-09-01T16:12:55Z","apple_news_api_id":"900954e4-655e-43ee-96b0-7817993aa74d","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2017-09-01T16:12:58Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AkAlU5GVeQ-6WsHgXmTqnTQ","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"middle","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":["https:\/\/news-api.apple.com\/sections\/a6dbab72-c794-3987-8514-c419907b32a3"],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-linked","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-1PB","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5174,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2015\/10\/28\/linked-the-xbox-one-is-garbage\/","url_meta":{"origin":7043,"position":0},"title":"Linked: &#8220;The Xbox One Is Garbage&#8221;","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"October 28, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Via Deadspin: The first thing that happens after you hook up your Xbox One and turn it on is that you spend like an hour guiding it through updates and calibrations and logins and setups. 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