{"id":16054,"date":"2012-05-30T15:45:26","date_gmt":"2012-05-30T20:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=16054"},"modified":"2012-05-31T18:12:50","modified_gmt":"2012-05-31T23:12:50","slug":"alan-wake-ep22-the-hellivator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=16054","title":{"rendered":"Alan Wake EP22: The Hellevator"},"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\/1rPaRsuKSPw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1rPaRsuKSPw'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>The Mr. Scratch trailer I was talking about is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?feature=endscreen&#038;NR=1&#038;v=7cEXYWJPMIA\">here<\/a>. And while looking up that one, I found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=m6gSyqa79UE\">another, much shorter one<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Also, I suppose we kind of broke our own rules with regards to political talk.  On the other hand, we weren&#8217;t doing a critique of any particular viewpoint, but on the way a particular individual espoused a viewpoint while acting hypocritically against those stated values.  So you can continue the conversation, but this isn&#8217;t some kind of open season pass to start sniping at various political groups. <\/p>\n<p>However, while writing this post I read <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Curt_Schilling\">Schilling&#8217;s Wikipedia page<\/a>, where it mentions that he campaigned for Bush.  That makes it seem kind of unlikely that he&#8217;s actually a Libertarian.  So, if I&#8217;ve mis-characterized or misunderstood his politics I apologize.  Still&#8230;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>They moved an entire studio to Rhode Island.\n<\/li>\n<li>They did this to get their hands on a <strong>seventy five million dollar<\/strong> loan from the government.\n<\/li>\n<li>They got this loan by promising to bring 450 jobs to the area.\n<\/li>\n<li>They entered the crowded market of fantasy RPGs and their game failed to perform.\n<\/li>\n<li>The studio went broke and laid everyone off.\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>So the people of Rhode Island are out $75 million, and they didn&#8217;t even get the jobs in return. The studio is dead. The employees picked up, moved to a new place, slaved away making a game, and were then canned as soon as the thing was done.  <\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a lot wrong there, and I don&#8217;t think there&#8217;s much of a political argument to be made over this. It was a bad idea and everyone lost. The only winners are the people who liked the game. While it&#8217;s nice to see that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metacritic.com\/game\/xbox-360\/kingdoms-of-amalur-reckoning\">the game scored 80% on Metacritic<\/a>, that&#8217;s not all that impressive.  I mean, the $75 million loan was bigger than the budgets of a lot of games.  I&#8217;ll bet a lot of games could perform better if we handed them that kind of money.  (Just imagine what Vampire: Bloodlines or KOTOR 2 could have done with just a tenth of that.) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link (YouTube) The Mr. Scratch trailer I was talking about is here. And while looking up that one, I found another, much shorter one. Also, I suppose we kind of broke our own rules with regards to political talk. On the other hand, we weren&#8217;t doing a critique of any particular viewpoint, but on the [&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":[232,208],"class_list":["post-16054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spoilerwarning","tag-alan-wake","tag-spoiler-warning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16054","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=16054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16054\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}