{"id":14891,"date":"2012-01-28T18:25:19","date_gmt":"2012-01-28T23:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=14891"},"modified":"2012-01-28T18:25:19","modified_gmt":"2012-01-28T23:25:19","slug":"spoiler-warning-anniversary-the-second","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=14891","title":{"rendered":"Spoiler Warning: Anniversary The Second"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the 28th of January. You know what that means?<\/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\/CD-9WeCVVsY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CD-9WeCVVsY'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s overwhelming, really, to look at the calendar and realise that we&#8217;ve been doing Spoiler Warning for two years now. It certainly doesn&#8217;t seem like it&#8217;s been that long. Heck, to me, it seems like just a few months ago that I ran the marathon editing session for the hilarious <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=10529\">first anniversary episode<\/a> of Amnesia: The Dark Descent. And that episode is still, in my mind, neck and neck with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=11222\">Railroad to Nowhere<\/a> for our very best work on this series.<\/p>\n<p>Then again, looking back on our very first episodes, they certainly seems like a world away from what we do now. For the editing of this episode I ended up digging deep back in my archives and watching a bit of the end of the first season and beginning of the second, and I was cringing the entire way through. Awkward pauses large enough to drive a vertibird through, terrible image quality, poor editing. It&#8217;s a wonder we stuck with it long enough for things to get out of those dark ages. But get through them we did, and look at all the games we&#8217;ve covered since! Deus Ex is our seventh full game, and we&#8217;ve nearly covered an eighth with our randomly scheduled off-time episodes of Half Life 2. That&#8217;s almost four games per year. <\/p>\n<p>Still, as cringe-worthy as it is to look back at the early episodes, it also highlights, to me, how much really has improved &#8211; both between us as a group and our ability to deliver interesting commentary and humor simultaneously without tripping all over ourselves &#8211; and also in my own abilities to properly edit the series. When Spoiler Warning started, it was just an idea I&#8217;d had &#8211; I had no idea how video editing worked, what &#8220;codecs&#8221; really were, or how to sort out all of the black magic I found myself diving headfirst into. Two years later, we have proper credit sequences, full 720p HD videos, and a much tighter flow to each every new episode. I can scarcely believe it when I remember how confused I was at the beginning. <\/p>\n<p>What about you guys? What are your favorite Spoiler Warning memories from the past two years?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the 28th of January. You know what that means? Link (YouTube) It&#8217;s overwhelming, really, to look at the calendar and realise that we&#8217;ve been doing Spoiler Warning for two years now. It certainly doesn&#8217;t seem like it&#8217;s been that long. Heck, to me, it seems like just a few months ago that I ran [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14891","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\/14891","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14891\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}