{"id":17201,"date":"2012-09-14T15:45:31","date_gmt":"2012-09-14T20:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=17201"},"modified":"2012-09-14T15:51:28","modified_gmt":"2012-09-14T20:51:28","slug":"mass-effect-ep1-the-tonight-show-with-commander-shepard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=17201","title":{"rendered":"Mass Effect EP1: The Tonight Show With Commander Shepard"},"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\/m8Kvuu68Xlo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=m8Kvuu68Xlo'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>I apologize in advance. Actually, it&#8217;s too late for that. If I was going to do that, the apology should come BEFORE the video embed. So I apologize for the late advance apology, for the awkwardness of <em>this<\/em> apology, and for the video you may have just watched without the comfort of a preemptive apology. I may apologize for more things later. This isn&#8217;t very organized. I&#8217;m sorry. <\/p>\n<p>So this was the first ever episode of Spoiler Warning, <a href=\"?p=6796\" title=\"Spoiler Warning: Mass Effect Part 1\">which appeared in January 2010<\/a>. This was done while <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Conan_O%27Brien#Departure_from_The_Tonight_Show\" title=\"Conan O'Brian Departure from The Tonight Show - Wikipedia\">Conan was being booted from the Tonight Show<\/a>, which is a pop-culture reference that is now well past its sell-by date. <\/p>\n<p>This episode is <strong>one hour and eleven minutes<\/strong> long. By <em>Crom<\/em> that is ridiculous. As Josh said in the YouTube notes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The very first episode of Spoiler Warning ever published, now finally available on Youtube in the aftermath of Viddler&#8217;s self-inflicted and ever-so-deserved financial suicide. Featuring 480p, awkward commentary, more awkward jokes, terrible audio, lawful-good gameplay, and the ever-elusive not-the-baseball-player-Randy Johnson. This episode is extremely&#8230; odd &#8211; and bad, by our current standards. But it was the first step we took on the long road of establishing the Spoiler Warning formula.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I still get a pang of nostalgia when I hear that music at the opening. I&#8217;d love to play the trilogy suggested by this first game. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link (YouTube) I apologize in advance. Actually, it&#8217;s too late for that. If I was going to do that, the apology should come BEFORE the video embed. So I apologize for the late advance apology, for the awkwardness of this apology, and for the video you may have just watched without the comfort of a [&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":[71,208],"class_list":["post-17201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spoilerwarning","tag-mass-effect","tag-spoiler-warning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17201","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=17201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}