{"id":23574,"date":"2014-07-04T14:16:36","date_gmt":"2014-07-04T19:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=23574"},"modified":"2014-07-04T14:17:53","modified_gmt":"2014-07-04T19:17:53","slug":"skyrim-ep51-the-peace-talks-were-successful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=23574","title":{"rendered":"Skyrim EP51: The Peace Talks Were Successful!"},"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\/EMgbS_42Vyo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EMgbS_42Vyo'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So Catburt, even though the dragon Parthanblarg has lived in Skyrim for thousands of years without causing trouble, and even though he&#8217;s been indispensable in our efforts to save the world, and even though he&#8217;s been pretty trusting of us so far, he needs to die. And even though you&#8217;re nominally his friend and we&#8217;ve been retconned as &#8216;dragon hunters&#8217;, we&#8217;re asking YOU to do it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It is shocking how quickly this game will shift between great ambition and utter stupidity. Without even noticing. Without even pausing for a breath. <\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t even wrap my head around how silly it is to have all of the great leaders of Skyrim hike to and from <strong>the mountaintop<\/strong>, with no escort, during wartime, all at once, through bears and trolls and allegedly bad weather, <strong>on foot<\/strong>. Frankly, I kind of think the Thalmor blew it here. Just one assassination would have caused the whole thing to backfire and make the war that much bloodier. <\/p>\n<p>A few weeks ago we were talking about our favorite seasons of Spoiler Warning. For the record: <em>This<\/em> is my new favorite episode. Especially the end. <\/p>\n<p>Catburt is a horrible son of a bitch, and I love him for it. He is <strong>absolutely<\/strong> the hero Skyrim deserves. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link (YouTube) &#8220;So Catburt, even though the dragon Parthanblarg has lived in Skyrim for thousands of years without causing trouble, and even though he&#8217;s been indispensable in our efforts to save the world, and even though he&#8217;s been pretty trusting of us so far, he needs to die. And even though you&#8217;re nominally his friend [&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-23574","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\/23574","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=23574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}