{"id":17417,"date":"2012-10-05T14:12:35","date_gmt":"2012-10-05T19:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=17417"},"modified":"2012-10-05T14:12:35","modified_gmt":"2012-10-05T19:12:35","slug":"mass-effect-ep8-oh-crap-a-popup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=17417","title":{"rendered":"Mass Effect EP8: Oh Crap, a Popup"},"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\/akqa74xha7Q\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=akqa74xha7Q'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>I know I&#8217;ve been kind to dear old Mass Effect this second time around, but this thing with the Mako magically appearing in the garage is <em>bonkers<\/em>. I can&#8217;t believe nobody took the time to justify or lampshade this. In fact, it kind of reminds me of <a href=\"?p=945\" title=\"The Plot-Driven Door\">Ye Olde Plot Door Rant<\/a>, where there&#8217;s a pointlessly obstructionist NPC who controls access to a painfully contrived locked door. You have to do this long, roundabout quest to get the door open, and when it&#8217;s over you discover that the door lock only ever applied to <em>you<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>This could have been done better.<\/p>\n<p>Also, when the VI pops up and says, &#8220;It looks like you&#8217;re trying to restore the facility&#8221;, it really makes me think of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Office_Assistant\" title=\"Office Assistant - Wikipedia\">Clippy The Office Assistant<\/a>. I never noticed it before, but now I can&#8217;t escape the notion that this must have been intentional. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link (YouTube) I know I&#8217;ve been kind to dear old Mass Effect this second time around, but this thing with the Mako magically appearing in the garage is bonkers. I can&#8217;t believe nobody took the time to justify or lampshade this. In fact, it kind of reminds me of Ye Olde Plot Door Rant, where [&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],"class_list":["post-17417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spoilerwarning","tag-mass-effect"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17417","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=17417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}