{"id":11492,"date":"2011-04-29T09:01:30","date_gmt":"2011-04-29T14:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=11492"},"modified":"2014-03-26T18:34:09","modified_gmt":"2014-03-26T23:34:09","slug":"stolen-pixels-255-the-veep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=11492","title":{"rendered":"Stolen Pixels #255: The Veep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My latest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/articles\/view\/comics\/stolen-pixels\/8832-Stolen-Pixels-255-The-Veep\">comic<\/a> stars Kevin Butler. Yes, I know <a href=\"http:\/\/www.penny-arcade.com\/comic\/2011\/04\/25\">Penny Arcade kind of did a similar joke on Monday<\/a>, but I think this is a big enough target for all of us to shoot at without worrying about crossfire. <\/p>\n<p>This is a sad story. Sony made a lot of mistakes in the design and marketing of the PS3, but they&#8217;ve managed to correct everything they could fix.  The price is down, the library is respectable, and the developer tools have finally matured enough to mitigate or obfuscate the device&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/articles\/view\/columns\/experienced-points\/6280-Activision-vs-Sony\">unorthodox hardware<\/a>.  It&#8217;s been closing the gap with the Xbox 360 and giving consumers a real choice. <\/p>\n<p>And now this. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My latest comic stars Kevin Butler. Yes, I know Penny Arcade kind of did a similar joke on Monday, but I think this is a big enough target for all of us to shoot at without worrying about crossfire. This is a sad story. Sony made a lot of mistakes in the design and marketing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-column"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11492","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=11492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}