{"id":13964,"date":"2011-10-26T10:52:57","date_gmt":"2011-10-26T15:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=13964"},"modified":"2011-10-26T17:15:42","modified_gmt":"2011-10-26T22:15:42","slug":"spoiler-warning-half-life-2-episode-9-highway-17-abridged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=13964","title":{"rendered":"Spoiler Warning Half Life 2 Episode 9: Highway 17, Abridged"},"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\/UaPI3SGEvb4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UaPI3SGEvb4'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re back to our journey through Half-Life 2.  <\/p>\n<p>Once again I would like to stress how willing I am to pay for a &#8220;remastered&#8221; version of this game that removes the loading screens.  Throw in some high-def textures and a scene where Greedo shoots first, and boom! Instant cash. Valve, I&#8217;m expressing my willingness to have my nostalgia exploited for your material gain.  Think it over, ok?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d be curious to see how this sequence would look if we could actually see from one end of the bridge to the other. I&#8217;m sure the fog is there for polygon control, which is no longer an issue now that we&#8217;re living in the future.  Having said that, it&#8217;s possible that being able to see from one end to the other would make it less mysterious.  There&#8217;s something haunting about being adrift in that fog.  Removing the fog might make the bridge seem even more massive and imposing, but it might also make it more boring.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link (YouTube) We&#8217;re back to our journey through Half-Life 2. Once again I would like to stress how willing I am to pay for a &#8220;remastered&#8221; version of this game that removes the loading screens. Throw in some high-def textures and a scene where Greedo shoots first, and boom! Instant cash. Valve, I&#8217;m expressing my [&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":[208],"class_list":["post-13964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spoilerwarning","tag-spoiler-warning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13964","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=13964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13964\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}