{"id":20518,"date":"2013-07-31T18:09:25","date_gmt":"2013-07-31T23:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=20518"},"modified":"2013-07-31T20:19:52","modified_gmt":"2013-08-01T01:19:52","slug":"tomb-raider-ep19-a-couple-of-tools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=20518","title":{"rendered":"Tomb Raider EP19: A Couple of Tools"},"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\/AjQ_rUK2498\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=AjQ_rUK2498'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>No Mumbles this week, since she had important supervillains to punch in the face. No Rutskarn this week, because [insert joke about Rutskarn being eight years old]! But we did have <a href=\"http:\/\/bluescreenofawesome.com\/\">Jarenth<\/a>. On the downside, Jarenth caused an inordinate number of deaths. Like, I don&#8217;t know how he manages to suck at the game this bad. <\/p>\n<p>I mentioned on <a href=\"?p=20508\" title=\"Diecast #23: Phil Fish, Gamer Fury, Company of Heroes\">the podcast<\/a> that I tend to binge on games. When I don&#8217;t, I tend to have mishaps like the one we talked about in this episode. Back when Tomb Raider was still fresh, I took a couple of days off from it.  When I came back, I misunderstood how rope arrows worked. I had it in my head that it was context-based and that shooting at rope-arrow surfaces with the standard attack button would automatically cause it to fire a rope arrow. (For the record, there&#8217;s a special rope-arrow button. On the PC, it&#8217;s middle mouse button.)<\/p>\n<p>I thought the game was glitching out when it refused to shoot a rope arrow at the ladder\/crane thing. <em>Hey! The cursor is red, it should fire a rope arrow when I shoot at this. Am I at the wrong angle? Do I need to be closer? Maybe up on this platform?<\/em> <\/p>\n<p>Moments like this can really take the fun out of a game. This is yet another way in which Games Are Very Much Not Movies. If you pause a movie for a couple of days you might forget the plot, but you&#8217;ll never forget something in a way that makes it impossible to watch the rest of the movie. <\/p>\n<p>So that&#8217;s why I binge on games. After you play a few thousand videogames, their various control schemes, conventions, and idiosyncrasies kind of blur together.<\/p>\n<p>EDIT: So we can&#8217;t embed the video here. Looks like somebody is claiming they own a segment of this video. (The part where Lara ascends away from the ship.) And because we&#8217;re using &#8220;their&#8221; footage YouTube has nailed us with a copyright infringing claim. And now embedding is disabled. <\/p>\n<p>This entire copyright system on YouTube is ludicrous. There is something deeply Kafkaesque about arguing with the YouTube robot about using content from an anonymous corporation. That&#8217;s a really good basis for dystopian fiction, right there. Thankfully it&#8217;s just a dumb claim against an internet video and not something dangerous, but still. This sort of thing is SO unjust and nonsensical it&#8217;s hard not to be outraged just by the sheer bloody-mindedness of it all. <\/p>\n<p>Anyway. We&#8217;re working on it. Hopefully we can clear this claim and get back to normal.<\/p>\n<p>EDIT II: Maybe the claim isn&#8217;t related to the embed lockout.  I just managed to allow embedding without dealing with the claim. I have no idea. Apparently on an advanced options screen there&#8217;s a checkmark for allowing or forbidding embeds, and it was mysteriously unchecked. I&#8217;m mystified how it got that way, but whatever. Hopefully no more strangeness.<\/p>\n<p>YouTube copyright matching system still sucks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link (YouTube) No Mumbles this week, since she had important supervillains to punch in the face. No Rutskarn this week, because [insert joke about Rutskarn being eight years old]! But we did have Jarenth. On the downside, Jarenth caused an inordinate number of deaths. Like, I don&#8217;t know how he manages to suck at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[188],"tags":[138],"class_list":["post-20518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spoilerwarning","tag-tomb-raider"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20518","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=20518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}