{"id":23723,"date":"2014-07-16T14:57:26","date_gmt":"2014-07-16T19:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=23723"},"modified":"2014-07-17T04:26:57","modified_gmt":"2014-07-17T09:26:57","slug":"marlow-briggs-special-ep1-marlow-briggs-and-the-better-than-it-should-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=23723","title":{"rendered":"Marlow Briggs Special EP1: Marlow Briggs and the Better Than It Should Be"},"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\/gtzdp7fsO5Q\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gtzdp7fsO5Q'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>Everything about this is just so diabolically absurd. The way Marlow walks with his palms facing backwards. The glitchy animations. The nonsensical setup. The Grade-A bulk AMERICAN CHEESE PRODUCT dialog. The way the main bad guy has this massive tent filled with nothing but a desk and henchmen. How he orders his henchwoman to kill Marlow with the (one would assume) incredibly rare, possibly fragile, certainly priceless, clearly impractical DOUBLE SCYTHE<span class='snote' title='1'>Actually, there are two blades on each end. Is&#8230; is this a QUAD SCYTHE?<\/span> instead of, you know, just shooting his dumb ass.  <\/p>\n<p>I like how the entire game wouldn&#8217;t have happened if Marlow wasn&#8217;t such a swaggering macho dunce. Like, he could have said, &#8220;Okay, sorry for trying to quit. We&#8217;re off to translate those codex things now. Bye!&#8221; And then just walked out. <\/p>\n<p>But noooo. He just had to pretend he was an invincible murder god. Although in his defense, his reward for being so stupid was to become an invincible murder god. So I dunno. Call it a wash.<\/p>\n<p>For the record: Rutskarn wasn&#8217;t available this week, and we didn&#8217;t want to finish Skyrim without him. Also, I feel like I really want to see Rutskarn&#8217;s reaction to this. We might come back after Skyrim is done. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link (YouTube) Everything about this is just so diabolically absurd. The way Marlow walks with his palms facing backwards. The glitchy animations. The nonsensical setup. The Grade-A bulk AMERICAN CHEESE PRODUCT dialog. The way the main bad guy has this massive tent filled with nothing but a desk and henchmen. How he orders his henchwoman [&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":[424],"class_list":["post-23723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spoilerwarning","tag-marlow-briggs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23723","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=23723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}