{"id":496,"date":"2008-12-12T15:20:33","date_gmt":"2008-12-12T22:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/162.243.68.163\/blog\/?p=496"},"modified":"2008-12-14T12:44:29","modified_gmt":"2008-12-14T19:44:29","slug":"goodbye-xfire-hello-steam-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/?p=496","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye XFire, Hello Steam Community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I guess it&#8217;s time for my cool signature generator script to stop looking at XFire, because I don&#8217;t run it any more. The audio quality is so-so, the volume levels are always off for voice chat, it causes game crashing&#8230; well when it comes right down to it the only good thing about it is that it works in-game.<\/p>\n<p>Now I&#8217;ve discovered that I can use the Steam community in-game. It has better voice support and a very slick interface. Granted, it only supports a few games at the moment, but I&#8217;m hoping that will improve with time. (Correction: I&#8217;m wrong about that, it supports a lot of games. All you have to do is launch them from the Steam interface.)<\/p>\n<p>I remember that when Steam first came out, everybody hated it for being oppressive DRM. Including me. Since then, I&#8217;ve come to really like it, because while it prevents me from running multiple copies of software, it also makes it very *easy* to run the number of copies that I&#8217;ve actually purchased. I like that.<\/p>\n<p>Enough ranting about Steam. Back to Java JPA. Whee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I guess it&#8217;s time for my cool signature generator script to stop looking at XFire, because I don&#8217;t run it any more. The audio quality is so-so, the volume levels are always off for voice chat, it causes game crashing&#8230; well when it comes right down to it the only good thing about it is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,49],"tags":[190,102],"class_list":["post-496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming","category-music","tag-steam","tag-xfire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=496"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":498,"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496\/revisions\/498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}