{"id":25872,"date":"2015-02-07T18:19:14","date_gmt":"2015-02-07T23:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=25872"},"modified":"2015-02-07T18:19:35","modified_gmt":"2015-02-07T23:19:35","slug":"half-life-2-episode-1-ep3-combombies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=25872","title":{"rendered":"Half Life 2 Episode 1 EP3: Combombies!"},"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\/dgmu8JQ9_UM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dgmu8JQ9_UM'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d like to see how everyone answers Rutskarn&#8217;s question, &#8220;What&#8217;s the WORST section of Half-Life 2?&#8221; Try to give your answer before you read everyone else&#8217;s. <\/p>\n<p>In contrast to Rutskarn, I kind of think the whole sand traps (&#8220;The Floor is Lava&#8221;) section of Half-Life 2 is fun&#8230; ONCE. It&#8217;s basically a really long puzzle with lots of fiddly physics busywork, and puzzles lose their appeal  once you know the solution. <\/p>\n<p>That said, I usually cheat past the mines, but sprint through the sand traps. It&#8217;s actually pretty easy once you realize it won&#8217;t spawn more that four antlions at once, and once you get ahead of them they&#8217;re a small threat. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link (YouTube) I&#8217;d like to see how everyone answers Rutskarn&#8217;s question, &#8220;What&#8217;s the WORST section of Half-Life 2?&#8221; Try to give your answer before you read everyone else&#8217;s. In contrast to Rutskarn, I kind of think the whole sand traps (&#8220;The Floor is Lava&#8221;) section of Half-Life 2 is fun&#8230; ONCE. It&#8217;s basically a really [&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":[23],"class_list":["post-25872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spoilerwarning","tag-half-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25872","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=25872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}