{"id":25126,"date":"2014-11-26T13:58:52","date_gmt":"2014-11-26T18:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=25126"},"modified":"2014-11-26T16:35:27","modified_gmt":"2014-11-26T21:35:27","slug":"the-last-of-us-ep25-hey-hey-were-the-monkeys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=25126","title":{"rendered":"The Last of Us EP25: Hey Hey We&#8217;re The Monkeys"},"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\/gEGeSXNR-kA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gEGeSXNR-kA'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>For the uneducated philistines in the audience, this episode title is actually a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vHHZb7c3Qy8\" title=\"The Monkees Intro\">highbrow literary reference<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So this might be the most positive season of Spoiler Warning so far. Really we just have a couple of gripes that get brought up again and again. Like the raiders. Speaking of which:<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s look at this encounter from the raider&#8217;s perspective: How stupid are these guys? They&#8217;re searching a building with a conspicuous flashlight when you clearly don&#8217;t need one<span class='snote' title='1'>And now that I mention that, where DID Mr. Light-Gun go after that first shot?<\/span>. Then they take a potshot at someone in a dark room, on another floor, through a dirty window. Unless they&#8217;ve been following you<span class='snote' title='2'>In which case setting up an ambush would have made more sense.<\/span> they have no idea how many people are in your group or if you have any supplies worth dying for. A group of people this stupid should not have survived this long. <\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s not even getting into the hilarity of guys <em>running out in front of allies with guns so they can fight your flamethrower with their axe<\/em>. Dumb stuff like this really sticks out when the rest of the world is so smart and grounded. <\/p>\n<p>Just once I&#8217;d like to see these guys act like human beings. Maybe they shout at you to drop your food and bullets and they promise to let you go. (&#8220;Like hell,&#8221; Joel mumbles under his breath.) Maybe they shout some stuff to each other to make it sound like they have a plan or goal. (&#8220;How many are there?&#8221; says one. &#8220;Looks like just two,&#8221; says another.) Just&#8230; something. These guys aren&#8217;t any better than the idiotic raiders of Fallout 3: Mindless murderbots who only exist for the sake of having some man-shoots. <\/p>\n<p>I think it would actually make more sense logically and thematically to replace these raiders with zombies. They already have an in-world excuse for why there would be zombies here<span class='snote' title='3'>Because the fireflies are stupid and dumb.<\/span>. <\/p>\n<p>But still, this game is quite an achievement. The story is solid. The gameplay is solid<span class='snote' title='4'>Or so people keep telling me.<\/span>. The only problem is the ugly patchwork seam between the two. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link (YouTube) For the uneducated philistines in the audience, this episode title is actually a highbrow literary reference. So this might be the most positive season of Spoiler Warning so far. Really we just have a couple of gripes that get brought up again and again. Like the raiders. Speaking of which: Let&#8217;s look at [&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":[439],"class_list":["post-25126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spoilerwarning","tag-the-last-of-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25126","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=25126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}