{"id":10320,"date":"2011-01-06T13:02:01","date_gmt":"2011-01-06T18:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=10320"},"modified":"2011-01-06T13:02:01","modified_gmt":"2011-01-06T18:02:01","slug":"spoiler-warning-s4e19-my-mommy-says-im-special","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=10320","title":{"rendered":"Spoiler Warning S4E19: My Mommy Says I&#8217;m Special!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know, I don&#8217;t hate this game nearly as much as Fallout 3, although you couldn&#8217;t tell that from our conversation.  For the record, Fallout 3 was a vortex of mind-numbing stupidity where the setting, the characters, the premise, and the story were irritating and infantile. Mass Effect 2 was merely a disappointment.  Really, I wouldn&#8217;t have been nearly as irate with the game if its predecessor hadn&#8217;t been so good.  If the next Gears of War game aspired to the Mass Effect 2 level of storytelling, I&#8217;d be overjoyed.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, you can&#8217;t really modulate criticism to account for this.  We either comment on something or we don&#8217;t.  <\/p>\n<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\/xYb47Vj3ng4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xYb47Vj3ng4'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>Oh, now that you&#8217;ve watched the show I guess I should point out that there was a pretty heavy Jade Empire spoiler in there.  So I hope you skipped over that.  Yeah.  Someone spoiled the plot of Jade Empire.  I don&#8217;t remember who.  I think it was Rutskarn. <\/p>\n<p>Yeah, pretty sure it was Rutskarn.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know, I don&#8217;t hate this game nearly as much as Fallout 3, although you couldn&#8217;t tell that from our conversation. For the record, Fallout 3 was a vortex of mind-numbing stupidity where the setting, the characters, the premise, and the story were irritating and infantile. Mass Effect 2 was merely a disappointment. Really, I [&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-10320","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\/10320","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=10320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}