{"id":23735,"date":"2014-07-18T17:19:20","date_gmt":"2014-07-18T22:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=23735"},"modified":"2014-07-18T17:19:20","modified_gmt":"2014-07-18T22:19:20","slug":"marlow-briggs-ep3-marlow-briggs-and-the-refinery-of-doom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=23735","title":{"rendered":"Marlow Briggs EP3: Marlow Briggs and the Refinery of DOOM"},"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\/2VIDpD-CTM8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2VIDpD-CTM8'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>Well, that was certainly three episodes of Spoiler Warning playing a videogame about a mask that makes a fireman come back from the dead to rescue an archaeologist from the world&#8217;s #1 consumer of orange helicopters.  <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not kidding when I say that Strong Bad as a streamer should be a thing:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><table   class=\"\" cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' border='0' align='center'><tr><td><img src='https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/images\/marlow_briggs_sb.jpg' class='insetimage'   alt='marlow_briggs_sb.jpg' title='marlow_briggs_sb.jpg'\/><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s an awesome way to cheaply produce an hour of content. Matt just needs to play a stupid game and free-associate on it in his Strong Bad voice. There are real people who make their actual living doing this who aren&#8217;t half as funny or interesting as Strong Bad. <\/p>\n<p>Also, the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Matt_Chapman\">Chapman brothers<\/a> really need to do a Patreon. This is not a joke. This is a serious thing I&#8217;m saying. If <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/shamusyoung\">a loser like me<\/a> can bring in $1,400 a month writing text about his <a href=\"?page_id=16458\">shortcomings as a programmer<\/a>, then the creators of Homestar ought to be able to make ten times that. At least. <\/p>\n<p>Also, I feel an opportunity was missed by not naming this game <em>Marlow Briggs and the Whatever of Bullshit Thing<\/em>. Maybe they&#8217;re saving that for the sequel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link (YouTube) Well, that was certainly three episodes of Spoiler Warning playing a videogame about a mask that makes a fireman come back from the dead to rescue an archaeologist from the world&#8217;s #1 consumer of orange helicopters. I&#8217;m not kidding when I say that Strong Bad as a streamer should be a thing:<\/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":[424,356],"class_list":["post-23735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spoilerwarning","tag-marlow-briggs","tag-strong-bad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23735","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=23735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}