{"id":10622,"date":"2011-02-08T12:36:21","date_gmt":"2011-02-08T17:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=10622"},"modified":"2015-07-19T18:57:16","modified_gmt":"2015-07-19T23:57:16","slug":"spoiler-warning-episode-100-probing-questions-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=10622","title":{"rendered":"Spoiler Warning Episode 100:<br\/>Probing Questions, Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few of you guessed it already &#8211; this is the long-awaited &#8220;probing&#8221; episode, where we show off the probe minigame of Mass Effect 2, which can only be called a game under the broadest possible use of the word. It&#8217;s a game in the same way that coloring in an entire sheet of graph paper with pencil might be called arts &#038; crafts.  The idea is that you scan the surface of the world, launch mining probes, and then take the resulting resources and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/articles\/view\/comics\/stolen-pixels\/7208-Stolen-Pixels-171-Probe-Away\">buy upgrades<\/a>.  Note that the speed at which the cursor can scroll over the planet is limited, and at launch it was much slower than what you see in the video. <\/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\/RgsiHRWWu34\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RgsiHRWWu34'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>Our intent was to make a single mailbag episode, and we got together on Sunday with that goal in mind.  Five hours later it became clear that questions and the answering thereof is a time-consuming endeavor.  So this is what we&#8217;re doing this week.  Probing and answering questions. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few of you guessed it already &#8211; this is the long-awaited &#8220;probing&#8221; episode, where we show off the probe minigame of Mass Effect 2, which can only be called a game under the broadest possible use of the word. It&#8217;s a game in the same way that coloring in an entire sheet of graph [&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-10622","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\/10622","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=10622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}