{"id":9026,"date":"2011-09-13T15:50:48","date_gmt":"2011-09-13T22:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/?p=9026"},"modified":"2011-09-13T15:50:48","modified_gmt":"2011-09-13T22:50:48","slug":"does-kirby-mass-attack-presage-a-boom-in-psychotherapy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2011\/09\/13\/does-kirby-mass-attack-presage-a-boom-in-psychotherapy\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Kirby Mass Attack presage a boom in psychotherapy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"600\" height=\"363\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/s5T9eVfuiOo?version=3\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/s5T9eVfuiOo?version=3\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"600\" height=\"363\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>The above trailer for Kirby Mass Attack starts out innocently enough.  At about the thirty second mark, I started to feel uneasy.  A minute in, I was pretty sure I was watching something without quite understanding that it was dirty, like when you see a video of two people in animal costumes prancing around and then it gets a little weird, and before you know it, you&#8217;re dragged into an unwelcome new awareness of a fetish you didn&#8217;t even know existed.  That&#8217;s how I&#8217;d describe the psychological journey I took watching so many little Kirby&#8217;s doing things I didn&#8217;t understand.  Part of it is that Kirby himself is so weird.  Ten Kirbys are ten times as weird.  Ten Kirbys doing indeterminate things to various objects and creatures is exponentially weirder.<\/p>\n<p>Kirby Mass Attack comes out next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The above trailer for Kirby Mass Attack starts out innocently enough. At about the thirty second mark, I started to feel uneasy. 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