{"id":14368,"date":"2011-12-17T18:31:51","date_gmt":"2011-12-17T23:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=14368"},"modified":"2011-12-18T09:24:21","modified_gmt":"2011-12-18T14:24:21","slug":"spoiler-warning-half-life-2-special-ep16-expose-the-core","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=14368","title":{"rendered":"Spoiler Warning Half Life 2 Special EP16: Expose the Core"},"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\/e4324geUGhI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=e4324geUGhI'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>And so ends another week of Half-Lifery. This entry might actually be a couple of days late. Yes, I believe it is. In fairness, I think the lion&#8217;s share of the blame should fall to Google.  Partly because they&#8217;re a multi-billion dollar company and can afford to shoulder a little blame now and again, but also because it&#8217;s <em>all their fault<\/em>. I don&#8217;t know what the problem was this week.  YouTube was so slow and and unreliable that I was expecting them to license the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Failwhale.png\">fail whale<\/a> from Twitter.  <\/p>\n<p>This fight at the end of the core-exposing sequence is kind of interesting.  I&#8217;ve died many times at that point.  That exact same point.  It&#8217;s amazing to see that on multiple play-throughs, players seem to run out of health at exactly the same moment. <\/p>\n<p>Looking back, I think my main problem was recklessness.  The earlier waves of guys were trivial.  I started off playing carefully, but pretty soon I&#8217;d get impatient and start running up to the shield so I could gun them down as soon as they appeared.  I&#8217;d get further and further from the supplies and shelter of where Alyx is.  Then that final wave hits.  It&#8217;s just a couple of extra guys to fight, but they&#8217;re tougher and they&#8217;re coming in from both sides.  It&#8217;s not a huge problem if you&#8217;re ready for them, but it&#8217;s fatal if you&#8217;re in the middle of performing a Leroy Jenkins. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link (YouTube) And so ends another week of Half-Lifery. This entry might actually be a couple of days late. Yes, I believe it is. In fairness, I think the lion&#8217;s share of the blame should fall to Google. Partly because they&#8217;re a multi-billion dollar company and can afford to shoulder a little blame now and [&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":[23,208],"class_list":["post-14368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spoilerwarning","tag-half-life","tag-spoiler-warning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14368","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=14368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}