{"id":23164,"date":"2014-05-25T10:26:25","date_gmt":"2014-05-25T15:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=23164"},"modified":"2014-05-25T10:26:25","modified_gmt":"2014-05-25T15:26:25","slug":"skyrim-ep36-shffere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=23164","title":{"rendered":"Skyrim EP36: Shffere!"},"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\/DrjlYq3MiTg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DrjlYq3MiTg'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>You know we&#8217;re on a roll when we stop complaining about a Bethesda game so we can complain about another, older Bethesda game. Next week we&#8217;re getting back on the main quest.<\/p>\n<p>Also, you can tell I was getting tired when we recorded this. Almost everything out of my mouth was a reflexive movie quote, which is a sure sign that my higher functions have shut down and I&#8217;ve reverted to some sort of atavistic parrot-like behavior. <\/p>\n<p>If my head had been fully operational, I might have pointed out that the cannibalism intro is about as clumsy as it can be: A random NPC runs up to you, makes a ridiculous assumption, blathers a bunch of exposition that they have no reason to reveal, and your dialog response boils down to a binary &#8220;I accept&#8221; \/ &#8220;maybe I&#8217;ll accept later&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>This is a really fun game, but calling it a role-playing game is like calling <a href=\"?p=1624\">Serious Sam<\/a> a stealth game. Skyrim will let you do anything BUT roleplay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link (YouTube) You know we&#8217;re on a roll when we stop complaining about a Bethesda game so we can complain about another, older Bethesda game. Next week we&#8217;re getting back on the main quest. Also, you can tell I was getting tired when we recorded this. Almost everything out of my mouth was a reflexive [&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],"class_list":["post-23164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spoilerwarning","tag-skyrim"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23164","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=23164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}