{"id":9127,"date":"2023-02-28T10:38:26","date_gmt":"2023-02-28T09:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/28\/help-im-obsessed-with-pressure-washing-lara-crofts-house-ellie-gibson\/"},"modified":"2023-02-28T10:38:26","modified_gmt":"2023-02-28T09:38:26","slug":"help-im-obsessed-with-pressure-washing-lara-crofts-house-ellie-gibson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/28\/help-im-obsessed-with-pressure-washing-lara-crofts-house-ellie-gibson\/","title":{"rendered":"Help, I\u2019m obsessed with pressure-washing Lara Croft\u2019s house | Ellie Gibson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I started playing a video game about cleaning for a laugh \u2013 now it\u2019s all gotten out of hand and I\u2019m going for the Guinness World Record<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Are video games better than sex? That\u2019s the sort of ludicrous question that is only posed by someone who has never had sex, or is searching for an attention-grabbing way to open an article about a cleaning simulator. However, I will say this: last week I had the opportunity to have it off but I played PowerWash Simulator instead, and honestly I\u2019m not sure I had a worse time.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe it\u2019s to do with age. Like every middle-aged female gamer I know, I love Lara Croft. Back in my younger days I lost entire evenings, weekends, and the best part of an English literature degree to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/tomb-raider\">Tomb Raider<\/a>. But now I\u2019m 45 and, for the most part, I have swapped late-night gaming sessions for going to bed after I\u2019ve read the kids stories. I\u2019ll still be awake at 2am, but only because I\u2019ve woken up in a cold sweat trying to remember where I put my Nectar card.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/2023\/feb\/28\/help-im-obsessed-with-pressure-washing-lara-crofts-house-powerwash-simulator-tomb-raider\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/25e058a398359658da3826fdaaf3729c92924bb8\/36_0_2058_1236\/master\/2058.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=887216f3b13a189ddaf2b7f411f879b4\" title=\"Help, I\u2019m obsessed with pressure-washing Lara Croft\u2019s house | Ellie Gibson\" \/>I started playing a video game about cleaning for a laugh \u2013 now it\u2019s all gotten out of hand and I\u2019m going for the Guinness World Record<\/p>\n<p>Are video games better than sex? That\u2019s the sort of ludicrous question that is only posed by someone who has never had sex, or is searching for an attention-grabbing way to open an article about a cleaning simulator. However, I will say this: last week I had the opportunity to have it off but I played PowerWash Simulator instead, and honestly I\u2019m not sure I had a worse time.<br \/>\nMaybe it\u2019s to do with age. Like every middle-aged female gamer I know, I love Lara Croft. Back in my younger days I lost entire evenings, weekends, and the best part of an English literature degree to Tomb Raider. But now I\u2019m 45 and, for the most part, I have swapped late-night gaming sessions for going to bed after I\u2019ve read the kids stories. I\u2019ll still be awake at 2am, but only because I\u2019ve woken up in a cold sweat trying to remember where I put my Nectar card. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I started playing a video game about cleaning for a laugh \u2013 now it\u2019s all gotten out of hand and I\u2019m going for the Guinness World Record Are video games better than sex? That\u2019s the sort of ludicrous question that is only posed by someone who has never had sex, or is searching for an &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/28\/help-im-obsessed-with-pressure-washing-lara-crofts-house-ellie-gibson\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Help, I\u2019m obsessed with pressure-washing Lara Croft\u2019s house | Ellie Gibson<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":9128,"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\/9127"}],"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=9127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}