{"id":11697,"date":"2011-05-20T10:30:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-20T15:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=11697"},"modified":"2011-05-20T10:39:54","modified_gmt":"2011-05-20T15:39:54","slug":"spoiler-warning-s5e20-simple-reading-comprehension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=11697","title":{"rendered":"Spoiler Warning S5E20: Simple Reading Comprehension"},"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\/AARiHYFH_eM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=AARiHYFH_eM'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>So, normal hiding and stealth boys don&#8217;t conceal you, but crouching in <em>front<\/em> of a house does?  The impassible wall of rock doesn&#8217;t provide cover from high explosives, but bombed-out house frames do?  They can nail you with parabolic ordnance when you&#8217;re on the run and changing direction, but they can&#8217;t nail you when you hold still after crouching behind some planks?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s true that the game gives you instructions on how to pass through town, but those instructions really only make sense when you&#8217;ve scouted out the town.  Once you&#8217;ve seen the town (and been blown up) the directions make sense, because then you know the boundaries and can make sense of stuff like &#8220;north-west corner of town&#8221;.  <\/p>\n<p>Easy or not, this is a pretty lame challenge.  It&#8217;s doesn&#8217;t make sense in terms of the rules of the real world.  It doesn&#8217;t make sense in terms of the game world. Suddenly the rules of cover, line of sight, stealth, and enemy targeting are all changed for this one &#8220;puzzle&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p><em>Did you put 100 points into sneak? Can you steal a man&#8217;s underpants without him noticing? Are you crouched behind a wall of rock, where nobody on the planet can see you? Well guess what, kid? Boom. That&#8217;s right: BOOM. Screw you and your skill points. <a href=\"?p=680\">You&#8217;re going to do this puzzle the way the DM intended<\/a>, or you&#8217;re not getting in here. <\/p>\n<p>Dang kids. Always trying to use their creativity and reasoning to solve things.  The sooner they realize the world is cheap, unfair, and arbitrary, they better off they are.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Hmm. We got a little bitter at the end, didn&#8217;t we? Oopsie.<\/p>\n<p>Now you can see why we were dreading coming here. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link (YouTube) So, normal hiding and stealth boys don&#8217;t conceal you, but crouching in front of a house does? The impassible wall of rock doesn&#8217;t provide cover from high explosives, but bombed-out house frames do? They can nail you with parabolic ordnance when you&#8217;re on the run and changing direction, but they can&#8217;t nail you [&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-11697","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\/11697","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=11697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}