{"id":10206,"date":"2010-12-17T10:51:42","date_gmt":"2010-12-17T15:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=10206"},"modified":"2010-12-17T10:54:55","modified_gmt":"2010-12-17T15:54:55","slug":"spoiler-warning-s4e13-cheerleaders-and-terrorists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=10206","title":{"rendered":"Spoiler Warning S4E13: Cheerleaders and Terrorists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><table class='nomargin' cellspacing='0' width='100%' cellpadding='0' align='center' border='0'><tr><td><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kObpkgTT0Mk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kObpkgTT0Mk'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>At the three-minute mark:<\/p>\n<p><em>Hey, your videogame protagonist is <strong>so fat<\/strong>, she jumped up in the air, and got <strong>stuck<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Thank you, thank you. I&#8217;m here all week.<\/p>\n<p>While BioWare games are always trope-filled, I think cataloging all of the tropes in Jack&#8217;s recruitment would be a lengthy undertaking.  Jack herself is a few tropes, then there&#8217;s her breakout,  the warden, his plan, his shield and boss fight, and the prison itself. <\/p>\n<p>Having said all that, I actually enjoyed the gameplay here, even though the story is a bit bent.  Later there&#8217;s Grunt&#8217;s recruitment, which is pretty good, story-wise, but which I thought was tedious from a gameplay standpoint. (Fight waves of Krogan in a brown industrial wasteland? Ugh.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link (YouTube) At the three-minute mark: Hey, your videogame protagonist is so fat, she jumped up in the air, and got stuck. Thank you, thank you. I&#8217;m here all week. While BioWare games are always trope-filled, I think cataloging all of the tropes in Jack&#8217;s recruitment would be a lengthy undertaking. Jack herself is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spoilerwarning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}