{"id":4062,"date":"2022-06-29T16:21:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-29T22:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/handyvandal.com\/?p=4062"},"modified":"2022-06-29T16:21:29","modified_gmt":"2022-06-29T22:21:29","slug":"dr-mario-but-the-games-difficulty-changes-based-on-your-health-insurance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/2022\/06\/dr-mario-but-the-games-difficulty-changes-based-on-your-health-insurance\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Mario, but the game&#8217;s difficulty changes based on your health insurance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-27-at-11.58.38-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-27-at-11.58.38-AM-300x169.png\" alt=\"Dr. Mario, but the game&#039;s difficulty changes based on your health insurance\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4061\" srcset=\"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-27-at-11.58.38-AM-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-27-at-11.58.38-AM-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-27-at-11.58.38-AM-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-27-at-11.58.38-AM.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Programmers Steven Nass and Ivy Hu have created a new version of Mario that takes the traditional falling block puzzle competition and alters the difficulty based on the kind of health insurance you have. Before the game starts, you enter your type of coverage \u2014 HMO, FSA, etc \u2014 as well as your deductible, and that determines how fast the jumping doctor-plumber&#8217;s pills fall down the chasm.<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/boingboing.net\/2022\/06\/29\/dr-mario-but-the-games-difficulty-changes-based-on-your-health-insurance.html\">Boing Boing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Programmers Steven Nass and Ivy Hu have created a new version of Mario that takes the traditional falling block puzzle competition and alters the difficulty based on the kind of health insurance you have. Before the game starts, you enter your type of coverage \u2014 HMO, FSA, etc \u2014 as well as your deductible, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4061,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mario-brothers","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4062"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4063,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4062\/revisions\/4063"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}