{"id":23977,"date":"2014-08-15T16:21:37","date_gmt":"2014-08-15T21:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=23977"},"modified":"2014-08-15T17:36:02","modified_gmt":"2014-08-15T22:36:02","slug":"marlow-briggs-ep8-marlow-briggs-and-the-grotto-of-animal-cruelty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=23977","title":{"rendered":"Marlow Briggs EP8: Marlow Briggs and the Grotto of Animal Cruelty"},"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\/4RdSb1lMps4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4RdSb1lMps4'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>Man, thanks to the devs for generous and thorough autosave. If you&#8217;re going to do checkpoint saves, this is how you do it. ON THE OTHER HAND, we wouldn&#8217;t have needed this kind of granularity in the checkpoints if the &#8220;skip cutscene&#8221; button hadn&#8217;t been one of the standard gameplay buttons. <\/p>\n<p>I love how a videogame has cutscene continuity issues like a low-budget movie, as if this scene was pieced together from several different takes. <\/p>\n<p><em>Marlow is standing nose-to-nose with Kim.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Kim: I&#8217;m the only chance you&#8217;ve got to save your little lamb, so how about you lower the harpoon?<\/p>\n<p><em>Suddenly Marlow is holding his scythe up to her chin. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>He wasn&#8217;t pointing his weapon at her until after she told him to stop doing it??? And then everyone takes turns holding the blade by the edge. And she spends the whole conversation looking him directly in the pecs. <em>Hey lady, my eyes are up here.<\/em> <\/p>\n<p>It would have been awesome if just one of the characters had been given the name of an actual archaeologist known for working in this region. Then they could have opened the game with the claim, &#8220;<em>BASED ON A TRUE STORY<\/em>&#8220;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link (YouTube) Man, thanks to the devs for generous and thorough autosave. If you&#8217;re going to do checkpoint saves, this is how you do it. ON THE OTHER HAND, we wouldn&#8217;t have needed this kind of granularity in the checkpoints if the &#8220;skip cutscene&#8221; button hadn&#8217;t been one of the standard gameplay buttons. I love [&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-23977","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\/23977","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=23977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}