{"id":518,"date":"2018-12-07T18:11:56","date_gmt":"2018-12-07T18:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/gaming-archives-project\/?p=518"},"modified":"2018-12-07T18:11:56","modified_gmt":"2018-12-07T18:11:56","slug":"6-life-lessons-ive-learned-from-difficult-video-game-boss-fights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/gaming-archives-project\/2018\/12\/07\/6-life-lessons-ive-learned-from-difficult-video-game-boss-fights\/","title":{"rendered":"6 Life Lessons I\u2019ve Learned from Difficult Video Game Boss Fights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve all been there. An hour later and you&#8217;re still stuck on the same boss fight. Whether it&#8217;s because of impossible to dodge one-hit KO moves or a health bar the size of a cruise liner, here&#8217;s some life lessons I&#8217;ve learned while trying to distract myself from my growing ungodly rage.<\/p>\n<p>(Brought to you by like, the entirety of Hollow Knight.)<\/p>\n<p>1. <strong>Sometimes the run where you think nothing is going right and you should give up is the one where you succeed.<\/strong> See it all the way through.<\/p>\n<p>2. <strong>Some attacks are only deadly if you panic.<\/strong> Keep calm and don\u2019t rush into a reflex reaction that may take you straight into danger.<\/p>\n<p>3. <strong>There will always be a window of opportunity.<\/strong> Don\u2019t take needless risks to try to win faster. Chip away at it if you need too.<\/p>\n<p>4. <strong>If you\u2019re getting really angry and frustrated, step away and take a break.<\/strong> Sometimes your anger makes you sloppy. Coming back refreshed could be what you need to succeed.<\/p>\n<p>5. <strong>Every attempt is useful.<\/strong> Even if you fail, you\u2019ve practiced and made the next try easier. Sometimes you might even learn something or figure something out you can use next time. No failure is a waste.<\/p>\n<p>6. <strong>If you keep at it, success feels really, really good.<\/strong> Enjoy it!<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Joce Kofke, Class of 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve all been there. An hour later and you&#8217;re still stuck on the same boss fight. Whether it&#8217;s because of impossible to dodge one-hit KO moves or a health bar the size of a cruise liner, here&#8217;s some life lessons I&#8217;ve learned while trying to distract myself from my growing ungodly rage. (Brought to you &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/gaming-archives-project\/2018\/12\/07\/6-life-lessons-ive-learned-from-difficult-video-game-boss-fights\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;6 Life Lessons I\u2019ve Learned from Difficult Video Game Boss Fights&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1135,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/gaming-archives-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/gaming-archives-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/gaming-archives-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/gaming-archives-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/gaming-archives-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/gaming-archives-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":519,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/gaming-archives-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518\/revisions\/519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/gaming-archives-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/gaming-archives-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/gaming-archives-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}