{"id":14939,"date":"2012-02-02T13:32:40","date_gmt":"2012-02-02T18:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=14939"},"modified":"2012-02-02T13:45:25","modified_gmt":"2012-02-02T18:45:25","slug":"deus-ex-human-revolution-ep13shoots-ladders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=14939","title":{"rendered":"Deus Ex Human Revolution EP13:Shoots &#038; Ladders"},"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\/9ACzwqE9ThM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9ACzwqE9ThM'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>A side note: I&#8217;ve updated the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/spoilerwarning\/\">Spoiler Warning<\/a> page. Hopefully this will make it easier to surf the archives.  I know I get lost looking for particular episodes, and I&#8217;m thinking maybe being able to see the titles will help.<\/p>\n<p>As I mentioned in the episode, the &#8220;vast underground complex filled with guards and control rooms&#8221; is pretty much a required component of the Deus Ex conspiracy-driven story, but it flies apart if you do something foolish like think about it. Having fifty or a hundred people all pile into an abandoned building every morning would be a pretty big giveaway.  At lunchtime a half dozen people would file out, grab huge piles of Starbucks and take-out food, and disappear into the building again.  <\/p>\n<p>You could fix this by saying the people live in the base, but then you have the problem of needing to bring in truck loads of food every couple of weeks. You&#8217;d need laundry infrastructure, dorms, and a plan for getting rid of all the trash. There would be little bits of traffic every couple of weeks as personnel rotated in and out of their six-month shifts. Again, people would notice.  <\/p>\n<p>Which brings up the question of why this base needs to be in a city at all.  What is this place for?  I understand they were spying on Sarif from here, but certainly they didn&#8217;t need ALL of these people for a job like that.  And those people could have worked out of an office tower downtown without really raising any eyebrows.  What is it that the bad guys want to accomplish that requires a sprawling, Dwarf-like warren under the earth? <\/p>\n<p>EDIT: For the record, I&#8217;m not saying these are plot holes or anything.  I&#8217;m just musing.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link (YouTube) A side note: I&#8217;ve updated the Spoiler Warning page. Hopefully this will make it easier to surf the archives. I know I get lost looking for particular episodes, and I&#8217;m thinking maybe being able to see the titles will help. As I mentioned in the episode, the &#8220;vast underground complex filled with guards [&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":[76,208],"class_list":["post-14939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spoilerwarning","tag-deus-ex","tag-spoiler-warning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14939","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=14939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}