{"id":399,"date":"2007-01-22T08:57:20","date_gmt":"2007-01-22T15:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alertnerd.com\/blog\/archives\/399"},"modified":"2007-01-22T08:57:20","modified_gmt":"2007-01-22T15:57:20","slug":"dsdisappointing-so","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/?p=399","title":{"rendered":"DS=Disappointing, So"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Caught a piece on Digg this morning about <a href=\"http:\/\/voiptelephonyservice.blogspot.com\/2007\/01\/nintendo-ds-hacks-for-free-wifi-voip.html\" target=\"_blank\">VoIP options for the Nintendo DS<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It really got me to thinking. When the DS first came out, I was feverishly obsessed with it, for months leading up to the release. I bought one the DAY they went on sale. I thought for sure, this miraculous device heralded a New Age for Gaming, where Nintendo would take all their innovation and ability and apply it to truly moving gaming forward.<\/p>\n<p>And forward it went&#8230;a few inches. Enough to impress the kiddies.<\/p>\n<p>Us adults have been sorta left out in the freezing cold, as only a fraction of the handheld&#8217;s true potential has been unlocked. Yes, we can game online, but only through the pain-in-the-ass Friend Code system. We can&#8217;t browse the internet, or truly conduct VoIP conversations, or connect with others to enjoy a true online gaming experience, with real communication and interaction connecting people across continents.<\/p>\n<p>Every time Nintendo puts something out that makes my heart skip, I find they eventually break said organ, slowly and painfully.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caught a piece on Digg this morning about VoIP options for the Nintendo DS. It really got me to thinking. When the DS first came out, I was feverishly obsessed with it, for months leading up to the release. I bought one the DAY they went on sale. I thought for sure, this miraculous device [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,146,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games","category-tech","category-teh-intarweb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}