{"id":20867,"date":"2013-08-29T08:06:34","date_gmt":"2013-08-29T13:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=20867"},"modified":"2013-08-29T08:17:16","modified_gmt":"2013-08-29T13:17:16","slug":"bioshock-ep12-stop-me-if-youve-heard-this-before","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=20867","title":{"rendered":"Bioshock EP12: Stop Me if You&#8217;ve Heard This Before"},"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\/4LTb4POKG50\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4LTb4POKG50'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>NOTE: Eagle-eyed readers may have caught the mistake I made earlier today: For about ten minutes I did accidentally post episode 13 instead of episode 12 here. My bad. In my defense, I was in another window, writing you a post about something unrelated to BioShock. So you kind of win either way.<\/p>\n<p>At any rate, here are my original comments for this post as they appeared <a href=\"?p=9635\">way back in 2010<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><em>The Big Daddy transformation was a cavalcade of lazy plotting, supported by a layer of contrivances, and glued together with a few pounds of sloppy videogame logic. I think it actually undermines the earlier themes about free will.  Now that you&#8217;re no longer a slave and you&#8217;re free to think for yourself, the game requires you to do something dumber and more illogical than anything that you did while you were supposedly under control of others. <\/p>\n<p>This section of the game very nearly wins the title of &#8220;Most Obnoxious Plot Door&#8221;, a title which <a href=\"?p=945\">currently belongs to Neverwinter Nights 2<\/a>.  But BioShock gets off the hook because this plot door only takes about thirty minutes, not five hours. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a shame we had to cut this sequence in the middle.  We point out the rest of the flaws with the Big Daddy Quest in the next episode.  Then there&#8217;s one more mini-episode after that one where we wrap this series up.  We&#8217;ve already selected our next game, so your pleas are futile. <\/p>\n<p>Enjoy!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link (YouTube) NOTE: Eagle-eyed readers may have caught the mistake I made earlier today: For about ten minutes I did accidentally post episode 13 instead of episode 12 here. My bad. In my defense, I was in another window, writing you a post about something unrelated to BioShock. So you kind of win either way. [&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":[29],"class_list":["post-20867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spoilerwarning","tag-bioshock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20867","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=20867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}