{"id":206,"date":"2005-04-15T18:48:21","date_gmt":"2005-04-15T18:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/?p=206"},"modified":"2005-04-15T18:48:21","modified_gmt":"2005-04-15T18:48:21","slug":"the-green-eyed-monster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/?p=206","title":{"rendered":"The green-eyed monster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My daily commute has been great enlivened recently by the addition of the superb and&nbsp;justly lauded <a href=\"http:\/\/bike.toyspring.com\/\">Bike Or Die<\/a> to the clutch of time-filling games on my T3.&nbsp; Whilst the physics engine and devilishly difficult courses make for addictive trials bike&nbsp;gameplay, the graphics have a charming retro feel.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"164\" alt=\"Bike or die\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bignoseduglyguy.com\/bike_20or_20die.jpg\" width=\"164\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Until this afternoon that is, when a&nbsp;much younger&nbsp;geek dropped into the seat next to me, whipped out his pristine imported-from-Japan PSP and fired up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/psp\/driving\/ridgeracer\/review.html\">Ridge Racer<\/a>.&nbsp; It took all of 5 seconds for PSP envy to set in and I spent the rest of the journey watching graphics like those below.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"181\" alt=\"Psprr\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bignoseduglyguy.com\/psprr.jpg\" width=\"320\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"183\" alt=\"Psprr2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bignoseduglyguy.com\/psprr2.jpg\" width=\"321\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><font size=\"1\">(c) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.playstationportable.de\/\">http:\/\/www.playstationportable.de\/<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My daily commute has been great enlivened recently by the addition of the superb and&nbsp;justly lauded Bike Or Die to the clutch of time-filling games on my T3.&nbsp; Whilst the physics engine and devilishly difficult courses make for addictive trials bike&nbsp;gameplay, the graphics have a charming retro feel. Until this afternoon that is, when a&nbsp;much [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}