{"id":21078,"date":"2013-09-15T06:46:57","date_gmt":"2013-09-15T11:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=21078"},"modified":"2013-09-15T06:46:57","modified_gmt":"2013-09-15T11:46:57","slug":"a-very-slender-evening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=21078","title":{"rendered":"A Very Slender Evening"},"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\/1zeTXqzoLoQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1zeTXqzoLoQ'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><br \/>\n<i>Slender: The Arrival <\/i>is a modernist art game about the forbidden love between two turn-of-the-century French cobblers. Clocking in at around 100 hours of gameplay (not counting the optional riddle minigames), this sweet-natured narrative is punctuated by sliding block puzzles, tongue-in-cheek dating sections, and a surprisingly robust storefront simulation. It&#39;s really surprising the game got as much press as it did, considering its unconventional setting, chipper tone, and brief (but surprisingly explicit) lovemaking scene inside the alien spaceship.<\/p>\n<p>It&#39;s a really great title, if you hate found-footage games about murderghosts that make you scream and vomit and throw your keyboard across the room.<\/p>\n<p>And now for an actual true statement: if you want to listen to Chris freak out for thirty minutes like someone taped spiders to the insides of his eyelids, this is a pretty good video to watch.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s content features Josh, Chris, Mumbles, and myself. &#8220;But Rutskarn!&#8221; you exclaim, &#8220;Surely the real star of the video is that despicable cad, the Slender Man!&#8221; You&#39;re not wrong, dear reader. So the question remains:<i> which of the four of us actually <\/i>is<i> the Slender Man? <\/i><\/p>\n<p>You decide. But decide quickly, and whatever you do, when you watch this video&#8230;don&#39;t turn around.<\/p>\n<p>Because then you won&#39;t be able to see the video. Which is, presumably, in front of you. You have used a computer before, right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link (YouTube) Slender: The Arrival is a modernist art game about the forbidden love between two turn-of-the-century French cobblers. Clocking in at around 100 hours of gameplay (not counting the optional riddle minigames), this sweet-natured narrative is punctuated by sliding block puzzles, tongue-in-cheek dating sections, and a surprisingly robust storefront simulation. It&#39;s really surprising the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[188],"tags":[316,314,315],"class_list":["post-21078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spoilerwarning","tag-entire-chris-is-baby","tag-ruskarn","tag-slenderman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21078","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}