{"id":1926,"date":"2008-10-07T08:00:21","date_gmt":"2008-10-07T13:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=1926"},"modified":"2008-10-07T10:06:46","modified_gmt":"2008-10-07T15:06:46","slug":"stolen-pixels-27clean-slate-indeed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=1926","title":{"rendered":"Stolen Pixels #27:<br\/>Clean Slate, Indeed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/articles\/view\/comics\/stolen-pixels\/5324-Stolen-Pixels-27-Clean-Slate-Indeed\">The latest Stolen Pixels<\/a> brings us to the world of&#8230; whatever they call that planet depicted in Tabula Rasa. That is to say, the comic is about Tabula Rasa.<\/p>\n<p>A note on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/articles\/view\/comics\/stolen-pixels\/5310-Stolen-Pixels-26-Awesome-d-Episode-5\">previous one<\/a>.  It became obvious from some of the feedback that the adventure game references sailed right by a lot of readers.  If you&#8217;re one of those whipper-snappers that thinks that the dawn of videogames happened with the release of the PS2, then allow me to correct some of the deficiencies of your education:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Guybrush is a reference to the Monkey Island Series.\n<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Manny&#8221; is a reference to Grim Fandango.\n<\/li>\n<li>Monolith Burgers is a reference to the Space Quest series.\n<\/li>\n<li>April Ryan is a reference to The Longest Journey.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I really wanted one more in there, but those last panels were getting too dang crowded.  I would like to have squeezed in a nod towards Full Throttle, Leisure Suit Larry, Day of the Tentacle, or the King&#8217;s Quest series.  <\/p>\n<p>Ah well.  I liked how it ended anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest Stolen Pixels brings us to the world of&#8230; whatever they call that planet depicted in Tabula Rasa. That is to say, the comic is about Tabula Rasa. A note on the previous one. It became obvious from some of the feedback that the adventure game references sailed right by a lot of readers. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-column"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1926","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=1926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}