{"id":19295,"date":"2025-06-27T11:37:19","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T09:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/27\/the-alters-unintentionally-the-realest-game-about-parenting-ive-ever-played-dominik-diamond\/"},"modified":"2025-06-27T11:37:19","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T09:37:19","slug":"the-alters-unintentionally-the-realest-game-about-parenting-ive-ever-played-dominik-diamond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/27\/the-alters-unintentionally-the-realest-game-about-parenting-ive-ever-played-dominik-diamond\/","title":{"rendered":"The Alters: unintentionally the realest game about parenting I\u2019ve ever played | Dominik Diamond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This imaginative sci-fi survival game is a work of art. But looking after the needy clones of myself I\u2019d made to help run a space base, I was reminded all too clearly of my limitations and failings<\/p>\n<p>Other than during that golden period when they were old enough to play games and watch Buffy the Vampire Slayer but hadn\u2019t yet become evil teenagers, I don\u2019t think I\u2019m very good at parenting. When my kids were babies I felt unnecessary and useless, a feeling I have been reminded of most days since. That\u2019s OK. We can\u2019t be good at everything. I can read words backwards and upside down but I can never find my house keys. I am brilliant at dancing to the Cure\u2019s The Lovecats on Dancing Stage MegaMix but terrible at DIY.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t get me wrong: I love my children. I like hanging out with them socially as young adults because they are smart, funny and entertaining, but then they remember I am their dad, and everything is ruined as they ask me to do stuff then blame me for everything wrong in their lives.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/2025\/jun\/27\/the-alters-unintentionally-the-realest-game-about-parenting-ive-ever-played\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/0763350f58401e2e9d84a654156b64e7243621ae\/286_0_1349_1080\/master\/1349.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=2a8f9095f995c12f3bcaa17818dfda3d\" title=\"The Alters: unintentionally the realest game about parenting I\u2019ve ever played | Dominik Diamond\" \/>This imaginative sci-fi survival game is a work of art. But looking after the needy clones of myself I\u2019d made to help run a space base, I was reminded all too clearly of my limitations and failings<br \/>\nOther than during that golden period when they were old enough to play games and watch Buffy the Vampire Slayer but hadn\u2019t yet become evil teenagers, I don\u2019t think I\u2019m very good at parenting. When my kids were babies I felt unnecessary and useless, a feeling I have been reminded of most days since. That\u2019s OK. We can\u2019t be good at everything. I can read words backwards and upside down but I can never find my house keys. I am brilliant at dancing to the Cure\u2019s The Lovecats on Dancing Stage MegaMix but terrible at DIY.<br \/>\nDon\u2019t get me wrong: I love my children. I like hanging out with them socially as young adults because they are smart, funny and entertaining, but then they remember I am their dad, and everything is ruined as they ask me to do stuff then blame me for everything wrong in their lives. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This imaginative sci-fi survival game is a work of art. But looking after the needy clones of myself I\u2019d made to help run a space base, I was reminded all too clearly of my limitations and failings Other than during that golden period when they were old enough to play games and watch Buffy the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/27\/the-alters-unintentionally-the-realest-game-about-parenting-ive-ever-played-dominik-diamond\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Alters: unintentionally the realest game about parenting I\u2019ve ever played | Dominik Diamond<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":19296,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19295"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}