{"id":23728,"date":"2014-07-17T14:58:31","date_gmt":"2014-07-17T19:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=23728"},"modified":"2014-07-17T15:55:42","modified_gmt":"2014-07-17T20:55:42","slug":"marlow-briggs-ep2marlow-briggs-and-the-oh-god-the-spinning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=23728","title":{"rendered":"Marlow Briggs EP2:<br\/>Marlow Briggs and the OH GOD THE SPINNING"},"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\/igdxpE0vokQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=igdxpE0vokQ'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>CAUTION: This episode is basically 20 minutes of low-FOV camera-spinning. <\/p>\n<p>In the debate of &#8220;did the developers realize what they were doing?&#8221; I think I&#8217;ve come down on the side of believing that they are over-enthusiastic, wide-eyed, naive, and completely lacking in self-awareness. Because if somebody did this on purpose I owe them a spin-kick to to side of the head. Actually no. Just a regular kick. I&#8217;ve had enough spinning. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d also like to point out that the vehicle we see at the start of the episode isn&#8217;t as preposterous as it might seem. It&#8217;s based on a real machine, the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bagger_288\">Bagger 288<\/a>, which is used to remove massive volumes of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Overburden\">overburden<\/a> (basically, useless dirt and rock sitting on top of the stuff you want) when strip-mining:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><table   class=\"\" cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' border='0' align='center'><tr><td><img src='https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/images\/badger288a.jpg' class='insetimage'   alt='badger288a.jpg' title='badger288a.jpg'\/><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>That one doesn&#8217;t really give a good sense of scale. Here&#8217;s another:<\/p>\n<p><table   class=\"\" cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' border='0' align='center'><tr><td><img src='https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/images\/badger288b.jpg' class='insetimage'   alt='badger288b.jpg' title='badger288b.jpg'\/><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>So it&#8217;s a real machine! Of course, it would completely defeat the purpose of the device to place it indoors. In a pool of lava. And surround it with a mine cart roller-coaster track<span class='snote' title='1'>A ZERO FRICTION track that doesn&#8217;t slow the cart down no matter how many times it goes around the loop. Why is the track a loop again?<\/span>. And guard it with helicopters. And an army of mooks. <\/p>\n<p>And then we get to the ten-times-larger machine at the end of the episode and all bets are off. I&#8217;m pretty sure that thing is larger than an aircraft carrier. It&#8217;s basically a pair of mook convention centers stacked on top of each other. On wheels. On fire. <\/p>\n<p>I may have to spin-kick the devs whether they meant to do this or not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link (YouTube) CAUTION: This episode is basically 20 minutes of low-FOV camera-spinning. In the debate of &#8220;did the developers realize what they were doing?&#8221; I think I&#8217;ve come down on the side of believing that they are over-enthusiastic, wide-eyed, naive, and completely lacking in self-awareness. 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