{"id":1434,"date":"2007-11-26T08:00:45","date_gmt":"2007-11-26T13:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=1434"},"modified":"2007-11-26T04:33:25","modified_gmt":"2007-11-26T09:33:25","slug":"push-the-button","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=1434","title":{"rendered":"Push The Button!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a while since I made a video.  I&#8217;ll probably never recapture the raging success of my <a href=\"?p=708\">first one<\/a>, which now has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uQrC_C6SexI\">over a million views on YouTube<\/a> and almost as many immitators. But I enjoy making these, even if they reveal the genius of the Bowlercoaster to be mostly a work of accident.  <\/p>\n<p>Here is my latest effort:<\/p>\n<p><center><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/FyQoD4_ycDs&#038;rel=1\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/FyQoD4_ycDs&#038;rel=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n<p>And a thousand curses on YouTube for <i>always<\/i> chopping off the last couple of seconds of video.  I even padded this one on the end and it still got clipped.  <\/p>\n<p>Also, I never noticed until I watched the movie, but the Heli Bombs in Half-Life 2 look a <i>lot<\/i> like the parts of GLADOS from Portal.  A lot.  Like, is that the same dang model?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a while since I made a video. I&#8217;ll probably never recapture the raging success of my first one, which now has over a million views on YouTube and almost as many immitators. But I enjoy making these, even if they reveal the genius of the Bowlercoaster to be mostly a work of accident. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-1434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dream-cast","tag-half-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1434","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=1434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}