{"id":22440,"date":"2014-03-06T19:09:22","date_gmt":"2014-03-07T00:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=22440"},"modified":"2014-03-06T19:09:22","modified_gmt":"2014-03-07T00:09:22","slug":"skyrim-ep14-bad-kitty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=22440","title":{"rendered":"Skyrim EP14: Bad Kitty"},"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\/ob1p9jfzkvE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ob1p9jfzkvE'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>Rutskarn alluded to <a href=\"?p=1144\" title=\"Railroad Goes Ever on and on\">this strip from DM of the Rings<\/a>. Been a while since the ol&#8217; webcomic came up in conversation.<\/p>\n<p>I couldn&#8217;t remember which strip had the joke he was talking about, but I did remember it had the phrase &#8220;beautiful symbiosis&#8221;. I typed the phrase into Google, told it to look on my site, and Google came back with the goods. That&#8217;s magical. All the dialog is an image. I never bothered to put the dialog in the alt image text (or somewhere nearby) so that search engines could find it. So how did Google know the phrase appeared in in that comic? My best guess is that Google came up with the result based on people quoting it elsewhere? Maybe? I don&#8217;t know. <\/p>\n<p>So this episode is a great example of railroading gone wrong. Personally I&#8217;d rather have the freedom to break the game than constantly find myself bumping into ad-hoc rules designed to &#8220;protect&#8221; me from breaking the quest. But just to play Devil&#8217;s Advocate: Do most players want this freedom? I&#8217;m honestly curious.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link (YouTube) Rutskarn alluded to this strip from DM of the Rings. Been a while since the ol&#8217; webcomic came up in conversation. I couldn&#8217;t remember which strip had the joke he was talking about, but I did remember it had the phrase &#8220;beautiful symbiosis&#8221;. I typed the phrase into Google, told it to look [&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":[308,209,208],"class_list":["post-22440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spoilerwarning","tag-elder-scrolls","tag-skyrim","tag-spoiler-warning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22440","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=22440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}