{"id":68594,"date":"2019-07-29T03:08:52","date_gmt":"2019-07-29T10:08:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taterboy.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/im-bad-at-fortnite-and-im-okay-with-that\/"},"modified":"2019-07-29T03:08:52","modified_gmt":"2019-07-29T10:08:52","slug":"im-bad-at-fortnite-and-im-okay-with-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taterboy.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/im-bad-at-fortnite-and-im-okay-with-that\/","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019m bad at Fortnite, and I\u2019m okay with that"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"FRANCE-INTERNET-FORTNITE\"Photo credit should read LIONEL BONAVENTURE\/AFP\/Getty Images<\/small><\/p>\n

Fortnite<\/em> is two years old this weekend, and has been the most popular game in the world for at least the last year of its existence. My friends and I began playing it last summer as it exploded in popularity; we saw the game go from its roots as a goofy add on to Epic\u2019s player-versus-environment shooter<\/a> to its current status as a cross-cultural social space that just so happens to have a battle royale mode. And while I\u2019ve certainly gotten better at playing the game, I\u2019m still bad at it. <\/p>\n

Which is fine! Really. For me, the fun of Fortnite<\/em> is when I\u2019m playing well with my teammates and suddenly I\u2019m fluent \u2014 suddenly my builds are solid and my aim is true. It\u2019s a joyful thing for me, because it\u2019s in those moments I realize I\u2019ll never be a…<\/p>\n

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Photo credit should read LIONEL BONAVENTURE\/AFP\/Getty Images Fortnite is two years old this weekend, and has been the most popular game in the world for at least the last year of its existence. My friends and I began playing it last summer as it exploded in popularity; we saw the game go from its roots… Read the full article…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":68595,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":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":[174,377],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-games-media","category-gaming"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t