{"id":12411,"date":"2011-07-20T08:40:18","date_gmt":"2011-07-20T13:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=12411"},"modified":"2011-07-20T08:40:57","modified_gmt":"2011-07-20T13:40:57","slug":"spoiler-warning-half-life-2-the-it-guy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=12411","title":{"rendered":"Spoiler Warning: Half-Life 2: The IT Guy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a year and a half of constant rage and bile, Spoiler Warning brings you a long, uncomfortable love letter to Half-Life 2.  Will our sickeningly sweet gushing throw you into a diabetic shock? Let&#8217;s find out&#8230;<\/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\/-nAeXaK4WsM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-nAeXaK4WsM'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>Note how City 17 is run-down, disheveled, and dirty, while at the same time still colorful.  Everyone who has ever inflicted a brown shooter on the public should be made to sit in the corner and watch these first few levels.  And then they should have to write on the chalkboard, &#8220;I will not squander tens of millions of dollars making colorless gameworlds which are devoid of contrast  have no visual separation between foreground, background, and character elements.&#8221; 100 times.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a year and a half of constant rage and bile, Spoiler Warning brings you a long, uncomfortable love letter to Half-Life 2. Will our sickeningly sweet gushing throw you into a diabetic shock? Let&#8217;s find out&#8230; Link (YouTube) Note how City 17 is run-down, disheveled, and dirty, while at the same time still colorful. [&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-12411","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\/12411","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=12411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}