{"id":2267,"date":"2026-08-31T13:19:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T17:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/?p=2267"},"modified":"2026-08-31T15:06:29","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T19:06:29","slug":"gamescom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/2026\/08\/31\/gamescom\/","title":{"rendered":"Gamescom"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gamescom is the world’s largest event for computer and video games, held in Cologne.<\/p>\n

Gamescom is special, with a very peaceful atmosphere and a calm crowd, driven by a shared enthusiasm for digital art, even in the sometimes hour-long queues.<\/p>\n

However, for a couple of years now, real death and destruction have invaded the fair, with the army and major defense industry companies showing off their deadly wares in the career booths.<\/p>\n

There’s nothing honorable or manly in killing or being killed; it’s just something benefiting our chancellor’s stock portfolio.<\/p>\n

The military is abusing the fair; they should not be present.<\/p>\n

Enticing young people to kill should not happen at Gamescom.<\/p>\n

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(Gamescom, Cologne, 8\/30\/26)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gamescom is the world’s largest event for computer and video games, held in Cologne. Gamescom is special, with a very peaceful atmosphere and a calm crowd, driven by a shared enthusiasm for digital art, even in the sometimes hour-long queues. However, for a couple of years now, real death and destruction have invaded the fair, … Continue reading Gamescom<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/salXpA-gamescom","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2267"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2280,"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2267\/revisions\/2280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}