{"id":22343,"date":"2014-02-23T08:48:12","date_gmt":"2014-02-23T13:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=22343"},"modified":"2014-02-23T08:48:12","modified_gmt":"2014-02-23T13:48:12","slug":"skyrim-ep9-deserved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=22343","title":{"rendered":"Skyrim EP9: #Deserved"},"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\/bV5VKNOyeNg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bV5VKNOyeNg'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>Slight Spoiler: The Greybeards are a wise order of quasi-religious monks and masters of The Voice, but they&#8217;re really sensitive about people taking their knicknacks. <\/p>\n<p>We talk about their voice work in this episode. I actually brought this up <a href=\"?p=14109\">way back in 2011<\/a>, when Bethesda released the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XJ7lmWc14uo\">Sound of Skyrim<\/a> promotional video. At the time I said&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Check out the side-by-side of Christopher Plummer at 6:32. That guy is delivering his lines masterfully. You can close your eyes and feel the weight of his performance. Then you look at his character on the right and the whole thing suddenly comes off as kind of wooden because his in-game character just doesn&#39;t seem to be into it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I know it&#8217;s been part of the series for over a decade, but I really think they need to retire the camera-grab face-zoom system they use for conversation. That was the right way to go when dialog was text-based and the faces were used to show who you were talking to, but it clashes with the voice-everything approach they&#8217;re using today. <\/p>\n<p>And here is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0whqNAN-wX4\">Grill Skillz<\/a>, which Rutskarn mentioned. For some reason. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link (YouTube) Slight Spoiler: The Greybeards are a wise order of quasi-religious monks and masters of The Voice, but they&#8217;re really sensitive about people taking their knicknacks. We talk about their voice work in this episode. I actually brought this up way back in 2011, when Bethesda released the Sound of Skyrim promotional video. At [&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":[209,208],"class_list":["post-22343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spoilerwarning","tag-skyrim","tag-spoiler-warning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22343","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=22343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}