{"id":23946,"date":"2014-08-10T01:14:18","date_gmt":"2014-08-10T06:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=23946"},"modified":"2014-08-10T01:14:18","modified_gmt":"2014-08-10T06:14:18","slug":"marlow-briggs-ep6-marlow-briggs-and-the-whip-of-weapon-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=23946","title":{"rendered":"Marlow Briggs EP6: Marlow Briggs and the Whip of Weapon Upgrade"},"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\/pV_gDf6a_64\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pV_gDf6a_64'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>This episode is two days late because <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/youtube\/comments\/2d0qmm\/failed_unable_to_convert_video_file_cant_upload\/\">YouTube upload was broken<\/a>. So that was a great way to waste hours and hours of Josh&#8217;s time by making him re-encode and upload a huge video file when the problem wasn&#8217;t even on his end. Thanks YouTube!<\/p>\n<p>This game is a poster child for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rCxR__N0_is\" title=\"Super Bunny Hop: The Importance of Quiet Time\">Quiet Time problem<\/a>. It looks kind of amusing, but just watching it for an hour is exhausting. It&#8217;s a complete sensory overload of flashing lights and roaring explosions and particle effects and flying bodies and spinning platforms. If it wasn&#8217;t for moments like the brief block-pushing stuff this would quickly get intolerable. It might not be that bad for those of you watching the game twenty minutes at a time through our show, but I just watched Josh play for an hour and then watched this episode prior to writing this post, and my eyes and ears are sore. I can&#8217;t imagine actually playing the game for a couple of hours at a time. <\/p>\n<p>Since none of us have played the game before, and since the story is a hyperactive stream of incongruous destruction, we have no idea where we are. Each week is a mystery. &#8220;Will we reach the end this week? Or are we just wrapping up the first act?&#8221; No idea!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link (YouTube) This episode is two days late because YouTube upload was broken. So that was a great way to waste hours and hours of Josh&#8217;s time by making him re-encode and upload a huge video file when the problem wasn&#8217;t even on his end. Thanks YouTube! This game is a poster child for the [&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-23946","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\/23946","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=23946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}